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In your journals, answer the question:
What do you want to learn in high school Literature this year?
WARM UP FOR 8/21/2015
UNITS OF STUDY
• Writing Boot Camp
• Classical Education
• Claim, Evidence, Commentary
• Grammar and Mechanics
• Archetypes
• Biblical Stories and Figures
• Mythology
• Excerpts from Edith
Hamilton’s Mythology and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• Greek Tragedy
• Sophocles’ Oedipus the King
• William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
• Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations
COURSE POLICIES
GRADING POLICY
This class follows the traditional grading scale:
A= 90-100 B = 80-89 C = 70-79 D = 60-69 F = 59 & Below
MISSING & LATE WORK POLICY
Each day an assignment is late, it drops 10%. After 5 days, no late work will be accepted and it will be recorded as a zero.
MAKE-UP WORK POLICY
If you are absent, check my website to see what you missed. You must stay up to date on readings and homework
assignments. It is your responsibility to find out what you missed, make up your work, and advocate for yourself if
you have any questions. You have two days for each excused absence to make up your work for full credit.
FOR MISSING, LATE, OR MAKE-UP WORK YOU MUST COMPLETE A PINK
SUBMISSION SLIP.
COURSE POLICIES
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY This class requires you to do your own thinking. Any
time you use another source and claim it as your own, it is considered academic dishonesty. Plagiarism is
taking another’s work or ideas and claiming them as your own—even if you change some of the
wording. Plagiarism is a serious offense and will result in an automatic zero on the assignment.
SCHOOL SUPPLY LISTBinder: You will be required to keep an organized
binder!Notebook: A college-ruled journal (spiral or bound)
Sticky Notes: You will need these to annotate. Writing Utensils: pens, pencils, highlighters
Always bring the book we are reading to class!
COURSE POLICIES
HALL PASSYou must ask for permission to leave the
room to go to your locker or the bathroom. If my hall pass is lost then all students lose the privilege to leave the room. TAKE CARE OF MY
HALL PASS.
TARDIESIf you are not in your seat when the bell
rings, you will be considered tardy and will have to sign the tardy board. On the third
tardy, you will be assigned school detention.
COURSE POLICIES
HONORS COURSEWORK
The Honors coursework is not a separate book or project, but rather a modification of the assignments the entire class completes. Honors students will have a higher level of
analysis expected on assignments, tests, and essays.
Separate essay prompts, tests, and projectsFacilitation of Socratic discussions
The Honors coursework is not intended to add more work but instead require deeper
critical thinking on whole class assignments.
MY CLASS WEBSITE
http://www.skyviewacademy.k12.co.us/skyviewacademy
Whenever you are absent, check my website PRIOR to
coming to class!
Mandalas are one of the oldest art forms known to humanity. They are one of the oldest symbols in the world and one of the few universal ones. Translated from Sanskrit, mandala means circle – a symbol of
completeness – the most perfect medium in which to present a picture of yourself.
One type of mandala is called the sun-shadow mandala, and it represents, in part, the contrasts between one’s sun qualities – what is visible and
projected – and the shadow qualities – what is interior and inward.
WHAT IS A MANDALA?
The first step in making a mandala is writing two sets of answers to the questions below. One set represents the sun
answers; the other set represents the shadow answers.
Sun-Images: How do you appear on the surface to the world? This is the part of you that is seen or projected to others.
1. What animal are you most like?
2. What plant are you most like?
3. What color are you most like?
4. What shape are you most like?
5. What number are you most like?
6. What mineral or gem are you most like?
7. What natural element are you most like?
SUN IMAGES
Shadow-Images: The part of you that is not shown. The shadow images can be considered the direct opposites to the sun
images.
1. What animal are you like internally?
2. What plant are you like internally?
3. What color are you like internally?
4. What shape are you like internally?
5. What number are you like internally?
6. What mineral or gem are you like internally?
7. What natural element are you like internally?
SHADOW IMAGES
FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLYComplete the chart for each sun image (what is
projected to the world), descriptive word, antonym (opposite), and a shadow image.
Write the word that best fits you in each box.
Class sets of questions are at your tables. Please do not write on these or take them with you.
Do not overthink it and do not discuss it with your neighbors. Go with your first instinct.
CHART INSTRUCTIONS
Once the charts are complete, the next step is to write a sentence for each of your symbols. The most important part of your sentence is the “why” part. Through your sentences
you will share why you feel a certain symbol represents you. In the end you will have a total of 14 sentences.
Here are some examples:
I am like a/the (sun image), because like the (sun image), I __________________________________.
Ex: I am like poison oak, because like poison oak, I’m harmless until stepped on.
I am like a/the (shadow image), because like the (shadow image), I ___________________________.
Ex: I am like a Venus flytrap, because like a Venus flytrap, I want to capture you and make you a part of me.
WRITE ANALOGIES
HONORS: YOU MUST USE METAPHORS INSTEAD OF SIMILES.
Complete your chart and your analogies sheet for
Monday’s class. Write this in your planner now.
HOMEWORK
The next step is to write a single sentence containing all of your sun signs; and, a single sentence containing all of your
shadow signs. This requires you to get creative. Consider it word play. You may add words necessary to complete your sentence. These will go on the perimeter of your mandala.
EXAMPLES: Sun Sentence: The playful kitten jumped up into the spider plant to stare up at the sky blue heavens with round, amethyst eyes before pouncing back to earth,
scratching his claws in the dirt seven times.Shadow Sentence: The fierce lion roared in agony as he
stumbled into a diamond shaped thorn bush, his eyes black with rage and his breath as hot as fire, as his
square jaw picked out thirteen painful needles.
TWO SINGLE SENTENCES
Within the framework of a circle, using color and shape, but no words, draw or symbolize all of your sun images and your shadow images. Arrange them in any way that you
like. Artistry is not important. You can use simple drawings/symbols to depict your images.
Just be sure to put forth your best effort!
CREATE YOUR MANDALA
Draw inside
the circle!
Do not put anything outside of your circle!