Activities for week sixteen 1/4 - 1/8 - 2010

As we start a new year and a new decade decide your purpose, set your goals. You need to do this - not your parents, not your friends, and not me. This is your 2010. Remember if you do the things you need to do, when you need to do them, someday you can do the things you want to do, when you want to do them!

Jim Tressel, the Ohio State football coach says, "The first step in creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

.Vision will ignite the fire of passion, which fuels our commitment to
do whatever it takes to achieve excellence.

.Vision allows us to transform dreams of greatness into reality of
achievement through human action.

.Vision has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our vision is what
we become in life."

Now for the business of class - please check Aeries so you know where you are grade wise in this class. We have three more weeks then finals, and you will have one in this class. You should probably have a new SSR book. If you missed Friday you have a test to make up - please be here Monday by 7:30 am. I have also attached part of your poetry project to this blog - the project should be fun.

Monday 1/4
1. Review Vocabulary Test
2. Edit and revise essay (homework)
3. Do Vocabulary 5 and 6 (homework)

Tuesday 1/5
1. Review Tangerine Final
2. Work on and revise essay (homework)
3. Finish Vocabulary (homework)

Wednesday 1/6
1. Review Vocabulary (70 points)
2. Lecture: Poetry Journal
3. Finish essay

Thursday 1/7
1. Essay due (200 points)
2. Vocab Bingo and Pretest
3. Write Reminiscence poem

Friday 1/8
1. Vocabulary 5 and 6 Test (100 points)
2. Lecture: Objectives of Poetry Unit
3. Review Reminiscence poem
4. Write Name poem

Finish Strong!

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I hope this will be a fun project and that you will learn something about yourself.

Rubric For Poetry Journal

Name _____________________________ Period _____

Date Due: 1/21/2010 (Thursday Absolute Deadline)

	Points Possible	Points Earned
Cover	10
Title Page	15
Table of Contents	20
Poems	100
Explanation	100
Usage and Mechanics	30
Art and Presentation	25

Total Points Possible: 300 Total Points Earned: ________

Teacher Comments:

Reminiscence Poem

--I remember. . . (who or what)

--Describe the person or event

--Tell when

--Why do you remember it now

--Now when I . . .

I remember all of my fun family vacations,

Staying down at Newport in our beachfront house,

Lying in the sun,

Swimming in the ocean,

And meeting friends old and new,

During the heated month of July.

I remember it now because it’s my favorite place to be.

It’s always cheerful and peaceful near the sea.

Now, when I think back on it I wish I was there,

Happy and free,

Near the sea!

Name Poem

--compare a person to an inanimate object. (use a metaphor)

--then compare the person to an animal

--Show the person in a dream-like state (ideal) setting

--Describe or name an emotion of the person and compare that emotion to something in nature.

EXAMPLE:

Pam is

A boulder etched

with beauty and grace,

By the strong desert winds.

She is a mountain lion,

Seeking quiet places

under the stars.

She walks through trees,

Ravished by the wind.

She is calm amid chaos,

Like a patch of wild flowers near a raging river.