Good Afternoon,
-We will be working on Spoken word: we will look at a few samples of Rants…
Warm up spoken word free write activity: Practice writing with imagery that includes all five senses. Students describe an abstract or intangible entity using all senses: what do they look, sound, smell, taste and feel like?
Examples: Choose 2 of the following examples and write for five minutes each using imagery/sensory language.
a. homesickness
b. grief
c. love
d. joy
e. emptiness
f. time
g. envy
Good Afternoon,
*You can organize how you use your time. You can work on either of our two ongoing assignments:
a) Inspiration Poem
b) Spoken Word
Good Afternoon,
*No Red Ink: Pronoun Case
*You can organize how you use your time. You can work on either of our two ongoing assignments:
a) Inspiration Poem
b) Spoken Word
Good Afternoon,
*Just a heads up…spoken word finals are on Thursday December 4th. Usually class finalists need to be chosen several days before this date. If you are really ambitious you can start to give this some thought…we will be starting this week…
-spoken word criteria
poetry-slam-and-performing-poetry
spoken-word-rant-or-this-i-believe-worksheet
Sarah Key
“Jellyfish”
“Hands”
“When Love Arrives”
“Somewhere in America”
Taylor Mali “What do teachers make?”
Martin Luther King
-We will be working on Spoken word: we will look at a few samples of Rants…
Warm up spoken word free write activity: Practice writing with imagery that includes all five senses. Students describe an abstract or intangible entity using all senses: what do they look, sound, smell, taste and feel like?
Examples: Choose 2 of the following examples and write for five minutes each using imagery/sensory language.
a. homesickness
b. grief
c. love
d. joy
e. emptiness
f. time
g. envy
Good Afternoon,
Friday Writes:
*time to work on Inspiration Poems
Good Afternoon,
*No Red Ink: Phrases and Dependent Clauses.
Good Afternoon,
*Today we will be starting class with your poetry quiz.
*Coming back to our poems from last week: debrief
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
“If” by Rudyard Kipling
“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
*Venn Diagram: “If” and “The Road Not Taken”
writing-poetry-grade-10-assignment-rubric
The Road Not Taken analysis- ENG10
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
Looking Forward: you will be creating Inspiration Poems: You will be presenting/showing these to the class….you can choose any program, software video tools that you think best will work for you….
You will have class time to work on this assignment.
Friday Writes: We will be doing a Friday write. Remember, you should be saving these into a Friday Writes Folder.
Brainstorm: What have we discussed in class that would make a strong composition?
Student samples from past provincial exams
https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/exemplars/en_oc/en12-comp-sp.pdf
*Friday Writes Topics for this week:
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
Looking Forward To Next Week: you will be creating Inspiration Poems: You will be presenting/showing these to the class….you can choose any program, software video tools that you think best will work for you….
You will have class time to work on this assignment.
Good Afternoon,
We have been working in groups analyzing poems…they should be complete for today…
You will now find a way to “Teach” your poem to the class. Some options: sway, powerpoint, create a video??
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
“If” by Rudyard Kipling
“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
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
Looking Forward To Next Week: you will be creating Inspiration Poems: You will be presenting/showing these to the class….you can choose any program, software video tools that you think best will work for you….
You will have class time to work on this assignment.
