Block Day: He is Risen!

* Open

West's class: Please keep your journal out for a journal check while you are working on your essay.

* Essay

Option 1: A Theme in Letters and Life

• Find a subject and letter that resonates well with you
• Find a song that resonates well with the subject
• Find a verse that speaks to the subject
• Five paragraphs discussing the shared theme between the three texts
• Quotations cited (direct and indirect)
• Semicolons and colons (incorporated)

Option 2: A Letter to a Friend

• Find a letter that resonates well with you
• Write a response letter to Wormwood's human, dissuading him from falling into Wormwood's trap.
• Use Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in your persuasion
• Five paragraphs
• Quotations cited (direct and indirect)
• Semicolons and colons (incorporated)

After Easter

• Speech Debate (you will begin working on that when you return)
• Novel (you may begin working on that any time but will be introduced when you return)
• Book List
• Assignment Due May 15 or Sooner
• SAT Analysis: Final Exam Essay (we will practice aspects weekly)

Tuesday, 3/31/15: Prepare for Your Essay

* Open

* Discuss Final Chapters of STL

• What will happen to Wormwood?  Why is this so appropriate? 

* Prepare Essay

• Letter 
• Good quotes to incorporate

• Scripture(s)
• Song (in some cases)

HW: Prepare for your essay. You may bring one full side of an 8 1/2x11 sheet of paper with bullet point notes. No pre-written essays will be allowed.

Monday, 3/30/15: Screwtape

* Open

• Please copy all of the following from Bedford 37a:

NOTE: Do not use quotation marks around indirect quotations. An indirect quotation reports someone’s ideas without using that person’s exact words.

Example: Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that consistency for its own sake is the mark of a small mind (7). 

* Screwtape

HW:

• STL -- 31 (everything but the toast)
• Gather Essay Goodness

Ferocious Cuteness

Block Day 3/26-27

Open

Quiz

Schwager

• Finish Ethos, Pathos, Logos
• Upcoming Essay Reviewed
• Screwtape
• Review: Guiding Questions
• Listening

Option 1:

• Find a subject and letter that resonates well with you
• Find a song that resonates well with the subject
• Find a verse that speaks to the subject
• Five paragraphs discussing the shared theme between the three texts
• Quotations cited (direct and indirect)
• Semicolons and colons (incorporated)

Option 2:

• Find a letter that resonates well with you
• Write a response letter to Wormwood's human, dissuading him from falling into Wormwood's trap.
• Use Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in your persuasion
• Five paragraphs
• Quotations cited (direct and indirect)
• Semicolons and colons (incorporated)

HW: STL -- 27

West Classes Plan
EQ: How does Lewis use ethos, logos, and pathos in Screwtape's persuasive arguments?

• Mini-Quiz-Grammar (larger STL quiz next week. Keep up on reading!)
• Review essay prompts above
• Quick review of Ch.20-22
• Small group discussions and presentations. Click here to view your prompts.
• HW: STL ---27 + Journal (use the old format and focus only on one letter)

Wednesday, 3/25/14: Screwtape -- 18ish

* Open

• Suffix
• algia -- pain
• an, ian -- of or relating to

• Grammar: Compose as sentence featuring a semicolon and an example of persuasive ethos.
• Compare with a peer.

* Screwtape Discussion -- 18 (or as close as possible)

* Schwager's class will cover pathos and logos on block day to leave more discussion time. 

HW:

• Screwtape -- 21
• Quiz: Colon, semicolon, suffix, Screwtape (West: ethos, pathos, logos) (Schwager: Presentations)

Archangel Michael Fighting Satan (St. Michielskirk, Hamburg, Germany)

Tuesday 3/24 ~ Ethos, Logos, Pathos

*Open

• Grammar
• Please compose one sentence illustrating the use of the colon and one sentence illustrating the use of the semicolon.  

*EQ: What are Ethos, Logos, and Pathos?

• Journal: take notes to record a solid definition for each term from this prezi.

*HW:

• All classes: Read STL Letters 17-19. 
• West Only: Complete your notes above by recording one quote that demonstrates each type of persuasion above. Give a one sentence explanation for each quote, explaining how you know it is an example of Ethos, Logos, or Pathos. 

• Schwager Only: Review Presentation Notes for Block Day

Monday, 3/23/15: Screwtape -- 13

* Open

• Grammar
• Look at the biblical passage below.  Copy a sentence that has a colon, semicolon, or both in the sentence.  Explain what slight change in meaning would occur if you substituted the colon for the semicolon (or vice versa). 

Psalm 23 (King James Version)

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

• Calendar Review
• You'll see some Playlists In the Poetry Section That You Might Enjoy

* STL Discussion

* Read in Class

HW: STL -- 16

Colons and Semicolons

Good Class News

In November, Rachel Surgalski (senior) won first place for fiction writing in the countywide contest hosted by the Bookshop Santa Cruz.  Unfortunately, they did not inform her until last week.  Garrett Moore (sophomore) won honorable mention (he was notified appropriately and is pictured if you follow this link http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/young-writers-contest). Bookshop Santa Cruz published a book with the winning entries.  Rachel kindly gave me one of her copies; you may borrow it for a day or two if you wish.

Last Week: First Published Digital Book Written By an Entire Class

• Here is the book: Sailing the Seas of Disease

• Leeza Wayne, Isabel Ponce, and Gabriella Gerlach edited our first iBook for class (per. 6).  This is a compilation where each student in class wrote a section of a modern retelling of The Canterbury Tales.  Here's the set up:

• A cruise ship is quarantined due to sickness (like Chaucer, you need a setup for people telling tales to each other).
• Each unique character is introduced (first 13 pages), just as in Chaucer.
• Each character tells a tale related to the kind of character he or she is.
• The work is written in couplets.
• Please download the book and rate it cheerfully!

• 

This week Ivan Vatikani and McKenna Pahl each received honorable mention in California Coastal Commission's Poetry Contest (this is a statewide contest with over 2,500 entries).

Congratulate your friends and classmates!  I expect we'll have more good news with the AG Poetry and Poetry Santa Cruz contest results coming during this quarter. 

Block Day: Screwtape and Music

* Open

• Suffixes
•  age -- act of, state of, result of
•  al -- relating to 

• Deadline: Poetry Santa Cruz 

* Grammar: Semicolon and Colon

• Copy down the rule and provide at least one example for Bedford 34c, 35a, 35b, 35c.
• Now go to 35d.  Scroll down to 35-1 
• Take an iPad screenshot of the exercise (letters and numbers). 
• Open your screenshot in Notability. 
• Mark up the text with one or two nearby partners. 

* Screwtape and Music

• Review some of your thoughts. 
• Work on your second song. 
• Click here to upload for West.
• Click here for Schwager. 

* Work on Screwtape Letters 12-13

• Screwtape Journal for Letters 11-13

HW:  Screwtape Journal for Letters 11-13 and find your second song.

Wednesday, 3/18/15: Screwtape and Music

Open

• Suffix (hip, hip, hooray!)
•  able, ible -- able, capable
•  ade -- result of action (look up the suffix in google or dictionary.com as the words are not always easy to pick)

• Grammar (rules and examples only today)
• The Semicolon
•  Copy down the rules and provide at least one example for each rule for Bedford 34a and 34b

* Screwtape and Music

• Mr. Schwager's Music Assignment (do 1 song tonight and 1 in class on block day)
• Mrs. West will continue the listening party and do the next assignment.

HW (Schwager & West): Read Letter 11

• Schwager's Added: Do one song response with the link.

* Open

• New seat; new companions
• Copy into terms (definition, at least)
• lorica: Latin: body armor or breastplate; in the Christian monastic tradition, a prayer recited for protection.  Knights would often recite a lorica as they sped into battle.  The tradition stems from the Apostle Paul, who encourages us thus, "Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness" (Ephesians 6:14)
• State ergo succincti lumbos vestros in veritate, et induti loricam justitiæ,
• Please Read: Saint Patrick
• Feastday: March 17
  Patron of Ireland
  Birth: 387
  Death: 461
• His hymn: St. Patrick's Breastplate (or St. Patrick's Lorica, Latin for body armor or breastplate)
   

• Schwager's Classes: Presentation Quiz on Block Day Next Week
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Ballad
• Epithalamion
• Carols
• Dirge

• Screwtape

HW: Schwager: Complete Your Journal for Chapters 8-10

West Plan:
EQ: How does music support our thinking and living patterns?
*Listening Party! Please click here to upload your journal information - choose one meaningful song to share.
*Choose one artist to explore in the future to add more quality listening to your musical repertoire.
Click here to see everyone's input.

Monday: Screwtape

* Open

• * Poetry Santa Cruz Contest Extended Their Post Deadline!(Send in This Week)

* Schwager's Presentations

* Screwtape

HW: Screwtape Letters 8-9

West Class Plan:
*Go over Journals for letters 7-10.
*Music Analysis Journal - An inventory of what you love.
  Directions: Look at your personal play list. What are your top five happy songs, the ones you listen to on a beautiful day when you hang out with your friends (not the ones you pick when you're upset or contemplative). Record each song by title and artist. Then rate each song on a scale of 1-5 (1=completely materialistic/meaningless, 5=completely meaningful/inspiring). For each song, give a one or two sentence explanation for its rating. After rating all five songs, write a paragraph of analysis of what spiritual/emotional/physical affect you believe your music has on you. 

Favorite Limericks

I once saw a big old cat;

I can tell he was really fat:

Three mice in his mouth, his face leaning south

Had suddenly fallen into the mat.

              -- Zach Toler



There once was a bird named Domingo;

Domingo was the coolest flamingo.

They all loved his style;

Ladies loved his smile,

And all the other birds copied his lingo.

               -- Mason Mazza

Today

Screwy Block Day

* Open

* Quiz

* Schwager: Poetry Santa Cruz Contest Details

• Journal: Persona Experiment
• Write a poem of more than seven lines from a perspective you actually disagree with (it needn't be diabolical, though).  
• Ideas
• An Enemy Writes About You
• Material Girl/Paper Planes

* The Screwtape Letters 

• Read Together

HW:

• West: One Journal for Chapters 7-10 
• Schwager: Poetry Santa Cruz Evidence

Tuesday, 3/10/15: Review

* Open

• Using at least two comma rules (besides ones you used yesterday), explain what distracts teens from better things today. 

* Review STL Together

* Review Roots in Pairs

HW: Study

Monday 3/9 ~ STL Ch.7

Open

• Using at least three comma rules, explain what idea from The Screwtape Letters has been most interesting so far.
• Calendar
• Journal Tonight
• Midterm on Block Day
• The Screwtape Letters
• Commas
• Roots (gest to pac)

*Review Letters 5 & 6

• New Term: extended metaphor - a metaphorical comparison that continues at length and is shown in several ways. As your example, find at least three ways that the soul is compared to something that may be consumed in Letter 5.
• Discuss: In Letter 6, Screwtape tells Wormwood, "[God] wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them." Summarize very briefly what Screwtape is saying. How does your understanding of Christ compare with Screwtape's statement about God's intent for man? Consider Matthew 7:24-27, Ephesians 2:10, and James 3:13. 

*Read Letter 7

• Discuss: In Letter 7, Screwtape instructs Wormwood to "nurse" the patient into thinking that his religion is merely part of some greater "Cause" - in this case, either the British war effort or pacifism. How can a cause -however good it may be in itself- become an evil? What examples can you think of from history or even your own experience? 

*Homework

• Complete a Journal on chapters 5-7
• Study commas and roots.

Chapel schedule this week is...

Block Day 3/5

*Open

• Click here to test your comma chops. Study for the quiz next week.
• Go over exercise 32-3 in Bedford.

*The Screwtape Letters

• Wormwood Analysis Journal ~ The word "Wormwood" is found in scripture, though generally not as a proper name. In the King James Version or the New American Standard Version of the Bible, read Jeremiah 9:15; Lamentations 3:15, 19; Amos 6:12; and Revelation 8:10,11. What connotations does this name have (you may also wish to read the verses in the New International Version)? Why do you think Lewis chose it for Screwtape's nephew? 
• Discuss: Why do you believe Screwtape and Wormwood refer to their humans as patients? 
• Discuss: In Letter 3, Screwtape implies that true conversion is not a merely internal process. Read Luke 3:7-14; Romans 12:1,2 and Ephesians 2:8-10. What is to be one of the results of true conversion? In your opinion, what biblical figures best exemplify true conversion? How have you seen true conversion in the lives of Christians you know or know about? 
• Discuss: In Letter 4, Screwtape tells his nephew, "teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling; and never let them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the oment." Do you the judge the existence of spirituality on our feelings? Is that a valid way of judging what is true about the metaphysical world? 
• Vocab Letters 5-7 ~ Use the Progeny guide to do the exercise before you read.

H*Homework:

• Read and highlight key passages in Letters 5 & 6. After Letter 7, we will complete another journal. 

Wednesday, 3/4 ~ STL 4

*Open

• Click here to test your comma chops.

*Roots

• ortho - straight, correct
• pac - peace

*The Screwtape Letters

• Discuss letters 1-3. No homework. 

Sunshine

Tuesday, 3/3

*Open

• Review comma rules from block day (scroll down)
• Do the exercises for 32-3 from Bedford in your Composition Book

*Roots

• Onym - name
• oper - work

*The Screwtape Letters

• Discuss Preface and Letter 1.
• Read Letters 2 &3
• Add to your first journal one question: How is Lewis indirectly addressing the philosophy of materialism through his fictional work? What does he believe is the effect of materialism on a person's understanding of spiritual matters?

Sunshine Jean Says

"Please focus on your studies.  I will focus on being cute."

Praise the Lord; He has been gracious to us!

Mother and baby are well.

Garrett Moore: "Accidental President" (Honorable Mention in the Bookshop Santa Cruz Young Writers' Contest, 2014)

I sat with my back against the dingy mattress that was my bed, silently staring at the ceiling. Too tired to get my pajamas on, and too dignified to get into bed without proper attire, I had bound myself to a limbo of apathy, of which I could easily break yet chose not to. My eyes traced the edges of the peeling paint, lingering only to inspect the various insects that had been ensnared by spider webs. Some still struggled; their bodies twisting this way and that, only to become further bound to their fate, and eventually giving up from exhaustion. I was not like them. I was not physically bound to the place in which I sat. Yet I stayed there none the less. It was not until some time had passed that I realized I was already in my pajamas; I had not taken them off all day. I crawled into bed and slept.