week 27--March 14-18

Objectives:
Evaluate sources
Identify specific and relevant evidence
Form a persuasive argument
Synthesize sources

Monday and Tuesday
Review rubric info
revise draft of "Invasive Species" essay
preliminary assessment partner's essay
hand in "Invasive Species" short essay
whole group reading and evaluation of education technology
small group reading and annotation of ed tech sources
HW) outline ed tech essay.

Wednesday and Thursday 
debate prep work for ed tech
identifying evidence for debate
squaring off for mini-debate on ed tech
ed tech synthesis writing time
ed tech documents in case you lost them
Hw) finish ed tech essay 

Ed tech thesis:
While many pitfalls exist in implementing education technology into school curricula, an effective way forward can be achieved to help avoid the problems of an entertainment-saturated and highly distractable generation of learners.

Friday
Revise and peer evaluate the Education Technology synthesis essay\
5 word exercise for two poems
      select 5 words from the first poem that are most pivotal
      define, identify the syllabication and etymology
classwork = 10 words and definitions etc from 2 poems
HW)  write your own 15 line poem in either rhymed or free verse

Friday and Monday's poems

Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poems >>
English Flavors

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I love to lick English the way I licked the hard
round licorice sticks the Belgian nuns gave me for six
good conduct points on Sundays after mass.

Love it when 'plethora', 'indolence', 'damask',
or my new word: 'lasciviousness,' stain my tongue,
thicken my saliva, sweet as those sticks - black

and slick with every lick it took to make daggers
out of them: sticky spikes I brandished straight up
to the ebony crucifix in the dorm, with the pride

of a child more often punished than praised.
'Amuck,' 'awkward,' or 'knuckles,' have jaw-
breaker flavors; there's honey in 'hunter's moon,'

hot pepper in 'hunk,' and 'mellifluous' has aromas
of almonds and milk . Those tastes of recompense
still bitter-sweet today as I roll, bend and shape

English in my mouth, repeating its syllables
like acts of contrition, then sticking out my new tongue -
flavored and sharp - to the ambiguities of meaning.

 

"The House of Wax" by John Haines