We worked on a second round of timed writing for first, second, and sixth periods. Fourth period began a two-day look at sound devices in poetry. Homework First period: complete timed writing....
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Timed Writing, Figurative Language, and Presentations
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...
Figurative Language
Today in first period we got into our small groups and went over the posters that we made on the previous day. Some groups spent their time finishing up their poster. We then went over them as a...
Figurative Language and Presentations
Second and sixth periods used a figurative language graphic organizer in examining similes, metaphors, and personification in three poems. Fourth period continued poetry presentations. We'll have...
Career Day and Presentations
The title pretty much says it all, wouldn't you say? First period had career day after working on projects. Fourth period: presentations.
Timed Writing and Presentations
Second and sixth periods had an abrupt change of plans: I decided last-minute to go over timed writing skills to complement last night's homework. It was about poetry, so it kept us on target, but I...
Learning about meters
Today in class we learned about meters. not the meter like a meter stick, but a meter in poem. meters in a poem are defined as, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. The...
“Your World” and Extensions
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...
“Ring Out, Wild Bells”
Today in first period we went over our homework from over the weekend.We then read a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson called, "Ring Out, Wild Bells." This poem is on page 611.We went through the steps...
Alliteration and Presentations
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...
Vocabulary and Context Clues in Poetry
Today in first period class we read a poem by Nikki Giovanni called "The Drum," on page 610. After we read the poem we went through the steps of understanding the poem. Then, when we got done with...
More Context Clues
Second and sixth periods, we worked on context clues. We went over four ways we can determine a word's meaning through the context clues. We began using a vocabulary chart to track unknown words in...
