Today's Objective: Students will learn and write five types of short poems (cinquain, limerick, acrostic, clerihew, haiku)
Today's SAT Word: Synonym (n.): an alternate word with the same meaning as the first word.
The word "pigskin" is a synonym for the word "football."
Today's Soundtrack: "Brick" by Ben Folds
By a majority vote, the class has chosen this song today from a selection of works that feature rich imagery and figurative language. The class then analyzed this song for today's warm-up listening exercise.
Today's Warm-Up Question:
After listening to this song, write a BCR in which you address the following items:
1) Who is the speaker of this work?
2) To whom (or what) is this work addressed (a.k.a. "who is the speaker talking to?")
3) What, exactly, is going on in this particular work?
4) What is the tone of this work?
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
Tonight's Homework:
Student poetry portfolios are due Monday, November 22 (B-Day Classes) and Tuesday, November 23 (A-Day Classes).
A digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines is available online.
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