YOUR LAST BLOG

Hello Dear Accelerated English III students

Today, you are to choose ONE unique word that best illustrates who you are as a person.  Write the word in larger font in a color that also represents you best.  Then write a small paragraph explaining why that word fits you so well.  This is your LAST BLOG. Do it well !!!   Be sure to respond to two of your peers by expanding their words even more so to suit them.

Literature Adds Reality

 Read the following quotation.  Then, discuss what this quotation means to you.  Make sure you offer examples to support your position.  You can relate various pieces of literature you have studied or that you have read for pleasure.  Be sure to show how this literature has enriched you in some way. Finally, explain and discuss the metaphor at the end of the quotation.

"Literature adds to reality. It does not simply describe it.  It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."     C.S. Lewis

Final Collection! Collection 21: Tyler and Andrew

Congratulations Class!

You have all finished your presentations and I am so proud of your accomplishments.  I know you all have learned skills that will benefit you in your future educational years.  Be more confident in yourselves.  Take constructive criticism as a tool for improvement.  I think for the most part, you have done that.

This blog is basically your evaluation of Tyler's and Andrew's presentation - their selection of topics, the background to the collection, and of course, their delivery.  Good Luck!

Collection 20: Larissa and Rachel

Your blog assignment this week is to evaluate the presentation by Rachel and Larissa.  First, you should point out the strengths of the two-day presentation.  Then, you should make suggestions for possible ways to use other ways to present the material.  What do you like to see in presentations?  Second, determine the major theme in John Updike's "Son" - how does this theme of your choice relate to human life?   Do the same for Anne Sexton's "The Bells".  Finally, what is the most interesting tradition that is evoked by Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain"?  Be specific - you are now experienced bloggers!

Presentations: Collections 18 & 19

After a full week of presentations, all of you should be excited about providing your feedback to the two presentations given this past week.  First, we had Camille and Carli and then Maria and Morgan.  I just noticed that we had the "C" group and the "M" group!  How about that???  

Your blog should address both presentations - be sure to identify your favorite readings from each of the presentations.  What have you learned as a result of each of the presentations?  What suggestions do you have for any of the presenters in how they delivered their collections?   

Finally, how has the group presentations provided you with an interesting way to learn?  Do you feel that there is better class participation when groups are presenting?  Why?

Add anything of interest relating to the group presentations.  I have certainly enjoyed them! I hope you have too.

PRESENTATION - Collection 16: Leah and Victoria

Your blog this week should do several tasks.  First, as always, provide an evaluation of the presentation titled "Make it New" - how does that title reflect the authors/poets and material that was read and discussed?  Besides the art that was discussed during the presentation, can you find another piece of art work that reflects the American writer at this time?  What about music of the time period?  Offer whatever connections you can discover from doing some research.  Be sure to cite your sources.  You might want to consider the discussion on the Symbolists and Imagists that I covered on Wednesday too.

Second,find a poem by any of the poets in Collection 16 - you can choose one we discussed or another one from that chapter - in your own words, paraphrase the poem and then offer your analysis of the poem - adding whatever insights you have that relate to the time period we've discuss.

PEER FEEDBACK:   I expect to see a better job done on this part.  There are too many simplified statements being made as to how much you agree with your peer - that is fine but you are expected to add to their comments, or to challenge something that they discussed by offering your own comments that are also well supported.

Presentation - Collection 14 & 15: Jess and Hayley; Maddie and Nicole

Part 1:  Post your feedback to the two-day presentation given by Hayley and Jess this past week. Which of the authors/poets did you find  most interesting and why?  How does their work (ideas, style, diction) illustrate the theme of this collection "Shadows of the Past?"   What part of the presentation was most beneficial to you?  What would you do differently if you were presenting this collection?   How many times did Faulkner use the word "rose" to mean the type of flower?  How did he use the word "rose" throughout the story, "A Rose for Emily?"

Part 2:  Post your feedback to the two-day presentation given by Maddie and Nicole.  Which authors did you enjoy the most?  What is the most important lesson, idea, or concept you learned from this presentation?  Most especially, what do you respect about "The Harlem Renaissance"?  How has this period of time affected the arts even today for those who started the movement?