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Welcome to Mr. Paltzer's Website, your one stop location for all your classroom needs! On here you will find everything I hand out in class plus a handy recap of the days events in each class.
Helpful Reading links
Full text 1984: http://www.george-orwell.org/1984
No Fear Hamlet: A modern translation of what we read in class. Use this to get caught up or clarify what was read in class.
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/
Animation link: http://goanimate4schools.com/school/Veritas
No Fear Hamlet: A modern translation of what we read in class. Use this to get caught up or clarify what was read in class.
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/
Animation link: http://goanimate4schools.com/school/Veritas
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Senior Project Info and files |
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May
Tuesday,
May 27
· Good Things · Late work due tonight by 5 pm · 60 second recap videos
Thursday, May 22
· SHARE what Veritas means to you paragraph · Finish 1984 Parts 1 and 2 by Friday · Finish Part 3 and Appendix by May 27 · Resumes · Recap Videos · Text Rendering - Part One - Sections 1-8
May 21st Sports day! May 20th Reflective day: Group discussion of Project and experience of it May 19th Senior Project day! May 16th Last day before the project! objective: Finish last minute preparations for Monday! May 15th Position and Conclusion Day! Objective: Completion and revision of Position and Conclusion speeces May13th Community Day! Objective: Completion and revision of Community service speeches May12th Introduction day! Objective:Completion and revision of Intro speeches British Lit · Journal: What was your biggest challenge working on your resume? · Good Things · Peer review of resumes (10 minutes) o Final Resume Due Monday May 12 o Bring a printed copy to class · Kinesthetic Discussion - “1984” o Answer the Central Question Is it better to live a life with some lies and be happy or live a life full of truth 5/02/14 · Free Write · Good Things Objective: Effective creation of a resume, understanding of resume mistakes · Resume o Bring a draft of your resume to class on Monday May 5 - print it out April/March
4-28-14 - 5-01-14
PHIC play presentations Objective: adaptation of text 4-24-14 Thursday, April 24th Journal: What is my group’s plan to finish this project for Monday? How am I going to help my group do that? What is your group’s biggest challenge on this project? Objective:Effective adaption of the play Projects start Monday! 4-22-14 Journal: What is your attitude towards the next five weeks?why? Objective: Effective adaption of the play 4-7 - 4-11-14 Deliver conclusion speeches in class! 4-(3,4)-14 Joe at a conference Work on Adapting PHIC and practice conclusions speeches 4-01-14 Journal: Why are you friends with your friends? If you met them today would you still like them? Will you stay in touch after this year? Objective: Adaptation and interpretation of Literature Finish Part 2 Discuss 3-31-14 Journal: What does success mean to you? How do you measure your success? Have you ever failed to meet your expectations?Why? Objective: Continue Reading PHIC Good things Table read with groups 3-28-14 Freewrite Objective: Begin PHIC part two Conclusion outline due Monday 3-27-14 Joe out-Working in groups on your Adaptation of PHIC- create a script and adapt the text 3-25-14 Journal: Do you think Gar will go to Philadelphia? Why? What conflicted emotions do you have for next year? Objective: Adaptation of PHIC Discuss PHIC part one Meet and work with groups Edmund Burke reading: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. -two questions for Thursday: what does it mean? Why does Gar repeat it? 3-24-14 Journal: What motivates you to succeed next year? What has motivated you to succeed this year? When do you lose your motivation? Objective: Finish Part 1 of PHIC Good things Discuss new speech 3-20-14 Freewrite Objective: Adaptation of PHIC Good things Group work 3-19-14 Journal: Midway through your last semester, what is going right?What do you have to change? Objective: Continue with PHIC, begin adaptation Midterm reflection PHIC 3-18-14 Journal: What do you hate about Milwaukee? What is your most common complaint about your life right now? Objective: Begin PHIC Discuss Project Groups Project Late Assignment: If you need to submit your project late I can only assume your tragic flaw is procrastination or laziness. I want you to create a video on goanimate demonstrating how your tragic flaw has affected you. In tandem with that I want you to describe five ways in which you can correct it for the future. 3-17-14 Journal: What role has Milwaukee had in shaping who you are? Objective: Discuss Ideas and concepts in "Philadelphia Here I come" Good things Anticipation guide 3-15-14 Freewrite Objective: Construction of Hamlet/projects/papers-Due Monday night! 3-13-14
Journal: See video below Objective: Constructing Hamlet papers/projects Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate for Schools. 3-11-14
Journal: What scares you about next year? Why? Objective: Construct Hamlet projects/papers Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate for Schools. 3-10-14
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Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate for Schools 3-4-14 Journal:What would your tragic flaw be? What is something you would change about yourself? Objective:Discuss Hamlet, Project, practice speech Discuss Act 5 Speech Practice Speeches Thursday! Hamlet discussion questions 1. Is Hamlet insane? 2. Did Hamlet love Ophelia? 3. Is Hamlet justified in murdering Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? 3-3-14 Journal: Is Hamlet a Tragedy? What is Tragic about it? Objective: Discover and debate events of ACT 5 Good things Act 5 February2-28-14
Freewrite Objective: Practice and refine Introduction speeches Good things Speech practice A 5annotations due Monday A5 annotations underline and define unknown words 3 discussion questions Highlight three quotes and explain significance Summarize each page 2-27-14 Journal: If someone commits suicide should people be blamed or charged for the death? Why or why not? Objective: Using textual evidence to back up assertions Listen up Gumshoes, we've got a mystery on our hands: Ophelia has died and we need to place blame on some one You and your table will be cataloging info to press charges against someone for Ophelia's death. Gather up evidence,follow your tasks and we'll see where the hammer of justice will fall on. 2-25-14 Journal: How are you different from your freshman year? How have you grown? Objective: Outlining of Intro speeches Intro speech sample Outline ACT 4 Hamlet late assignment In order to submit your paper late you must take a long speech from the character you are writing about and perform it. Your performance of the speech should echo what you are trying to prove about that character in your paper. Simply reading it isn't an option you have to act it! Include props, costumes etc. Act IV annotations Underline and define unknown words Highlight 3 quotes-explain significance and what the quote means Short summary of each page 3 discussion questions for class on Thursday 2-24-14 Journal: What events in your life stand out as being most important? Why? Objective: Begin construction of Intro speech Good things Speech construction-outlines Create a timeline of your life: <---------------------------------------------------> birth graduation Add in the important details and events of your life, things that stand out, people who have inspired you. 2-21-14 Freewrite Objective: Continue Character analysis using evidence to back up assertions Good things Hamlet trials 2-20-14 Journal: Was Hamlet justified in killing Polonius? Have you ever made a wrong assumption that cost you? Objective: Understand events of Act 3 and discern information about characters to formulate an educated opinion Act 3 plays Act 3 discussion Character debates Each table will have a character and definition that they will represent. You will debate the other table with the opposing idea. You will need to use evidence from you text to prove your side! Hamlet-Crazy vs Insane Claudius- Good King or Villain Polonius- Good Father or Creep who puts his nose in everyone's business 2-18-14 Journal: Who will you choose to analyze in Hamlet?Why? What are your thoughts on who that character really is? Objective:Discern the events of Act 3, discuss paper Good things Paper due next week Monday-shared via google Group Reenactment of act 3 Modernize the entirety of act 3 for presentation in class on Thursday-Include important quotes from the text 2-14-14 Freewrite Objective: Discerning characters in act 3, analysis of development Good things paper Act 3 2-13-14 Journal: Have you ever regretted a decision you have made?Did you try to change it or was it too late? Objective: Read and practice soliloquies, Discern characters Finish discussing act 2 Begin act 3 Senior speech To vine or not to vine To vine: Your assignment is to videotape yourself #hamleting and send it out on vine. You need to recite the whole "to be" soliloquy( or as much as you can in the time limit) Try to be creative with this and put your take on the speech. Not to vine: Construct a modern version of the "to be speech" Place Hamlet's dilemma into a modern context and use modern problems "to go to college or not" so on and so forth. This should be the same length as the soliloquy Act 3 annotations: Highlight unknown words and define them Underline at least 5 quotes and explain their significance and meaning Summarize each page Generate 3 discussion questions for the class 2-11-14 Journal:Do you have a tell? Is there something about you that gives you away when you are lying or stretching the truth? Objective: Analyze characters in Hamlet Tweets from Hamlet Discuss Act 2 2-10-14 Journal: Do you get emotional when you watch television or films? What emotions do you feel? Why can we empathize or feel anger towards fictional characters? Objective:Discerning character from the text, understanding events Good things Discuss Act 2 At your tables- If hamlet and company had a twitter what would they have tweeted during act 2? Construct a list of 5 tweets for each main character from Act 2 that would help summarize the chapter- Use hashtags and keep it brief 140 characters or less per tweet Generate a list of 5 discussion questions to bring back to the group 2-6-14 Journal:To what extent Do you pry into other people's lives? Why do we find other people's lives entertaining (reality tv etc.)? Objective: Discern events of Act 2 and character analysis Character presentation Table read act 2 Discuss Annotation for act 2 Highlight and define unknown words Underline quotes- describe what they mean and why you think they are significant Summarize each page Create 3 discussion questions for the act 2-3-14 Journal: How often do you argue with your parents? What is the worst thing you've said to them? How would you react if you were in Hamlet's situation? Objective: Discern the Events of Act 1 Good things Hamlet A1 S1-5 |
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January-Semester 21-31-14 Freewrite Objective: Discover the background hidden in the text Hamlet a1s1 Read A1 and annotate for monday- Annotation directions Highlight Unknown words-Define them in the margins Underline important quotes- Explain why significant and what they mean Describe what happened in each scene and track the major characters in the play on your sheets Generate three discussion questions based of the reading January 30th Journal: What is your inner monologue?How often do you speak what you are thinking?Why? Objective: Understand Soliloquy and asides in Drama Begin Hamlet January 29th Journal: Who are you?Are you a different person when you are alone as opposed to with other people? Objective: Discuss hamlet themes and Ideas Discuss Hamlet Anticipation guide January 24th Freewrite Act out Hamlet scenes Discuss Hamlet anticipation guide January 23rd FAFSA with Naomi January 21st Journal: In 6 months you will have graduated, how does that feel? What will you do once this is over? What will you do to prevent you from stumbling in the home stretch? Objective: Discern new standards, Construct understanding of Hamlet |
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December
12-20-13
Freewrite Objective: Finalize speeches-due when we come back -January 6th 12-18(19)-13 Journal: If you had to redo your impromptu speech how would it go? Do you think you would do better?What did you learn about your public speaking? Objective: Practice Public Speaking Work on speeches with a partner 12-17-13 Journal: How did the paper go?How does it feel to be done?What grade do you think you will get and why? Objective: Practice public speaking and outline speech Impromptu Outlines 12-16-13 Journal: How confident are you speaking in public?Why? Objective: Begin the process of creating the position paper speech Impromptu speeches 12-13-13 Freewrite Objective: Finish revision of position paper 12-11(12)-13 Journal: If you had to debate your topic how would you do? Why Objective: Revision of papers citation 12-10-13 Joe out ill Continue working on revisions of position papers 12-9-13 Journal: We are working on finishing the papers this week. What will you need to do day by day to make sure you're finished? Objective: Begin Final drafts of the position paper Good things Citation/work cited 12-6-13 Freewrite Objective: Revising for final draft 12-4(5)-13 Journal: What are your thoughts on your paper so far?Where is it strongest?Weakest? What will you need to fix? Objective: Continue effective revision Ratiocination Individual meetings 12-3-13 Joe out Reviision activity for body paragraphs 12-2-13 Journal: How was your break?What are you thankful for? There are four weeks left in the semester, what do you need to accomplish before it ends? Objective: Begin to revise the position papers Good things revise/cite/paraphrase |
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November
11-22-13 Freewrite Objective: Complete the Position Paper RD 11-20(21)-13 Journal: How far in your paper are you?What are your goals with your large amount of time today? Objective: Continue with Drafts-Due Friday 11-19-13 Journal: What struggles are you having with your paper? What can you do to overcome them by Friday? Objective: Complete Rough draft 11-18-13 Journal:What steps will you take to make sure this paper goes well? Objective: Converting an outline into a draft Discuss Paraphrasing/citation 11-13(14)-13 Journal: What information have you found that has surprised you in your research?What are your main points for your argument? Objective: Finish compiling research 11-12-13 Journal: What problems are you encountering as you research? How are you working around them? Objective: Continue effectively researching Research Discuss Late paper assignment 11-11-13 Journal:Next year at this time is midterms in college, many will be taking tests and writing papers, what skills from High School do you think you will apply for these tasks? Objective: Discover how to properly cite, paraphrase, and summarize information CT paper due tonight 11-8-13 Freewrite Objective: Effective Research of a selected topic Continue research CT paper due Monday night 11-6(7)-13 Journal: How do you research something?What is good research? Objective: Begin Research/outline for position paper Researching 11-05-13 Journal: What would you satirize about our society?Why? Objective: Discerning satire from various sources and comparing them Present projects/work on paper-Due Monday Nov 11th 11-4-13 Journal: what will you do with the rest of your life? Objective: Present and assess classmates on Canterbury tales 11-1-13 Freewrite Objective: Present and assess classmates on Canterbury tales |
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October
10-30(31)-13
Journal: What is your position paper going to be about? What will you prove? Objective: Finish Lessons on Canterbury tales CT essay Position papers 10-28-13 Journal: How would you grade your group?What problems did you have in the process? Would you have done anything differently? Objective: Present lessons to class Good things Projects 10-23-13 Journal: How confident are you in your presentation?What will you need to complete before you deliver it? Objective: Finish discerning and disseminating information for presentation and assessment 10-22-13 Journal: What has suprised you about your story?What do you like or dislike about it? Objective: Create effective assements of content Continue working on projects 10-21-13 No journal-Joe out today Continue to work on projects 10-16(17)-13 Journal: If the semester ended today, how would you have done? What do you need to work on? Objective: Discern satire and literary elements in a text Group Projects 10-15-13 Journal: How far along are you and your group?What are you going to do to help the class learn? Objective: Continue to Research and compile information on Canterbury Tales Good things Project 10-14-13 Journal: What do you need to accomplish before 2013 is over? Objective: Continue to Research and compile information on Canterbury Tales Good things Project 10-11-13 Freewrite Objective: Discerning content understanding satire, and moral from Canterbury tales Continue to work on projects 10-9(10)-13 Journal: What is something you'd critique about our society? Objective: Discerning content understanding satire, and moral from Canterbury tales Prologue Walk Project-Due Oct 28th 10-08-13 Journal: Do we have a class system? How so?What's wrong/right with it? Objective: Discern satire and moral from Chaucer's stories Read the Pardoners Tale Discuss 10-07-13 Journal: What is a story you tell often? Why do you keep telling it? What makes it worth hearing? Objective: Begin to dissect the Canterbury Tales Good things The Wife of Bath's tale 10-04-13 Freewrite Objective: Begin to understand the Middle Ages and Canterbury tales Create your own prologue-Due Monday 10-2(3)-13 Journal: How do you get along with people who have different opinions than you? Can you have civil discussions with people who disagree with you? Objective: begin researching your topic 10-01-13 Journal: What will your position topic be?Why did you choose it? Objective: Understand the difference between good and bad research How to Research |
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August-September
9-30-13
Journal: Why do you need to be informed about what's happening in the world/country/state/city? Objective: Research and finalize a position paper topic Good things Position paper 9-27-13 Freewrite Objective:comparing lit and film Today at your tables you will be gearing up for a Debate on Next week Who is the better hero, film Beowulf or story Beowulf?You will want to document evidence for both points as you won't know what side your table is arguing until you get called on. 9-25(26) Journal: If you were to cast a film version of Beowulf who would the actors be?Why? Finish Beowulf film Complete epic hero cycle of the film 9-24-13 Journal: What was your favorite part of Beowulf?why? Objective: Comparing Literature and film Begin the Film of Beowulf 9-23-13 Journal: What is an issue in the world you are concerned about?why? Objective: effective analysis of content Continue working on Beowulf papers/editing 9-20-13 Freewrite Continue to work on papers-due monday night 9-18(19)-13 Journal: What was a time when you thought you were defeated then ended up turnign out well? Objective: Discuss allegory, analysis of Beowulf plays Allegory: What is an allegory? An allegory is a story in which the characters, settings, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts. Paper! 9-17-13 Journal: What is in your way of achieving what you want? Objective: Translating text into modern experiences Read Beowulf and the dragon Activity: You and your table will read the last part of Beowulf. You will then create a short 1-2 minute play of the events of the whole story that follows the epic hero cycle. If time allows we will present them today! 9-16-13 Journal: When something that should be easy becomes difficult what do you do? Objective: Comparison of literary themes and motifs Good things Finish Beowulf vs Grendel's mother Compare/Contrast 9-13-13 Freewrite Objective: Compare situations in Beowulf, understand authorial intent Cover letter Resume Beowulf vs Grendel's mother 9-11(12)-13 Journal: What do you want to accomplish in life? Objective: Begin nonfictional/technical writing Boasting Beowulf vs Grendel Resumes 9-10-13 Journal: What do you brag about?List your accomplishments.What are you proud of? Objective: Analyze the text of Beowulf and translate to our modern time Continue Beowulf Boasting! 9-9-13 Journal: What makes someone a hero? How do you define it? Objective: discover the epic hero cycle in Beowulf Good things Begin Beowulf 9-06-13 Journal: Freewrite Objective: Understand The influence of Anglo Saxon life on literature Anglo Saxon history Epic hero cycle sheet 9-04(5)-13 Journal: How good are you with technology?What frustrates you?What are your strengths? Objective: Begin to work on Technological Literacy Intro to google apps Beowulf translations paper due sunday-shared to 9-03-13 Journal: What makes a good story?What helps it last in your mind? Objective: Begin to understand Anglo Saxon literature and poetics Beowulf translation sheet 8-30-13 Freewrite friday Objective: Begin to understand and paraphrase our standards Good things Standards 8-29-13 Journal: What scares you about senior year? Obective: establih classroom norms and procedures Social contract Class discussion 8-28-13 Journal: How was your summer?What did you accomplish? Objective: Discuss classroom ploicies and coure expectations Syllabus |
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Paper downloads
Below are the various handouts from class and journal questions feel free to download and use!
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brit_lit_term_1_2011.doc | |
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