Saturday, October 24, 2009
Annotated Bibliography Paragraph for 1st Marking period Independent Reading book
Post your Annotated Bibliography Paragraph for your 1st Marking Period reading selection here. Post by 6pm on October 27.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Independent Reading Novel Plot Development Post
Hello!
In two well written paragraphs (5-7 sentences each), detail the development of the plot of the novel you selected for independent reading. Tell what is happening to the characters, how the conflict is developing, and any interesting events that have happened.
Include your full name and block at the bottom of your posting.
This is due by 9PM on Saturday, October 3.
In two well written paragraphs (5-7 sentences each), detail the development of the plot of the novel you selected for independent reading. Tell what is happening to the characters, how the conflict is developing, and any interesting events that have happened.
Include your full name and block at the bottom of your posting.
This is due by 9PM on Saturday, October 3.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Sophomore Independent Reading Selections for 1st Marking Period 2009-2010
Hey, Lovely Sophomores!
Please write a short post letting everyone know the author and title of the book you've selected to read for independent reading during the 1st marking period.
As I am posting this DEREK JETER hit number 2,722, the record for most hits by a Yankee!!!!!!!
Oh, and I am currently reading Pilgram at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. This novel is about a year Annie Dillard spent living and observing nature in the blue valley of Virginia. I love the vivid description she uses to narrate her experience observing nature. Here's an example of her writing style:
"Outside in summer I watch the orb-weavers, the spiders at their wheels. Last summer I watched one spin her web, which was especially interesting because the light just happened to be such that I couldn't see the web at all. I had read that spiders lay their major straight lines with fluid that isn't sticky, and then lay a nonsticky spiral going the other way. It seems to be very much a matter of concentration. The spider I watched was a matter of mystery: she seemed to be scrambling up, down, and across the air. There was a small white mass of silk visible at the center of the orb, and she returned to this hub after each frenzied foray between air and air. it was sort of Tinker Creek to her, from which she bore lightly in every direction an invisible news. She had a nice ability to make hairpin turns at the most acute angles in the air, all at topmost speed" (Dillard 53).
Over the summer I read:
Ann Rynd, Anthem
Jon Franklin, Writing for Story
David Thoreau, Walden
Maxine Hong Kingston, Warrior Woman
W.E.B Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
David Sedaris, Naked
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings
Spencer Wells, Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
half of Dante Alighieri's, Inferno
I love to read!
Mrs. Kaplan
P.S. Also, sign your post with your first and last name as well as your block.
Please write a short post letting everyone know the author and title of the book you've selected to read for independent reading during the 1st marking period.
As I am posting this DEREK JETER hit number 2,722, the record for most hits by a Yankee!!!!!!!
Oh, and I am currently reading Pilgram at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. This novel is about a year Annie Dillard spent living and observing nature in the blue valley of Virginia. I love the vivid description she uses to narrate her experience observing nature. Here's an example of her writing style:
"Outside in summer I watch the orb-weavers, the spiders at their wheels. Last summer I watched one spin her web, which was especially interesting because the light just happened to be such that I couldn't see the web at all. I had read that spiders lay their major straight lines with fluid that isn't sticky, and then lay a nonsticky spiral going the other way. It seems to be very much a matter of concentration. The spider I watched was a matter of mystery: she seemed to be scrambling up, down, and across the air. There was a small white mass of silk visible at the center of the orb, and she returned to this hub after each frenzied foray between air and air. it was sort of Tinker Creek to her, from which she bore lightly in every direction an invisible news. She had a nice ability to make hairpin turns at the most acute angles in the air, all at topmost speed" (Dillard 53).
Over the summer I read:
Ann Rynd, Anthem
Jon Franklin, Writing for Story
David Thoreau, Walden
Maxine Hong Kingston, Warrior Woman
W.E.B Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
David Sedaris, Naked
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings
Spencer Wells, Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
half of Dante Alighieri's, Inferno
I love to read!
Mrs. Kaplan
P.S. Also, sign your post with your first and last name as well as your block.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Mrs. Kaplan's A,G and H Blocks Blog Posts 2nd marking period
After you have sent me your draft via my email address and have received my reply with your grade,please post your annotated bibliography paragraph here for 2nd marking period. Remember, we are all blogging at different times. Don't forget the layout of a successful blog:
1. Topic Sentence -with author/title and literary technique used
2. Details - relevant details from the text to support your discussion of the literary technique
3. Analysis - discussion of "HOW" the author uses the literary technique to do something
4. Summary Sentence - restate topic sentence
1. Topic Sentence -with author/title and literary technique used
2. Details - relevant details from the text to support your discussion of the literary technique
3. Analysis - discussion of "HOW" the author uses the literary technique to do something
4. Summary Sentence - restate topic sentence
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Ms. Prevosti's E Block Blog Posts 2nd marking period
Please blog here for 2nd marking period. Remember, we are all blogging at different times. Don't forget the layout of a successful blog:
1. Topic Sentence -with author/title and literary technique used
2. Details - relevant details from the text to support your discussion of the literary technique
3. Analysis - discussion of "HOW" the author uses the literary technique to do something
4. Summary Sentence - restate topic sentence
1. Topic Sentence -with author/title and literary technique used
2. Details - relevant details from the text to support your discussion of the literary technique
3. Analysis - discussion of "HOW" the author uses the literary technique to do something
4. Summary Sentence - restate topic sentence
Friday, February 6, 2009
REVISED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY PARAGRAPHS
Post your revised annotated bibliography paragraph from the 1st semester here. Also, don't forget to print your paragraph and attached it to the marked up sample paragraph your worked with on Friday. Both are due Monday, 2/9.
Mrs. Kaplan
Mrs. Kaplan
1st marking period Blog Posting February 2009
Once a marking you will post a response to the novel you have selected for independent reading. This response is called an Annotated Bibliography, and it should be a well detailed, extended paragraph. Follow the instructions outlined below to complete your comment:
1) Compose a clear topic sentence that includes the author and title of the novel you are reading and the point you wish to make about the novel. Do not use an “I” phrase.
2) Compose 6-8 sentences that:
a) Detail the main plot events (remember the paragraph should not be entirely plot summary).
b) Detail how the author uses one literary device to develop the plot (characterization, theme, conflict, setting, point of view, etc.)
c) Include transitions between your details of the main plot events and your detail of the literary device.
3) Finish your paragraph with a summation sentence that restates the topic sentence by explaining why you liked or disliked the novel.
DO NOT USE "I"PHRASES ANY WHERE IN YOUR PARAGRAPH AND REMEMBER TO ITALICIZE BOOK TITLES AND THE TITLES OF PLAYS.
1) Compose a clear topic sentence that includes the author and title of the novel you are reading and the point you wish to make about the novel. Do not use an “I” phrase.
2) Compose 6-8 sentences that:
a) Detail the main plot events (remember the paragraph should not be entirely plot summary).
b) Detail how the author uses one literary device to develop the plot (characterization, theme, conflict, setting, point of view, etc.)
c) Include transitions between your details of the main plot events and your detail of the literary device.
3) Finish your paragraph with a summation sentence that restates the topic sentence by explaining why you liked or disliked the novel.
DO NOT USE "I"PHRASES ANY WHERE IN YOUR PARAGRAPH AND REMEMBER TO ITALICIZE BOOK TITLES AND THE TITLES OF PLAYS.
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