Thursday, March 17, 2011

Week Nine March 21

English I
Week 9
Monday
Fix your memoir and essays.
I will slice and dice a couple of memoirs and essays.
Review Grammar Check List
Revise your work
Circle Time
Tuesday
prompt: What do you think of when you hear the word poetry?
WDJ: Accessible-easy to approach
Grammar: A complete sentence has a subject verb and complete thought. Share examples. See notes

Tool Box: Poetry is rhythmic compressed language that uses images and comparisons to appeal to a reader’s imagination and emotions.
Activity:
Read Tupac Poems
Music and Poetry
Wednesday
prompt: How are music and poetry related?
WDJ: morose-gloomy, sullen, and despondent
Grammar: Grammar Notes for Benchmark
Tool Box: Personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, symbol
Activity:
View ads on You Tube and Discuss
Ads in poetry assignment
Thursday
Prompt Free Write or read
Grammar Notes for Benchmark March 29th (frag, run-on, commas)
Introduce Poetry and Music Assignment
Benchmark Review create posters for fiction, nonfiction, vocabulary and grammar
Friday
prompt: Free write or review for your novel quiz
WDJ: haughty- stuck up
Grammar: Run-on sentence is two sentence squished together as one. See notes
My aunt and I walked to the store we bought eggs and milk.



Tool Box: Review poetry terms

Activity:
Novel Lit Circle and reflection
 
Remember Please bring in your song lyric Monday for your poetry project

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