November 21

AGENDA:

1. Extra Credit Vocab Quiz
2. Poultry Slam! - below for 5th period in case they wanted to listen.


HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 

I am thankful that I get to spend 50 minutes a day with you!

November 20

AGENDA:

1. Share Concrete Poems
2. e.e. cummings - BalloonMan

in Just- 

spring          when the world is mud- 

luscious the little 

lame balloonman 

whistles          far          and wee 

and eddieandbill come 

running from marbles and 

piracies and it's 

spring 

when the world is puddle-wonderful 

the queer 

old balloonman whistles 

far          and             wee 

and bettyandisbel come dancing 

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and 

it's 

spring 

and 

         the 

                  goat-footed 

balloonMan          whistles 

far 

and 

wee 

November 19

AGENDA:

1.Reviewing your analysis from yesterday 
2. Concrete poems
3. Writing your own #9

November 18

AGENDA:

1. Share your songs
2. TPCASST your songs (be sure an look at rhythm, rhyme, sound)
3. Write an analysis - together as a class


HW: Extra Credit vocab on Friday

November 17

AGENDA:

1. Finish poet distribution
2. Ballad, lyrical ballad and rhythm and sound
3. Songs and poetry
4. Literary terms when analyzing poetry - onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance (euphony and cacophony), rhyme (eye rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme)

HW: Choose a song that you like, that you consider poetic. Bring it in to class tomorrow to share with your group; Vocabulary extra credit only review

November 14

AGENDA:

1. #2 read poems + reflections from everyone - did you like the poem, what did you think of it, why?
2. Turn in your "Highwayman" packet
3. Reading of your "I Am From" poems
4. Portfolio plan

HW: Organize you portfolios

November 13

AGENDA:

1. Go over poem analyses 
2. Writing a poem - Where are you From? #8

HW: Finish poem "Where I am From"; #2 bring in your poems for sharing and reflections tomorrow

Where I am From Poem

November 12

AGENDA:

1. Turn in your poetry analysis
2. Discuss poem
3. Writing an analysis #7


HW: #2's bring in a poem that you like and be prepared to share with your group.

November 6

AGENDA:

1. #3's Share poems in your group
2. Reflection #4 - to be included in your portfolios - write a paragraph about what you thought of the poem your group member shared 
3. Emily Dickinson My Life Closed Twice and analyze the poem using TP CAST T (put this in your portfolio when you are done) #5


HW:  Vocab quiz tomorrow

Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close— 

It yet remains to see 
If Immortality unveil 
A third event to me 

So huge, so hopeless to conceive 
As these that twice befell. 
Parting is all we know of heaven, 
And all we need of hell.

November 5

AGENDA:

1. Small Dark Song by Philip Dacey (who is the you? How is Wind characterized? As a total  villain or partly admirable? Why do you think the poet chose to have the lines rhyme? Change "down" to "charred" in line 1 and "Wind" to "Fire" in lines 2 and 3. Then rewrite the poem with other changes caused but he ones already made. #2
2. Keepsakes by William Stafford Why do children dance? What is meant by "dance"? What are some things that are "music"? That aren't? What makes you dance - besides music? #3


HW: #3's bring in a poem tomorrow to share with your group and why you like it and what it means to you - any poem that you like and want to share. #4



Poems:

Small Dark Song
by Philip Dacey

The cherry tree is down, and dead, that was so high,
And Wind, that did this thing, toms careless while you cry, 
For Wind's been everywhere today, and has an alibi.

Keepsakes
by William Stafford

....................
Kids:
They dance before they learn
there is anything that isn't music.

November 4

AGENDA:

1. Number groups 1, 2, 3, 4
2. Imagery Worksheet  #1
3. Practice literary terms for poems 


HW: Read Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye and one paragraph on each: (to be kept in your poetry journals which will be going into a Poetry Portfolio by semester's end)
   - Write about an unusual gift you've given, or received.
   - Write about a time you reinvented something your life gave you.

   - Where do your poems hide?
#2

November 3

AGENDA:

1. Change seats/give back tests
2. Romeo and Juliet Projects
3. Vocabulary on Friday


HW: Vocab on Friday