Homework for A3 & A4

Students from A3 & A4 - attention!

Finish your second draft of your mash-up poem.
(If you are typing your poem, please email me a digital copy at sstaysniak@gmail.com. If you are typing in Google Drive, share it with me at the same address.)

Complete the Reflection Questions (link here) for the mash-up poem.

Read 30 minutes in your independent reading book.

Mash-Up Poetry

For our first writing project this school-year, students in English I are writing mash-up poems. A mash-up typically consists of taking two distinct items and combining them into a new text. Mash-ups are common in music, but also are done with photographs and videos, among other mediums.

In English I, we are mashing-up a poem by Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes, titled "Theme for English B" with our own writing.

For students, below are links to the documents we are using in class, in case you wish to continue working on your mash-up over the long weekend.

Mash-Up Criteria Sheet

Mash-Up Ideas Sheet

Hughes's Poem

Mr. Staysniak's annotated poem

Mr. Staysniak's ideas for writing

Mr. Staysniak's draft

Remember to get those library applications in!

Beginnings

Welcome to the class of 2017!

I am looking forward to meeting all of you in the next few days.

If you would like to look at a digital copy of our course outline, you can do so here.

The dates for our first community-learning trip to the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library are being finalized - please bring in your completed library application as soon as possible so that you can be issued your student card during our visit.