Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Today's learning goals:

1. You will become familiar with the journal prompts that we use to begin each class.

2. You will learn how to set up a gmail account for this class.

3. You will begin the process of learning who you are.

Our first DO NOW: 

1. Put your "syllabus signatures" homework on your desk.
2. Open to the JOURNAL SECTION of your binder.
3. Consider the following quotation:
"Be Yourself. Everyone else is taken."
Write  a minimum of 5 lines in your journal: What do you think the statement means? Do you agree or disagree? WHY?  Just write your thoughts. (5 minutes) 

The "I AM Poem" (Complete the sentences to create a free verse poem. Submit it at the end of class. ( 50 points.)
I am ( 2 special characteristics you have)
I wonder ...
I hear...
I see...
I want...
I am (the first line of the poem repeated)

I pretend...
I feel...
I touch...
I worry...
I cry...
I am (the first line of the poem repeated)

I understand...
I say...
I dream...
I try...
I hope
I am (the first line of the poem repeated)

Homework: 
1. Open a Gmail accout and email me at mrs.willis302 @gmail.com
2. Essay: BASED ON YOUR EXPERIENCES IN ENGLISH 2 AND WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS CLASS, HOW WILL YOU DO IN ENGLISH 3? ( 50 POINTS). This will be collected Thursday morning! (50 points)