WARMUP:  freewrite for five minutes about a time when you realized you were growing up and it made you sad or wistful for the past.

 

LEARNING TARGETS:  As a result of today’s lesson you should be able to:

• Explain, IYOW, the poetic devices
  • TONE,
  • Diction
    • Denotation
    • Connotation
• Use the SIFT method to analyze the poem “On Turning 10” by Billy Collins.

 

IN CLASS

• Warmup
• Good Things
• Read/discussed article on TONE linked above
• Used SIFT method to analyze “On Turning 10”.  Assignment posted to Classroom.
• Added 6th Hour.  Brief SYMBOLISM video.

 

HOMEWORK: Remember:

• practice vocab quiz tomorrow.
• Keep up on your weekly reflection sheets