WARMUP:  Take 5-8 minutes, freewrite about childhood memories (format doesn’t matter–can be sentences/paragraphs, bullet points, pictures).  Focus on your roots.  The things that make you YOU.  Consider family, traditions, influential places, people, activities memories.  We’ll do some sharing in lieu of good things.

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of today, you should be able to define IYOW the following poetic devices and explain why they are important.

• Rhyme Scheme
• Rhythm
• Meter

Also, be able to say something about how poets draw on their everyday experiences for material.

In class:

• Warmup (8 minutes)
• Good things (7 minutes)
• Read about the three devices (5 minutes)
• Watched rhythm/meter video (5 minutes)
• Read this (got hard copy) Steve Shilling Buccaneer poet and discussed (15 minutes)

Reminder:  QUIZ FRIDAY:  What’s covered?

• All Poetic Devices terms that we’ve covered (consult blog posts here, your class notes).
• Format:  Some multiple choice, some short answer.
• Our fatal errors from last week (Capitalization, apostrophe usage)
• 25 points.