Thursday and Friday, August 22nd and 23rd

1. R&C

2. Review...   Annotation. Literary Terms. Cornell Notes.

Annotation Strategies: (Make sure that these are in your notes)

• Notice the title. Thoughts? Any meaning?
• Any diction choices that stand out to you? Circle key words and phrases. 
• Possible multiple meanings of words? Phrases? 
• See any patterns? Images repeated? Words or similar types of words repeated?
• Connections to other readings? (YES.. there is a theme to previous readings) Connections to your world? 
• What is happening in the text? 
• Important ideas that the text is proposing? 
• What is the text implying? What can you infer? 
• What conclusions can you make? 
• What questions do you have?
• What literary terms/processes can you apply to the text? (Infer. Tone. Point of View. Diction. Summarize)

3. Putting it all together: Desiderata Poem (Desiderata means "things desired") (Duh-sid-drr-aah-ta)

• Read and annotate "Desiderata." Use the strategies that I have posted above to help you read through the poem. 
• When your annotations are done, you will move to your Cornell notes.

4. Cornell notes: You will make the following 6 headings in your notes....

1. NOTABLE PHRASES:
2. "DESIDERATA" Similarities with "Perfection" Article
3. "DESIDERATA" Similarities with "Grit" Ted Talk
4. "DESIDERTA" Similarities with "Man in the Arena"
5. LITERARY DEVICES/TERMS Examples: 
6. MY CONCLUSIONS: 

You will be collecting evidence from "Desiderata" and the other texts to put in your NOTES. Evidence means DIRECT QUOTES, and your FINDINGS. Each of the previous texts are available to you on previous posts, or you have copies of them. (We will be doing something with this when we are done doing the leg work)

We will be working on this in class on THURSDAY and FRIDAY. The goal is to have this done by the end of class on FRIDAY.

UPCOMING: School pictures are on September 6th.

Interested? Let me know!