Meet the Teacher Night 2011

Students,

Not all of your parents, who attended tonight, received a copy of our syllabus.

Please, share this email/blog post with them, and ask them to download a copy of our syllabus at:

http://goo.gl/pZAGI

Dr. Jones

Crime and Punishment - the Rest of the Study Guide

Students,

Here's a link to the remainder of the C & P study guide ...

Go ahead and resume reading the book.  Pick-up the Study Guide where you left off.

At this point, please save the Study Guide to Word, type in the file, save, and upload to your Google Docs space.

Dr. Jones

some helpful help pages for getting the most out of our CR-48s

Take a look at these two pages from Google:

1. using the task manager on a CR-48/Chromebook and

2. managing/navigating tabs and windows ...

generally, I feel these helpful hints may speed things up in the classroom ...

Dr. Jones

homework for 9/1 and classwork for 9/2

Students!

 

Just to reiterate, the poem you need to analyze tonight is the one in the first few pages of Poetry Supplement #1, written by Linda Pastan.  You should take a look at the Linda Pastan page at The Poetry Foundation.  (At some point I will tell you a story about Ruth Lilly and The Poetry Foundation.)

 

First, review the Vendler handout then run her "system" on the Pastan poem.  (If you were not in class - aka. U of I presentation - then run the Vendler system on this Pastan poem.)

 

Oh, I should point out that the "Vendler system" was invented by Harvard professor Helen Vendler, and -- check it out math studs -- she was a chem. major in college AND earned a Fullbright to study math! The system that we are using in class comes from her landmark text Poems, Poets, and Poetry.

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For 9/2 in class, you will work in groups of five or four.  Two - three of you will use TP-CASST and the others of you will use Vendler to analyze the same poems together.  The large group will also be performing (yeah!) a choral reading next week.  More details on Tuesday ...

Dr. Jones