Agenda, April 11

Due Every day: Bring your personal reading book.
Due Yesterday: Visual Representation of your object

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

Due Now: Poetry Worksheets 1 and 2

Due Tomorrow: Poetry Worksheets 3 and 4

Today's Learning Targets:

I can identify and explain hyperbole and personification.

I can practice writing similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, and parallelism.

I can win a poetry challenge.

1. Collecting art / essays/ worksheets
2. Reading time: As you read, look for similes, metaphors, and personification
3. Elements of Poetry
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, sweet nothings, or a subject of your choice   
5. Poetry Worksheets 3 and 4