Friday, April 28

Objective: Students will create poems using interactive poetry websites.

Journal: FREE WRITE

Agenda: 1) Vocabulary Quiz #10

2) Finish your Titanic blog you started on Monday.  Ms. W will be coming around the room to write down your blog address so your blog can be graded.  If you used Googledocs to type your Titanic story, make sure to share the story with TeacherWinberg@gmail.com

3) Playing with Poetry Online: Use the following websites to create your own original poems.  Make sure to make a paper copy of each poem (write the poem down on a piece of paper) to get credit!

Website 1 : Create a haiku CLICK HERE

Website 2 : Fill in the blank poetry templates CLICK HERE

Website 3 : Magnetic Poetry CLICK HERE

Homework: Compose an original free verse poem (at least 20 lines long).

Thursday, April 28

Objective: Students will be able to explain how poets use their bodies and voices to enhance their poetry.

Do-Now: Vocabulary Practice: ostentatious, mundane, intuitive, frugal, evervating

Agenda: 1) Vocabulary Practice Quiz

2) Poetry Videos: We will be watching a series of TEN spoken word poetry videos.  As you watch each video, you will complete a reflection for the video on your worksheet.  Focus on how the poet uses his/her voice and body to deliver his/her poem more effectively and engage his/her audience.

Homework: Study for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz!

Wednesday, April 27

Objective: Students will be able to compose Japanese haikus and tankas following the correct format.

Do-Now: Vocabulary Practice: submissive, sagacity, rancorous, querulous, precocious

Agenda: 1) Note-taking: Haiku vs. Tanka

2) Class will read and discuss "Three Japanese Tankas" on pg. 490 and Haiku handout for participation credit.

3) Compose TWO tankas and THREE haikus following the correct format for each.  Remember, tankas are generally about love and haikus give an image from nature.

4) Poetry Reading: Choose a haiku or tanka you have written to read out loud to the class for participation credit.

Homework: Chart last FIVE vocabulary words: ostentatious, mundane, intuitive, frugal, enervating

Tuesday, April 26

Objective: Students will be able to find and label examples of figurative language in poetry.

Do-Now: Vocabulary Practice: wary, transient, surreptitious, superficial, subtle

Agenda: 1) Note-taking: Figurative Language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification


2) Figurative Language Worksheet: Read each poem and find examples of figurative language.  Copy each example onto the worksheet next to the type of figurative language it represents.

3) Exit Slip: Create your own example for each of the following: simile, metaphor, hyperbole

Homework: Chart next FIVE vocabulary words: submissive, sagacity, rancorous, querulous, precocious

Monday, April 25

Objective: Students will complete a series of blog posts pretending to be a person who died/survived aboard the Titanic or a person who died/survived the climb to Mt. Everest.

Journal: If you had been aboard the Titanic, would you have given up your seat on a lifeboat to save someone who you cared about?  Explain why or why not.  What would you have been willing to do in order to survive the ship's sinking?  What would you have done to help others?  Explain.

Agenda: 1) Introduce new SAT vocabulary words: wary, transient, surreptitious, superficial, subtle, submissive, sagacity, rancorous, querulous, precocious, ostentatious, mundane, intuitive, frugal, enervating

2) Survivor/Victim Blog: You will choose to be either a survivor or victim of the Titanic tragedy or a survivor/victim of the climbing of Mt. Everest.  You will create a blog on Blogspot.com which you will post on as the survivor/victim.  You will be required to write three posts about your trip aboard the Titanic using details from the “RMS: Titanic” story or your climb of Mt. Everest using details from “Into Thin Air."  Your blog posts should total 20-30 complete sentences and should be written to sound as realistic as possible.  When you are finished, e-mail Ms. Winberg a link to your blog @ TeacherWinberg@gmail.com.

Homework: Chart first FIVE vocabulary words: wary, transient, surreptitious, superficial, subtle

Friday, April 15

Objective: Students will find THREE similarities and THREE differences between an article and a film.

Journal: FREE WRITE

Agenda: 1) Vocabulary Quiz #9

2) Finish watching "Titanic" and filling out "Titanic vs. RMS Titanic" Worksheet

3) Watch Video Clip about the sinking of the Titanic

Homework: Spring Break Poetry Project: Find FIVE poems (you must either print them out or make a handwritten copy of each).  For each poem, you will be writing a 5-7 sentence reflection surrounding the following questions:

1) What is the poem about? 
2) What did you like about the poem? 
3) What did you dislike about the poem? 
4) What do you think the poem's message is? 
5) How can you relate the poem to your own life?

Wednesday, April 13

Objective: Students will be able to list FOUR more effects of decisions made by the climbers of Mt. Everest in “Into Thin Air.”  Students will be able to find TWO examples of situational irony in “Into Thin Air.”

Do-Now: Vocabulary Practice: crucial, speculate, traverse, jeopardize, tenuous

Agenda: 1) Class will read pp. 358 – 360 of “Into Thin Air” and complete Cause & Effect questions three, four, and five.

2) Students will finish reading “Into Thin Air” pp. 360 – 362 and complete Cause & Effect question six.

3) Exit Slip: Give TWO examples of situational irony which occurred in “Into Thin Air.”

Homework: Response & Analysis Pg. 364 # 3, 5, 6, 8, 9