sample chapter 1 response log for The Metamorphosis

E--Gregor gets out of bed
E--He hurts himself in a number of ways
I--his body is very sensistive
I--he's worried about his parents' loss of status and income if he doesn't get to work
E--he repeatedly gets worked up about how hard his job is and what difficulty his boss will put him in
I--Gregor represents the average worker who has to slave for long hours just to break even and is always afraid of losing his job
E--Gregor gets the key and injures his mouth as he tries to open the door
E--He finally opens the door and tries to explain himself but everyone is horrified
E--His sister is so scared that she backs up into the breakfast table and knocks over the coffee which spills on the rug
E--the boss leaves in disgust
E--his father uses the boss's cane to chase Gregor into this room
I-- maybe they don't kill him because they know the cockroach is Gregor
I--since he can barely fit through the door, it's likely that Gregor appears as a man-sized cockroach
I--his family, his career and his personal identify are ruined

week 32 - April 25-29

Monday 4/25 and Tuesday 4/26
Identify the Error 1 (10 minutes)
Read Chapter 1 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
complete reader response log while we read
Here are all the rules tested in SAT Writing: The Rules
HW) create an open-ended question about the novel's central metaphor of changing into a cockroach and answer in one page of writing:
suggestion--"How does turning into a creature that no one wants to deal with resemble life as a teenager?"

Wednesday 4/27 and Thursday 4/28
Identify the Error 2 (10 minutes)
finish reading Chapter 1 The Metamorphosis and write a response log for the remainder of the chapter

HW) choose another type of insect or animal into which Gregor Samsa would change.  Write a one page, fiction piece imagining what it would be like to suffer such a transformation.

Friday 4/29
Identify the Error 3 (10 minutes)
Read Chapter 2  The Metamorphosis
HW) create an open-ended question about Gregor Samsa's response to his transformation and answer in one page of writing
 

week 31- April 11-15

Monday, April 11 White Day
Using vivid language, imagery, and rhythm
write a narrative poem.
Here's How to Write a Narrative Poem

Here's a few narrative poems:
"Coloring Books" 
"Repetition of Words and Weather"

Requirements:
5 stanzas of at least 4 lines a piece
A line that repeats or is slightly modified in each stanza
A story that proceeds through the stages of a plot:
         inciting incident
         rising action
         complication
         climax
          resolution or denouement 
HW)  finish narrative poem,
underline words and phrases that may be improved
write revised, clean copy of narrative poem

Tuesday April 12 Green Day
Khan academy SAT practice
Poetry terms and examples
HW) study for Poetry term quiz 

Wednesday April 13 Green Day
study for poetry quiz by applying terms to poems
poetry quiz
HW)   

Thursday 4/14
Poetry terms and examples
study for poetry quiz by applying terms to poems
poetry quiz 

week 30--April 4-8, 2016

Monday/Tuesday    April 4 and 5
Collect haikus or limerick
Read Nick Kristof's "When White's Don't Get It, part 6"
Doing the Implicit Association Test

back to poetry
How to write a sonnet

Instruction
Practice

HW)  write a 14 line sonnet in iambic pentameter

Wednesday/Thursday April 6 and 7 
1)Direct Instruction on sestinas
2) Collective Reading of two sestinas
Sestina Alataforte by Ezra Pound
A Miracle for Breakfast by Elizabeth Bishop
Writing a Sestina by Caroline Davies

Here's the form in case you lose the hand out.

The sestina follows a strict pattern of the repetition of the initial six end-words of the first stanza through the remaining five six-line stanzas, culminating in a three-line envoi. The lines may be of any length, though in its initial incarnation, the sestina followed a syllabic restriction. The form is as follows, where each numeral indicates the stanza position and the letters represent end-words:
1. ABCDEF
2. FAEBDC
3. CFDABE
4. ECBFAD
5. DEACFB
6. BDFECA
7. (envoi) ECA or ACE

 Classwork:  work alone or with a partner to devise a sestina
HW) finish your sestina

Friday April 8
Using vivid language, imagery, and rhythm
write a narrative poem.
Here's How to Write a Narrative Poem

Here's a few narrative poems:
"Coloring Books" 
"Repetition of Words and Weather"

Requirements:
5 stanzas of at least 4 lines a piece
A line that repeats or is slightly modified in each stanza
A story that proceeds through the stages of a plot:
         inciting incident
         rising action
         complication
         climax
          resolution or denouement 
HW)  finish narrative poem,
underline words and phrases that may be improved
write revised, clean copy of narrative poem