• May222012
    Romeo, Juliet, and True Love

    POSTED AT 10:01 AM

    Your task is to take everything you have learned this year in English 9 and write a superbly sublime single body paragraph about the following:

    Are Romeo and Juliet truly in love?

    Make sure you include:
    - Everything we have talked about all year

    It's the final blog post! Don't let me down!
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    Apr302012
    Analyzing "My Papa's Waltz"

    POSTED AT 06:35 AM

    Your task for this blog post may seem vague, but I want to give you free reign to interpret poetry; therefore, you must read "My Papa's Waltz" and then write a single body paragraph about the following:

    What is the meaning of "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke?

    DO NOT tell me what the poem is ABOUT.
    DO NOT look up analysis of the poem online, just use evidence from the poem to support whatever YOU think it means.
    DO NOT become distressed. This is our first attempt writing about poetry, you will improve.
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    Apr122012
    Imagery Poem

    POSTED AT 08:30 AM

      Your task is to write a poem of any kind (rhymed verse, free verse, etc.) that included the following guidelines:

    1) At least one example of vivid imagery
    2) At least one example of figurative imagery
    3) Focuses on a single moment in time rather than recounting a series of events.
    4) Inspired by (but not necessarily about) the following picture:



    Happy Writing!
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    Apr112012
    Free Verse Poem

    POSTED AT 07:41 AM

    Your task is to write a poem that adheres to the following guidelines:

    1) written in free verse
    2) has some structure by using some of the techniques we talked about in class
     - making verse sounds like it's content
     - auditory flow
     - provides perspective of the reader
    3) is about or inspired by the picture below



    There are no length requirements for this assignment, but you will be graded on effort.

    Happy Writing!
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    Apr032012
    Rhymed Verse Poem

    POSTED AT 08:20 AM

    Your task for this blog post is to write a poem that follows these guidelines:

    - at least eight lines long
    - has a defined rhyme scheme
    - uses assonance, consonance, and alliteration at least once
    - your poem needs to be inspired by (but not necessarily about) the following picture:



    The poem does not have to have a defined meter, although there may be bonus points for writing in rhymed verse with a defined meter of some sort.

    Happy Writing!

    Ps. I wrote an example on the Block 5 blog if you want a little more guidance.
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    Mar282012
    Meter Poem

    POSTED AT 01:50 PM

    Write a 4 line poem using trochaic tetrameter about the following picture:


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    Mar192012
    "Surrogates" Criticisms

    POSTED AT 10:25 AM

    Your task for this blog is to write a single body paragraph on the following prompt:

    After viewing the film "Surrogates", what criticisms of our society can you determine are being made? Make sure you selected one criticism that is also in "Feed" and one that is only in the movie.

    Make sure that in your paragraph includes:
    - a defined topic sentence
    - evidence from the film (I know you won't have quotations, but you need specific examples of scenes from the film)
    - detailed analysis
    - sentence variety

    Happy Writing!
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    Feb152012
    Criticism in "Feed"

    POSTED AT 12:27 PM

    Thus far in "Feed" we have discussed a number of different criticisms being made through the medium of science fiction including (but not limited to):
    - Media
    - Beauty
    - Politics
    - Music
    - Language
    - Pollution
    - Need to be Stimulated
    - Relationship
    - Freedom
    - Responsibility
    - Efficiency

    We also learned in  class today that we need to have sentence variety in any writing assignment by having different types of sentence:
    - Simple
    - Compound
    - Complex
    - Complex-Compound

    Your task for this blog post is to write a single body paragraph on the following:

    What criticisms that we have already discussed reappear in the reading from our last two classes (166-203)?

    Make sure that your blog post includes:
    1) A defined topic sentence
    2) Evidence from the text
    3) Specific analysis of your evidence
    4) AT LEAST ONE OF EACH TYPE OF SENTENCE WE TALKED ABOUT IN CLASS.

    Happy Writing!
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    Feb072012
    Improving Yourself through "Feed" Criticism

    POSTED AT 11:38 AM

    Post at least five ways in which you are going to STOP being an "ignorant idiot" by thinking about criticisms made in "Feed".
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    Jan252012
    Pearl Harbor and A Separate Peace

    POSTED AT 12:04 PM

    You have just finished (or are almost finished) with the film "Pearl Harbor" and now your job is to relate it to the novel "A Separate Peace". Answer the following question in a single body paragraph:

    What is a similarity that you can find between the movie "Pearl Harbor" and the novel "A Separate Peace"?

    This similarity can be a...
    - theme (friendship, propaganda, war, peace, love, death, sanity, fear, etc.)
    - character relationships (Finny and Gene, Gene and Leper, Gene and adults, Gene and Quackenbush)
    - conflict
    - setting
    - anything you can think of AS LONG AS YOU DON'T REPEAT SOMETHING YOU CLASSMATES HAVE ALREADY SAID.

    ***Remember, you can argue any point AS LONG AS YOU PROVIDE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT YOUR IDEAS. ***

    Your paragraph should include:
    - Defined topic sentence (that explains WHY this is your argument)
    - specific examples from the movie/novel
    - detailed analysis (at least two sentences per example)
    - transition between ideas

    Happy Writing!
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