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Core Curriculum
Pupils are to:
- Be introduced to and be equipped with a set of literary skills / devices with which they can study poetry more effectively.
- Be introduced to, and learn about the different types of poems and poetic structures.
- Be able to quickly grasp the overall meaning of a poem (i.e the themes, main ideas and issues fore-grounded in the poem).
Curriculum of Connections
Pupils are to:
- Be able to make inferences about information not explicitly stated in the text e.g. setting, poet's intention / purpose, mood, feeling, attitude and style.
- Be able to understand how a poet's social background and life experiences have a concrete effect on poetic output
Curriculum of Identity
Pupils are to:
- Understand and experience the appeal that poetry has to one's emotional consciousness.
- Be able to analyze poetry, giving a sensitive and cogent personal response to a poem.
- Be able to enjoy poems of a greater variety and at a deeper level through discussion of readings and sharing of views.
- Demonstrate their ability to give a personal response to a poem, through explaining their own critical understanding of it, and detailing how it appeals to their emotions and senses.
Curriculum of Practice
Pupils are to:
- Be able to practice detailed analysis of a poem's meaning: message, mood and attitude.
Approach: Deductive using a mind-map.
Poetry Appreciation:
Different points of view
• consider and analyze 3 poems based on a mind-map framework of resources
• to practise your skills in a compare and contrast exercise using any 2 out of 3 poems
What is a point of view?
How do points of view slant or shape our understanding of issues in life?
To understand what different points of view represent, we will now do this activity.
Compare and Contrast
How do you prepare for school yourself?
How do your parents ask you to prepare for school?.
After this activity, we will explore 3 poems using comparative study and the concept map that follows on from this slide. The exploration questions box after each poem will help you formulate your ideas from personal viewpoints.
The poem study will include visuals & commentary for you to experience and understand the poem better.
After studying the poems, complete the tasks and prepare them for homework and class presentation.
Mind Mapping The Unseen
Poem 1 Be Prepared by Boey Kim Cheng
Poem 2
Poem 3
For the follow-up activity during Literature class next week, you may opt to do either of the following
1. Dramatic Monologue ( Individual)
Remember Me by Ray Mather (read by yourself)
2. Play of Voices( Pair work)
2 mothers in a hdb playground by Arthur Yap
( read by you and a partner)
Literature often extends our human experiences through seeing life situations from others' eyes.
Did any of the poems touch on a life experience that you have shared before? How was your own experience similar or different?
What emotions did you experience as you read these poems?
What did you find most or least interesting in the exploration links provided?
Break up into groups of 3 students for the next single period literature class. Share this with your group of friends.
Compare and Contrast
Pick any 2 of 3 poems
Consolidate your ideas together on these 2 poems based on the exploration questions and the commentary
Now draw up an analysis ( in table form) of these ideas using the mind- map framework for a compare and contrast exercise
Click here for criteria guidelines and checklist for your work .
Follow the instructions provided on the checklist to check your work once it is completed and redraft your work before submission.
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DENVER — Peyton Manning wants to play for the Denver Broncos in Act II of his outstanding career.
A person briefed on negotiations said the NFL's only four-time MVP called Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams and told him that he had picked the Broncos. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter.
Adams released a statement Monday confirming the Titans were out of the running and told The Tennessean: "He called me himself and told me he wasn't coming, that he made his mind up to go with Denver."
ESPN first reported Manning instructed his agent to negotiate the details of a deal with the Broncos, less than two weeks after the quarterback became a free agent when the Indianapolis Colts released him.
Manning sat out all of 2011 because of multiple neck surgeries, but his success in the past has made him this offseason's most sought-after player.
He was wooed to Denver by Hall of Fame quarterback Elway, who led the Broncos to two Super Bowl championships and now serves as their vice president of football operations. Elway never sounded all that convinced that Tim Tebow was the right answer at the sport's most important position and now could trade him, even though the popular QB energized the Broncos in leading them to the playoffs last season despite some erratic play.
The statement from Titans owner Adams said: "I want to thank the whole organization for their efforts in trying to sign Peyton and also to Peyton for the time he put into the process. Peyton called me this morning to inform me of his decision and obviously I am disappointed, because I thought we would be a perfect fit."
The San Francisco 49ers were the other team trying to land Manning.
He was cut loose March 7 by the Colts so they could avoid paying him a $28 million contract bonus. The move marked the end of an era, a 14-year alliance between the team that drafted Manning No. 1 overall and the QB who brought Indianapolis from football irrelevance to the 2007 Super Bowl title and a second appearance in the NFL championship game three years later.
But with Manning's rehab continuing, the Colts decided it was time to rebuild from top to bottom, and they are expected to take Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck with the top pick in April's draft.
Two days after standing alongside Colts owner Jim Irsay during an emotional farewell news conference, Manning began his free agency tour in the place it appears to be ending: Denver. Manning landed on Tebow's turf with all the trappings of star treatment — flown to town on a chartered plane, then spending the day with Elway, coach John Fox and general manager Brian Xanders.
From there, Manning crisscrossed the country in search of a new team, as various clubs courted a guy with more than 50,000 yards passing, nearly 400 touchdowns and 11 Pro Bowl selections. After Denver, next up was a meeting with the Arizona Cardinals, and he also spent time speaking with — or throwing for — the Titans, 49ers and Miami Dolphins, with TV cameras and even helicopters often on the trail.
Somehow, the 49ers managed to keep their audience with Manning a secret for days, until word emerged that they were in the running for him, too.
In the end, though, Manning decided he wanted to trade in his Colts horseshoe helmet for one adorned by a Bronco. The move would allow him to stay in the AFC, a conference he knows well and one considered weaker than the NFC at the moment, and would re-establish the tantalizing prospect of playing against his brother, New York Giants quarterback Eli, in a Super Bowl. They already have three titles in the family.
As it happens, the next Super Bowl will be hosted by New Orleans, which also is the Mannings' hometown; their father, Archie, used to play for the Saints. Think a Manning vs. Manning matchup for the championship in the Big Easy might garner attention?
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The latest bike share hub being installed this morning at Davis & Rainey Street. Just in time for SXSW, this is a good choice of location in the neighborhood. Across the street Hotel Van Zandt is under construction.
Waller Park Place Submits Site Plan for 3 Towers
At ~1,400,000 square feet Waller Park Place, a three tower mixed-use plan is the largest private development ever proposed in downtown Austin (correct me in the comments if I'm wrong). It's the vision of the Sutton Company, who formally filed their site plan approval application with the City of Austin last week.
Back in September, Downtown Austin Blog first revealed the concept for the 3 acre tract stretching from Cesar Chavez to Davis Street, hugging Waller Creek. Then it was being called Waller Center and seemed really to be just a conceptual vision.
Below is what we know (note these numbers have gone up since Waller Center was announced in September and could still change)
- Tower A – Office, 25+ stories, on the corner of Red River and Cesar Chavez
- Tower B – Apartments, 50+ stories, internal on the site
- Tower C – Hotel/Condo, 40+ stories, at Red River & Davis
- Target FAR is 10:1
- The architect is the IBI Group
- No phasing is contemplated – all three towers built simultaneously
- The site is part of the Waller Creek TIF district
With Block 1 (tbd) anticipated, and Trinity Tower (tbd) being conceptualized, Waller Park Place would be the last opportunity in downtown Austin for waterfront development with protected lake views.
Above and below are a couple of crude massing-drawings I made for each tower to help view the relative dimensions and heights of the three towers, and to help us see how these buildings will fit into the skyline.
Demolition Begins For Dinerstein Development
Snapped a pic this afternoon showing that demolition is well under way along East Ave for the 9 tract assemblage which will host a Dinerstein apartment development, expected to be called Millenium Rainey (aka Rainey Center).
Kimber Modern Is Coming To Downtown Austin – And It Looks Incredible
If you have ever looked for parking behind the Continental Club on South Congress, you may have been surprised to see the Kimber Modern hotel quietly tucked along the back street.
The Kimber, with it's clean, manicured building lines, has become a favorite destination for people visiting Austin, or even Austinites taking a staycation.
Though the notion of a Kimber Modern in the Rainey District has been percolating for a while now, the principals have been very tight lipped.
For the first time, we have an original rendering of the project that we can share, and can confirm that it will be called, simply, "Kimber Modern Rainey."
Here's what we know…
– 30 hotel rooms (approx.)
– Four above grade floors
– One floor of underground parking
– Street level lobby, bar, pool, and restaurant open to the public
– Three floors of rooms
– Designed by Burton Baldridge
– Will be operated by Kimber Modern Team
– Co-Developed and built by Acero Construction
In almost poetic contrast to some of the recent cookie-cutter development in and around downtown, the Kimber Modern Rainey will be one of a kind.
It's always refreshing to see a development putting forth a bold design vision. Despite how much downtown Austin has evolved, many of us feel a bit let down by safe "beige box" aesthetic of several new buildings. Hat tip to Burton Baldridge on the design.
The site for the chic bed & breakfast's 2nd location will be on East Ave (near the corner of River St), sharing an alley with the core of Rainey Street. Made up of two adjacent lots: 62 & 64 East Ave, it will welcome people into the neighborhood.
I'm excited that owner Kimber Cavendish and Vicki Faust are bringing this kind of quality, home-grown hospitality into the Rainey Street area, four years after they launched their South Congress base.
Notably, the South Congress location picked as on of 13 winners (out of 227 entries) in 2012 to receive the Texas Society of Architects Design Awards from a total of 227 entries.
The Kimber joins Hotel Van Zandt in the neighborhood, which finally erupted into construction earlier this year after years of smoke. Just outside the 'hood the mega-luxury, mega-size Fairmont is also looking to get underway soon.
Plans Evolve For Rainey Street's Waller Center
Here are the latest revisions to the 3 acre Waller Center plan – an ambitious project that stretches along the east bank of Waller Creek, from E Cesar Chavez to Davis Street.
The updated renderings (below) give a more comprehensive vision for the massing of three distinct towers, and how they could be best be oriented. According to the ABJ's interview with development firm, The Sutton Company, their target is to submit plans to the City of Austin for approval by late November
Here's what we know about the goals of the project:
- Tower A is a 21 story office building
- Tower B is a 46 story residential tower
- Tower C is a 38 story mixed use Tower
- Target FAR is 10:1
- 26,000 ft retail (possibly grocery store)
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U.S. May Reject Off-Shore Drilling Permits Due to Ruling
The Obama administration says it may have to reject seven permits for deep-water drilling that have become the subject of high-profile legal and political battles if a federal judge in New Orleans forces the government to make a quick decision on the applications.
In court filings late Friday, the Interior Department said the permit applications are flawed or incomplete, and that Judge Martin Feldman's order that it decide on them before the end of the month disrupts the normal back-and-forth negotiations between oil companies and federal regulators.
The government asked the judge to stay his order while it appeals his ruling, which was made in mid-February.
The appeal comes just days after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement issued its first new deep-water drilling permit since an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon on April 20 killed 11 workers and set off the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
In mid-February, Judge Feldman called the slow movement of permits "increasingly inexcusable" and ordered the government to act on five permits within 30 days. A later ruling added two additional permits.
Lawyers for London-based Ensco PLC, a global drilling company which brought the lawsuit, didn't respond to a request for comment late Friday.
The slowdown in Gulf of Mexico oil and gas drilling activity has become in recent weeks a political issue, with Republican politicians seizing on rising oil and gasoline prices to charge the Obama administration with needlessly delaying permits.
Federal offshore regulators have said they need to make sure the companies are prepared to drill safely and have adequate equipment to control an uncontrolled deep-water spill.
Separately, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board sent a letter to other federal investigators on Friday protesting their decision to end testing on a key safety device that failed to prevent the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The board, said that inconsistent test results suggested that there might be a "fundamental safety design problem" with the controls of the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer, a massive set of valves that sat on the seafloor and was intended to shut off the well if workers lost control of it. The letter was first reported by the Associated Press.
The safety board, an independent federal agency, asked for additional testing.
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Rutland City Police are asking residents to report any unsolicited offers to perform driveway repairs.
On two occasions during the past week, two unidentified men have approached homeowners with offers to perform cheap repair to their driveways, police Sgt. Kevin Stevens said.
One lady said they offered to seal her driveway at $5 per square foot, Stevens said. But after they did the little bit of work she needed done they said she owed them $1,800.
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