In your journals, answer the question:

What do you want to learn in high school Literature this year?

WARM UP FOR 8/21/2015

UNITS OF STUDY

• Writing Boot Camp

• Classical Education

• Claim, Evidence, Commentary

• Grammar and Mechanics

• Archetypes

• Biblical Stories and Figures

• Mythology

• Excerpts from Edith

Hamilton’s Mythology and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

• Greek Tragedy

• Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

• William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

• Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

COURSE POLICIES

GRADING POLICY

This class follows the traditional grading scale:

A= 90-100 B = 80-89 C = 70-79 D = 60-69 F = 59 & Below

MISSING & LATE WORK POLICY

Each day an assignment is late, it drops 10%. After 5 days, no late work will be accepted and it will be recorded as a zero.

MAKE-UP WORK POLICY

If you are absent, check my website to see what you missed. You must stay up to date on readings and homework

assignments. It is your responsibility to find out what you missed, make up your work, and advocate for yourself if

you have any questions. You have two days for each excused absence to make up your work for full credit.

FOR MISSING, LATE, OR MAKE-UP WORK YOU MUST COMPLETE A PINK

SUBMISSION SLIP.

COURSE POLICIES

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY This class requires you to do your own thinking. Any

time you use another source and claim it as your own, it is considered academic dishonesty. Plagiarism is

taking another’s work or ideas and claiming them as your own—even if you change some of the

wording. Plagiarism is a serious offense and will result in an automatic zero on the assignment.

SCHOOL SUPPLY LISTBinder: You will be required to keep an organized

binder!Notebook: A college-ruled journal (spiral or bound)

Sticky Notes: You will need these to annotate. Writing Utensils: pens, pencils, highlighters

Always bring the book we are reading to class!

COURSE POLICIES

HALL PASSYou must ask for permission to leave the

room to go to your locker or the bathroom. If my hall pass is lost then all students lose the privilege to leave the room. TAKE CARE OF MY

HALL PASS.

TARDIESIf you are not in your seat when the bell

rings, you will be considered tardy and will have to sign the tardy board. On the third

tardy, you will be assigned school detention.

COURSE POLICIES

HONORS COURSEWORK

The Honors coursework is not a separate book or project, but rather a modification of the assignments the entire class completes. Honors students will have a higher level of

analysis expected on assignments, tests, and essays.

Separate essay prompts, tests, and projectsFacilitation of Socratic discussions

The Honors coursework is not intended to add more work but instead require deeper

critical thinking on whole class assignments.

MY CLASS WEBSITE

http://www.skyviewacademy.k12.co.us/skyviewacademy

Whenever you are absent, check my website PRIOR to

coming to class!

WHAT IS THIS?

Mandalas are one of the oldest art forms known to humanity. They are one of the oldest symbols in the world and one of the few universal ones. Translated from Sanskrit, mandala means circle – a symbol of

completeness – the most perfect medium in which to present a picture of yourself.

One type of mandala is called the sun-shadow mandala, and it represents, in part, the contrasts between one’s sun qualities – what is visible and

projected – and the shadow qualities – what is interior and inward.

WHAT IS A MANDALA?

The first step in making a mandala is writing two sets of answers to the questions below. One set represents the sun

answers; the other set represents the shadow answers.

Sun-Images: How do you appear on the surface to the world? This is the part of you that is seen or projected to others.

1. What animal are you most like?

2. What plant are you most like?

3. What color are you most like?

4. What shape are you most like?

5. What number are you most like?

6. What mineral or gem are you most like?

7. What natural element are you most like?

SUN IMAGES

Shadow-Images: The part of you that is not shown. The shadow images can be considered the direct opposites to the sun

images.

1. What animal are you like internally?

2. What plant are you like internally?

3. What color are you like internally?

4. What shape are you like internally?

5. What number are you like internally?

6. What mineral or gem are you like internally?

7. What natural element are you like internally?

SHADOW IMAGES

CREATE A SUN-SHADOW MANDALA THAT SYMBOLIZES

YOU.

FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLYComplete the chart for each sun image (what is

projected to the world), descriptive word, antonym (opposite), and a shadow image.

Write the word that best fits you in each box.

Class sets of questions are at your tables. Please do not write on these or take them with you.

Do not overthink it and do not discuss it with your neighbors. Go with your first instinct.

CHART INSTRUCTIONS

Once the charts are complete, the next step is to write a sentence for each of your symbols. The most important part of your sentence is the “why” part. Through your sentences

you will share why you feel a certain symbol represents you. In the end you will have a total of 14 sentences.

Here are some examples:

I am like a/the (sun image), because like the (sun image), I __________________________________.

Ex: I am like poison oak, because like poison oak, I’m harmless until stepped on.

I am like a/the (shadow image), because like the (shadow image), I ___________________________.

Ex: I am like a Venus flytrap, because like a Venus flytrap, I want to capture you and make you a part of me.

WRITE ANALOGIES

HONORS: YOU MUST USE METAPHORS INSTEAD OF SIMILES.

Complete your chart and your analogies sheet for

Monday’s class. Write this in your planner now.

HOMEWORK

The next step is to write a single sentence containing all of your sun signs; and, a single sentence containing all of your

shadow signs. This requires you to get creative. Consider it word play. You may add words necessary to complete your sentence. These will go on the perimeter of your mandala.

EXAMPLES: Sun Sentence: The playful kitten jumped up into the spider plant to stare up at the sky blue heavens with round, amethyst eyes before pouncing back to earth,

scratching his claws in the dirt seven times.Shadow Sentence: The fierce lion roared in agony as he

stumbled into a diamond shaped thorn bush, his eyes black with rage and his breath as hot as fire, as his

square jaw picked out thirteen painful needles.

TWO SINGLE SENTENCES

Within the framework of a circle, using color and shape, but no words, draw or symbolize all of your sun images and your shadow images. Arrange them in any way that you

like. Artistry is not important. You can use simple drawings/symbols to depict your images.

Just be sure to put forth your best effort!

CREATE YOUR MANDALA

Draw inside

the circle!

Do not put anything outside of your circle!

1. Around the perimeter of your circle, write you two single sentences for your sun images and your shadow images.

2. Write the fourteen sentences from your Sun/Shadow Image Analogies in the background of the paper.

3. Complete any artistic preferences on your mandala.

COMPLETE THE BACKGROUND