English 9 April 28-May 2

English 9

April 28-May 2

 

Monday

Open: practice alliteration and imagery

Collect essays

Alien Poetry

p.534-543 poems.

Groups freeze frame to interpret.

 

Tuesday

Open: practice personification

Poetry and History

p.556-576

Introduce Reader’s Theatre. Students will find 6 poems they really connect with the following themes/subjects: History, Catalog poem, Imagination, Miracles, Just for Fun, Nature, Anything. They should choose authors from the list given them, or get special permission. They will dress in character. To begin next block, May 8.

Homework: begin preparing for reader’s theatre. Review poems and authors.

 

Block

Open: practice metaphor

Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss

Groups to put together poems.

Clips of Cat in the Hat and Grinch.

Introduce Poetry assignment—Poetry book due May 12

Begin writing.

Homework: Reader’s Theatre and Book writing

 

Friday

Open: practice alliteration and similes

Hope is the thing with feathers,

Ain’t I a woman

Harlem

In computer lab to find poems and begin writing.

Homework: Reader’s Theatre and Poetry writing. Pg. 596 questions due Monday