Classwork:
- Do Now: Roots Quiz #3
- Then: Review Roots Quiz #2
- After: Grammar Review- Direct Objects
- Reminder: Yearbook Pictures taken THIS WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY DURING ENGLISH CLASS!
- New Roots List #4: clude/clus/claus, cognosc/gnosi, cord/cor/cardi, crat/cracy, cred, cyclo/cycl, deca
- (Optional) Vocabtest.com, Sophomore Unit 2: Parts of Speech
- BRING TYPED BIOPOEM OR I AM FROM POEM TO NEXT CLASS! Remember: edits must include imagery or symbolism!
(PLEASE NOTE THAT WEDNESDAY CLASSES WILL BE ALTERED FOR PICTURE-TAKING)
Classwork:
- Do Now: Biopoem/I Am From poem analysis
- Then: Cornell notes for Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonace
- Read/Listen: Denise Levertov's A Tree Telling of Orpheus (p. 659)
- After: Analysis of A Tree Telling of Orpheus
- Read/Listen: William Carlos Williams' Spring and All (p. 665)
- After: Analysis of Spring and All
- Reminder: POETRY BENCHMARK TEST 2 MOVED TO NEXT WEEK, THURSDAY/FRIDAY!
- Object Poem Requirements:
- Typed, name/period/date at top-left
- Title (DO NOT REVEAL THE OBJECT'S NAME IN THE TITLE)
- Speaker must be object/plant (DO NOT REVEAL THE OBJECT'S NAME IN THE POEM)
- At least 8 lines, 2 stanzas (no more than 20lines, 4 stanzas)
- must include: figurative language, rhyme, alliteration
- skip a line at the end and reveal what the object is
- Due in class on Tuesday/Wednesday
- Bring Independent Reading Book to next class.
(PLEASE NOTE THAT THURSDAY CLASSES WILL BE ALTERED FOR PICTURE-TAKING)
Classwork:
- Do Now: Read! (take out Independent Reading Books)
- Writing Workshop: Figurative Language in Poetry (Recall: A Tree Telling of Orpheus)
- Read/Listen: Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night (p.679)
- Writing Workshop: Object Poem
- Finish Object Poem:
- Typed, name/period/date at top-left
- Title (DO NOT REVEAL THE OBJECT'S NAME IN THE TITLE)
- Speaker must be object/plant (DO NOT REVEAL THE OBJECT'S NAME IN THE POEM)
- At least 8 lines, 2 stanzas (no more than 20lines, 4 stanzas)
- must include: figurative language, rhyme, alliteration
- skip a line at the end and reveal what the object is
- Due in class on Tuesday/Wednesday
- Study for Roots Quiz #4 (Create Graphic Organizer)
- Study for Poetry Benchmark Test 2- MOVED TO NEXT WEEK, THURSDAY/FRIDAY!
- Reminder: (Optional) Vocabtest.com, Sophomore Unit 2: Parts of Speech
