Poem Draft Due; Portfolio & Final Exam

Use class time today to complete the following tasks:

1. Write your black history poem draft (see 1/5, 1/7 posts below): Due today!

2. Prepare your portfolio.
3. Study for your mid-term exam

Your portfolio is due Friday, Jan. 18. In your portfolio you should collect all the writing you have done this year so far in BOTH Ms. Perez' and my classes. This bullet list will help remind you of some of the work we have done.

• Fictional interview story (9/9 & 9/11)
• Fantasy story (9/19-9/21)
• Informational Speech Text (non-fiction) (10/1-10/8)
• Internal monologue poem (10/15)
• Word spill poem (10/23)
• One-minute play script (11/19)
• 10-minute script (12/11-12/19)
• Black History Poem draft (1/5, 1/7)

Wednesday, Jan. 16, we will take our final exam for Performance, Word & Text. You should refer to the following list of terms, vocabulary, and writing materials to study for the exam.

You should know the following terms/concepts:

• Communication
• Conversation
• Ways in which humans communicate and reasons why humans communicate (9/5)
• Short Story History and form (9/12)
• Types of Speech Communication (9/13)
• Interpersonal and intrapersonal communication (9/13)
• J.K. Rowling & The Tales of Beedle the Bard (9/13-9/20)
• The Communication Process (9/17)
• Sender, Receiver, Encoding, Decoding
• Poets: Dorianne Laux,  Nin Andrews, Lucille Clifton (9/17)
• Fantasy genre (High (epic) fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, Alternative History, Steampunk, Urban fantasy, Dark fantasy, Lovecraftian fantasy, etc. (9/19)
• Realism (9/19-9/21)
• Fantasy authors: J.R.R. Tolkein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard (9/28)
• Listening versus Hearing (10/1)
• Barriers to listening effectively (10/1)
• Effective speech writing (10/3)
• Introduction, body, conclusion; Logos, ethos, pathos (10/3)
• Tips on delivering a speech (10/3)
• Speaker (persona), 1st person, 3rd person POV, internal monologue (10/15-10/16)
• Spoon River & Edgar Lee Masters (10/23-10/30)
• Voice, persona, denotation, connotation, understatement, euphemism, rhetorical strategies, diction, tone (10/25 & 10/29 (tone))
• Effective performance tips (11/1)
• David Ives & short plays: Sure Thing, Variations on the Death of Trotsky, Universal Language, The Philadelphia (11/25-11/27)
• Paul Zindel: The Effect of Gamma Rays...Marigolds (11/29)
• August Wilson: Fences (12/4-12/11)
• The Civil Rights Movement (12/5)
• Characterization & Play writing tips (12/5)
• Revising plays (1/1-1/5)

Please print out your black history poem draft (or send to me through email: bradley.craddock@rcsdk12.org if the printer is out of ink.)