First and seventh periods worked on rhythm in poetry, using “Cat!” to discover the patterns that create meter.

Cat!
Atter her, atter her,
Sleeky flatterer,
Spitfire chatterer,
Scatter her, scatter her
Wuff!
Wuff!
Treat her rough!
Git her, git her,
Whiskery spitter!
Catch her, catch her,
Green-eyed scratcher!
Slathery
Slithery
Hisser,
Don’t miss her!
Run till you’re dithery,
Hithery
Thithery
Pfitts! pfitts!
How she spits!
Spitch! Spatch!
Can’t she scratch!
Scritching the bark
Of the sycamore-tree,
She’s reached her ark
And’s hissing at me
Pfitts!Pfitts!
Wuff! Wuff!
Scat,
Cat!
That’s
That!

With a little work and some rapping, students were able to see two distinct patterns:

Second period moved on to the poem “Silver” by Walter de la Mare. We began paraphrasing this somewhat challenging poem.

Fourth period began To Kill a Mockingbird. We will be having a test tomorrow on the parts of speech.

Homework

• First periods: paraphrase the first four lines of “Silver.”
• Second period: finish paraphrasing “Silver.”
• Fourth period: read chapters 1-3 of To Kill a Mockingbird (pages 1-32).
• Seventh period: none.