Give a synonym for each of the following:

• Amicable
• Extol
• Retrogress

Shape your face into a GRIMACE

Aside from that WORK TIME (Poetry Writing)

THURSDAY:  Poetry timed writing

FRIDAY: Vocab Quiz, Poemfolios due.

WARMUP:

• If you are risk-AVERSE, how do you live your life?
• If you studied by giving your class notes a CURSORY look, what would that entail?
• What might give a student an increased IMPETUS to study?
• What would you say is the QUINTESSENTIAL TV show of your generation’s childhood.

But He Loved His Dog

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of the day you will be able to

• explain the specifics of the POEMFOLIO assignment.
  • Poetry Final Assignment
• Explain the concept of FOUND POETRY

LEARNING TARGET:  By the end of today you should

A) Know what is expected of you on the timed writing next week.

B)  Be able to use your close reading skills to analyze Joni Mitchell’s poem “Both Sides Now.

In class, we received a handout with both the poem “Both Sides Now” and a graphic organizer to help prepare for the things you’ll need to do in analytic essays.

WARMUP: VOCAB

• What’s one thing at which you can say you are ADROIT?
• Describe an action a BENEVOLENT person might do?
• Why might a person who is IMPERVIOUS to pain be good at boxing?
• Describe the desk of a METICULOUS person?

LEARNING TARGETS:  By the end of the class, you should be able to

• use close reading skills to accurately interpret Robert Frost’s poem “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN”

LEARNING TARGETS:  By the end of the hour you should be able to

• correctly pronounce all of this week’s vocab words”

In class: received new vocab list.  Went over new vocab list.  Had time to work on poemfolios.

1.  Took vocab quiz.
2.  Learning TARGETS
   1. Should be able to explain the concept of a LIMERICK including how it uses rhyme and meter in a specific way.

By the end of class today you should be able to

1. EXPLAIN HAIKU as a poetry form.

Today I will write

A lovely haiku for you

To make your day fun

In your poemfolio, you can choose HAIKU for one of your poems.  To make it equal 12 lines, write a series of FOUR Haiku on a related subject.  This exercise is inspired by Wallace Stevens’ famous poem 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird  (note, this is NOT in HAIKU form–just an example for writing several short verses all on one subject)

Announcement: practice vocab backed up to tomorrow

IF YOU’RE STRUGGLING WITH WRITING POEMS, TRY SOME OF THESE LINKS FOR INSPIRATION

Here’s some poems to read for inspirationA COLLECTION OF COOL POEMS

WARMUP:  use the following in your own ORIGINAL sentence

• Deploy
• Gaping
• Gibe
• Insidious

LEARNING TARGETS:  By the end of today you should be able

• analyze George Ella Lyon’s poem “Where I’m From” and identify specific literary devices” she uses.
• Be able to explain how to cite poetry according to MLA Style.

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of today you will

A)  Understand the targets of the poetry unit.

B)  Understand the assessments of the poetry unit.

SYLLABUS_POETRY UNIT