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Mrs. B's Foundations of American Literature: October 2008
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Mrs B's Foundations of American Literature. Wednesday, October 22, 2008. 1 Craft a prompt that you can use to lead the class in a warm-up writing prompt. It should be creative and reflective of something you are interested in writing. You can use quotes, photos, music, physical movement, anything that will elicit at least a 1/2 page written response from your classmates. You will be given as assigned date to present. Possible sites for writing prompt ideas:. Posted by Carol Weeps. Monday, October 13, 2008.
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Mrs. B's Foundations of American Literature: 20 Minutes with the President
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Mrs B's Foundations of American Literature. Wednesday, November 5, 2008. 20 Minutes with the President. Part one: The Sit-Down. One of the first things President Obama wants to do is meet with you individually to learn about what your biggest concerns are for our nation and world. He has scheduled 20 minutes of his day (a huge amount of time for the most powerful man in the world) to sit down with you one on one. What issues would you bring up in those 20 minutes? Why are these the most critical issues?
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Mrs. B's Foundations of American Literature: Playing with Poetry
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Mrs B's Foundations of American Literature. Monday, October 13, 2008. Part One: Poetry Vocab. Look up and define the following words:. You can define these on your blogs or in your notebooks. Part Two: Playing with Poetry. 1 Type out your poem on a word document. 2 Mess around with it; play with it- add lines, take out words. 3 Try to add some alliteration, assonance, consonance, anaphora, rhythm, rhyme scheme. 4 Try to incorporate the metaphor you are using in each stanza. 6 Put it on your blog.
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Mrs. B's Foundations of American Literature: Prompts
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Mrs B's Foundations of American Literature. Wednesday, October 22, 2008. 1 Craft a prompt that you can use to lead the class in a warm-up writing prompt. It should be creative and reflective of something you are interested in writing. You can use quotes, photos, music, physical movement, anything that will elicit at least a 1/2 page written response from your classmates. You will be given as assigned date to present. Possible sites for writing prompt ideas:. Posted by Carol Weeps. Love is like a.
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Mrs. B's Foundations of American Literature: Poetry Critique
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Mrs B's Foundations of American Literature. Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Today in class you will select one poem that you find compelling, beautiful, intriguing, or unusual. At the bottom of this post you will find links to a few sites where you will be able to find a collection of poems to browse through. Once you have found a poem, copy it and paste it to your blog. Please cite the website where you have copied it from. Include the author, too. Once pasted, do the following:. Think about the words he/s...
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Mrs. B's Foundations of American Literature: Into the Wild
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Mrs B's Foundations of American Literature. Thursday, November 13, 2008. You have read though Chapter 7 in the book, and now you will reflect on the content as well as the non-fiction writing style employed by the author. Respond to the following questions:. 1 What has been your initial impression of this book? How are you responding to the events, characters, plot, writing style? 2 What is one word you would use to describe Chris, in your opinion? Explain why you hold this opinion. Posted by Carol Weeps.
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Mrs. B's Foundations of American Literature: Love is like a....
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Mrs B's Foundations of American Literature. Tuesday, October 7, 2008. Love is like a. You have three tasks today:. Task One: Love Poem. 1 Find a poem on the internet or, oh my goodness, in a book from the library about love. This should not. 2 This poem needs to have some type of metaphor in it. 3 Paste it onto your blog and cite the author and source of the poem. I have provided internet resources below. 4 Comment on what you believe the theme of the poem is. What is the author saying about love? Subscr...
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Mrs. B's Foundations of American Literature: Review
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Mrs B's Foundations of American Literature. Wednesday, November 12, 2008. Reviews. One about a CD, movie, video game, or book you enjoyed and one about a CD, movie, video game, or book you did not. Follow the guidelines from yesterday's power point about writing reviews. If you do not have your notes, refer to the OWL website: http:/ owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/704/01/. 1 The Star Tribune Entertainment. Http:/ www.startribune.com/entertainment/. 2 Rolling Stone Magazine. 3 New York Times. D Discu...
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Mrs. B's Foundations of American Literature: September 2008
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Mrs B's Foundations of American Literature. Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Today in class you will select one poem that you find compelling, beautiful, intriguing, or unusual. At the bottom of this post you will find links to a few sites where you will be able to find a collection of poems to browse through. Once you have found a poem, copy it and paste it to your blog. Please cite the website where you have copied it from. Include the author, too. Once pasted, do the following:. Think about the words he/s...
