Scribe Notes

Agenda:
- Keats: "On Peace"
-Napoleonic War
-web cluster
HW:
- vocab ex 4
- finish historical research. Consider "How did the time period affect Keats (based on Poem)?"

We took notes on Odes before reading Keats's "On Peace". We took a few minutes to paraphrase the stanzas and fully understand the poem. We discussed the context of the poem and how it affected the meaning. For homework, we need to research the Napoleonic Wars and discuss how it affect Keats. We must also finish vocab example 4.

Scribe notes October 28

Agenda:
1-Vocab test 7-8
2-Keats "to Autumn"

hw: Vocab 1-3
Keats commentary on "to Autumn"

We scribbled down agenda and took our vocab test.
then we finished and did page 69 and 60 in our vocab book on definitions. After that we took our Spelling pre test and did exercise one. After that sis Salma checked our homework and then we went over it. We finished it just in time before thew bell and she switched the home work to do the commentary.

SCRIBE NOTES 10-27-08

Monday
1) Vocab Review
We Completed a wordcross puzzle related to lessons 7 and 8 in the vocab book to review for the Test tomorrow.
2)SCASI: CHilde Harold
We Reveiwed the poem and went over the final questions related to the poem in the worksheet relating the the style of the poem.
3)Keat's "TO Autumn"
We went over the poem "TO Autumn" and for homework, we have to answer five questions written on the board about the poem and come up with a thesis.

Friday, October 25th, 2008

Agenda

1- Spelling Test #8

2- "Childe Harold" by Lord Byron
--> review

HW: 1- read, annotate, and do web cluster on "To Autumn" by John Keats

We started, as every Friday, with our spelling test of the week. After that, we reviewed Childe Harold and talked about its style and corrected each others papers--peer review. We didn't get to go over "To Autumn" before leaving and taking it for homework, so we were dismissed.

Thurs. 10/23 (HAPPY SWEET 16 NAWAL!)

1. John Keates: minisearch share.
2. SCASI: focus on style
--> "Childe Harold" (Byron)
HW: 1- fini vocab pkt/study 4 sp.
2- finish style handout

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After being weird and engraving the agenda in our agenda books, (my) Sister Salma had us come one by one up to the front of the class room to share what we found in our topics that she told us to research yesterday. Mine was on the fashion and lifestyle :)
Afterwards, Sister Salma passed out the style handout where a poem was on it. We read it and then talked about what it meant. The homework is to finish the worksheet up to page 47, and end before the Setting.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Agenda:

1. Robert Frost Closure: Why do you think he is still considered one of America's greatest poets?
2. John Keats: mini-research

HW:

1. vocab ex4
2. finish mini research

We have finished our packet of Robert Frost poems and are now moving on to Keats. We went to the computer lab and typed a 200 word paragragh in answer to the question, "Why do we think he is still considered one of America's greatest poets?"

When we finished with that, we did a mini-research on John Keats, on the topic that Sister Salma gave us. We were allowed to leave class five minutes early to begin setting up for Club Day. If you didn't finish the mini-research, it is for homework along with vocabulary exercise 4. we

SCRIBE NOTES

MONDAY OCTOBER 20, 2008

1)Spelling Pre-Test
We completed a spelling pretest for lesson 8 and then did exercise 1 for the lesson. We corrected exercise 1 in class

2)SCASI: Action
We read the poem "Interrogator" and answered questions about it related to SCASI, focusing on the action of the poem. Ask Sister Salma for the worksheet.

HW
1) Vocab: exercise 2
2) Web Cluster on the poem "Happiness" by Frost.

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Agenda

1-Spelling Test #7

2- SCASI: "Walter Llywarch"
--> "The Vanishing Red"

HW: 1- complete commentary on "The Vanishing Red"

We started off by taking our seventh spelling test of the year. After taking our spelling test, we reviewed the rest of the packet on the poem "Walter Llywarch". We then read "The Vanishing Red" and discussed a few possible interpretations of the poem or who the poem may be talking about. And then we were dismissed.

Wednesday, October 15

We didn't have class today because we were taking the PSAT, however, we still have homework.
Finish both the web cluster and commentary for "On Going Unnoticed". Also, don't forget to do your vocab!

(Sorry it's so late! We didnt get home till 6:00, and then we had dinner. This was the only time I was able to do this.)

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Agenda

1- Spelling Test #6

2- Review "My Butterfly"
--> review SCASI
--> write commentary on "My Butterfly"

HW: 1-vocab study sheet
2-complete commentary on "My Butterfly"

We started out by taking our 6th spelling test. After finishing that, we reviewed our homework and added on to our SCASI on "My Butterfly". We talked about it in depth and got our notes ready for our homework (writing the full commentary on it).

Scribe Notes 10/8/08

Agenda:
1. SCASI: focus on setting
"My Father's Garden"
2. Robert Frost: "A Considerable Speck (Microscopic)"

HW:
1. vocab ex 4
2. "Speck" Commentary

We started off by learning about SCASI. SCASI stands for Setting, Character, Action, Style, and Ideas. We read the poem "My Father's Garden" about a man who works in a mill and likes to visit the scrapyard. The mill is described as a hellish, horrible place to be, while the scrapyard is the garden, a nice relaxing place for the father to be himself. We underlined the settings and the words used to describe them and then discussed the settings in the poem, the differences in desriptions and how they affect the father. Then we discussed the details in the poem that suggest the way the narrator feels about or towards his father.
Class ended at this point and we weren't able to read Frost's "A Considerable Speck". However, we still have to do the commentary for homework. Also, don't forget to do vocab example 4.

agenda 10/7 scribe notes

AGENDA:

1- Spelling test #5

pre test

2-"the road not taken" poem commentary

HW: commentary

We took our long awaited spelling test and switched and corrected.
Then we took our pretest, but we didn't do Exercise one in the vocab book.
We then went to the poem that we did for Homework, "the road less traveled"
we went over the commentary and summarized it.
at the End sister Salma told us a hidden meaning to the poem. It was actually a satire,
he was making fun of people who think too much on decisions that wont make
much of a difference in the future. Interesting...changes your whole feeling on the poem!
that was it!
class dismissed
<3

Monday: 10-6-08

AGENDA
1)journal Entry
For today's Entry, we had to write about what we did over the Eid Break. In the entry, we had to focus on two events and describe them with sensory details.

2) Memoir Portfolio
We had to present our memoir project to the class. Each student had to read theri prologue, epilogue, and an assignment of theri choice. Nawal, Alia, and Fadhelah presented theirs, Saliha and Areeba still need to present tomorrow

3)Poetry COmmentary
We turned in the commentaries we had to do over the break and Sister Salma checked our annotations on the other poems in the packet.

Homework
1) Write a poem commentary on Frost's "The Road Not Taken"