ELA 10-1Week 6 Content and Assignments

*Remember to check Google Drive and Google Classroom on a daily basis!

DAILY SCHEDULE

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4

Hand in Essay*

(This will end up being our rough draft!)

Edit and Revise Essay!

Final Copy (Edited and Revised) of Essay Due Today!

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

Poetry Unit Starts!

*Poetry Assignment due: Monday, March 30th

What we are learning this week:

That (whew!) essay writing is tough work. With proper planning, care, and implementation, writing doesn't have to always be something we pull our hair out over.Revising and revision are important steps in writing. You need to plan out your work. You need to give yourself time to think about what you wrote - to internalize it - and to fix up areas to make it better.

Essay

Your essay was due to me at the beginning of this week!

We will now go over your essay and revise and edit it before submitting it one last time as our final copy!

On the next slide I will take you through some areas to focus on when proof-reading and editing your writing!

Revising and Editing

Read through your rough draft to see if there are any spelling errors. Run a spell-check program and check to see what words might not be correct.

Read through and check to make sure you have the proper punctuation for your sentences. Do all sentences start with a capital letter and end in punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation mark)?

Commas and run-on sentences seem to be a big problem for writers. Placing commas in the wrong spot, or including too many of them in a sentence, and having a sentence go on, and on, and on, can affect how your arguments are accepted.

Your thoughts and ideas are most important. Look to make sure you say what you mean. Don't let quotes or examples argue you ideas - explain them. Introduce quote (or example). State quote (or example). Explain quote (or example).

Essay

Please make sure you submit your copy of the essay, I will go through and do a quick edit for you, but I would like to see evidence that you are revising and editing as well!

Day 4- Welcome to Poetry!

Just to start things off, I wanted to share one of my favorite poems - "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost.

The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claimBecause it was grassy and wanted wear,Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I marked the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Robert Frost

You have probably heard this poem many times before, or if not the whole poem, the last few lines: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, | I took the one less traveled by, | And that has made all the difference." I enjoy this poem because it talks about the choices we make, and how they can lead us to places we never imagined. I also enjoy this poem because it reminds me of the poem Bilbo Baggins tells in the "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" - a couple of my favorite novels.

• • Mr. Channer: Imagine someone from another planet is visiting

you. Your visitor asks, “What is poetry?” How would you respond?

• Peter: I would say that poetry is a form of writing that is used to express your thoughts and feelings.

• Megan: But you can do that with prose writing too. • Peter: I guess you’re right, but the language in a poem is more

powerful and more concentrated than in prose writing. • Jamal: Maybe it would be easier to explain poetry by comparing

prose and poetry. • Mr. Channer: That’s a good idea, J amal. Take a look at the

chart that follows. •

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Digging Deeper into Poetry

Please locate the file “More about Poetry” under the week 6 folder on Google Drive*

Assignment: Please locate the file “Poetry Scavenger Hunt” on Google Drive under our week 6 folder.◦Complete this assignment and hand it into me

the following Monday. (Monday, March 30th)