Theme Statements

Worried about the impending theme project because you haven't written a salient theme statement  yet this year? You're in good company.

Here are the "How to Write a Theme Statement" Notes.

Read the entire document - it's just one page.

For now:

1. Read a chunk of text. Make a list of abstract words you think this part of the text is about. Abstract = not tangible. Something you can't touch. F451 isn't about firefighters and books. You can touch those things. It's about ideas, censorship and control. You can't touch those things. See the difference?
2. Annotate the text every time you think you see a new thematic subject. Trust? Sure. Relationships? Why not. You may strike out a few times, but eventually you'll begin to see patterns in the text. Make note of how the pattern forms in the text. As we finish more of the text, it will be easier to encapsulate these ideas into coherent theme statements.

On-Level: Theme and Motif Journal Assignment F451

This is the Fahrenheit 451 Motif/Theme Double-Entry Journal: Right over here!

An Ode to My Son's Diaper

You shared; I share. I loved reading your poems and your memory play projects. <3
The Neruda piece inspired this - - -
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An Ode to My Son's Diaper
By Emily Wise

Zachary brought me
a homemade poo
which he compiled himself
with baby butt
and dimply thighs:
one poo.
Evidence of carrot and yam
laid without momentum,
belied by droopy eyes.
Inertia of glistening feculence
beyond novelty now,
this is your fourth one today.

Fearing judgement,
I resist the impulse to Facebook
or call in your father
to memorialize this moment
to clap along with you,
make it part of your sister's collage,
or to write poems about it.

The moral of the ode:
between work and an expanding waist,
a brown opportunity to bond
is what your mother needed today.

K/H Calendar

Calendar of the reading schedule, vocab quizzes, and other notorious events for the fifth grading period: But don't burn it.

K/H Memoir Collage Project

Here is the assignment we discussed 2/12: Right here
This is what I'm grading: Over here

It is important to remember that usually, I'm grading based on the depth of the inferences you make about the creative output of others. The idea with this project is to subvert that idea a little bit. Instead of being at the audience end of the rhetorical triangle, you find yourself as the speaker. What symbol, theme, etc will be the best option for you to get your point across? Think about colors, textures, and text placement as you begin to formulate your ideas.

K/H Vocab Lists

Vocab List for Units 17/18: Because even though I may not be there, I AM STILL WATCHING YOUR GRADES.
Vocab List for Units 19/20: Because in F451, the oppression doesn't come from the government. It's the people themselves who chose it.
Vocab List for Units 21/22: By the time you look at this... I should be back... or be back soon.

Quizlets for On-Level

For Unit 8: Quizlet for Unit 8
For Unit 9: Quizlet for Unit 9
For Unit 10: Quizlet for Unit 10
For Unit 11: Quizlet for Unit 11
For Unit 12: Quizlet for Unit 12

Filed under Personal - By Popular Demand: Aeris Marie

Yeah... I can't tell, either.

Allegedly, this is her face. She is facing you. Her nose is in the middle, forehead to the right, chin and lips to the left. I can kinda see a face there. 4 weeks!

K/H Vocab 15/16

Vocab List for Units 15 and 16 but don't freak out about it like Laura Wingfield would.

Additions

I put it on the calendar - but just in case you didn't see it there:
You have two opportunities to do a DPM Reassessment:
- Monday after school (you must start by 2:40pm)
- Tuesday before school (starts at 6:20am)

Because we couldn't do the Nonfiction Book Club this Tuesday, we will hold our first meeting next Tuesday, February 4, 2014. It will be in Mrs. Fogarty's room, two doors down from mine.

EOC Tutoring also starts on Feburary 4.