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Poetry Assessment

Compile your poems

Make your chapbook

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1:07-1:17 WARM-UP: on NoRedInk! (via GC)

1:20 Mini-Lesson & Practice: Open Forms

2:00-2:10 BREAK

2:10-3:10 Silent writing time

3:10-3:15 Exit ticket & announcements

HW: Where I’m From poem & Blackout/erasure/spoken word, CRC #5, Study for quiz

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1:07-1:17 DO NOW: choose one (or more) of the idioms below and write a free-form poem that uses it in some way.

1:20 Mini-Lesson & Practice: Sonnet, Villanelle, Sestina

1:40-1:50 Quiz Study Guide explainer

2:00-2:10 BREAK

2:10-3:10 Silent writing time

3:10-3:15 Exit ticket & announcements

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Spoken Word and other ELA videos from Cycle 1B

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Spoken Word and other ELA videos from Cycle 1B

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Novel

Zipper binder

Spiral

Laptop

Journal

Pen/pencil

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Sharing

Trivial Pursuit

NoodleTools

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1. Read & annotate section 2, look for 2 TQE

2. CRC #2

3. Record & look up definitions of vocabulary

4. 4 thematically connected haiku poems

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Your piece shared with Jen for LA Studio on Wednesday if you are assigned to this day.

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CRC #3

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1-2:15 5-Min Warmup (what does The Slow Hammer of Roots mean to you?), then presentation and workshop with Lea Marshall, Guest Poet

2:15-2:30 BREAK

2:30-3:10 Rhythm & Rhyme: mini lesson on meter and rhythm with Tyger (in trochaic tetrameter), and 30 min of silent writing time.

3:10-3:15 Exit ticket: show Jen your completed vocab. HW

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Procedure Lesson: Wikipedia & Lateral Reading

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Procedure Lesson: Wikipedia & Lateral Reading

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Til The Cows Come Home: Also Known as a Darn Long Post About Appalachian English*

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Til The Cows Come Home: Also Known as a Darn Long Post About Appalachian English*

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Til The Cows Come Home: Also Known as a Darn Long Post About Appalachian English* — Kristen Tcherneshoff

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Our voice is a deeply personal part of our lives and our heritage. Let’s explore Appalachian English, often stereotyped, yet used by over 25 million people in the United States today.

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1:05-1:15 Quick write in your journal or spiral: a poem where you are a tour guide to a familiar place. HW (annotation) check.

1:15-1:45 Key Lesson: What is Poetry? History, key terminology & forms we will look at.

1:45-1:50 Exit Ticket

1:50-2:00 BREAK

2:00-3:00 Silent writing time. Pick a place to work where you will not be interrupted or tempted to socialize. Your assignment is 4 thematically connected haikus or 2 haibuns (a prose poem followed by a haiku).

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We will be looking at the big picture of what makes poetry a distinct form of writing, creating, and thinking. Where did it come from? Why is it important?

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Important Categories of Poetry:

Narrative poetry

Dramatic poetry

Lyric Poetry

Inherited Forms We Are Studying:

Haiku & Haibun

Villanelle

Sestina

Sonnet

Figurative Language:

Simile

Metaphor

Imagery

Symbolism

Allusion

Juxtaposition

Alliteration

Assonance

Anaphora

Hyperbole

Technical elements of a poem:

Couplet (also, tercet, quatrain, etc.)

Meter

Stanza

Enjambment

Line breaks

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1. Read & annotate section 1 of your verse novel

2. CRC #1: in Google Classroom via NoRedInk

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Week 2 Reading Analysis Questions (by novel)

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Week 2 Reading Analysis Questions (by novel)

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BGD: Woodson writes about the land, the porch, and the South as more than just settings. How do you think place shapes her feelings about herself? Find two pieces of evidence (or 2 poems) in this section to support your claim.

TC: How does basketball help show the relationship between Josh, his brother, and their father? Find two examples from what you've read so far to support your claim.

LWD: How does the author build suspense about the man who gets on the elevator on floor 7? Write a paragraph explaining your answer. Support your response with at least two pieces of evidence from the text.

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We will learn the systems of Jen's class, write about ourselves as writers, take a diagnostic assessment, and practice writing a form of free verse.

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_____ I can apply techniques to read & analyze poetry.

_____ I know how to cite evidence from poetry and novels in verse in order to analyze its content.

_____ I can identify many literary devices and figurative language in poetry.

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1:05-1:25 Write me a letter telling me about yourself as a writer and reader

1:25-1:35 Policies for the classroom

1:35-1:50 Housekeeping nuts & bolts: getting into Padlet, GC, Where to get extra handouts, where to turn in work, Setting up and using your spiral.

1:50-2:00 BREAK

2:00-2:05 Review of cycle syllabus & store in zipper binder

2:05-2:15: poetry knowledge poll

2:15-3:05 Your novel, how to annotate, TQEs, & your first CRC

1. Fill out google poll w/ the book you're reading

2. Break your reading up into 5 sections; put a post-it in each section

3. Annotation lesson with Outsiders page

4. CRCs: Worksheet on complete sentences: 10

5. Sign up for NoRedInk (6th & 7th graders)

3:10-3:15 Recap/wrap-up