What is poetry?

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.Samuel Johnson

Vocabulary

Today’s Root Word of the Day: Ped - foot

Words derived from today’s root word: (look them up today!)

Expedite pedal Impede impediment Pedestrian velocipede Pedestal millilpede

More Vocabulary Choose words from yesterday’s vocabulary to complete these sentences.1. Learning to play an instrument is a(n) ____ process; it

cannot be achieved overnight.2. The offenders know that they will be dealt with

severely if they should ____ again.3. When the game ended, hordes of spectators jammed

the stadium exits, making ____ painfully slow.4. The medical report showed ____ rather than progress,

for the patient’s blood pressure had gone up.5. In a string of ____ pearls, the individual pearls are

arranged in the order of increasing size on both halves of the string.

Vocabulary

Schedule B/Cgroup 1 group 2 group 3 group 4 group 5

A Whole Class Lesson

Whole Class Lesson

Whole Class Lesson

Whole Class Lesson

Whole Class Lesson

Bprogression reflection inquiry /research peer share conference

Cconference progression reflection inquiry /research peer share

D peer share conference progression reflection inquiry /research

Einquiry /research peer share conference progression reflection

Freflection inquiry /research peer share conference progression

What are we doing? Progression – Today you will begin to work

with phrases and clauses, in order to learn when and how to use, semi-colons, colons, and commas. Take the pretest on page 295 in your notebook. Elect a team leader. The team leader will see me for the answer key when you have all finished. If we have computers today, send me your score and any questions you have about what you are about to learn using the Google protocol, keyword :confused.

Reflection Compose two responses (each a 2 paragraph minimum):

Compare two poems by the same poet. How are they recognizable by the poet’s diction and voice? How are the poems different in theme, style, genre, or mood?

Differentiate – choose one Read an online version of the fairy tale, “The Frog Prince,” then read Adrienne

Marcus’s poem, “Annunciation” (Daybook 110) How are these tales different variations of the same story? What parts of the story are similar enough to recognize that they are about the same character? What was the poet’s purpose for altering the story: humor, theme, moral, something else? Keyword: poemdiff

Read an online version of the fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood,” then read Roald Dahl’s “Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf” off the online poetry packet (scroll through the poems in my poetry packet on my webpage under the link “Poetry.” How are these tales different variations of the same story? What parts of the story are similar enough to recognize that they are about the same character? What was the poet’s purpose for altering the story: humor, theme, moral, something else? Keyword: poemdiff

Inquiry/Research

Students will read and investigate “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes (Daybook 19.) Students will view the following video link that

encompasses a dramatic reading of the poem with images from 1920s Harlem nightlife and music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyqwvC5s4n8

Students will work as a group to respond to the prompts on Daybook pages 20 and 21 that culminate in an original poem.

Peer Share

Use this time to read and share as many poems from the poetry link on my web page as you can. Use the log to help keep them organized.

What are we doing?

Conference – I am reading your mp1 reflection or poetry reflection for a grade and reviewing your progress on the Benchmarks. This is also your time to get one:one help from me.