A Touch of Frost

Today we continued our look at journey poems with Frost's, "The Road Not Taken" (p. 724).

"The Seven Ages of Man"

Today we just scratched the surface of Shakespeare's "The Seven Ages of Man," completing the chart explained at the bottom of page 721.

More Meter

Today we had a bit of fun while continuing of meter practice. Tomorrow: Shakespeare and Frost!

I'm Back!

Today I returned from my three-day absence. Mr. Raymer wrapped up the work with poetry done in my absence, collecting the questions from page 712. After that, we began a look at poetic meter, which we will continue on Monday.

Final Poetry Project Work Days

Thursday and Friday were both work days for the poetry project. Yesterday, I checked off the poetry analysis and students started on posters. Posters should be ready to present on Monday at the beginning of class.

Analysis Time

Students had the entire period to work on the analysis of their chosen poems. They should complete the six-step analysis, including the paragraph, for homework tonight if they did not do so in class.

Poem Projects

Today students had some time to finish up the poetry questions and then partners had time to begin the more detailed poetry analysis that is part of the poem project I introduced today.

Let's see; where were we?

Today we continued our study of poetry. Students read the three poems on pages 686 through 689 of the textbook with their partners and did questions 1-3 and 5-8 after the poems. Students who didn't get through at least #5 should do so for homework.

Poetry Paragraph #2

Today I checked off the homework and students had time to write a paragraph on one of the three poems we have studied so far this week. The paragraphs were similar to that written for "We Real Cool" last week.

"Grape Sherbet"

Today we added an analysis of the poem "Grape Sherbet" to our Says/Means /Matters chart and discussed the poem at some length. Students then had about 20 minutes to start on questions 1-8 on page 682 in the text (#9 is extra credit). They should finish these for homework.

More Poetry

Today we continued with the poetry unit, having a look at "I Asked My Mother to Sing" in the textbook, repeating the Says/Means/Matters activity from yesterday, only with the second poem.

Friday & Monday

Friday we wrapped up the poetry analysis that we'd been working on all week: students wrote their analytical paragraphs and handed in the whole packet of analysis.

Monday we spent the day working on the first poem in unit
7 of the textbook, Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."

More Poetry Intro

Today we finished up the poetry intro presentation and started the final step in the poetry analysis: the analytical paragraph. We will continue these tomorrow.

Poetry Intro Continued

Today we continued our introduction to poetry.

Navigator

We were in the lab today.