After watching this documentary (and reading to at least the chapter titled “The Terror”) post a comment describing which moment in the novel, House of the Spirits, reminds you of these historical events.

–Coey

IB Cookbook

Thank you all for your wonderful recipes and your magical descriptions.  Perhaps you can use one of these recipes during the Thanksgiving Holiday, which starts on November 21st.

Keep thinking of yourselves as teachers!

I see you working and thinking each day.

–Coey

Dear student-teachers,

Great to have you all in my class!  Our study of Like Water For Chocolate is progressing well, and you all have accepted the challenge of assuming the teacher’s role in many of our class activities.  Well-done!

I added our critical lens resources to a new page. Look to the upper right hand corner of this page to find additional articles related to our reader’s cafe.

Yours,

Coey

Well done creating Wordle images and commenting on at least two of your classmate’s poems.  If you have not yet commented, please do that first.  Also, go back to your poem and view what others have written and respond to them where it is appropriate.

I’ll admit that I had trouble uploading our Flickr images to a digital book, so that is still a work in progress.  The good news is that we have a class gmail account and Flickr account. Here is the information:

2013iesib@gmail.com    password: thundergodz (I added the “z” so it matches our Flickr account. 

http://www.flickr.com/  at the top you will see the “sign in” button; use your gmail username and password to access our photos.  Once you see our photostream,  you can upload photos and create “sets” of photos. So far I have created two sets (Victor’s photos and Coey’s photos).  Please upload your photos.

For those of you who attended the Yosemite Field Trip, I would like you to write a brief autobiographical incident (describe an important moment of self discovery and awareness).  Write about one experience and describe your observations, thoughts, and feelings.  Compare your experience using figurative language and personification. 

For those of you who remained in Sacramento,  I want you to review our field trip photos on Flickr, select one image to write about, and write yourself into one of the settings.  Imagine your thoughts, feelings, and observations, and create a fictional autobiography.  Compare your fictional experience by using figurative language and personification.

If you still have time, create a Bubblr image like the one I created using an image of the Yosemite Valley http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?id=29935 

Be sure to read John Muir’s “Sierra Thunderstorms” for an excellent example of figurative language and personification. Pay close attention to the “Journey of the Raindrop” on the second page.  It’s very cool.

These are some of the best poems I have read, and I think you will enjoy reading and commenting on each others’ poems. Be sure to include a brief analysis of your poem and for today I would like you to link a Wordle image to your poem.
1. Open a new word document and type your poem and analysis
2. Find the Wordle link on the right side of the Writeon! web page or go to www.wordle.net
3. “Create” a wordle image; copy and paste your poem into the text window; change the font and shape of your wordle until you have what you want. Once the image is created there is a “link” URL to your image. Copy that link into your word document. To see an example of a Wordle image I made click on this In Your Fate link.
4. Copy your poem, analysis, and wordle link into our class web page.
5. Comment on your classmate’s poems and wordle images!

Your comments and posts about each other’s poems are fantastic, especially when you ask questions about your classmate’s ideas. When writing a reply, informal comments are fine as long as you are working to build understanding. Well-done!

For today, you should finalize your Poetic School Research Proposal and identify the two poems you want to compare. Your proposal should be unique and not resemble your friend’s proposal.

1. Submit your proposal online by typing your proposal into a word document and then posting in the comments section.
2. Copy and paste your poems into a word document. Enlarge the text to 12pt font and double space.
3. Print your two poems
4. Begin to annotate your poems. First define any unfamiliar words. Research any of the allulsions included in your poem. Look for figures of speech, important words (diction), style, form, tone, and figures of speech.

1. Type your News Poem into a Microsoft Word document; include your reflection about the feelings your imagery evokes, the process you used to develop your poem, and a description of your style.
2. Be sure that your poem has the setting, imagery, active voice verbs, one allusion, and your thoughts and feelings about your subject.
3. Copy and paste your poem into the comment box
4. Submit
5. Comment on two of your classmates’ poems: specifically comment on striking words, images, comparisons, or feelings.

1. Type your abstract image poem into a Microsoft Word document; include your reflection about your poem
2. Be sure that your poem has imagery, simile, motif, and abstract noun
3. Copy and paste your poem into the comment box
4. Submit
5. Comment on three of your classmates’ poems: specifically comment on striking words, images, comparisons, or feelings.

ROGER ROSENBLATT: …

We write to make suffering endurable, evil intelligible, justice desirable and love possible. And I can elaborate on those things.

But the most important is love. That after all the suffering, all the injustice, all the evil that one sees in the world, if you can rise above it and make it beautiful, and thus lovable then that’s worth a life.