You better be finishing your projects!





Smile.

Personal Essays

You should be rewriting your personal essays this week. Email me if you have problems.

I'm including a picture of my host family. They've invited me to bring students to Hiroshima. They'll house us. Smile. My Japanese is improving.

Updates FROM JAPAN

Hello! Just wanted to let everyone know that I've graded all your tests and essays. I've asked some of you to rewrite your essays for a higher grade. If you have questions just email me at fieldingkent@hotmail.com . If you've finished your project, start on the rewrites of your personal narratives. You can email me copies of it if you want immediate feedback.

I'm headed out this morning to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. We'll talk about this park when I return.

Mr. F

Week 10/6 - 10/10

1) I will be handing back your personal narratives and talking with you 1-1 about them. You should start thinking about your rewrites. The next draft will be due on 11/4. Remember feelings and emotions should be expressed in metaphors or similes. Remember that you need to recreate an experience for your readers and therefore you need to invoke the five senses by using imagery and to "Show" and not "Tell". A personal narrative is a story - make sure you have a story, and make sure you have a story that displays an understanding of something larger than just an event. In sense you have to analysis what your choose to write about.


2) On MONDAY, I will be giving you a review guide for your short story test. We will go over these guides on Tuesday. Please fill them out Monday night so you know what you don't know.
Your test will be on Friday.

3) Short Story Projects:

Here are the groups and stories:

Brandy and Alexis - "Inititation"
Bryce and Kaylie -"One Thousand Dollars"
Jesse and Kaitlyn -"After the Ball"
John and Devin -"Pit and the Pendulum"
Monica - "A Christmas Memory"
Sam - "The Most Dangerous Game"

Here is the Description of the Project and Grading:

English 10 – project

Short Stories

To show that you fully understand short stories and literary devices you will read a story from the list below and explore it by taking notes on character, plot, metaphors, symbols, themes and so on.

The project is worth 200 points and is broken into two parts. Groups should be 2 people no more. If you choose to write a story you must do it by yourself.

1st choose a story (no-one may do the same story): Life Without Go-Go Boots, A Christmas Memory, The Pit and The Pendulum, A Sound of Thunder, Initiation, One Thousand Dollars, After the Ball

1) 100 points presentation of story to class. You presentation needs to address the following:
a. You should have summary of the story. A detailed account of what happens.
b. In the second part of your presentation you should discuss one or two literary elements that appear in the story and how they may make meaning. Example: In “Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird” the act of mimicking appears often in the story: Terry copies Tyrone, Cathy copies Granny and adults, Camera and Smilin’ are trying to copy the Cain’s life on film, Granddaddy and Granny in a while mimic the two children hawks, and finally all the places the Cain family move too they find a repetition of disrespect from people. All these acts of mimicking, conscious and unconscious, form the backdrop of the story, the mockingbird of the story, the idea of intrusion which contrasts the blues granny hums which is calm, soothing and represents respect.
c. The third part of your project should be a comparison to a story you have read in class. You can compare characters, themes, ideas, the use of some literary device.
d. The fourth part of your presentation will be some sort of visual aid that corresponds to the story.

A-D are worth 20 points each. The final twenty 20 points will come from a oral presentation rubric, meaning you will be graded on how well you spoke.


2) 100 points for a creative connection. This connection displays an understanding of the story, neatness, enthusiasm, and attention to detail.

Options:

a. You can write a script and create a movie of your story. The movie should introduce the characters, contain all parts of plot, and contain music and sound effects. It should be 5 – 10 minutes in length.
b. You can do a power-point presentation that retells the story. You will need to have visuals for all the characters and visuals for the scenes. You should pre-record a reading of the story. You should have music and original artwork and you must finish with a discussion of either plot or a symbol. 10-15 minutes in length.
c. You can create a readers theatre of the story by creating a script. You readers theatre must be acted out in front of class with blocking and sound effects. You must also turn in a list of character profiles. 10 minutes in length
d. You can write a story of 5 -10 pages that incorporates all the elements of plot and uses symbols, dialect, allusions, foreshadowing, imagery.
e. A comic book adaptations of the story which follows all parts of plot. This should be at-least five pages in length. No stick-figures. This is for the individual who really loves art.

Projects are DUE on 11/5

Thursday and Friday: Assignments

Here is what you will be doing while I'm at State with the cross country runners:

Thursday
READ “The Bet” – students should already have copies of this story in their possession as it was handed out on Wednesday.
On BLOGS –
Outline the plot. Pick out and explain on symbol. Pick out the type of conflict, the protagonist, antagonist and make an argument for each.
In two paragraphs connect the story to the themes of “The Meaning of Freedom” and “The Meaning of Home”.


Friday:
Vocabulary Quiz.
Begin studying for the Short Story Final by rereading short stories and looking over notes.


If you lose your story go to this website:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bet.shtml