Due Monday, March 4, 2012

Please share your Poetry Presentation with me. Email it as an attachment (it must be compatible with my work desktop) or email me the link. Also let me know if you would like to volunteer to go first on Monday.

Print out your Poetry Checklist. Be ready to turn it in at the beginning of class.

Due Thursday, February 28, 2013

Finish your Poetry Checklist. I will look over them on Thursday.

Your Poetry Presentations are due Monday (emailed to me before 8am). The rubric and example are posted on Veracross.

Work on your literature circle. It should be 500 words on style, setting, a theme, or a character. Due March 11th.

Due Thursday, February 21, 2013

Work on your poem. It is due by the end of class tomorrow.

Finish reading The House on Mango Street by Monday.

Revise your poetry checklist based on the comments I will leave you.

Due Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Socratic Seminar questions for The House on Mango Street, one analysis, one evaluation, and one creation.  Please post your question as a comment to the posts in the analysis section. Some topics to think about: gender, sexuality, community, isolation, home, maturity, and dreams.

Finish filling out your poetry checklist for syntax and meter:

Foot type	Style	Stress pattern	Syllable count
Iamb	Iambic	Unstressed + Stressed	Two
Trochee	Trochaic	Stressed + Unstressed	Two
Spondee	Spondaic	Stressed + Stressed	Two
Anapest	Anapestic	Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed	Three
Dactyl	Dactylic	Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed	Three
Amphibrach	Amphibrachic	Unstressed + Stressed + Unstressed	Three
Pyrrhic	Pyrrhic	Unstressed + Unstressed	Two

There will be a quiz where you will have to identify different poetic elements, such as:

• figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification)
• rhyme
• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• refrain
• parallelism

Start revising one of your poems. The final draft for the poetry contest is due at the end of class on Thursday.

Due Monday, February 18, 2013

Have a rough draft of your imagery poem. A revised, final draft of one of your imagery poems is due Thursday, February 21st. It should include at least two poetic elements, which include:

• figurative language
• rhyme
• alliteration
• consonance
• assonance
• refrain
• parallelism

Read The House on Mango Street up to page 75, "Four Skinny Trees."

Fill out your poetry checklist for syntax and the poetic elements by Wednesday, February 20th.

There will be a quiz on poetic elements on Wednesday, February 20th.

Due Thursday, February 7, 2013

Your rough draft of your imagery poem should be shared with me as a google document. We will work on it in class on Thursday.

For after Chinese New Year Break:

Fill in the sections in your poetry checklist that have to do with rhyme and other sound elements. Also write about your poem's syntax. If I have made comments on your checklist, be sure to address them.

Read The House on Mango Street to page 75, "Four Skinny Trees."

Due Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Fill in Poetry Checklist for sound elements (assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme, and refrain). We will go over syntax on Wednesday.

Come up with one analysis, one evaluation, and one creation question for The House on Mango Street. We will have a Socratic Seminar on Wednesday.

Extra credit: Print out a copy of song lyrics and analyze it for sound elements and figurative language. Due by this Friday, February 8th.

Simile = blue squiggle underline
Metaphor = blue underline

Rhyme = circle
Refrain = box

Alliteration = underline first letter in red
Assonance = underline vowels in red
Consonance = underline consonants in red