New Semester, Week One Activities 1/31 - 2/3 - 2011

Orator, attorney, and political leader William Jennings Bryan said, "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." I hope you choose to work hard and work smart in our class. If you need help I will always be here. Remember when you are absent you need to make up your reading time and tests in the morning (7:25 am). Make sure you have a new spiral notebook. Please let's get off to a great start. Your Poetry Journal is due next week - please have it done so you get off to a great start for the new semester.

Monday 1/31
1. Review Final
2. Write Nonsense Poem (homework)
3. Do Vocabulary 9 and 10 (homework)

Tuesday 2/1
1. Set up new S.S.R. Card
2. Review Quarter Benchmark Test
3. Review Poems
4. Read and Discuss “O What Is That Sound”
5. Write Write Your own Pattern Poem (homework)

Wednesday 2/2
1. Review Vocabulary (70 points)
2. Review Tangerine Essay and Portfolio
3. Review Write Your Own Pattern Poem
4. Read Frost’s and Whitman’s Road Poems pages 288-292 (homework)

Thursday 2/3
1. Vocab Bingo and Pretest
2. Read and Discuss Road Poems
3. Write Original Poem (homework)

Friday 2/4
1. Vocabulary 9 – 10 Test
2. Review and Edit Poetry Journal
3. Lecture: Studying Poetry
4. Get Your Poetry Journal Ready (homework)

Let's be on an odyssey of curiosity!