First, second, and fourth periods all worked on figurative language: similes, metaphors, and personification. We looked at three poems that use figurative language: “Concrete Mixers,” “The City is So Big,” and “Harlem Night Song.”
Fourth period finished up yesterday’s posters on the varying points of view and opinions about Boo Radley. Then we read, in class, [...]

First period began the last section of poetry for the week: imagery. We looked at one particularly amusing poem called “The Country” by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins (Wikipedia overview).
I particularly like Collins’ work. His poetry is very accessible and yet has a certain calm depth to it. I use “The Country” for a [...]

Everyone, once again, was working on poetry today.
First period finished looking at figurative language today. We ended by adding a poem to the poetry project list of required poems: a poem about urban and/or rural life. (All three poems we read for figurative language dealt with the city.)
One of the poems we read, “Harlem Night [...]

First period finished up the mini-unit on sound devices and moved on to figurative language:

simile,
metaphor, and
personification.

We began by looking at one poem (“Concrete Mixers”) in pairs for examples of all three forms of figurative language.
We’ll be having a quiz tomorrow on the vocabulary terms in “Concrete Mixers”.
Second period worked on Homeric similes before starting with [...]

First, fourth, and sixth periods completed a review of “Cub Pilot”, discussed some grammar (the formation of plural nouns), and reviewed some vocabulary. We’ll be having a selection test tomorrow.
Second period discussed the eight chapters (!!) they had to read for today. We worked in small groups, then shared one epiphany with the class.
Homework

Second period:

Complete [...]