5th week's lesson 2/26 - 3/2 - 2007

This week we are working on a comparison and contrast essay on "A Dream Deferred" and "Dreams" by Langston Hughes. The writing prompt for freshmen in the district is also comparison and contrast, and you will be doing that in May. Also this week we start Romeo and Juliet, remember if you have questions Miss Howard and I will be here to help you.

Monday 2/26
1. Poetry Journal Due (absolute deadline)
2. Collect other poetry
3. Review Vocabulary 11 Test and do corrections (homework)
4. Read and discuss "Theme for English B"
5. Read "Writing about a Poem" (homework)

Tuesday 2/27
1. Vocabulary Bee
2. Work on and write compare and contrast essay on Hughes poems (homework)

Wednesday 2/28
1. Spelling Bee
2. Finish first copy of essay and type it.
3. Read Romeo and Juliet pages 982 and 988 (homework)

Thursday 3/1
1. Practice Vocab Test
2. Edit essay and retype (homework)
3. See Shakespeare Six O’clock News

Friday 3/2
1. Essay due
2. Idiom Test
3. Read and discuss Shakespearean drama

Please keep up with your reading.

4th week's lessons - 2/20 - 2/23 - 2007

This is the final week to get your Poetry Journal together. Make sure you have your ten orginal poems and explanations. You make not use any of the other patterns I have given you.

Tuesday 2/20
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Notebook corrections
3. Review Poems
4. Write two Nonsense Poem (homework)
5. Do Unit 11 Part A, Vocabulary (homework)

Wednesday 2/21
1. Review Poems and Vocabulary
2. Write two Your Own Pattern poems (homework)
3. Finish Unit 11 Vocabulary and do The Last Word (homework)

Thursday 2/22
1. Vocabulary Bingo and Vocabulary Pretest
2. Review Vocabulary
3. Review Poems
4. Finish Poetry Journal (Homework)

Friday 2/23
1. Unit 11 Vocabulary Test
2. Read "A Dream Deferred" and "Dreams"
3. Finish Poetry Journal (Due Monday)

Rolling along 3rd week's lessons 2/13 - 2/16 - 2007

Your controlling thought controls you. Let us be students, it is that time of our lives. Make sure you are working on your Poetry Journal. Are you making a final copy of the poem you choose after our class editing, do you have your cover?

Tuesday 2/13
1. Review Vocabulary Test and do corrections in your spiral notebook
2. Read and discuss "She Sweeps with Many-Colored Brooms" Emily Dickinson
3. Write two Haiku poems and explanations (homework)

Wednesday 2/14
1. Review all poems
2. Write two Description Poems and explanations (homework)
3. Read pages 288-292 Frost’s and Whitman’s Road poems (homework)

Thursday 2/15
1. Poetry quiz on reading and then discussion
2. Review Description Poems
3. Write two I do not Understand Poems and explanations (homework)

Friday 2/16
1. Units 9 and 10 Vocabulary Review Test
2. Review Poetry quiz
3. Review poems
3. Write two Children’s Poems and explanations (homework)

POETRY JOURNAL

Listed below are your directions and requirements for your journal.

1. Must have the proper cover
2. Must have a title page (Poetry Journal) and include your name, period, and the date.
3. Must have a table of contents, which list both the type of poem and the title plus the proper page number.
4. You should include some appropriate art work, by hand or computer
5. Each poem should be followed on the next page with the paragraph explanation and insight into your poem.
The paragraph should follow the multi-paragraph format. This means: Topic sentence, concrete detail and two different sentences of commentary (your personal insight).
6. Your poems should be in this order:
1. Reminiscence
2. Name
3. Mock Serious
4. Haiku
5. Description
6. I do not understand
7. Nonsense
8. Children’s
9. Write your own pattern
10. Ten original poems that you have composed
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I hope this will be a fun project and that you will learn something about yourself.

2nd Semester, 2nd Week lessons' 2/5 - 2/9 - 2007

We are now up and rounding - let's go!

Objectives of the Poetry Unit
Each student shall develop a nineteen poem journal. Other student’s objectives should include the following:
I. To identify the speaker of the poem and, if possible, the person or object spoken to, using one sentence.
II. To write a paraphrase of the poem, using a minimum of three sentences.
III. To state the poem’s major theme, using one sentence.
IV. To define and identify a minimum of five figures of speech (including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and symbol).
V. To identify a minimum of three images and to name the senses appealed to.
VI. To describe the tone of the poem, using one sentence, and to illustrate the tone with two direct quotations from the poem.
VII. To identify the predominant meter of the poem by scanning four lines selected by the teacher.
VIII. To identify the rhyme scheme of a poem.
IX. To identify examples of these sound devises:alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia.

Monday 2/5
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Vocabulary Corrections
3. Review Poetry Objectives
4. Do Vocabulary Unit 10 A and B (homework)
5. Clean Backpacks

Tuesday 2/6
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Work through "O What Is That Sound" (Packet and discussion)
3. Lecture: Poetry Journal
4. Do Unit 10 Vocabulary Part C-D, and Type The Last Word, writing (homework)

Wednesday 2/7
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Discuss and write two "Reminiscence" poems and explanations
3. Type poems and explanations (homework)

Thursday 2/8
1. Pretest and Vocabulary Bingo
2. Review Poems
3. Write and Type Two "Name" Poems and Explanations (homework)

Friday 2/9
1. Unit 10 Vocabulary Test
2. Review Poems
3. Write and Type Two "Mock Serious" Poems and Explanations (homework)

The poetry journal is a big and great project, join with me.

This will be part of your portfolio.