Hello Everyone
I hope this post finds you all safe and healthy. This is the roadmap for this week…
We will have a class meet/greet on Tuesday…this way we can all touch base with each other…
A Block: Literary and Composition 10: Please join the conversation at 9:30 am and we will end approx 10:00am.
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*No Red Ink: Commas for Clarity and Formatting
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*Poetry
This lesson is about learning rhythm and scansion. It is usually a harder topic to learn. It is regarding how to learn iambic pentameter or trochaic tetrameter for example.
“Casey at the Bat”: please read the poem on the first link. After you read the poem, you can watch the two attached cartoons below. After, you can work on the questions attached to the poem on the first link. The second link is an additional resource.
casey-at-the-bat-with-rhythm-and-scansion
*Please read through the following three poems. After you have read all three, please complete an “Analyzing Poetry” for one of the poems…please post this poem analysis on Teams.
“Oh Captain My Captain” by Walt Whitman
o-captain-my-captain-by-walt-whitman
“I Too Sing America” by Langston Hughes
i-too-sing-america-by-langston-hughes
“Art Reflecting Life” by Thomas King
art-reflecting-life-by-thomas-king
Which poem did you like the best…and why?
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Looking Forward To This Week and Next: you will be creating Inspiration Poems: You will be posting this onto Teams (tentative due date: Friday May 1st….you can choose any program, software video tools that you think best will work for you….This is an assignment that will be ongoing over BOTH this week and next…so please don’t stress that there may seem to be a lot posted this week…we can also talk about this on Tuesday when we meet:)
writing-poetry-grade-10-assignment-rubric
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Friday Writes: Please continue with our Friday writes. Please try to write a narrative (story) and remember that your Friday write should be about a page in length.
- The pursuit of freedom involves change.
- The important things in life endure over time.