Wednesday, November 26, 2014

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!

Thursday, November 20, 2014

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 




Wednesday, November 19, 2014

November 19

AGENDA:

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

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

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



Monday, November 17, 2014

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

Friday, November 14, 2014

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



Thursday, November 13, 2014

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

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

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.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

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.




Tuesday, November 4, 2014

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

Saturday, November 1, 2014

November 3

AGENDA:

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


HW: Vocab on Friday