//www.mkhs.org/apps/classes/1010894/assignments/ Class Name: English1/2-Period 3 Instructor(s): Blazhia ParkerDanam en-us SchoolSitePro //www.mkhs.org/homeworkItem7210791 //www.mkhs.org/apps/classes/1010894/assignments/
Each time you participate in class via headspace meditation, socratic seminar, group activities, discussing topics and/or oral dictation, you will receive 5 points. The total amount of points is 75 for this quarter (subject to change) as I monitor student daily participation points and engagement in class.
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Directions:
Step 1: Read or listen to poems on the website/favorite song.
Step 2: Annotate the poem using the Poetry Discussion Outline
Step 3: Then, make a video in which you RECITE and DISCUSS the meaning as well as the poetic devices used in the poem. Video minimum of 3 mins and maximum of 10 minutes.
Step 4: Draw something that relates to the poem and add it as your cover picture on flipgrid.I will pick the best responses and feature them.
]]> Fri, 21 May 2021 14:17:22 PDT //www.mkhs.org/homeworkItem7362606 //www.mkhs.org/apps/classes/1010894/assignments/ Thu, 20 May 2021 08:57:30 PDT //www.mkhs.org/homeworkItem7498182 //www.mkhs.org/apps/classes/1010894/assignments/ The AMW x SWM postcard series honors the life of film icon Anna May Wong by pairing images from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery collections with poetry by celebrated contemporary poet Sally Wen Mao.

"Wong’s film and television career spanned from 1919 to 1960, and included numerous star turns, transnational celebrity, and an array of firsts for an Asian American actress. It was also a career forged in the shadow of—and in defiance of—widespread xenophobia, leaving a legacy that takes on a new cast and consequence today, in an era of COVID-19 and virulent anti-Asian racism."

Directions: Write a haiku in response to what you learned about Anna May Wong’s treatment in Hollywood as an actress. You can use one of the postcard templates below, google slides OR your own to create your poetry postcard. Your poetry postcard is classwork and is due at the end of class on Thursday, April 29th.
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Assignment Details: Complete slide 24, 26, and 27 in your digital notebook on poetic devices.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.10
Learning Objectives: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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Assignment Description: Interview a grandparent or family member using Youtube format, Blog, Story Corps or Flipgrid in which you express the reasons why your grandparents are an important part of your life. Video should be a minimum of 5 minutes.

Students who do not have living grandparents can create an interview with their parents or any other elder relative of their choice. You can even contact a local nursing home to see if there is an elderly person who would like to correspond with you.

Standards: Text Types and Purposes
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.B: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
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Each time you participate in class via headspace meditation, socratic seminar, group activities, discussing topics and/or oral dictation, you will receive 5 points. The total amount of points is 75 for this quarter (subject to change) as I monitor student daily participation points and engagement in class.
]]> Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:50:54 PST //www.mkhs.org/homeworkItem7105494 //www.mkhs.org/apps/classes/1010894/assignments/ ]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:45:11 PST //www.mkhs.org/homeworkItem7053436 //www.mkhs.org/apps/classes/1010894/assignments/ You have the opportunity to get to know someone in your class this week! Students will be grouped in pairs for this activity. Once you’ve been given the name of your partner, add your names to a slide and start compiling your questions for each other! Each group will share their partners results and provide a collage of how they see the person based off their partners answers to the questions asked.
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Directions:
Choose ONE of the images in your notebooks and complete the optic handout. Slides: 16-19

** p.s. I've attached my digital notebook as a resource for the assignment.
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After you've completed the slides, upload your digital notebooks here 😃
]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:29:36 PST //www.mkhs.org/homeworkItem6790624 //www.mkhs.org/apps/classes/1010894/assignments/ 1. From Beets to Brilliance: A Grandmother’s Wisdom Lives On
2. After 15 Years of Incarceration, Mother is Reunited with Daughter Due to COVID-19
3. No More Questions!

**Videos and Reading Scaffold are on slides 7-10. Choose ONE of the stories to complete the reading scaffold, then "turn in" your notebook.
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“Gossip and News are the same thing. They’ve always been the same thing. People tell stories, that’s what makes us human. People pass a bunch of stories around in their tribe and finally someone writes them down.”

Directions: Upload your digital notebook to this post.
Video and homework assignment located in your digital notebook for semester two on slide: 4
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The total amount of points is 65 for this quarter (subject to change) as I monitor student daily participation points and engagement in class.
]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:24:21 PDT //www.mkhs.org/homeworkItem6502705 //www.mkhs.org/apps/classes/1010894/assignments/ Step 1: Each group brainstorms ideas, personal experiences, or feelings that might have dramatic potential in a short two-character drama.
Examples:
A serial killer is terrorizing a local community.
A world war destroys planet Earth.
A prominent political candidate has ties to the mob.
The president is a werewolf.
A natural disaster destroys the northeastern United States.
A podcast host tries to track down a lost love.

Step 2: Each group develops the rising action for a short two-character drama.

Step 3: Students exchange papers with another group who will construct a turning point.

Step 4: Students exchange papers (digitally) again with a third group to create the falling action and possibly a resolution for the drama.

Step 5: Papers are returned to the original groups.

Step 6: Students compose and discuss the rising action, turning point, and falling action of each play.

Step 7: Submit your groups story for review and grade
]]> Sun, 06 Dec 2020 20:17:48 PST //www.mkhs.org/homeworkItem6458545 //www.mkhs.org/apps/classes/1010894/assignments/ 1. Compare your Magical Realism story to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's: Light is Like Water, in your digital notebook
2. The 5 W's of Light is like Water
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Description:
 Use mostly realistic, (maybe even true) events and storyline
 Use effective imagery, especially to describe the odor and taste of the food.
 CASUALLY sprinkle in some magical events
 Don’t be too concerned about making a grand ending where everything turns out hunky-dory or ends in a huge cataclysm. This story should read like a scene or an episode, not a full-length short story. Aim for 400-500 words.
 Develop your characters so that some of them are ROUNDED and memorably described
 Minimum 1 page (Maximum 2 pages)
 Typed, double-spaced.

(I've provided some links to more examples of magical realism below!)
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