Love Poetry

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of love poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.

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Works Studied in Today's Class:

"Love Like" by Shihan
"Woman" by Nikki Giovanni
"Moon Rondeau" by Carl Sandburg
"Simile" by N. Scott Momaday
"Love Without Love" by Luis Lloréns Torres
"The Taxi" by Amy Lowell"Tonight I Can Write"by Pablo Neruda

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Tonight's Homework:

Continue working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).

Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines

Black History Month Poems

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of poems by black authors in order to commemorate the start of Black History Month while reviewing target HSA indicators and preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.

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Works Studied in Today's Class:

"Changes" by Tupac Shakur
"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
"Enslaved" by Claude McKay
"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" by Langston Hughes

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Tonight's Homework:

Continue working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).

Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines

Structured Poems

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of structured poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.

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Works Studied in Today's Class:

Poetry Portfolio Guidelines

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Family Poems

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of family poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.

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Works Studied in Today's Class:

"Knock Knock" by Daniel Beaty
"Hey Mama" by Kanye West
"The Dreaded Spoon" by Bruce Hornsby
"Piano" by D.H. Lawrence
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath

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Free Verse Persona Poetry

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of free verse poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:

"Stan" by Eminem
"Send Somebody" by Colin Hay
"Free Fallin" by Tom Petty (performed by John Mayer)
"O What Is That Sound" by W.H. Auden
"The Cap and Bells" by William Butler Yeats

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