January 12th-16th

Monday 12

MAP Reading Test

Weekly Homework: Complete wiki page and hunt by Wednesday, January 21.

Tuesday 13

Poetry Forms 

Focus on Drew Dellinger

Wednesday 14

Poem writing workshop

Thursday 15

Finish belief poem

Friday 16

Rearranging and Cutting  Poems 

May 4th-9th

4 Great Poems Assignment
Directions: Use all the usable material from your writer’s notebook to craft your best four poems. Yesterday, you likely polished one of your list poems and your “In the Room” entry. Today, I want you to look to other writer’s notebook entries for inspiration. For example, you might write a dramatic monologue using the details you recorded about a time you were teased. Or you may elect to create a shape or concrete poem about any of the experiences you wrote about, particularly the entry we did about secrets.

Requirements:

Type your name on the page

Title all poems

Each poem must include two of the following:
a vegetable, a color, a piece of furniture, a toy, a piece of clothing, a liquid, a lie

Each poem must contain two of the following:
alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, internal or external rhyme
simile, metaphor, extended metaphor, symbol, personification, hyperbole
imagery, irony, vivid verbs, concrete nouns, a startling ending, pun, double meaning

Each poem must include PUnCtuaTion!

Possible Formats:

Concrete or Shape
“In the Room”
List poem
Persona Poem
Sonnet
Ode
Diamante
Free Verse
series of Haikus (3)
Sestina-(challenging)
letter

Use line breaks and stanzas to emphasize the meaning of your words.

DUE FRIDAY MAY 9th.

Be prepared to share at least one of your poems in class on Friday.

Enrichment credit: Submit one or more of your poems to Poetry Alive.

April 28th-May 1st

Monday 28th
Memorization Lesson
Copy your selected poem into WNB#27
View winners of Poetry Outloud
Read poem to partner three times in class
Homework: Recite poem three times in front of an inanimate object!

Tuesday 29th
WNB# 28: My Life as ....create your own extended metaphor
Annotate and Discuss Poems about Life: The Journey, Lesson of the Moth, Mirror
Homework: Recite poem three times in front of a mirror.

Wednesday 30th
LATE ARRIVAL--(two hour delay to school start time)
Poetry Alive!
WNB #29: The goofiest thing I have ever done...
Annotate and Discuss Poems about Embarrassing Moments: Handcuffs, I finally managed to speak to her
Homework: Recite poem three times in front of a family member.

Thursday 1st
Poetry Recitations

Friday 2nd
Poetry Recitations
Gallery Night at The Center for the Arts
starts at 4:30