Language Arts: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 Handouts: * None Homework: * Save your haiku and limerick to a flash drive as Word docs Then save your haiku and limerick to the Chrome drive * Poem Project—Planning Sheet due this Friday * Poem Project, poem and illustration, due Feb. 22, BOC Assignments due: * Limerick poem

Lesson Goal: Students will learn the distinctive features of limerick poetry. Outcomes: Be able to . . . Learn the distinctive features of limerick poetry. Analyze students’ limericks to determine whether they meet the prescribed format. Present your limerick to the class this week. Demonstrate your ability as a supportive, encouraging audience.

Starter #1 Yesterday we learned that a limerick is a humorous five-line poem that always follows this pattern: * Three long lines that rhyme (lines 1, 2, and 5) * Two short lines that rhyme (lines 3 and 4) * It also follows a strict pattern of beats. Here’s the formula. . . . Beats Pattern Rhyme Scheme Line 1: da DUM da da DUM da da DUM (3 DUMS) A Line 2: da DUM da da DUM da da DUM (3 DUMS) A Line 3: da DUM da da DUM (2 DUMS) B Line 4: da DUM da da DUM (2 DUMS) B Line 5: da DUM da da DUM da da DUM (3 DUMS) A

Starter #3 Then we examined these examples of limericks. . . . There once was a fellow named Tim Whose dad never taught him to swim. He fell off a dock And sunk like a rock And that was the end of him.   There was an old man from Peru who dreamed he was eating his shoe. He awoke in the night with a terrible fright And found out that it was quite true.

Starter #4 Let’s exchange limericks Starter #4 Let’s exchange limericks. In the space to the right of the examples, number from 1 to 10 vertically (straight down). Then write “yes” or “no” for each of the following questions: 1. Does it have five lines? 2. Are lines 1, 2, and 5 longer and about the same length? 3. Are lines 3 and 4 shorter and about the same length? 4. Is the rhyme scheme AABBA? 5. When you read it aloud, does it sound like it has the beats pattern that’s on the handout? 6. Is the limerick humorous? 7. Are all the words spelled correctly? 8. Does it have some punctuation? 9. Did the author include a rough draft? 10. Does the rough draft reveal that effort was put into this? That is, is there evidence of editing and re-writing?  Count up all the “Yes” answers. Write that number over /10.