What is poetry?Monday, November 25, 2013

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.Carl Sandburg

Vocabulary Today’s Root Word of the Day:

Vert or vers– turn Words derived from today’s root

word: (look them up today!)Revert invertedControversy versionVersatile incontrovertibleDiversion divertAversion perverseVertigo introvert

More Vocabulary Choose words from yesterday’s vocabulary to complete these sentences.

1. My friend is __ over the damage to her new car.

2. A wise policy in buying shares of stock is to be guided by fact rather than __ .

3. The umpire was obliged to __ a player who refused to accept his decision.

4. A hypodermic syringe is used to __ a dose of medicine beneath the skin.

5. The mob hurled stones, bricks, bottles, eggs, and anything else that could serve as a __ .

6. We tend to avoid rude people because we do not wish to __ ourselves to their insults.

Vocabulary

Schedule Extended – Make Up Daygroup 1 group 2 group 3 group 4 group 5

A Whole Class Lesson

Whole Class Lesson

Whole Class Lesson

Whole Class Lesson

Whole Class Lesson

Bprogression reflection inquiry /research peer share conference

Cconference progression reflection inquiry /research peer share

D peer share conference progression reflection inquiry /research

Einquiry /research peer share conference progression reflection

Freflection inquiry /research peer share conference progression

What are we doing? Progression – Today you will begin to work with

phrases and clauses, in order to learn when and how to use, semi-colons, colons, and commas. Take the pretest on page 295 in your notebook. Elect a team leader. The team leader will see me for the answer key when you have all finished. If we have computers today, send me your score and any questions you have about what you are about to learn using the Google protocol, keyword :confused.

Reflection Compose two responses (each a 2 paragraph minimum):

Compare two poems by the same poet. How are they recognizable by the poet’s diction and voice? How are the poems different in theme, style, genre, or mood?

Differentiate – choose one Read an online version of the fairy tale, “The Frog Prince,” then read Adrienne Marcus’s

poem, “Annunciation” (Daybook 110) How are these tales different variations of the same story? What parts of the story are similar enough to recognize that they are about the same character? What was the poet’s purpose for altering the story: humor, theme, moral, something else? Keyword: poemdiff

Read an online version of the fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood,” then read Roald Dahl’s “Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf” off the online poetry packet (scroll through the poems in my poetry packet on my webpage under the link “Poetry.” How are these tales different variations of the same story? What parts of the story are similar enough to recognize that they are about the same character? What was the poet’s purpose for altering the story: humor, theme, moral, something else? Keyword: poemdiff

Inquiry/Research

Students will read and investigate “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes (Daybook 19.) Students will view the following video link that

encompasses a dramatic reading of the poem with images from 1920s Harlem nightlife and music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyqwvC5s4n8 Students will work as a group to respond to the prompts

on Daybook pages 20 and 21 that culminate in an original poem.

Peer Share

Use this time to read and share as many poems from the poetry link on my web page as you can. Use the log to help keep them organized.

What are we doing?Conference – I am reading your mp1

reflection or poetry reflection for a grade and reviewing your progress on the Benchmarks. This is also your time to get one:one help from me.