Blizzard Bag Information and Handouts

🔺SNOW! AGAIN! 🔺BLIZZARD BAG DAY FOR MARCH 13TH (PERIODS 3 AND 7): Submit TWO NEW entries for your 2nd Semester Writer's Portfolio. Remember that, as with the first semester, 12 complete entries are required for this. SUBMIT VIA OUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM. I expect every single one of you to come to class having done what is asked of you this time.

Remember that each entry should be at least one page minimum and that poetry must be appropriately developed, too. If you write a poem and it is brief, either create a series of them or continue to develop your poetic creation until it represents an equal amount of work compared to a prose piece

For those who were asking about new Challenge Words for the Portfolio entries, here are a couple of sets:

1. upward, thunder, hands, grain, tussled, foil, prove, woven, eve, regret
2. NOT FOR THE WEAK OF HEART 🠞*all words from a typical list of "beautiful" words in English - use a dictionary if need be*: bucolic, scintilla, penumbra, susurrus, Labyrinthine, gambol, gossamer, evanescent, dulcet, dalliance

BLIZZARD BAG DAY FOR MARCH 8TH:

Periods 3 and 7: Use your #2 packet and #3 packets (or, if you do not have your packet, do a google search and use one of the many full text versions available online), and read from where we have left off in class (right around when Romeo sees Juliet at the party) up until the END of Act II, Scene II. You will stop in the 3rd packet where it says "Act 2, Scene 3).

THEN COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING ASSIGNMENT: CLICK HERE

OLD BLIZZARD BAG ASSIGNMENT:

HONORS: Find an image of an artwork (painting, drawing, photograph, sculpture...or take an "artsy" photograph of something unexpected...maybe a unique closeup of something ordinary, presented in a new way... - pick something good). Include it in a document and craft a poem inspired by it in some way. Go beyond literal. Do more than simple description. Try your hand at a rhyme scheme and/or a set syllable count. Be playful with your language. Do not end-stop all your lines and make sure the poem is substantive (no short nubbins!).

BRING A PRINTED COPY TO CLASS. IT MUST BE PRINTED BEFORE CLASS STARTS. AND SHARE THE DOCUMENT WITH ME ONLINE.

GATEWAY: Find an image of an artwork (painting, drawing, photograph, sculpture...or take an "artsy" photograph of something unexpected...maybe a unique closeup of something ordinary, presented in a new way... - pick something good). Include it in a document and craft a poem inspired by it in some way. Go beyond literal. Do more than simple description. Try your hand at a rhyme scheme and/or a set syllable count. Be playful with your language. Do not end-stop all your lines and make sure the poem is substantive (no short nubbins!).

BRING A PRINTED COPY TO CLASS. IT MUST BE PRINTED BEFORE CLASS STARTS. AND SHARE THE DOCUMENT WITH ME ONLINE.

Honors Gateway:

Read "The Fever Tree." Then, do something that clearly demonstrates your reading of the whole text. You can annotate as you go, write a summary, make a quick reading quiz of your own (with answers), write a personal response, make a list of sentences/phrases that you liked from the text, do something clever using the internet (like a crossword puzzle generator), write a follow up flash fiction, etc.

Again, the "do something" part does not have to go overboard; it simply needs to prove without a doubt that you read and comprehended this story.

Gateway:

Write something creative based on the directions found here. Click Me!

5 extra credit points to anyone from Honors or Gateway who makes their own mini snowman and can show/send me a picture of it. It must be your own creation!