We will be reading and studying poetry this month. Students will read and study Robert Frost's "The Runaway," "The Pasture," and "A Minor Bird" (on pages 697-699), Donald Hall's "Names of Horses" on page 703 and Carl Sandburg's "Arithmetic" on page 714.
Students will be given the definition or examples and must know the meaning of these words:
stanza, couplet, sensory language, onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme, elegy, free verse, interjections, personification, and figures of speech.
Know poets and their poems. You need to study them at home.
Students are making a poem collection due February 28, 2012. So far the assigned poems are:
a color poem
three haiku
life metaphor poem
concrete or shape poem
Text located at http://my.hrw.com
Students in third and fourth period have been given their username and password.
Ideas for book project due March 19: re-design the cover and explain your new cover to the class, tell about the author's life, research something mentioned in the book and report to the class about it, act out a scene with a class member who has read the same book, re-write the ending, draw a map of the setting of your book, write a script of a scene from your book and have class members read it aloud, bring an object from the book and explain how it relates to the plot, draw or paint a scene from the book, make a mosaic about the book, write a poem about the book and read it to the class, make a wanted poster of a character in your book, make a pop-up book based on your novel, read a paragraph to the class and explain how it represents the author's style, compose a song about your book, make a time-line of events from the book. See me if you have another creative idea about how to present your book.