1. Semester 1
2nd 9 Weeks
Week 1
Daily Warm Ups

2. Mechanics, Usage, Grammar
M.U.G. Shot Monday
Mechanics, Usage, Grammar
Daily Warm Ups

5. Focus on Keystone and Common Core Vocabulary
Literary Term Tuesday
Focus on Keystone and Common Core Vocabulary
Daily Warm Ups

6. http://youtu.be/uv33QM2b_Ls Quiz http://youtu.be/JB0HrNdqJKQ

7. Simile
Metaphor
Extended Metaphor

8. Extended Metaphor Definition: A metaphor that continues over multiple sentences, and that is sometimes extended throughout an entire work. Why Writers Use it: Extended metaphors allow writers to draw a larger comparison between two things or ideas. In rhetoric, they allow the audience to visualize a complex idea in a memorable way or tangible. They highlight a comparison in a more intense way than simple metaphors or similes. .

9. If someone was unloving, you could simply say that their heart was ice
If someone was unloving, you could simply say that their heart was ice. But if you wanted to really drive home the point, you might say, “Their heart was icy, their blood frosty, their ventricles filled with icicles, their words turning to ice cubes that would chill an already chilly iced tea.”

10. I graduated from the University of Life. All right
I graduated from the University of Life. All right? I received a degree from the School of Hard Knocks. And our colors were black and blue, baby. I had office hours with the Dean of Bloody Noses. All right? I borrowed my class notes from Professor Knuckle Sandwich and his Teaching Assistant, Ms. Fat Lip Thon Nyun. That’s the kind of school I went to for real, okay? – Will Ferrell, Commencement Address at Harvard University, 2003

12. Words of Wisdom Wednesday
Daily Warm Ups
Analyzing Quotes and Poetry

13. Words of Wisdom Wednesday #4

15. Words of Wisdom Wednesday #6

16. Who, What, Where, When, and Why?
Words of Wisdom Wednesday #6
Who, What, Where, When, and Why?
What type of figurative language does Dickinson introduce in the first two lines
a. Extended Metaphor b. Simile
2) What does the bird do? __________________
3) How does it reacts to hardship?____________ 4) What do you think the gale in the story stands
for in this poem? _____________________
5) Where can hope be found?
_________________________________
6) What does it asks for itself

17. sing Words of Wisdom Wednesday #6
Dickinson introduces an _____in the first two lines a. Extended Metaphor b. Simile
What does the bird do?
How does it reacts to hardship
4) What do you think the gale in the story stands
for in this poem?
5) Where can it be found?
6) What does it asks for itself
sing
It is unabashed in the storm
It stands for the obstacles of life.
Everywhere, from “chillest land” to “strangest Sea”
Nothing, not even a single crumb

18. Words of Wisdom Wednesday #6
This poem uses an extended metaphor to compare hope to a bird inside oneself that never stops singing its tune.
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,

19. A gale is a storm, and that is when the bird’s song is sweetest.
Words of Wisdom Wednesday #6
A gale is a storm, and that is when the bird’s song is sweetest.
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
“harsh” or “terrible.”
shame
Here, the bird of hope keeps people warm, not even just the person who has it.

20. Words of Wisdom Wednesday #6
I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.
This last stanza says that even though the bird of hope has sung its song in the hardest of times and never asked for even a crumb of payment.

21. Responding to Writing Prompts
Thoughtful Thursday
Responding to Writing Prompts
Daily Warm Ups

22. Thoughtful Thursday #6
We all have hopes and dreams for our lives that we want to come true. What happens when you have to postpone or give up a dream? How do you keep hope alive so that you do not get discouraged? How is a dream deferred like losing hope?

23. MLA Formatting Fridays
Quotation Integration
Parenthetical Documentation
Using Quotations
Adding Words
Omitting Words
(Plagiarism)
Works Cited
Daily Warm Ups

24. Quiz on Figurative Language

26. Daily Warm Ups
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