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November/December 2011Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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Poetry Introduction
Poetry Splash
Essential Vocabulary
Essential Questions
Homework: Read
“Hanging Fire” by Audrey Lorde: “Undertaker” by Patricia Smith
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Free Verse/Annotating
“Hanging Fire”
Homework: Read
“Mentor” by Thomas Murphy; “Wheels” by Jim Daniels; “The Meadow” by Kate Knapp; “In the Well” by Andrew Hudgins; “Otherwise” by Jane Kenyon; “Lesson” by Forest Hamer; “My Life” by Joe Wenderoth; “Hate Poem” by Julie Sheehan; “Before the World Intruded” by Michele Rosenthal; “Kyrie” by Tomas Transtromer; “End of April” by Phillis Levin
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Theme Analysis
Analysis TP-CASTT
Homework: Read
“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
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SGA
Rhythm
“We Real Cool”
Homework: Read
“I’m Alive, I Believe in Everything” by Lesley Choyce; “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins; “Heredity” by Thomas Hardy; “Conceit” by DH Lawrence; “Lost” by David Waggoner; “My Life” by Joe Wenderoth; “I’m Nobody” by Emily Dickinson; “Ode to Family Photographs – Will You Know Us?” by Gary Soto; “Alone” by Maya Angelou
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Comparing Themes in Poems (Self Identity Poems)
Homework: Read
“adam thinking” by Lucille Clifton; “Please Fire Me” by Deborah Garrison; “Halley’s Comet” by Stanley Kunitz; “Jump mama” by Kurtis Lamkin; “Riding into California” by Shirley Geok-lin Lim; “Yesterday” by W.S. Merwin; “X” by
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Playing with Words
Author’s Word Choice
Homework: Read
“Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco; “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke; “Young” by Anne Sexton; “In Memoriam” by Lord Alfred Tennyson; “Ode to Family Photographs” by Gary Soto; “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn
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NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK
WORK ON POETRY PROJECT
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NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK
WORK ON POETRY PROJECT
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NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK
WORK ON POETRY PROJECT
Amiri Baraka Brooks; “Eviction” by Lucille Clifton; “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes; “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
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Figurative Language
Homework: Figurative Language in Songs
Read:
“We Wear The Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar; “Hanging Fire” by Audrey Lorde; “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke; “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes
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Tone/Voice
Diction/Rhyme/Images/Mood
Homework:
Voice in Langston Hughes poetry
Read:
“Sonnet #27” by William Shakespeare; “A Wreath for Emmet Till” by Marilyn Nelson
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Rhyme/Meter
Sonnets
Poetry Project Workshop
Homework: Write a sonnet for your poetry project
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Poetic Devices
Poetry Project Workshop
Homework: Prepare original poem for Poetry Slam
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Poetry SlamPresent an original poem from your poetry project
Homework: Poetry Projects Due Monday!
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Poetry Projects Due