Welcome to English II AGS “World Studies”

1. Welcome to English IIAGS “World Studies” Find a seat, any seat, and begin filling out the Student Information Sheet before the bell rings. There’s a back side, too. Thanks!

2. Today’s Agenda: • Welcome/Introductions • Distribution of the Syllabus (materials) • Group Dynamics in ELA • Habits of Thinking (probably tomorrow) HW: Letter to Mrs. W due on Thursday for A Day and Friday for B Day students. Life of Pi Quiz  Thursday/Friday

3. Who is Webster?

4. When I’m not with you, I’m with…

7. Group Dynamics: Time to shake it up. Shake your booty up to the front of the room to form a shoulder-to-shoulder line. Put yourselves in a logical order. Debrief: verbal and nonverbal communication in ELA

8. Day 2 – August 26/27 WELCOME BACK! Sit where you sat yesterday at the end of the period. See Webby if you have forgotten your seat number. Today’s warm-up: Please pick up a piece of paper and a marker from the front black table and create a name-tent for your desk. First name only. And point it to ME. (Because you know your name, right?) Then take out supplies: a pen or pencil, a piece of paper, your RAW Book (if you have it), any classroom supplies you have to donate.

9. Today’s Agenda: • Warm-up: Create nameplates • Habits of Thinking • Jump into the FOUNDATIONS OF ENGLISH Analysis 101 Lesson Literary Terms: detail and imagery Habits of Thinking: remember and understand Homefun: Letter/poem to Webby due next time! Life of Pi Quiz scheduled for Thursday/Friday, too!

10. FOUNDATIONS of ENGLISH

11. The BIG Questions: Who are you… why are you here? Letter to Webby; Group Dynamics Activity, Habits of Thinking Chart

12. The Slightly Smaller Question: What is your brain going to have to DO in English class? Brainstorm a list of VERBS.

13. What is Webster going to ask you to do?!? • Remember • Understand • Apply • Analyze • Evaluate/Critique • Create • (all while “playing well with others”)

14. Analysis 101 Understanding Patterns of Thought and Basic Elements of the Writer’s Craft

15. through art! “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” • Peter Bruegel • c. 1558 • Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

17. Remember

18. Write down: • the title of the painting • the name of the artist • one detail from the foreground • one detail from the background

19. Time Out for LIT TERMS! How would you define the literary term DETAIL? A variation on 2-column notes: Create a T-chart, and write out a definition in your own words in the “My Definition” column. Leave room on the right side of the T-chart for “Webby’s Definition.”

20. Time Out for LIT TERMS! DETAIL = facts, observations, or incidents that shape a story  Consider facts omitted as well as those included.  Seemingly small facts often reveal the theme.

21. Write down: • the title of the painting • the name of the artist • one detail from the foreground • one detail from the background

22. “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” Peter Bruegel c. 1558 Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

24. UnderstandWrite a brief description of the scene depicted in the painting.

26. Block 3 – 8/28 and 8/29 Before the bell rings, assemble the STUFF YOU NEED: • Grab your RAW Book (from the green crate or your backpack). Put class donations on Webster’s desk.  • Put your nameplate back up on your desk. If you have lost yours, there are extra supplies at the front of the room – just make another one! • Take out your “Letter to Ms. W.” It’s due today! (Normally you would put homework in the box before the bell rings, but just hang on to it for a sec.) • Grab a scan tron from the front table and locate your Analysis of a Visual Text handout on your desk (it’s green) and your English class syllabus(it’s blue).

27. Today’s Agenda: • Foundations of English Class – the syllabus • Life of Pi Quiz – nobody panic!! • Continue Foundations of Analysis Lesson Literary Terms: imagery, allusion, theme Habits of Thinking: understand, apply, analyze HW: You have a HOMEWORK FREE weekend! (At least for this class. Enjoy!!) Reminder: Letter to Mrs. W due TODAY. Turn in the letter/poem OR a “dog ate my homework” handout.

28. Sign up for communitycommunication! http://remind.com/join/agscl FB: Webby Web Class of 2017

30. UnderstandWrite a brief description of the scene depicted in the painting.

32. The Legend of Daedalus and Icarus

35. Bonus LIT TERMS! ALLUSION=

36. Bonus LIT TERMS! ALLUSION= Reference to a person, place, or object (especially a literary work, moment in history, pop culture symbol, etc.) that provides context or further meaning to the situation being written about.

37. The smartest person in the room is the room!

38. Block 4 – 9/2 and 9/3 Before the bell rings, assemble the STUFF YOU NEED: • Grab your RAW Book (from the green crate or your backpack). Put class donations on Webster’s desk.  Pick up handouts from the front black cabinet (today it’s a calendar). • Put your nameplate back up on your desk. If you have lost yours, there are extra supplies at the front of the room – just make another one! • Locate your Analysis of a Visual Text handout and have it out on your desk (it’s green).

39. The Legend of Daedalus and Icarus

42. Bonus LIT TERMS! ALLUSION=

43. Bonus LIT TERMS! ALLUSION= Reference to a person, place, or object (especially a literary work, moment in history, pop culture symbol, etc.) that provides context or further meaning to the situation being written about.

44. The smartest person in the room is the room!

46. Time Out for LIT TERMS! How would you define the literary term IMAGERY? Continue the My Def/Webster’s Def process in your own notes.

47. IMAGERY Words/phrases that appeal to the five senses (often referred to as sensory details) • Visual Imagery • Auditory Imagery • Olfactory Imagery • Gustatory Imagery • Tactile Imagery

48. Apply Use the graphic organizer to describe the imagery of the painting (things you could see, hear, smell, taste, and touch if you were inside the painting). Then, determine the MOOD created by the imagery.