Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish.
Do Saturday and Sunday: Read 30 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can read for pleasure. I can use my personal reading to expand my understanding of poetry. I can use poetry to expand my understanding of my personal reading.
I can use art to inspire my own creativity.
I can solve difficulties with figurative language.
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- Independent Reading
- Book talks
- "Ozymandius"
- Poetry Challenge #3: Writing from Art
Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish.
Due Yesterday: Poetry Challenge #2: Simile Self-Portrait
Today's Learning Targets:
I can read for pleasure.
I can use art to inspire my own creativity.
I can solve difficulties with figurative language.
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- Literary Devices Review
- 10 More Minutes with
- Poetry Challenge #3: Writing from Art
- "Ozymandius"
Do Tonight: Read 30 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish.
Do Yesterday: Bookmark 1, front and back. Don't forget the extra credit!
Week 2: 4/9 - 4/15
Today's Learning Targets:
I can create a "simile self-portrait."
I can solve difficulties with figurative language.
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- Literary Devices Review
- Poetry Challenge #2: Simile Self-Portrait
- "Castles Made of Sand" by Jimi Hendrix
- Poetry Challenge #3: Writing from Art
Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish.
Do Now: Bookmark 1, front and back. Don't forget the extra credit!
Week 2: 4/9 - 4/15
Today's Learning Targets:
I can read for pleasure. I can create a poem that captures my character.
I can analyze how tone helps an author achieve his purpose.
I can create a "simile self-portrait."
I can solve difficulties with figurative language.
- Collect Bookmarks
- Independent Reading
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- One more question about "Wing$"
- Literary Devices Review
- Poetry Challenge #2: Simile Self-Portrait
- "Castles Made of Sand" by Jimi Hendrix
Due Now: Bring a personal reading book
Due Now: Bookmark Check. If you're filling it out now, you're doing it wrong.
Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish.
Do Tomorrow: Bookmark 1, front and back. Don't forget the extra credit!
Today's Learning Targets:
I can read for pleasure. I can identify interesting or important lines in a book.
I can analyze how diction helps an author create a tone.
I can create a "simile self-portrait"
- Quickwrite: Why do people do difficult things?
- Independent Reading
- Model Bookmark Backs
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- Tone in "Wing$"
- Literary Devices Review
- Poetry Challenge #2: Simile Self-Portrait
Due Now: Bring a personal reading book
Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish.
Do Saturday and Sunday: Read 30 minutes each day. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish. Expect a bookmark check on Monday.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can read for pleasure. I can identify interesting or important lines in a book.
I can analyze the purpose literary devices in a poem.
I can analyze how diction helps an author create a tone.
- Independent Reading
- Model Bookmark Backs
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- Emotion Poem Wrap Up
- Literary Devices Review
- "Wing$" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
- Tone in "Wing$"
Due Now: Bring a personal reading book
Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can read for pleasure. I can identify interesting or important lines in a book.
I can recognize definitions of literary devices.
I can analyze the purpose literary devices in a poem.
- Independent Reading
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- Literary Devices Review
- "Tony Steinberg: Brave Seventh Grade Viking Warrior" by Taylor Mali
Due Now: Bring a personal reading book
Due Now: Bookmark check. If you're filling out your bookmark now, you're doing it wrong.
Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish.
Quiz Make-ups / Retakes: Today after school in B105. You will need to arrange your own transportation.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can read for pleasure.
I can have fun with words.
I can analyze a piece of writing to determine the mode.
- Independent Reading
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- Poetry Challenge #1: Write about an emotion as if it was a person.
- What is this?
Due Now: Bring a personal reading book
Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading and your pages on your bookmark when you finish. Expect a bookmark check tomorrow.
Quiz Make-ups / Retakes: Wednesday after school in B105. You will need to arrange your own transportation.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can read for pleasure.
I can use inferential comprehension to win a poetry game.
I can have fun with words.
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- Poetry is a game, continued
- Poetry Challenge #1: Write about an emotion as if it was a person.
Due Tomorrow: Bring a personal reading book
Quiz Make-ups / Retakes: Wednesday after school in B105. You will need to arrange your own transportation.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can use a pre-test to help Mr. Kline plan effective instruction.
I can work with my classmates to gather important literary terms.
I can have fun with words.
- April is National Poetry Writing Month! Check out OCPoWriMo!
- Elements of Poetry Pre-test
- Elements of Poetry Definitions
- Poetry is a game
- What is this?
