Chapel for Today (Feb. 29)

The Short Version:

#1- Stay in classroom and we will discuss a video from the chapel team.

#2- In the Choir Room (G-6)- Students & Teachers sharing ideas that have changed their lives.

#3- In the Theater (T-1)- Singing God's Praise led by Mr. Fleming and our worship band.

#4- Meet by the Pool- Prayer Walk- Led by Ms. Fenwick.

The Long Version:

THE FIRST OPTION - STAY HERE AND SPEAK LIFE:  If you stay here for chapel, Bible Leadership has made a video for us that we are about to watch - in it you will receive an immediate call to action based upon the fact that we all have something that really needs to be said. Whether sincere words of confession, apology, encouragement, thankfulness, forgiveness, correction or concern, we can all speak life. If you stay here, we will practice doing just that.

Here is the Video Link. 

THE SECOND OPTION - TEACHERS & STUDENTS CALLING US TO ACTION: Ideas matter. Come hear students and teachers share ideas that have changed their lives. You’ll be challenged and encouraged to take action based upon the truths that they share. This session will happen in the choir room where the the conversation promises to be real, intimate, and dynamic. These people have been changed, you might be too.

THE THIRD OPTION - SINGING GOD’S PRAISE:  Don’t be shy. Come bring your heart and voice to sing songs of worship in the theater. Led by Mr. Fleming and our chapel band, you’ll join with others who desire to sing. This intimate setting will also provide you with opportunities to pray and/or receive prayer. There should be much joy as God’s people unite and delight to praise His name. Note: This venue is limited to the first 100 people who come through the doors.

THE FOURTH OPTION - A PRAYER WALK: Come walk and talk with God during this time of prayer led by Ms. Chelsea Fenwick and her team. The walk will begin at the pool area and will continue all over campus as we cover Monte Vista in prayer. We will hear from God’s Word and interact with Him as we pray from the heart according to His will. You will have opportunities to praise God, confess sin (yours and our school’s), thank Him, and ask for His mercy and blessing upon you and Monte Vista.

Again, please don’t worry about where your friends will choose to go. Even now, we will pray that God’s hand will guide your heart and your feet to where He wants to take you - that He might meet you in the way He wants. Would you be willing to open your heart with mine as we pray together?

Week 29: Monday: Quiz

* Open

• Week 29 Plan (also on the right under assignments)
• Recitations

* Quiz

HW:

• Bring Your Novel to Class Tomorrow
• Finish Ch.

Poetry Ch. 6 (Perrine's) Journal:

    Answer questions for the following:

1. "Digging" (813)
2. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (815)
3. "Redemption" (817)
4. "Fire and Ice" (818)
5. AP Adds: "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" (825)
6. AP Adds: Compose a Poem that Features a Symbol
• Regular English 4: You may compose a poem that features a symbol instead of answering one of the first four you have been assigned.

From the Gilroy (and all Santa Clara County) Libraries

"We usually refer students to our online content so that they can limit to full text peer-reviewed journals. We do not link to OPAC and JSTOR, but we do link to WorldCat and Explora (EBSCO’s interface for Schools and Public Libraries). These can be accessed in the Library or from home along with our other online Research resources with a Library card and PIN."

Turnitin Codes

• Turn in all typed assignments to the silver tray on the due date (printed on paper).
• Submit the same to turnitin.com by Friday, midnight that week.

• per. 1: 11025230
• per. 3: 11025852
• per. 4:  11025881
• per. 6:  11025865
• per. 7:  11025874
• password for all classes: mvcs

Little Metaphor? Bright Symbol? or Mophopoanthrism (that's just Schwager scrambling anthropomorphism like the mad dog he is)?

Dark Symbol

Week 28: Block Day

* Open

• Turn in Your Works Cited Page (also submit to turnitin.com today or tonight)
• Recitations

* Ch. 6 of Perrine's

• Due Next Tuesday
1. Read the chapter
2. Take notes
3. Do the Journal Below on Paper (0 points, otherwise, this week)

* Ch. 6 Journal Next Tuesday:

•  Answer questions for the following: 

1. "Digging" (813)
2. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (815)
3. "Redemption" (817)
4. "Fire and Ice" (818)
5. AP Adds: "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" (825)
6. AP Adds: Compose a Poem that Features a Symbol
• Regular English 4: You may compose a poem that features a symbol instead of answering one of the first four you have been assigned.

* Quiz

* Pride and Prejudice

HW:

• AP: Work on Poetry Ch. 6 Journal
• E4: Finish Pride and Prejudice 

Upcoming Assignments

Due Block Day

• Printed Works Cited

Due By Friday Night

• Works Cited Submitted to Turnitin.com

Due Next Tuesday

• Perrine's Chapter 6 Journal (this is the assignment that I pushed back)

Tuesday, 2/22

I created a sample Works Cited page for you using Google Docs.  I also put in some helpful notes for your own document creation. 

Note from our Chapel Team about Today

In order to build community this week and next, you will have some choices as to where you want to go for chapel. Even as you hear about your choices, try not to think about what your friends will choose. Have a mind of your own, and if you feel a nudge to choose something different than normal, be brave and go for it! Remember, second semester chapels are inviting us to action (not to just sit back passively)  - but to participate and respond in a variety of ways.

THE FIRST OPTION - A PANEL DISCUSSION: Come meet some unsung heroes of our campus - some Monte Vista staff members you probably don’t know yet (but you should). You’ll get to hear their stories and their hearts as they share with us why they serve at our school - and they’ll also call us to serve in our community. Mr. Kleffer will facilitate this lively panel discussion in the High School Gym.

THE SECOND OPTION - SINGING GOD’S PRAISE  Don’t be shy. Come bring your heart and voice to sing songs of worship in the theater. Led by Mr. Fleming and our chapel band, you’ll join with others who desire to sing. This intimate setting will also provide you with opportunities to pray and/or receive prayer. There should be much joy as God’s people unite and delight to praise His name. Note: This venue is limited to the first 100 people who come through the doors.

THE THIRD OPTION - A PRAYER WALK: Come walk and talk with God during this time of prayer led by Ms. Chelsea Fenwick and her team. The walk will begin at the pool area and will continue all over campus as we cover Monte Vista in prayer. We will hear from God’s Word and interact with Him as we pray from the heart according to His will. You will have opportunities to praise God, confess sin (yours and our school’s), thank Him, and ask for His mercy and blessing upon you and Monte Vista.

Again, please don’t worry about where your friends will choose to go. Even now, we will pray that God’s hand will guide your heart and your feet to where He wants to take you - that He might meet you in the way He wants. Would you be willing to open your heart with mine as we pray together?

Week 28: Monday, 2/21/16: Perrine's Ch. 6

* Open

• Recitations

 *  EQ: Does symbolic interpretation basically mean that the reader gets to read a meaning into the poem or story that makes him feel good? Is this what English teachers learn in college?

Find the Answer in Ch. 6 of Perrine's

• Due Next Tuesday
1. Read the chapter
2. Take notes
3. Do the Journal Below on Paper (0 points, otherwise, this week)

* Ch. 6 Journal Next Tuesday:

•  Answer questions for the following: 

1. "Digging" (813)
2. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (815)
3. "Redemption" (817)
4. "Fire and Ice" (818)
5. AP Adds: "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" (825)
6. AP Adds: Compose a Poem that Features a Symbol
• Regular English 4: You may compose a poem that features a symbol instead of answering one of the first four you have been assigned.

HW:Work on Sources and Perrine's

Five Sources Due Block Day:

• MLA Format
• Two Scholarly Sources (for example, a Peer-Reviewed Journal)
• Two Monte Vista Sources (such as Beowulf or Robert Frost) 
• One Bible Source
• Use Bedford (626-627 and such)

You may use easybib or other citation machines...but you need to check what they produce.  They don't always put things together correctly.  Double-check against Bedford and/or Purdue. 

I Know Where I Can Go to College, But How Would I Pay for It?

Here are some useful resources from Khan Academy.

Random Act of Cuteness

Week 27, Block Day

* Open

• Study Your Memorization Poem

* Ch. 5: Review Your Answers

* Work in Class

• Sources
• Read or Review Pride and Prejudice

HW: Read and Work On Your Other Projects (senior project, memorization)

• Regular Course: Read Through Ch. 50 for Next Block Day
• AP: You Should Review Pride and Prejudice. You will be tested next week.  

For Further Study: Many of You Have Enjoyed Sylvia Plath's Poetry

• If you would like to hear her and her (then) husband, Ted Hughes, on poetry, listen here.

Week 27: Wednesday, 2/17/16: Perrine's Ch. 5

Open

• Download and Preview:  MLA Sample Paper

Class

• More Works Cited Info.
  • Hanging Indent Video
  • Purdue
  • Look in Your Bedford Book (pg. 697 and thereabouts for MLA)!
   
• Read Poems Together
• Choose one poem of three or more questions (or answer for two poems) to answer as your journal for ch. 5. 

HW

• Works Cited (you have one week from block day as a window)
• Pride and Prejudice
• Rewrites (ICE)
• Memorization (volunteers this week, victims next) 

"Deawon Song is a Boss" is a Metaphor for Jacob

Smiling Simile by Jack Handey

"Some people are like slinkies: they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs."

Week 27: Tuesday, 2/16

Open

• This week, Poetry:
• Memorization (volunteers on block day)
• Project Sources (window opens on block day and closes one week after)
• Rewrite (due block day) 
• Will you be ready for block day quiz on Pride and Prejudice?

• Begin reading pp. 785 ff. and taking notes: answer the questions below.

Perrine's Poetry Ch. 5: Figurative Language 1

• Read and answer the following questions for the introduction:
• What is figurative language, more narrowly?
• What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
• What is the difference between an implied and a named figure?
• What is personification?
• What is apostrophe?
• What are metonymy and synecdoche? 
• What are four reasons that figures can be effective? 
• Oral discussion:
• "The Guitarist Tunes Up"
• "Hound" 

HW: Read all the poems one time from chapter 5.  You do not need to answer any questions yet. Come to class with your own instead.  Annotate when you're pleased or perplexed.

Valentine's Day is this Sunday

Historical Notes: St. Valentine:

Feastday: February 14
Patron of Love, Young People, Happy Marriages
Died: A.D. 269

"Valentinus was a Roman priest martyred during the reign of Claudius the Goth [Claudius II]. Since he was caught marrying Christian couples and aiding any Christians who were being persecuted under Emperor Claudius in Rome [when helping them was considered a crime], Valentinus was arrested and imprisoned. Claudius took a liking to this prisoner -- until Valentinus made a strategic error: he tried to convert the Emperor -- whereupon this priest was condemned to death. He was beaten with clubs and stoned; when that didn't do it, he was beheaded outside the Flaminian Gate [circa 269]" (Catholic.org/saints).

Just because...

One does not simply

Cite Wikipedia

Week 26, Block Day

* Open

• Turn in your Proposal to the Silver Tray
•  Turnitin.com goodness:
  
• per. 1: 11025230
• per. 3: 11025852
• per. 4:  11025881
• per. 6:  11025865
• per. 7:  11025874
• password for all classes: mvcs

* Here is the quiz link. 

* Poetry Memorization

• Choose any poem from Perrine's that has lines of four or more words per line (it may take you some reading to find one you really enjoy).
• Memorize
• AP: 10 or more lines
• EIV: 5 or more lines
• Present in Class Beginning Next Week, Block Day; You will have one week from that day 
• Start Now

 * Credible Sources

• WATCH THIS: Source Review and Peer Review
• Make sure your two sources aren't CRAAP. Do they lack:
• C = Currency 
• R = Relevance
• A = Authority
• A = Accuracy
• P = Purpose
• WATCH THIS: OPEC and Your Public Library
•  Library Online
• JSTOR is Excellent

• Neil Gaiman — 'Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
• Still, Google Scholar can work well...sometimes (see pros and cons if you'd like more). 
• Google Scholar
• Be very specific with your search
• If you see a .pdf or .html link on the right, it means that entire text is there for you to read.  If not, it means you'd have to pay for it.  Don't pay for it.  Go through the library for it at that point.  

• You need to have five sources for your proposal.  Two (or more) of those sources need to come from credible secondary sources (if a journal, peer reviewed).  You have a one week window to turn these in, starting block day next week and ending one week after.

* Essay Review

• Optional Rewrites (ICE); all needed information is in this link
• Up to 70% for those below 70%
• Up to 5% more for those above 70%

• Student Samples of a High, Mid, and Low-Mid Score (in that order) from the 1999 Prompt "Blackberry Picking" by Seamus Heaney

 * Read Pride and Prejudice

• Annotation Change:
• Focus on types of love and marriage that each character and couple represent.

HW:

• AP: Finish the Novel
• English IV: Read through ch. 40 

Lenten Literature

Can you tell what work this is from that you read?

1. "For after Christmas comes crabbed Lent, that will have fish for flesh and simpler cheer. But then the weather of the world chides with winter; the cold withdraws itself, the clouds uplift, and the rain falls in warm showers on the fair plains. Then the flowers come forth, meadows and grove are clad in green, the birds make ready to build, and sing sweetly for solace of the soft summer that follows thereafter. The blossoms bud and blow in the hedgerows rich and rank, and noble notes enough are heard in the fair woods.
   After the season of summer, with the soft winds, when zephyr breathes lightly on seeds and herbs, joyous indeed is the growth that waxes thereout when the dew drips from the leaves beneath the blissful glance of the bright sun. But then comes harvest and hardens the grain, warning it to wax ripe ere the winter. The drought drives the dust on high, flying over the face of the land; the angry wind of the welkin wrestles with the sun; the leaves fall from the trees and light upon the ground, and all brown are the groves that but now were green, and ripe is the fruit that once was flower. So the year passes into many yesterdays, and winter comes again, as it needs no sage to tell us."


2. From George Herbert's Poem on Lent (1633)

It 's true, we cannot reach Christ's fortieth day;
Yet to go part of that religious way,
                       Is better than to rest:
We cannot reach our Savior's purity;
Yet are bid, Be holy ev'n as he.
                       In both let 's do our best.

Who goeth in the way which Christ hath gone,
Is much more sure to meet with him, than one
                       That travelleth by-ways:
Perhaps my God, though he be far before,
May turn, and take me by the hand, and more
                       May strengthen my decays.

Yet Lord instruct us to improve our fast
By starving sin and taking such repast
                       As may our faults control:
That ev'ry man may revel at his door,
Not in his parlor; banqueting the poor,
                       And among those his soul.

 

3. TO KEEP A TRUE LENT

by Robert Herrick

 IS this a fast, to keep

                The larder lean ?

                            And clean 

From fat of veals and sheep ? 



Is it to quit the dish 

                Of flesh, yet still 

                            To fill 

The platter high with fish ? 



Is it to fast an hour, 

                Or ragg’d to go, 

                            Or show 

A downcast look and sour ? 



No ;  ‘tis a fast to dole 

                Thy sheaf of wheat,

                            And meat,

Unto the hungry soul. 



It is to fast from strife,

                From old debate 

                            And hate ; 

To circumcise thy life. 



To show a heart grief-rent ; 

                To starve thy sin, 

                            Not bin ; 

And that’s to keep thy Lent. 

So, will you keep Lent?  Fast from homework, perhaps ; )?  I think you can do better.    

It looks like he is

Giving up driving for lent.  I saw this on my way to school today.

Wednesday, 2/10/16

* Open

* Review the Quiz

* Consider Perrine's

HW:

• Study
• Print your Proposal and Turn it in to turnitin.com

This is for Ty

Week 26: Tuesday, 2/9/16

Open

• Look at the Hyperlink on the Right for Pride and Prejudice.  Read something.  Use sparingly; don't abuse it.

* "The Destructors"

• Evil twins? Au contraire?
• What was the most significant scene/moment in "The Destructors"?  Why? 
• Strange Facts:
  Graham Greene worked for MI6; Fidel Castro gave Greene a painting (Castro painted it)

* Perrine's Fiction, Chapter 4: Theme, pp. 203 ff.

• It's harder than it sounds.  Read through this carefully.
• Take notes (not just bold)
• Review

* "The Destructors" Journal Continues...

• 2. Compose four themes for "The Destructors."
• 3. Copy Perrine's example for "The Destructors."
• 4. Make another suitable theme for "The Destructors."

 * Finished?  Read Pride and Prejudice or work on your proposal.

HW: Up to You

Not Exactly "The Destructors"

Week 26: Fiction: "The Destructors"

* Open

• Think: What is the most destruction that you have ever caused?
• What did you learn?

* The Week

* Perrine's 115 and following: "The Destructors" by Graham Greene; link here.

* After you read:

• Journal: "The Destructors"
• Compare Trevor to another character from a book or movie or cartoon that causes destruction.  Compare (implies contrast) their motivations.  Answer in 3-7 sentences.

HW:

• Finish Reading "The Destructors"
• Answer the question above

Dane Odegaard...Destructor or Constructor?

Why do some copies of _Pride and Prejudice_ have 61 Chapters and Others Three Volumes?

I looked into it a bit and found that the novel was originally published in 1813 in three separate hardback books.  That accounts for the volumes.  Later, when the book could be easily published in one volume, it was.  Some copies have the original divisions (based on the three books) while others number the chapters with no break. 

If you wish for far more information than you could dream of on Pride and Prejudice, you could visit Pemberley.

Week 25, Block Day

Open

• AP Sections (Per. 1,3,6,7)

• Short answer Quiz
• Time: 18 min. or less: (each class will have a different chapter range to work with) Answer each question (3-7 sentences for each response).  Number them accordingly:
1. Explain one interesting social element.
2. Explain one example of clever understatement or hyperbole. 
3. Give one example of indirect characterization. 

• Regular Section (Per. 4)
• Short M.C. set of questions

Read Pride and Prejudice and work on your proposal.

• Check out this interactive map of Pride and Prejudice.
• Continue to annotate for social elements and clever understatement. 

HW:

• AP: P and P through 45
• Regular: P and P through 30 

Wednesday, 2/3/16

Open:

• Think: Is character or plot analysis more challenging, generally?  Why?

Review

• Ch. 3 of Perrine's Fiction: Characterization
• Pride and Prejudice

HW:

• 10 Vocabulary Words
• AP: Pride and Prejudice Through Ch. 30 (ch. 20 for regular students)
• Proposal
• Your quiz will only cover Pride and Prejudice on Block Day.  We will quiz on Perrine's next week. 

Week 25: Tuesday

Take Notes on All Bold Words for Story Ch. 3 (due block day)

 

Updated .pdf

Hi students,

There were some typo flies in the .pdf ointment I needed to strain.  A few flying follies may remain but this is a better copy.  Please download it and finish reading the story, paying attention to Wodehouse's manner of character development.  We will discuss tomorrow.

 "The Fiery Wooing of Sir Mordred" link here

Thank you,

Mr. S

Week 25: Monday's Board

Use Sparingly Just to Get Your Bearings Now and Then

Pride and Prejudice Online with Name Hyperlinks

Roman-numeral chapter numbers are relative to each volume, while parenthesized chapter numbers are continuous throughout the whole work.

• VOLUME I
  • Chapter I (1) (The Bennets at home.)
  • Chapter II (2) (The Bennets at home.)
  • Chapter III (3) (Meryton assembly.)
    Illustration <JPEG>
  • Chapter IV (4) (Meryton assembly post-mortem.)
  • Chapter V (5) (Meryton assembly post-mortem.)
  • Chapter VI (6) (Charlotte; evening at Sir William's.)
    Illustration <JPEG>