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.