Homecoming Week (New Baby Week!)

Lucia "Lucy" (Light) Jane (Gift of God) Reno

• Dear students, as I write this, my wife and I are at Dominican Hospital, just down the hall from Mr. Davis, his bride, and new daughter. It's been a party! While my wife is bringing a child into the world, what follows is what I expect for you to bring into the world during Homecoming Week. (Since writing this, our little "light" has decided to shine into our world. I did get to cut the umbilical cord with my . . . teeth-replacing shears that the doc loaned me)

• I expect you to accomplish two things while I'm with my family (yes, I'll be out all week. Huzzah!)

1. CWP Q1 
1. Tuesday: bring two hard copies of your full rough draft to have several people proofread. 
2. Block: final draft hard copy (MLA formatted as best you can. I will be very gracious since I didn't get a chance to teach you). Follow the heading below:
1. Rahd Stewdahnt (first name then last)
2. Mr. Reno (instructor)
3. English 40? (whatever your period is for the last #)
4. 2 October 2014
2. Read Beowulf and finish the Study Guide Questions
1. Whether you work in groups or in solitary confinement is up to you; just be productive (which means stay on track, be productive, and stay on track & task & stuff)
2. I will be spot checking your study guide questions on Monday, the day I return. We will also be talking through them.



Kickin' it live after the longest
shortest trip known to (wo)man

3. We will be having an Anglo-Saxon & Beowulf Exam on the Wednesday after I return, so begin preparing now by finishing Beowulf. If you don't read it, you'll have a heck of a time being tested on it, even if, upon the return of the king, I talk through your study guide questions. 

Lucy told me to tell the seniors to RAWK Homecoming Week

• Have a great homecoming week & so will the Reno family. Please keep us and the little'un in your prayers.

Block 9.25 & 26 - It Is Meet That We Worship the Warden with Song!

• 3PO

• GUM: Review "Caedmon's Hymn" for a few minutes

• Recitations

• Beowulf Scop
• Intro
• Grendel's Ambush
• The Battle

• Beowulf:
• Discuss Beowulf review questions
• Discuss lines 1687-1784
• Continue in groups 
• Begin at line 1799

• MLA formatting

• Hand back ICEs (TGD)

HW:  

1. I will be reviewing your intro paragraphs today and tomorrow; you full rough draft is due Tuesday
2. CWP final draft will be due block day (10/2 & 3)

Wednesday 9.24 - Deep Sea Diving

• 3PO

• GUM: Write one compound-complex sentence (about your reading yesterday in Beowulf) with the dependent clause in the middle of an independent clause. Use proper punctuation.

• So . . . I made a mistake yesterday and figured out what to do to rectify the sitchy-ay-shin, which will push everything back one day (happy-happy). 

• Follow the following guidelines to resubmit your essay:
1. For me to be able to edit your documents, you must submit a Google Doc through Google Classroom. 

• Continue with Beowulf in groups
• Begin at line 1383 and go to 1798, answering your attendant questions.

HW: 

1. Full CWP Q1 Rough Draft POSTPONED! New due date is Monday, with the final draft due Wednesday.
2. Poetry Recitation (block) 
1. eye contact (your entire audience)
2. dynamics and tone
3. stage presence (body language)

Tuesday 9.23 - Ugly Mamma

Grendel's Mamma? She is the Ugly Stick

• 3PO

• GUM: 
• Turn in your CWP Rough Draft (Intro) to Google Classroom if you have a digital copy. If it's recorded in your journal, then turn in your journal so I can quickly check it. 
• Begin reviewing your Beowulf and Sentence Type quizzy-quiz (be sure to use the correct version of the quiz). Discuss the answers with a neighbor for those answers not recorded by the scantron machine. We will discuss as a class.

• Beowulf - continue reading with your group
• Begin at 1062, but you may skip the italicized poem within the poem and go to line 1158 (unless you'd really like to be ambitious and read the scop's poem beginning with line 1062. Try to read to 1382 as a group and answer the study guide questions in your journal.

HW: (due Block)

1. CWP Q1: Personal Statement (Rough Draft submitted to Google Classroom) 
2. Poetry Recitation - "Caedmon's Hymn" 
1. Remember that you have two grades: 1) accuracy and 2) delivery (eye contact, conviction, varied tone) 

Monday 9.22 - Let the Beots (Formal Boasts . . . or Personal Statements) Begin!

• 3PO

• GUM: Select a prompt (See the College tab above on the blog)
• Begin reviewing the CWP guidelines 
• Write your first paragraph (due tomorrow with prompt)

• Continue with Beowulf in your groups to line 1061

HW: Write out (or type) the prompt and at least one-hundred words of your CWP.

Block, 9/18 & 19 - Student vs. Grendel . . . I mean, Quizzy-Quiz

• 3PO

• GUM: you have eight minutes to review for your quiz. If it sounds like you're finished (superfluous chatting), then we will begin our quizzy-quiz a bit early ; )

• College Applications: The college essay is your opportunity to unlock your own word-hoard, to open your mouth and preen your plume, to become a scop, a shaper of a story that will sing the glories of character, all to enable you to enter the mead hall of your desires.  

• Some guidelines for the Personal Statement: 
1. Be sure to include the prompt when turning in any college essay writing piece.
2. Use MLA in your heading for work turned in.  
3. Consider opening in medias res (in the middle of things), like Homer (though an epic may not follow). 
4. Keep the active tense. Vary your sentences (do five sentences open with "I" or "My"? Change it). Be specific, avoid general statements about yourself and others.  
5. Look for the arc of negative to positive or positive to negative to positive.
6.  Colleges are more interested in you than people you'd rather talk about. 

• Prompts for Practice
• Common App Prompt(s) 

•  Student Personal Statements: read two of these on your own (except for the last one, which we will read together)
• Educational Experience
• Mother Watsonville
• Prunedale Promise
• The Bully (read together)

• Continue reading Beowulf and filling out the study guide questions with the groups assigned yesterday. 
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Wednesday, 9/17 - 12 Piece Bucket of Extra Crispy Grendel

MVP Lunch Schedule

• 3PO

• GUM: (5 min) Discuss with a neighbor the following terms and be ready to discuss as a class:
• independent clause
• dependent clause
• simple sentence
• compound sentence
• complex sentence
• compound-complex sentence

• Break into groups of four and begin answering the questions posted on your Beowulf Study Guide Questions in your journal (also see the Unit 2: The Anglo-Saxon Era link located on the right column of the blog). 
• You do not have to write down the question; however, you should write down the number before you answer. 
• When you write down the answers to the questions leading up to where we left off, remain in your groups to read and answer the questions together.
• Here are the line numbers for each period:
• Per 1 - 874
• Per 2 - 790
• Per 3 - 675
• Per 4 - 790
• Per 5 - 744
• Per 7 - 675

HW: Prepare for your quiz on block day, which will cover GUM and Beowulf through line 874.

• You may access the text by going to Google Classroom (GC) and downloading it. The Google Classroom link is always available to you on the right column of the blog in the first section called Course Info.
• If you CANNOT open it in GC, I've posted it in Moodle (Focus) in two parts. 

Tuesday, 9/16 - Pay-Per-View: Grendel vs Beowulf

• 3PO

• GUM: write down in your journal the two examples written on the white board; then compose one of each of your own concerning what you have recently learned in Beowulf.
1. Complex
2. Compound-complex 

HW: review your journal notes on sentence types and Beowulf.

Monday, 9/15 - Beowulf beats down a Grendel-in-the-making

• 3PO

• GUM: 
1. Write one compound sentence about Grendel's character.
2. Write one complex sentence about what it means to be a goodly leader according to Beowulf. 

• Continue with Beowulf

HW: Be ready for a little quizzy-quiz this block day covering Beowulf thus far and the four types of sentences: 

1. simple
2. compound
3. complex
4. compound-complex 

Block, 9/11 & 12 - Commemoration

• GUM: Write one of each of the following types of sentences, and circle and identify each type of clause (IC for Independent Clause and DC for Dependent); then double underline each verb and single underline each subject:
• simple
• compound
• complex 

• 3PO: Today we remember the atrocity of 9/11, prayerfully wage war against the sin in our own hearts and relationships, and ask God to cause His Kingdom to come on earth as it is in Heaven.

• J2: The Goodly King
• In a short paragraph, explain what you believe to be the traits of a good king, a good leader by telling about one historical or fictional figure whom you believe exemplified/s these traits.

Wednesday, 9/10 - BEOWULF!!!

• 3PO

• GUM: Write out the following types of sentences. Then single underline the simple subject(s) and double underline the verb(s):
1. simple sentence
2. compound sentence
3. complex sentence
4. compound-complex sentence

• Let us review kennings, our mnemonic devices, and then begin reading Beowulf.

HW: If you have a particular college in mind that requires you to write a personal statement, bring a copy of the prompt to class on block day (we might get to it ; )

Tuesday, 9/9 - More Anglo-Saxon Background

• 3PO 

• GUM: Begin writing down the Lit Terms posted on the right hand column for Unit 2: The Anglo-Saxon Era

• Anglo-Saxon Intro - HW check

The British Isles

• Discuss reading notes (British Isles mnemonic devices) 

• Begin Beowulf?

HW: 

1. If there is a particular college that interests you, please bring a snapshot of their personal statement prompt with you to class on block day.

Monday, 9/8 - The Real Intro to Anglo-Saxon England

• 3PO

• GUM: None . . . however, access the Brit Lit - Historical Eras document by going to Google Classroom (the link is on the right column of the blog) and save in Notability.

• Why study British Literature?

• Anglo-Saxon Riddles

HW: 

ANNOUNCEMENT: Please ONLY use the Google Classroom document; DO NOT use the one that was emailed to you, since I made some edits. 

Take hand-written notes in your journal of the Brit Lit - Historical Eras document posted on Google Classroom (link on the right column of the blog). Open in Notability and take hand-written notes in your journal on pages 3-13 of the document (no need to read the Time Line section unless interested).

Block, 9/4 & 5 - Anglo-Saxon England

Reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon helmet

• 3PO

• GUM (Grammar, Usage, Mechanics): Write out the following sentences and identify 1) the verb(s) with a double underline and 2) the simple subject(s) with a single underline. 
• Helpful hint: find the verb(s) and then ask "Who or what is/are doing/being?" The answer to that question should give you the subject(s).
1. The viking ship pitched violently on the enraged waters of the North Sea.
2. How has tiny England had such a huge legal and political impact on many countries?

• Review J1: Who Am I?

Wednesday, 9/3 - Who are you?

• 3PO
• GUM (Grammar, Usage, Mechanics)
• Write out the following sentences and identify the entire subject by underlining it; then circle the simple subject.
1. One of the covers is missing.
2. After many years his father returned.
3. One of the most important men in the community has gone.
4. Wisdom is the best teacher.

Observe: No Advisory today; rather, we shall assemble

• Writing exercise to finish. When you are done, please begin answering the journal below in your, well, journal (finish it for block day).

• J1: Who am I?
1. Tell one (riveting, fascinating, shareable) story that you have heard about your extended family (you may use your parents if their story is that good) that has either
1. partially made you who you are today 
2. OR at the very least seems worth sharing, even though you don't see the connection to yourself
2. Research and record your name origins (first, middle, and last). Also, ask your parents why they named you thus (i.e. did they name you after anyone else)? 

HW: J1 (due block)

Tuesday, 9/2 - ICE, ICE, baby

• 3PO (without the poetry)
• ICE (In Class Essay) - you have the entire period

HW: Be ready to dive into the genesis of British Literature.