We will be having a Remembrance Day Assembly so classes will be a little shorter today. Please remember that the assembly is a formal assembly and we should act and behave accordingly.
*Reminder of the Poetry Unit Test next Wednesday November 15th, 2017
***If you did not hand in a paper copy of your essay on “The Metaphor” or are missing any assignment, you need to hand it in today…I will be doing report cards over the long weekend.
We will be looking at and choosing our novels for our Lit. Circles
After this, you can work on either your spoken word or you can start to look through and read your novel.
*You will have a poetry test in approximately a week…Wednesday November 15th looks like the date so please start preparing. Study the following: Poetry terms, name the device (line of poetry and you figure out what device), know how to analyze a poem…and know the poems you have looked at in class so far…
*Inspiration Poems: If you have not yet done so, please post your Inspiration Poem to your blog with the following tag:
NelsoninspirationpoemA
NelsoninspirationpoemC
NelsoninspirationpoemD
Just a heads up…spoken word finals are on Friday December 1st. Usually class finalists need to be chosen several days before this date.
-No Red Ink: we will be working on “commas”.
-Spoken word: yesterday, you worked on brainstorming for your topic for spoken word. Today, you can start to work on actually writing your spoken word….
*You will have a poetry test in approximately a week…Wednesday November 15th looks like the date so please start preparing. Study the following: Poetry terms, name the device (line of poetry and you figure out what device), know how to analyze a poem…and know the poems you have looked at in class so far…
*Inspiration Poems: If you have not yet done so, please post your Inspiration Poem to your blog with the following tag:
NelsoninspirationpoemA
NelsoninspirationpoemC
NelsoninspirationpoemD
Just a heads up…spoken word finals are on Friday December 1st. 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 next week…
-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
h. nature
i. home
j. gravity
If time, start to brainstorm topics for your own spoken word.
*You will have a poetry test in approximately a week…we can figure out the date…but I do want you to start preparing. Study the following: Poetry terms, name the device (line of poetry and you figure out what device), know how to analyze a poem…and know the poems you have looked at in class so far…
*Inspiration Poems: you will be presenting these on Monday. To make it go smoothly in class please post these to your Edublog. If it is too large a file, you may not be able to do this depending on what program you used. You can post to youtube and get a link for example (and then post link)….please make sure that you can present or have the appropriate dongle for the projector. Plan this out in advance!
Tag:
NelsoninspirationpoemA
NelsoninspirationpoemC
NelsoninspirationpoemD
Just a heads up…spoken word finals are on Friday December 1st. 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 next week…