Week Sixteen (11/23/15-11/27/15)

NO SCHOOL!  Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Friday, 11/20/15

Due TodayPoetry Project final draft (due at the end of the class period).

Agenda

Poetry Project
Finish up your final drafts!  They are due at the end of the period!

Thursday, 11/19/15

Due Today
Sonnet Rough Draft

Agenda

Poetry Project
Students should have completed all of their rough drafts.  If you haven’t shown them to me, do so now so I can give you credit!

Students should begin to put their final drafts together today in class.  Remember, each poem must be accompanied by a graphic or an illustration.  Final drafts are due tomorrow, 11/20/15 at the end of the class period.

Homework
Poetry Project final draft due tomorrow, 11/20/15.

Wednesday, 11/18/15

Due Today
(1) I Am Poem Rough Draft
(2) Haiku Rough Draft

Agenda

Sonnet

Today, I went over the sonnet form in class.  I explained what each quatrain should contain and elaborated a little more on the rhyme scheme.  I also went over Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 as an example. Students were to spend the rest of the class period working on their sonnets.

Homework
(1) Sonnet rough draft due tomorrow, 11/19/15.
(2) Poetry Project final draft due Friday, 11/20/15.

Tuesday, 11/17/15

Agenda

Poetry Project
Today, I distributed the Poetry Project handout. The handout has complete instructions for the entire project.  The final draft of the project is due Friday, 11/20/15.

I Am Poem and Haiku
I went over how to do the I Am Poem and Haiku in class.  Students spent the rest of the class period working on their I Am poems and haikus. Please refer to the handout if you were absent. Rough drafts of these poems are due by tomorrow, 11/18/15.

Homework
(1) I Am Poem rough draft due tomorrow, 11/18/15.
(2) Haiku rough draft due tomorrow, 11/18/15.
(3) Poetry Project final draft due Friday, 11/20/15.

Monday, 11/16/15 - Minimum Day

Due Today
Rap Lyric Analysis worksheet (due at the end of the class period).

Agenda

Rap Lyric Analysis
Finish up the Rap Lyric Analysis worksheet. Turn it in by the end of the period.

Friday, 11/13/15

Due Today
Name Poem Rough Draft

Agenda

Rap Lyric Analysis
Today, we went over nine different literary elements often found in rap music with examples for each.  Then, students were tasked with completing a Rap Lyric Analysis worksheet.
Worksheet will be due Monday, 11/16/15, by the end of the class period.

Homework
Rap Lyric Analysis due at the end of class on Monday, 11/16/15.

Thursday, 11/12/15

Agenda

Poetry Project
Today, I introduced the Poetry Project. I will give a handout re: the assignment early next week. For today, however, students should complete the Name Poem. Rough draft is due tomorrow.

Name Poem
Students are to write a Name Poem.  See the guidelines below for additional details.

Line 1 - Your first name.
Line 2 - “It means” then 3 adjectives that describe you.
Line 3 - “It is the number” then any number you choose.
Line 4 - “It is like” then describe a color but don’t name it.
Line 5 - “It is” then name something you remember experiencing with family or friends that  makes you smile to recall.
Line 6 - “It is the memory of” and name a person who is or has been significant to you.
Line 7 - “Who taught me” then 2 abstract concepts (such as “honesty”).
Line 8 - “When he/she” then refer to something that person did that displayed the qualities in line seven.
Line 9 - “My name is” and then your first name.
Line 10 - “It means” and in 1-2 brief sentences state something important you believe about life.

Homework
Name Poem rough draft, due tomorrow, 11/13/15.

Wednesday, 11/11/15 - NO SCHOOL!

NO SCHOOL!  Happy Veterans Day!

Tuesday, 11/10/15

Due Today
“The Poets” Analysis

Agenda

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Analyze “Weariness” (see below).  Be specific!  Tell me what images you see, meaning of capitalization and punctuation, metaphors, allusions, etc. If you don’t finish this in class, it becomes your homework. We will begin our poetry projects on Thursday!

Homework
“Weariness” analysis due Thursday, 11/12/15.

Weariness

O little feet! that such long years

Must wander on through hopes and fears,

Must ache and bleed beneath your load;

I, nearer to the wayside inn

Where toil shall cease and rest begin,

Am weary, thinking of your road!

O little hands! that, weak or strong,

Have still to serve or rule so long,

Have still so long to give or ask;

I, who so much with book and pen

Have toiled among my fellow-men,  (toil: work hard)

Am weary, thinking of your task.      (weary: feeling or showing tiredness;worn out)

O little hearts! that throb and beat

With such impatient, feverish heat,

Such limitless and strong desires;

Mine that so long has glowed and burned,

With passions into ashes turned

Now covers and conceals its fires.

O little souls! as pure and white

And crystalline as rays of light

Direct from heaven, their source divine;

Refracted through the mist of years,        (refracted: change of direction)

How red my setting sun appears,

How lurid looks this soul of mine!     (lurid: very vivid in color)

Hint: The color red is a symbol of???

Monday, 11/9/15

Agenda

Return To Longfellow
Look up information about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Write down 10 facts you find.

Next, analyze “The Poets” (see below).  Be specific!  Tell me what images you see, meaning of capitalization and punctuation, metaphors, allusions, etc. If you don’t finish this in class, it becomes your homework.

Homework
“The Poets” analysis due Tuesday, 11/10/15.

The Poets

O ye dead Poets, who are living still

Immortal in your verse, though life be fled,

And ye, O living Poets, who are dead

Though ye are living, if neglect can kill,

Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill,

With drops of anguish falling fast and red

From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head,

Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

Yes; for the gift and ministry of Song

Have something in them so divinely sweet,

It can assuage the bitterness of wrong;      (assuage: make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,  (plaudits: praise) (throng: large crowd of people)

But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Friday, 11/6/15

Agenda

Emily Dickinson
Analyze two more of Emily Dickinson's poems from the textbook (p. 420-427).  They must be different from the one you analyzed on Tuesday.  Due at the end of the class period.

Thursday, 11/5/15

Due Today
“I cannot live with YOU” Analysis

Agenda

Emily Dickinson Unscramble Contest
Do NOT use the Internet to complete this assignment. Student(s) who get the closes to the original wins 10 points extra credit on the next unit test. Don’t think that you don’t have to do the assignment - I will be giving points for completing it. Turn in by the end of the period if you want to be eligible to win the prize!

Wednesday, 11/4/15

Due Today
Analysis of one Emily Dickinson poem (p. 420-427).

Agenda

Emily Dickinson
Today, students analyzed “I cannot live with You” with a partner. We will go over the analysis together as a class tomorrow.

Tuesday, 11/3/15

Agenda

Emily Dickinson
Today we read and analyzed “I measure every Grief I meet” together as a class.
Students were given the rest of the class period to analyze one of Emily Dickinson’s poems in the textbook (p. 420-427), just like the example we went over together.

Homework
(1) Analyze one of Emily Dickinson’s poems from the textbook (p. 420-427) due tomorrow, Wednesday 11/4/15.

Monday, 11/2/15

Agenda
Emily Dickinson
Today we went over notes on a PowerPoint presentation that focused on Emily Dickinson's life and work.  If you were absent, please ask a friend for the notes.