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Focus for 1st Quarter:
Big ideas:
xx The Power Of Language To Transform Lives
xx oral tradition/ storytelling
xx the power of language to transform lives
xx the journey
xx honor
xx truth
xx heroic codes
xx value systems
xx use of language
xx transformation/ transformational thinking
Themes
In the transformation from oral language to the written word, universal truths of human nature were formalized.
The evolution of language impacts life.
Sometimes the journey itself is more important than the destination
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Thurs-Fri: The Heroic Essay.
Paragraph 1: Define heroism.
Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4: Select three people who demonstrate heroic qualities. Choose your heroes from a variety of areas, such as sports, literature, history, medicine, science, etc., as well as personal heroes. Explain why these people meet your definition of heroism.
Paragraph 5: Find a quotation that defines your concept of "hero." Use a search engine to find it. At the end of the quotation, be sure to credit the source. Use the correct MLA format for your reference. Be creative; add your own formatting ideas.
Grades for this project will be based on the variety of areas represented by the people in the essay, the details of the written explanation for each hero, and the use of transitions between examples.
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ARMS AND THE BOY
Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade
How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;
Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash;
And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.
Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-leads,
Which long to nuzzle in the hearts of lads,
Or give him cartridges whose fine zinc teeth
Are sharp with sharpness of grief and death.
For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple.
There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple;
And God will grow no talons at his heels,
Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.
Wilfred Owen
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Anthem for Doomed Youth
What passing-bells for those who die like cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
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Teacher & District Resources
"Inside the Chrysalis" Contributed by Dr. Lincoln Bower
Beowulf Language Lesson:
NPR - Talk of the Nation:
Audio Resource 1
Audio Resource 2
Beowulf Resource 1
Beowulf Resource 1
Canterbury Tales Resource 1
Canterbury Tales Resource 2
Literary Analysis Rubric
Digital Storytelling 1
Digital Storytelling 2
http://t3.k12.hi.us/t302-03/tutorials/digstory/elements.htm
http://www.digitales.us/
http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/tutorial_1.html
Historical context of Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales
To connect to the Primary document, order CDs
"Scholarly Digital Editions"
Burke, Jim. 2003. Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Burke, Jim and Carol Ann Parker. 2000. I'll Grant You That: A Step by-Step Guide to Finding Funds ,Designing Winning Projects, and Writing Powerful Grant Proposals, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
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Quotations
"They said that of all the kings upon the earth he was the man most gracious and fair-minded, kindest to his people and keenest to win fame." (Beowulf . 3180-82)
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