LEAVE YOUR STUFF on your desk, And line up in alphabetical order so we can pick up our The Things They Carried books 

Warm Up, 9/10 (Per. 3) Write nothing in your journal for your warm up today. Get a copy of the SIFT reference sheet. Get together with your poem group and use the SIFT sheet to explicate the poem (15 minutes total). While you may keep and write on all materials given to you during the poetry portion of our unit, all students MUST write out their SIFTing in their journals. Once your group finishes the SIFT activity, decide who will Read the poem to the class (Do the poem justice! Read it with the appropriate emotions, all words pronounced correctly, etc.) Share the information that your group identified with each aspect of SIFT.

Warm up, 9/10 (per. 4 & 5) Take out your journal so that I can check that you have it, etc. In it, answer these questions: what are the components of a great oral reading of a poem? What does it mean to try to do the poem justice when you read it? Once you’re finished, Get together with your group from yesterday. Decide who will read the poem, and give them some support. Spend about 10 minutes working together to finish the poem explication that you started yesterday. Ensure that the work can be found in all group members’ journals. Decide who xcwill share what with the class.

Learning Targets I can recognize and identify a number of poetic devices in poems. I can employ the SIFT method in order to analyze a poem independently or with a partner. I can synthesize what I hear about eight different war poems in order to create a statement that embodies the emotional affects of war as told by poets.

Class work While your class mates share their information, you will Listen intently to each component. When they are finished, write 1-3 descriptive words that makes their poem unique. Do this in your journal/notebook.

Summative Activity You should have compiled a list of words to describe the poems that you just heard. At the end of class OR for homework, Synthesize what you heard about war through these various poems into one cohesive statement about the emotional effects of war. Be prepared to share this on Friday.