THURSDAY January 15, 2015 5.1 Europe Map Pretest (download this Pretest and do your best. Use the key to check your work) 5.2 Absolutism / Declaration of Independence (Declaration annotation instructions) 5.3 Enlightenment / Age of Reason (Read and annotate "Age of Reason"; Get notes from classmate) HOMEWORK: Final Draft of Sonnet due Tuesday! Check rubric for criteria MAP TEST!! (30 out of 50 is an A; above 30 is E.C)
FRIDAY, January 9, 2015 3.1 Warm up—read and annotate 3.2 Sonnet Review 3.3 Sonnet Assessment + Research 3.4 Guns, Germs and Steel episode 2!! HW-- Renaissance Sonnet--first draft
Wednesday January 7, 2015 2.1 Warm up--Shakespeare & Humanism and analyzing Middle Ages vs. Renaissance art 2.2 Challenging Reality page 127-128: Renaissance Reading and Renaissance Thinkers Walk 2.3 Sonnet practice 1. Annotate Shakespeare's sonnet 2. Teenage Sonnets 3. Practice writing your own with a partner! 2.4 Sonnet Assessment HW-- 1. Research facts—scientific rev, age of exploration PAGE 131----------> 2. Clip or bind 1st semester in your notebook
MONDAY, January 5, 2015 1.1 Warm up 1.2 The other side of the world notes 1.3 Renaissance + Humanism reading and notes 1.4 Renaissance Art notes 1.5 Sonnet review and Practice Homework:
①Get a
clip or rubber band to section off semester 1 ②Watch
youtube
video: How to write a sonnet / take notes on pg 125 ③Practice
sonnet on subject of your choice (not optional! J) / glue in over pg 125
SONNET WRITING PROCEDURE (used in class) Decide a subject Brainstorm: Nouns, verbs, adjectives Build each stanza... 1.choose ending rhyming words 2.Write a line without worrying about syllables 3.Count syllables and edit for 10 per line 4.Edit for iambic pentameter if you can 5.Edit for precision and poetry! Make is sing!