IF you were absent Friday, pick up copies of the poetry unit syllabus and the poem Chicago from the front table.  (Digital copies linked to Friday’s blog post).

WARMUP:  as soon as the bell rings, in your class notes, write down everything you remember about the following poetic devices/terms we covered on Friday

• Figurative Language
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Mood

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of class you should be able to explain IYOW the meanings of the following poetic terms

• Stanza
• Line
• Types of rhyme
  • End rhyme
  • Internal rhyme
  • True rhyme
  • Off rhyme
  • Rhyme scheme
• Be able to explain how/why poets use the above devices/techniques (what is the purpose).

In class we did the following

1. Introduced the first Vocabulary Unit (Practice quiz on 9/19, real thing on 9/21).
2. Read the following articles
   1. Poetic Structure
   2. Rhyme Scheme
3. Worked to write an imitation of Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” using either Grand Haven or GHHS as our model.  Try to use devices just as Sandburg used them.