Mon 10/19

Mon 10/19 • Due: Draft 2 • CW: Go over Moodle • Revise Draft 2 & • Word Choice • HWK: Moodle Post due 10/22 • Fill in agenda for the week

Revise & Word Choice • Revise = Improving your writing • (Add, Remove, Replace, Rearrange) • You can fix the WORD CHOICE to make your writing better • Use a thesaurus • Find boring words and put in better ones • Use your Pink Plan Guide to help you keep track of your Revisions

Tues 10/20 • 20 • Due: • CW: Discuss 6 Traits & • Peer Review • HWK: Moodle Post due 10/22 • Final Memoir (be sure to Edit) Due 10/22

6 Traits – what will they look like in your memoir? • Ideas = message/main idea is clear with good detail (5 senses) • Organization = Intro, Body, Conclusion and story is easy to follow • Voice = Writing sounds alive and like YOU • Word Choice = use 3 new words • Sentence Fluency = no run on sentences • Conventions = correct spelling/cap, punctuation

Peer ReviewReader & Listener • I will pair you with a partner for the first round of Peer Review • First I need a volunteer to do a MOCK REVIEW with me • 1. Read story to Listener • 2. Listener asks 1+ questions about the memoir • Reader writes them down at end of draft and will address them by revising • 3. Listener give Rose and Thorn on the draft • Rose = Trait best done and a LINE FROM PIECE to prove it • Thorn = Trait that needs work and a LINE FROM PIECE that needs improvement • 4. Reader makes improvements later • 5. Swap Roles and Repeat

Weds 10/21 • Bell Work = DEAR 10 mins • Due: • CW: DEAR Workshop • HWK: • Final Memoir Due 10/22 • What did you do with the sub? • Go over class work

Memoir Meetings • DEAR WORKSHOP

Thurs 10/22 • Due: Memoir • CW: Share Memoirs • Discuss Moodle Posts • HWK: none

Hand in Memoir • Pink Plan Guide (rubric showing w. name) • Final Copy • All Rough Drafts • Hi-Light PS

Handout from class on Tues

McCourt Memoir • Opening Line – why type is it? • The main idea is? • I know this because (give 3 details) • 3 good words in the memoir are? • 5 senses in the memoir are? • What do you think?

Fri 10/23 • Due: • CW: New Unit: Gothic Literature • Pre-Notes • HWK: Nautical Nonsense Vocab txt pg 65-76 due Mon • Next week is Red Ribbon Week • Monday, 10/26 : Red Day- Wear your red shirt to school to say you say “NO!” to drugs!

Moodle • Moodle • Username = R2.DT • Password = you should know • Click Mittica Language Arts on left • Click Topic 1 (Mosquitos) • Add New Discussion Topic • Right click the article link and READ it ALL • Add new discussion topic

Follow directions in the box: • Click the link: (Right click to open in a new widow or tab) www.com • Write - Post a New Discussion Topic: The title should be Name's Response. Write...The main idea is...I know this because...Also write 1 sentence that tells your OPINION on the memoir.Click on Post to Forum • After you write: respond to another person. Rose and a Thorn (tell them something good about their response and something that needs improvement). • See my sample called Mittica's Response (Sample)

Gothic Literature Unit 2

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm#ghttp://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm#g • Gothic (goth-IK): a literary style popular during the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th. This style usually portrayed fantastic tales dealing with horror, despair, the grotesque and other “dark” subjects. Gothic literature was named for the dark gothic architecture of the period on the genre. Also, many of these Gothic tales took places in such “gothic” surroundings. Other times, this story of darkness may occur in a more everyday setting, such as the quaint house where the man goes mad from the "beating" of his guilt in Edgar Allan Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart.”In essence, these stories were romances, largely due to their love of the imaginary over the logical, and were told from many different points of view. This literature gave birth to many other forms, such as suspense, ghost stories, horror, mystery, and also Poe's detective stories. Gothic literature wasn't so different from other genres in form as it was in content and its focus on the "weird" aspects of life. This movement began to slowly open may people's eyes to the possible uses of the supernatural in literature. Jerry Taylor, Student, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Tales of the Supernatural • Introduction • Monsters have haunted the literary imagination from earliest times (e.g., the Cyclops, Grendel, etc.), but a particular interest in horror and the Gothic form dates back to the 18th and early 19th century. Taking their name from the Gothic architecture that often served as a backdrop to the action, these novels present supernatural events in naturalistic terms, thrilling readers with strange tales filled with mystery and terror.

Gothic (goth-IK): a _______________style popular during the end of the 18th _______________ and the beginning of the 19th. This style usually portrayed _______________ tales dealing with horror, despair, the _______________ and other “dark” _______________. Gothic literature was named for the dark _______________ architecture of the period on the genre. • _______________ events in naturalistic terms, thrilling readers with _______________ tales filled with mystery and _______________.

Make a KWL Chart 4horror/lighthouses/rats/boats

KWL – horror/lighthouses/rats/boats • Know:

KWL – horror/lighthouse/rats/boats • Want to know:

Summary “Three Skeleton Key” is a horror story set during the late 1800’s in a lighthouse some twenty-odd miles off the coast of South America. The nightmare begins when the three lighthouse keepers realize that a derelict sailing ship heading straight for their tiny, rocky island is filled with thousands of giant rats…” --teacher’s ed. Notes (page 65)

Lighthouses • http://library.thinkquest.org/5286/history_of_lighthouses.htm

In early time people set fires at the edge of the water to warn boats of dangerous rocks and shores. The Egyptians were the first people to build lighthouses to use light to guide ships. In Egypt in 283 the Egyptians completed the tallest lighthouse ever built. It guided ships for over 1,500 years and stood 900 feet tall. Lighthouses were also constructed by the Phoenicians, Greeks, and the Romans. • The early lighthouses used wick lamps as a source of light. In the olden times the light beam could only travel a few miles. In 1822 the first modern lighthouse lens was invented by a Frenchman named AugustinFesnel. He found out how to increase the light by using prisms. In 1841 the Fresnel lens was installed for the first time in a lighthouse. • Lighthouses warn sailors to straighten their position so they don't hit land. They are built on harbors, islands, and beaches. They act as guideposts for ships at night or in a storm. The first lighthouse in England was the Eddystone Rock Lighthouse built on a steep rock in 1698. Since then three more have been built on that location. The first lighthouse in America was the Boston Lighthouse on Brewser Island in Boston Harbor. The lighthouse was first lit in 1716, but was destroyed during the Revolutionary War. • In the past the lighthouse were run by keepers. When fog came up the lighthouse keepers warned ships by lighting the light, ringing bells every hour or shooting cannons. Today most lighthouses have lights that run automatically using electricity.

The Flying Dutchman – take notes on the back

The legend of The Flying Dutchman is said to have started in 1641 when a Dutch ship sank off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope: Captain van der Decken was pleased. The trip to the Far East had been highly successful and at last, they were on their way home to Holland. As the ship approached the tip of Africa, the captain thought that he should make a suggestion to the Dutch East India Company (his employers) to start a settlement at the Cape on the tip of Africa, thereby providing a welcome respite to ships at sea. He was so deep in thought that he failed to notice the dark clouds looming and only when he heard the lookout scream out in terror, did he realize that they had sailed straight into a fierce storm. The captain and his crew battled for hours to get out of the storm and at one stage it looked like they would make it. Then they heard a sickening crunch - the ship had hit treacherous rocks and began to sink. As the ship plunged downwards, Captain VandeDecken knew that death was approaching. He was not ready to die and screamed out a curse: "I WILL round this Cape even if I have to keep sailing until doomsday!" So, even today whenever a storm brews off the Cape of Good Hope, if you look into the eye of the storm, you will be able to see the ship and its captain - The Flying Dutchman. Don't look too carefully, for the old folk claim that whoever sights the ship will die a terrible death. http://www.essortment.com/all/dutchmanflying_rrqy.htm

Nautical Nonsense • This story takes place in lighthouse • Sailing ships play a big role in the story • You will need to be familiar with some nautical terms

HWK • Use your text book starting on pg 65 • Find the words in the bottom margins • Fill in the part of speech & definition • Think of how YOU might use this word in YOUR life

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