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.