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Timed Writing, Figurative Language, and Presentations

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First period began another timed writing. When we do the final timed writings about poetry, hopefully the whole process will take one period. For now, we’re going slowly. It’s practice in analyzing poetry as well as preparing to write a test essay cue — PASS preparation, in other words.

Sixth Period at Work

Sixth Period at Work

Second and sixth periods finished working with the three poems for figurative language. We looked at three poems: “Concrete Mixers,” “The City is So Big,” and the famous “Harlem Night Song.”

Sixth Period at Work

Sixth Period at Work

We’ll begin the timed writing tomorrow, analyzing one of the poem’s use of figurative language.

Sixth Period at Work

Sixth Period at Work

Fourth period had the final presentation for the poetry project.

Fourth Period Presenters

Fourth Period Presenters

The student-teachers lead their colleagues through a look at the following topics:

  • exact rhyme
  • approximate rhyme
  • internal rhyme

We’ll be including this material on the mid-term exam.

Homework

None

Figurative Language

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Today in first period we got into our small groups and went over the posters that we made on the previous day.

Group Work

Group Work

Some  groups spent their time finishing up their poster. We then went over them as a class. We discussed the metaphors or similes in each of the three poems. That’s what we ended our class on.

Homework
  • pg. 632 (1-7) All
  • also, find one metaphor in one of the three poems on pages 629 – 631

“Your World” and Extensions

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Second and sixth periods went over “Your World” in class, seeing that just because a poem seems to be all about it bird, it doesn’t necessarily have anything at all to do with a bird (thematically speaking).

Group Teaching

Group Teaching

Fourth period students went over the notion of an extended metaphor, led by a group of eager, excited, and exciting student-presenters.

Homework
  • Second and sixth periods: page 615 (first two parts).
  • Fourth period:
    • create the recitation rubric;
    • begin working on the mid-term study guide wiki.

Alliteration and Presentations

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Second and sixth periods looked at Walter de la Mare’s poem “Silver” to continue learning about sound devices, specifically alliteration.

Fourth period had their first poetry presentations, working on direct and implied metaphors. Student-presenters led the class through two poems, “Fog” by Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice.”

As part of the starter, the group used a smoke machine to create fog for the journal writing that begins every class. It was quite clever, I must say.

Foggy Starter

Foggy Starter

Students were able to anticipate the poems through their own writing: good thinking! (More pictures available here.)

Homework
  • Second period: complete vocabulary chart for “Your World” (605)
  • Fourth period: complete rubric for sonnet recitation.
  • Sixth period: read “Your World” (605) and complete vocabulary chart for the poem.

Figurative Language and Emotional Language

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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, the first portion of chapter nine of To Kill a Mockingbird. This is the episode in which Cecil Jacobs insults Scout’s father by suggesting Atticus is morally inferior because he is defending Tom Robinson. It is where the pejorative term for African Americans first appears in the book, so we spent the last half of the class discussing the impact of that word and how words can take on emotional hues.

Homework
  • First and second periods: complete illustrations of similes and metaphors from the three poems.
  • Fourth period:
    • read chapters 9-11 in To Kill a Mockingbird;
    • complete the
  • Seventh period: none.

Citation Practice and Poetry

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First period began the poetry unit by looking at several elements of poetry, including:

  • consonnance
  • assonance
  • alliteration
  • simile
  • metaphor
  • personification

Second period began reading the Odyssey after we had a quiz on it.

Fourth and sixth periods completed their work on their “Works Cited” page.

No homework for any classes today.