ENG III Bellringer: Wednesday, 9/28/11

Surprise! We’re having an open notes test today over Welty’s “A Worn Path.”

This means that you can use all of our PPT. notes and handouts (AWP Close Reading/Questioning to Learn) on the test, so go ahead and get them out. You have 5 minutes.

I am confident that you will do great if you’ve taken notes and listened in class.

You will need your notes and handouts, a #2 pencil, and a piece of paper.

ENG III Bellringer: Thursday, 9/29/11

Pick up the parallelism handout on the journal table.

Read over the note side (side facing up)of the parallelism handout.

ENG III Journal #1: Monday, 10.3.11

Happy Monday!!!

Describe how you feel today using hyperbole.

Example: I’m so tired, I could sleep for years.

FYI: Your journal and AWP test grades will go

on the next six weeks!

ENG III Journal #2: Tuesday, 10/4/11

What was the most challenging part of yesterday’s Cscope Assessment? Explain in 2 sentences.

Hang in there! Remember, you are being graded on your behavior and participation.

ENG III Bellringer: Wednesday, 10.5.11

Get out your Cscope Assessment booklet.

If you turned it in, get it from the journal desk.

ENG III Journal #3: Tuesday, 10.11.11

Write down the three things that you find most interesting about Poe’s life.

Make sure that you write a sentence for each.

ENG III Journal #4: Wednesday, 10/12/11

Think about eerie or mysterious stories or films you have seen. What do you expect to experience in such works? Write your response in 2 sentences.

ENG III Journal #5: Thursday, 10/13/11

Find the grammar errors in the following paragraph, then rewrite the paragraph correctly:

On January 3, 1903, president Theodore Roosevelt named Wind Cave in South Dakota the nations seventh national park. Tails of American Indians described caves that "blew wind," but the first recorded discovery of such a cave was in 1881. Two brother's were drawn to the cave by a whistling noise when they reached the cave, the wind blowed the hat off one of the boy. Upon there return, the changing wind sucked yet an other hat into the cave!

On January 3, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt named Wind Cave in South Dakota the nation's seventh national park. Tales of American Indians described caves that "blew wind," but the first recorded discovery of such a cave was in 1881. Two brothers were drawn to the cave by a whistling noise. When they reached the cave, the wind blew the hat off one of the boys. Upon their return, the changing wind sucked yet another hat

into the cave!

ENG III Journal #6: Friday, 10.14.11Get out your copy of Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.”Skim over Scene 1.Write a sentence that explains the mood of the opening scene. Use a tone word from the tone word lists on the journal desk. -----------------------------------------------

ENG III Journal #7: 10.18.11

Answer the following in complete sentences: We are reading the poem, “The Raven,” today in class.

1. Does the title of the poem have a positive or negative connotation?2. What do we associate ravens with? 3. What meaning or significance does this title have?

ENG III Journal #8: Wednesday, 10.19.11

Define the following words using your copy of “The Raven.”

Be sure to write both the word and its definition.1. surcease 2. beguiling 3. placid 4. censer5. seraphim 6. quaff 7. Nepenthe

ENG III Journal #9: Thursday, 10.20.11

Answer the following in 2 sentences (remember, more than 10 words each!):

If you were to write a poem that focuses on the speaker’s inner psychological state and includes a talking animal, what would the speaker’s state of mind be and what animal would you choose to reinforce it?

For example, let’s say that in my hypothetical poem, the speaker would have a hopeful state of mind, and I’d pick a dolphin to reinforce that idea.

ENG III Bellringer: Friday, October 21, 2011

1. Check and make sure that you have all 9 journals. If not, go to

the journal folder to make them up.

2. Grab a handout from the pile in front of journal bin #8.

3. Fill it out and put it in the box.4. Get ready to watch some POE!!!

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ENG III Justdoit: Monday, 10/24/11

Grab a test review from the journal table.

The review lists the materials that will be covered on the test. Go ahead and get them out.

Happy Monday Y’all!!!ENG III JUSTDOIT©: Tuesday, 10.25.11

1. Instead of using the word, “Bellringer,” to stand for something you just do when you get here in

lieu of writing a journal, I’m going to call it “Justdoit.”

2. Get out your copy of “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a #2 pencil, and a piece of paper.

ENG III Journal #10: Wednesday, 10/26/11

You will take at least 4 online grammar quizzes using the link on the ENG III page on my website:

www.mrsamandahall.weebly.com

Record the grade you make on these quizzes: Parallelism III (#120), Notorious Confusables (#125), #68, and #74.

Example: Parallelism III Quiz Grade = 100

ENG III JUSTDOIT (please ): Thursday 10.27.11

1. Get a Mac and log on. 2. Go to http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

3. Spend 25 minutes reading poems of your choice.4. Go to www.mrsamandahall.weebly.com

5. Click on the grammar quiz link on the ENG III page.

6. Spend 20 minutes taking quizzes under the Structural Flaw section.

ENG III JUSTDOIT: Friday, 10.28.11

Grab a handout from the journal desk and read the poem.

ENG III Journal #11: Monday, 10/31/11Try to answer the following Halloween inspired riddles:1. What was the witch’s favorite subject in school?

2. What do skeletons say before eating?

3. Why didn’t the skeleton cross the road?

5. What’s iambic tetrameter? Hahaha! But really, what is it? Get out “The Witch” / TPCSTT handout.

ENG III JUSTDOIT: Tuesday, 11.1.11

1. Grab a textbook.2. Turn to page 402.3. Look at the pictures of the witches and know which one you will vote on.

ENG III Journal #12: Thursday, 11.3.11

Define the following in your own words and give an example:

1. Alliteration (403)

2. Oxymoron (403)3. Free verse (424) for the example, you can name

one of the poems from Tuesday.

ENG III JUSTDOIT: 11/3/11

1. Get out your work from yesterday:“A Blessing” and Peeling Back the Layers.

2. Read “A Blessing” again silently to yourself.

ENG III Journal #13: Friday, 11.4.11

How are you feeling today?Answer the question with an oxymoron

Like… Today I feel sleepily awake OR anxiously patient OR like a clever fool.

ENG III JUSTDOIT: Wednesday, 11.9.11

1. Go check out the journals and make sure that you have 13.

2. Do you need extra credit? If so, go get it from the back folder.

3. Fill me in with what happened when I was gone.

ENG III JUSTDOIT: Thursday, 11.10.11

Pick up your Cscope Assessment from the top of the cow cart because we are going over it today.

*Remember, I won’t be here tomorrow or Monday, so get your work/extra credit in today!!!

GO TIGERS!!!!

ENG III Journal #14: Tuesday, 11/15/11Find the grammar mistakes, and then rewrite the passage below correctly.Do you own a Pluto Platter. if you have a Frisbee in you're closet, you do! The original flying discs was actually pie tins from a bakery.

In 1948, Fred Morrison manufacture the first flying discs made of plastic. Then, in January 1957, a company called Wham-O introduced the Pluto Platter. The Pluto Platter was later renamed the "Frisbee" its estimated that more Frisbee's are sold each year than basketballs baseballs and footballs combined!

Answer Key

Do you own a Pluto Platter? If you have a Frisbee in your closet, you do! The original flying discs were actually pie tins from a bakery. In 1948, Fred Morrison manufactured the first flying discs made of plastic. Then, in January 1957, a company called Wham-O introduced the Pluto Platter. The Pluto Platter was later renamed the "Frisbee." It's estimated that more Frisbees are sold each year than basketballs, baseballs and footballs combined!

ENG III Journal #15: Wednesday, 11/16/11

Hello! Good day!

Pick up a handout from the journal desk.

Read the directions, fill it out, and then staple it in your journal.

ENG III JUSTDOIT:

Thursday, 11.17.11

Grab a “Puritans and Puritanism” handout and read the paragraph.

ENG III Journal #16: Friday, 11.18.11Get out your Vocab Word Lists from yesterday.Write a sentence using a word from word list A, and then write a sentence using a word from word list B.

Write quality sentences that prove you know what the word means.Example: When the district decided to ban eating in class, a student faction got together to protest.

ENG III Justdoit: Monday, 11.21.11

Happy Monday!!!

FYI: There will be a journal check tomorrow, so make sure that your journals are dated and numbered. You should have 16 journal entries.

Pick up a Webquest from the journal table and a Mac from the cart.

ENG III JOURNAL CHECK: Tuesday, 11/22/11

Tear out journals #1-16, staple them together, and put them in the box.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!