Good Morning!

Yesterday we started the poem “Casey at the Bat” and watched the two cartoons attached to this poem.

-Today, we will open the document “Casey at the Bat with Meter and Scansion”.  We will go through this worksheet –and I will explain rhythm and meter.

“Rhythm and Meter“: This is an additional sheet to go through how to figure out iambic pentameter for example.

-Love Poems:  “My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose”  we will read this aloud.  We will then brainstorm what makes a ‘love poem’.  We will generate a class definition of a love poem.

-Love Poem internet search:  find a famous love poem. Copy and paste to a ‘doc’.  How does this poem fit in to our definition of a love poem? Analysis of our love poem…