Multiple Choosing: November 29, 2018

Focus: How can we translate our poetry skills into multiple choice?

1. Warming up with enjambment, T.S. Eliot-style and a few reflections on "The Myth of the Happy Slave"

2. Explaining how multiple choice grading works in this class and trying out "The Writer"

• Performing an MMM reading on the poem as a class: 
• Moments (which images, sounds, metaphors, words, etc. make you take a moment to pause?)
• Movements (Where does the poem shift? Is there physical movement in the poem? What larger patterns emerge?)
• Multiple meanings (What do you make of the author's complex tone and themes?)

• Choosing the answers in silent partnerships

1 question right: 50% 

2 questions right: 60% 

3 questions right: 65% 

4 questions right: 70% 

5 questions right: 80% 

6 questions right: 85%

7 questions right: 89%

8 questions right: 91%

9 questions right: 95%

10 questions right: 98%

11 questions right: 100%

3. Talking through your choices


HW:
1. For Friday: 

• Finish Part 1 and complete a reading ticket. 
• Finish your poem metacognitive if you have not yet done so.

2. For MONDAY: Read the first half of Chapter 1 in Part II. We will read the second half of that chapter together in class to catch up. Monday Socratic ticket people may turn in their tickets TUESDAY.

3. For next TUESDAY: 

• Socratic seminar on Part II, Chapter I.

• Paper writers: E-mail me your thesis and any brainstorming you might have. Project creators: Fill out your proposal (it's in the packet I gave you, which is also linked to the website). IF you are completely stuck, don't panic. We will have a work day on Wednesday; you can touch base with me then.

Heads-up! December 12-13: Poetry papers and project are due. Please not that you will NOT be able to revise these because you won't get them back until your final.