Homework 11/29
Read Night (1-20)
one-page minimum reflection in NJ
one-page minimum reflection on today's speaker
(remember: reflection = what am I thinking, feeling & wondering about the text?)
Permission Slip for the Mizel Museum
We have a unique and important opportunity to listen to a child survivor of the Holocaust speak tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. at the Mizel Museum. Using the school bus, we will be visiting the Mizel Museum from 9 to 10:30 on Tuesday November 29; we will be back for our 11 o'clock classes. As with previous digital permission slips, simply send me a quick email acknowledging you received this information and give permission for your son/daughter: PErnewein@denveracademy.org
From http://www.mizelmuseum.org
"A Hidden Child: My Holocaust Story
Listen to the riveting account of child survivor, Rosalyn Kirkel, as she looks back and relives the dramatic story of her childhood, living in a ghetto, being smuggled out and becoming a hidden child of the Holocaust."
College Visit
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) will be here on Friday, December 2, at 2:15 p.m. in room 231.
Thanksgiving Homework
Find the next book you will read; be ready to do a booktalk when we return to school.
Check out:
www.tatteredcover.com
www.powells.com
www.amazon.com
Happy Thanksgiving,
Our class will be filmed after Thanksgiving Break
As part of an instructional film being created by Steve Tattum, our class will be filmed after Thanksgiving Break; the permission slip below was handed to the students on Friday to be signed.
Release and Authorization
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Date
Homework 11/18
Final CB project due; all parts (Author's note, persuasive essay and art)
Be ready to present. Thank you.
Guidelines copied again here for easy access and quick reference:
Final Project for Maya Angelou’s
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“To ban or not to ban, that is the question.”
Part 1: The Written Part
• Imagine you are a lawyer in the case of Banned Books for a Better America versus The Coalition for Freedom of Speech in Schools. Next, decide which side of the issue you want to support.
• You job is to write a solid five paragraph essay to support your decision.
• The question: Should Dr. Maya Angelou’s book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, be banned from being taught in high schools in America?
Some questions/issues to keep in mind:
• Does the text have literary value?
• What is the potential benefit/harm from reading this text?
• What would banning (or even limiting access to) this book accomplish?
• What would be accomplished if this book was kept in high school classrooms?
• Are there cases to which this can be compared?
The following must be included:
• Three specific quotes from the text to support your position.
• Three specific quotes from non-text sources to support your position.
o Previous court cases
o Quotes from experts in the field
o The Bill of Rights
• Parenthetical citation and works cited is required (mini-lessons and examples will be provided).
• The final paper must go through the entire writing process. The final product must be a five paragraph essay with proper works cited.
Part 2: The Author’s Note
• The author’s note is a personal five paragraph essay separate from the Written Part. This essay, the author’s note, is a place to informally share your thoughts on the research, the topic and the emotions that were involved in the process of completing this project.
• A separate sheet of paper should be dedicated to the author’s note (see example). It must be placed in front of the Written Part and labeled Author’s Note.
• The author’s note is also a place to include a musical connection if you wish; this is an optional component of this project. A musical connection would be a nice accompaniment to the presentation.
Part 3: The Art Part
• Pick a major national magazine (Time, Rolling Stone, SPIN, and so on) and design a cover that informs the public of the outcome of the court case (see examples).
• The cover you create should look like an actual magazine cover. This will be the cover of your essay.
• You may also design a replacement book cover for the novel instead of the magazine cover.
Part 4: The Choice Part
• Due to the interest and powerful discussions in class surrounding the reading of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, you also have the opportunity to select a topic that can replace the assigned prompt given in the Written Part. The suggested topic must be approved by Mr. Ernewein and Ms. Ertenberg. Proposals must be written in the form of a thesis. All other guidelines will apply.
Caged Bird Exam
Read Maya Angelou's Inaugural Poem (1/20/03); find 3 connections between the poem and our classroom novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Compose your thoughts in the form of paragraphs. Use three specific quotes, words or ideas from the poem and/or the novel.
Inaugural Poem
Maya Angelou
20 January 1993
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A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back and face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow.
I will give you no more hiding place down here.
You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness,
Have lain too long
Face down in ignorance.
Your mouths spilling words
Armed for slaughter.
The Rock cries out today, you may stand on me,
But do not hide your face.
Across the wall of the world,
A River sings a beautiful song,
Come rest here by my side.
Each of you a bordered country,
Delicate and strangely made proud,
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.
Your armed struggles for profit
Have left collars of waste upon
My shore, currents of debris upon my breast.
Yet, today I call you to my riverside,
If you will study war no more. Come,
Clad in peace and I will sing the songs
The Creator gave to me when I and the
Tree and the stone were one.
Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your
Brow and when you yet knew you still
Knew nothing.
The River sings and sings on.
There is a true yearning to respond to
The singing River and the wise Rock.
So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew
The African and Native American, the Sioux,
The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek
The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheikh,
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,
The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.
They hear. They all hear
The speaking of the Tree.
Today, the first and last of every Tree
Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
Plant yourself beside me, here beside the River.
Each of you, descendant of some passed
On traveller, has been paid for.
You, who gave me my first name, you
Pawnee, Apache and Seneca, you
Cherokee Nation, who rested with me, then
Forced on bloody feet, left me to the employment of
Other seekers--desperate for gain,
Starving for gold.
You, the Turk, the Swede, the German, the Scot ...
You the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Kru, bought
Sold, stolen, arriving on a nightmare
Praying for a dream.
Here, root yourselves beside me.
I am the Tree planted by the River,
Which will not be moved.
I, the Rock, I the River, I the Tree
I am yours--your Passages have been paid.
Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need
For this bright morning dawning for you.
History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.
Lift up your eyes upon
The day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream.
Women, children, men,
Take it into the palms of your hands.
Mold it into the shape of your most
Private need. Sculpt it into
The image of your most public self.
Lift up your hearts
Each new hour holds new chances
For new beginnings.
Do not be wedded forever
To fear, yoked eternally
To brutishness.
The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.
Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out upon me, the
Rock, the River, the Tree, your country.
No less to Midas than the mendicant.
No less to you now than the mastodon then.
Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes, into
Your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.
Contest
Please check out the following: www.moaonline, this is the link for the Scholastic Art & Writing contest co-sponsored by the Museum of Outdoor Arts.
Homework: 11/16
Finish CB
Re-write of writing workshop project
Homework: 11/15
Read CB: 33 & 34
CB: draft 2 due (typed)
Optional: read "Iraqi" article
Permission For Thursday's Field Trip
A Literary Field Trip is scheduled for Thursday from 8:30 to noon; we plan to visit the Tattered Cover in Cherry Creek for a scavenger hunt; we will also have lunch prior to return to campus at Chipotle. Money for lunch is recommended; money for the TC is optional.
Please reply to this post by emailing me at PErnewein@DenverAcademy.org
"I give permission for my son/daughter to participate in the homeroom fieldtrip on 11/17 to the Tattered Cover and Chipotle in Cherry Creek; I understand that all school rules and regulations, as defined by the Student Planner, apply on this trip. Mr. Ernewein and Ms. Ertenberg will be the supervisors and drivers for this trip."
The language in this post as well as the rules and expectations of the trip will be reviewed with the students prior to departure.
Thank you.
Homework 11/14
Define Vocabulary
Take home quiz CB 30
Read CB 31 & 32
CB: art draft due
Denver Film Festival
Per our conversation in class about current events, the Denver Film Festival is currently going on at the Tivoli Center at the University of Colorado. Check it out at www.denverfilm.org; the specific movie about medicine and the pharmaceutical companies is Drugging of Our Children (USA 2004, 89 minutes)
College visit: November 15
University of Colorado at Denver: Tuesday, November 15, 2:15 p.m., Room 231.
Weekend Homework
CB: 30
WW: draft 2 of 1st major writing project due Monday
Look ahead at the calendar for upcoming due dates proir to Thanksgiving Break
Extra Credit
Find a specific news article that connects the riots in France to a scene from our current classroom novel.
Homework 11/9
Read CB 26 (be ready for quiz)
Review Vocab (game review tomorrow)
J. Mooney @ DU 7:00 pm (see previous post for more information)
Homework 11/7
Take home quiz on 23
Read CB 24
Define Vocabulary
Writing Workshop Draft 1 due
College Visits: week of 11/7
Monday: Johnson and Wales
Tuesday: University of Puget Sound
Wednesday: Beacon College
Thursday: Mitchell College
Friday: Landmark College
All in Room 231 at 2:15 p.m.
Courage To Risk Presentation
Great news, we just received an acceptance letter for the Courage To Risk presentation; more information available at: http://www.couragetorisk.org/
Our presentation will be on Friday, February 10, 2006 at 3:15 p.m.
Homework 11/4
CB: 23
WW: draft 1 due Tuesday
CB: draft 1 of essay due Wednesday
Caged Bird Project Guidelines
Final Project for Maya Angelou’s
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“To ban or not to ban, that is the question.”
Part 1: The Written Part
• Imagine you are a lawyer in the case of Banned Books for a Better America versus The Coalition for Freedom of Speech in Schools. Next, decide which side of the issue you want to support.
• You job is to write a solid five paragraph essay to support your decision.
• The question: Should Dr. Maya Angelou’s book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, be banned from being taught in high schools in America?
Some questions/issues to keep in mind:
• Does the text have literary value?
• What is the potential benefit/harm from reading this text?
• What would banning (or even limiting access to) this book accomplish?
• What would be accomplished if this book was kept in high school classrooms?
• Are there cases to which this can be compared?
The following must be included:
• Three specific quotes from the text to support your position.
• Three specific quotes from non-text sources to support your position.
o Previous court cases
o Quotes from experts in the field
o The Bill of Rights
• Parenthetical citation and works cited is required (mini-lessons and examples will be provided).
• The final paper must go through the entire writing process. The final product must be a five paragraph essay with proper works cited.
Part 2: The Author’s Note
• The author’s note is a personal five paragraph essay separate from the Written Part. This essay, the author’s note, is a place to informally share your thoughts on the research, the topic and the emotions that were involved in the process of completing this project.
• A separate sheet of paper should be dedicated to the author’s note (see example). It must be placed in front of the Written Part and labeled Author’s Note.
• The author’s note is also a place to include a musical connection if you wish; this is an optional component of this project. A musical connection would be a nice accompaniment to the presentation.
Part 3: The Art Part
• Pick a major national magazine (Time, Rolling Stone, SPIN, and so on) and design a cover that informs the public of the outcome of the court case (see examples).
• The cover you create should look like an actual magazine cover. This will be the cover of your essay.
• You may also design a replacement book cover for the novel instead of the magazine cover.
Part 4: The Choice Part
• Due to the interest and powerful discussions in class surrounding the reading of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, you also have the opportunity to select a topic that can replace the assigned prompt given in the Written Part. The suggested topic must be approved by Mr. Ernewein and Ms. Ertenberg. Proposals must be written in the form of a thesis. All other guidelines will apply.
Homework 11/3
CB: read 22
WW: idea paragraph
CB: for project, 6 quotes to support your thesis (to ban or not to ban)
Extra Credit
Name the Nina Simone song that the Fugees recorded.
November Calendar
11/1 homework
CB: 18 & 19 (notes required)
Artifact (to describe)
