ENGLISH 7
Completed Spelling Unit 28, exercises and quiz
Returned 1st response, characterization. Models
Theme, day 2
HW: Tues: 2nd response, Character Chart
ENGLISH 8
Handed in “About me” work and writer's notebooks for a "random" check. Should have 14 entries by today.
The start of National Poetry Month.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words-- Robert Frost.
Favorite Poems Project. Personal interpretations from Americans who contributed to the project at the Favorite Poem Project. Poetry is universal. Poetry is choice. Poetry is individual. Watch. Listen.
Poems: We Real Cool, The Sloth, Out Out, Minstrel Man, I Am Nobody.
Now find yours. Pick out a poem. Write it down. (Don't cut & paste). Look up words you don't understand. Read it three times. Think about what it means to you. Be prepared to read it in class & explain how it speaks to you.
Look on the web, in the library, my books, books at home. Find one that has meaning for you. Websites: Academy of American Poets, Poetry 180. Be prepared to share in class next week.
Work time. Look over poetry books in classroom, go to websites and printout poems, work on DEJs for Civil War novel.
HW Monday: Your favorite poem. Be prepared to present it, say what it means and why you like it.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words-- Robert Frost.
Favorite Poems Project. Personal interpretations from Americans who contributed to the project at the Favorite Poem Project. Poetry is universal. Poetry is choice. Poetry is individual. Watch. Listen.
Poems: We Real Cool, The Sloth, Out Out, Minstrel Man, I Am Nobody.
Now find yours. Pick out a poem. Write it down. (Don't cut & paste). Look up words you don't understand. Read it three times. Think about what it means to you. Be prepared to read it in class & explain how it speaks to you.
Look on the web, in the library, my books, books at home. Find one that has meaning for you. Websites: Academy of American Poets, Poetry 180. Be prepared to share in class next week.
Work time. Look over poetry books in classroom, go to websites and printout poems, work on DEJs for Civil War novel.
HW Monday: Your favorite poem. Be prepared to present it, say what it means and why you like it.
Tuesday: April 5. Finish Civil War Book. Hand in last set of 4 DEJs on historical aspects of novel.
Weds.: April 13. 100-point project due. Are you working on yours?
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