Agenda, April 10

Due Tomorrow: Bring your personal reading book.
Due Now: Visual Representation of your object

Due at the end of class Today: Final draft of essay (we'll have laptops tomorrow). Include rough draft, sentence fluency chart, and peer review.

Due Tomorrow: Poetry Worksheets 1 and 2

Today's Learning Targets:

I can identify similes, metaphors, and personification.

I can practice writing similes, metaphors, and personification.

I can decipher unusual word order in a poem.

1. Collecting art / essays
2. Reading time / typing time
3. Poetry Worksheet 1
4. Poetry Challenge #1: write a poem like "26 Passengers on a Bus," by John Updike, in which each word / line begins with the next letter of the alphabet. Potential subject include good titles for movies, good names for sports teams, animals, foods, or sweet nothings.