Monday - Review Vocabulary and assign pictures; Discuss Tuesdays with Morrie and quiz dates; Begin Poetry Unit with Powerpoint presentation and Cloze notes
HW - Finish Poetry PPT and Cloze notes (PPT is on 9th Resources page)
Tuesday - Vocabulary pictures; Pass out poetry packet; Read Langston Hughes "Dream Deferred" Clip of a reading; CNN clip about Ferguson
Wednesday - Quiz - Poetry Terms; Take Lexile Standards Test
Thursday - Quiz - Tuesdays with Morrie (read through the second Tuesday); Vocabulary Exercises - Synonyms and Antonyms; Discuss poetic forms with examples - Handout "The Process of Analyzing Poetry"
HW - Finish all four sections of "Analyzing Poetry" Handout
Friday - Review Limericks; Analyze "Incident in a Rose Garden"
HW - Finish Poetry PPT and Cloze notes (PPT is on 9th Resources page)
Tuesday - Vocabulary pictures; Pass out poetry packet; Read Langston Hughes "Dream Deferred" Clip of a reading; CNN clip about Ferguson
Wednesday - Quiz - Poetry Terms; Take Lexile Standards Test
Thursday - Quiz - Tuesdays with Morrie (read through the second Tuesday); Vocabulary Exercises - Synonyms and Antonyms; Discuss poetic forms with examples - Handout "The Process of Analyzing Poetry"
HW - Finish all four sections of "Analyzing Poetry" Handout
Friday - Review Limericks; Analyze "Incident in a Rose Garden"