Week 15 S2

A Separate Peace

This week we'll read and think about chapters 6-10 in  A Separate Peace.   Here is the study guide for you to use and complete while reading these chapters. 

There is a quoting exercise at the end of the guide which will take some thought and time, so you may want to preview that before reading.

1940's-1950's Ad Analysis

Please watch these instructional videos CAREFULLY.  They will introduce you to the skills and materials for this final project and essay.  They'll require 25 minutes total viewing time.

Ad Analysis Intro Video #1

Ad Analysis Intro Video #2

Here are the slides from the video by which you'll access the content and links you'll need. You'll learn about advertising elements and appeals, choose an ad from that era, and then complete the analysis worksheet.

Submit a crisp and high quality copy of the ad you've chosen here with all required information.

Here is the document where you will submit your ad analysis worksheet and next weeks ad analysis composition.

Week 14, S2

 

A Separate Peace

This week we'll begin reading A Separate Peace, chapters 1-5.  We'll be using a study guide format for this last unit.  I know, I know, it slows you down, but I'm doing it for your own good. You generally do better on the guides than the quizzes, plus we'll use them as a base for discussion.

Save your own copy of each of these study guides and follow the directions before, during, and after your reading:

Reader Response Guide, Chapters 1-3

Reader Response Guide, Chapters 4-5 

 When you are finished, submit links to the guides here.

Poem of the Week: "Strange Fruit"

This past class, I touched upon the idea that almost anything can be inspiration for a poem--a book from your childhood, a red wheelbarrow, even a metro station.  I also mentioned that literature, poetry, and artworks are sometimes designed to make you angry or uncomfortable. 

For example, although I asked if you liked the end of Fahrenheit 451,  we weren't supposed to like it, were we? Though Granger, Montag, and the commune survive, we are still left to grapple with a world of mechanical hounds, a wife who betrays her husband, and the vast destruction of an atomic bomb.  

Continuing with this theme of protest, our poem this week is "Strange Fruit." It was composed by a Jewish schoolteacher named Abel Meeropol after looking at a 1930 photograph. This poem was first published as "Bitter Fruit" in 1937, then Meeropol set it to music and began to perform it with his wife among friends.  The black singer Billie Holiday was introduced to the song and first performed it in 1939.

Holiday made the song famous. Listen to her 1959 performance here. 

Abel Meeropol's story is also fascinating.  His life touches upon so many of the issues of this era--Communism, the atomic bomb, McCarthism, The Rosenbergs, racism, and the impending civil rights movement. Please listen to this NPR episode: The Strange Story Of The Man Behind 'Strange Fruit' ---look for the blue bar to click for the 7 minute episode and/or read the article below it. 

You can learn more about this history of this poem or the photograph that inspired it here.

Quoting Practice

Find your book, They Say/I Say and read the chapter about quoting, Part I, Chapter 3 "As He Himself Puts It." The book looks like this or this:

If you can't find your copy, here's a link to the 3rd edition online.  At the end of this chapter, complete Exercise #2 which asks you go back and analyze how you integrated a quote in a past piece of writing.  You could use your local history article for this or any other piece of writing in my class or any other.  Analyze a time you've quoted text and revise it to make it better.  Cut and paste the before and after

effort into a Google document and submit it at with the study guide work above.

Submit Fahrenheit Work

You should submit your work for Fahrenheit 451  here.  

This work includes:

Your F451 chart
Your childhood book poem.
A snapshot or scan of your annotated "How to Mark a Book."

Week 13, S2

Hello Everyone,

Here is a list of work for the week:

1. Make sure you take the Fahrenheit 451 Quiz. Friday morning at 8 am is the hard deadline.  I'm working on grades over the next few days and will include it in your progress report.

2. Finish reading Fahrenheit 451.  

3. Here is a chart related to the text that I want you to complete this week. Make your own copy.  Read and follow the directions precisely.

4. Here is the rest of the work within the slides.

Also, I'm working on a Google survey to canvas your various thoughts about returning to the physical classroom again.  

As exciting as it is for some, it seems to creates logistical complications/concerns for others.  I need time to think about it.  Here's what I need to think about:

How many of you will attend in person?

If several of you stay home, can I do a hybrid well?

Is it "worth it" to figure out all of the kinks and hiccups just for our last few weeks together?

Anywhooo, look for the survey and fill it out---it will help me figure out how to proceed.  

I would LOVE to come back to the physical, but I don't want to make any of us crazy doing so!

That's it for now...Mrs. Price

Week 12, Semester 2

 Hello,

I'm posting the Week 12 slides here today for those who want to get started ASAP.  They contain not only a review of  class but instructions for this week's work over break.

Remember there will be a quiz on the first two parts of Fahrenheit 451 and the slides.

25x perfectly over four days.

Have a fabulous break and see you on April 7th!

Mrs. Price

Week 11, Semester 2

 Here are the slides for this week; they're a combination of review from class and new material.  Be sure to click through the Prezi presentation and complete the worksheet.  Also, there is a family genealogy assignment in there too. There are also some group discussion questions and information that we'll use next week.

Here is the last study guide to complete. Have all of this week's work ready to check next week in your groups.

Submit all Their Eyes Study Guide Work, genealogy effort, and email etiquette worksheet here by next class. Let me know if I am forgetting any work.

Progress reports will be calculated and sent at the end of spring break (early April), so the work for this unit will be the final piece that goes into that computation.  Do excellent work!

I saw this article in the Asheville Citizen-Times today and thought to keep you in the loop:

Vance Monument: Asheville to take final vote on obelisk honoring racist Confederate governor

Week 10, Semester 2

Their Eyes Were Watching God

This week we'll read chapters 7-15 of TEWWG.  Please make use of the glossary and audio (tab above); I promise it will help you get more out of your experience and the story.

HERE'S the study guide for this week, follow the directions.  I realize that the study guide slows down your reading process. In fact, that is the point; I want you to digest the text thoughtfully and not just plow through it. Slowing down gives you more time to ponder, revisit, and apply.  I know some of you still don't believe me about this, but please try it my way. ; )

The questions for these chapters will push you past toward WHAT is happening to HOW and WHY Hurston uses language, tone, and diction to convey the WHAT.

HERE are the slides that will help you 1) review the material from class 2) help you fill out your study guide and prepare for reading  3) help you prepare for next week's quiz.  Along the way there are videos and links to read, so look for them.

That's it for this week....we'll get to the local history revision stuff soon but not this week.

Questions?  Email me--happy to help!

Mrs. Price

Week 9, Semester 2

Here's the complete work for this week. Enjoy listening to Ruby Dee's narration while following along in the book.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

This week we'll read the first six chapters. Please notice and use the "Their Eyes Resources" tab at the top of this blog.  Here you'll find a helpful glossary and an excellent audio reading of each chapter.  

Before each chapter, read through the glossary words for that chapter so that you'll understand them.

Here are the study guide questions for chapters 1-6. Make your own copy of the document and answer the questions as you read. Keep all of your work for this unit in one place so that it's all together when it's time to turn it in.

Please listen to Chapter 1 as you follow along in the text.  It's good to have both your eyes and ears taking in the words and sound of the vernacular.  It will help you become accustomed to the feel and sound of the language.  Each chapter has an audio link, so you may wish to listen throughout your reading. It's a great audio version.

We will have some vocabulary to define related to this book and Zora Neale Hurston.  Please look up and define each of the following:

vernacular

colloquial

aphorisms

folklore

anthropology

idiom

Harlem Renaissance Video Component

Watch the following videos on the Harlem Renaissance Movement.  Take notes of specifics while you watch.  Afterwards, use your notes to create a Writer's Notebook entry with at least four well-developed paragraphs. Here are the topics you should address in each paragraph:

Paragraph 1: A description of the movement  (think: who, what, when, where)

Paragraph 2: The causes of the movement  (think: why? what conditions precipitated it?)

Paragraph 3: Characteristics of mov't, some important figures and art forms

Paragraph 4:  Impact and legacy

Videos to Watch

The Great Migration & The Harlem Renaissance (12 minutes)

The Harlem Renaissance's cultural explosion, in photographs (5 minutes)

Great Gatsby Work Submission

Here's the document where you should submit links to all of your Gatsby unit work.  You can take pictures of elements or scan them and compile their images into a Google Slides document.  Or you can share Google documents as links as well.  Be sure to change the permissions so I have access and ability to comment. All of these are due to be submitted by next Tuesday.