Week 19 Semester 2 Mrs. Barnett English 1
Bellwork #1 [ Punctuation (Title), Quotation Marks, Hyphen, Comma (Other) In an essay entitled Why We Still Can’t Wait Coretta Scott King wrote If the alternative to full employment is simply to wait to tolerate in silence the shattered dreams of jobless youth and the broken hearts of laid off men then my choice is clear.
Bellwork #2 Quotation Marks, Comma (Other) George Bernard Shaw once said If you cannot get rid of the family skeletons you may as well make them dance.
Bellwork #3 Capitalization, Sentence Fragment, Comma (Other) If ice did not float. (this is called a hypothetical question) Tons of it at both the north pole and the south pole would sink, covering the earth with water.
Poetry Unit - Introduction Do poetry vocabulary (p. 616-619) (see next slide for vocabulary list) Do “your turn” activity on p. 619 and discuss Read/discuss reading focus p. 622-623 and do “your turn” activity p. 623 Read “In just”- p. 632 and discuss question #12 p. 633 Do Writing Focus p. 633
Poetry Vocabulary Speaker Lyric poem Free verse Haiku Sonnet Direct Metaphor Implied Metaphor Personification Rhyme End Rhymes Rhyme scheme Internal Rhyme Approximate Rhyme Rhythm Meter and all parts of meter Onomatopoeia Alliteration Assonance Speaker Lyric poem Free verse Haiku Sonnet Catalog poem Ballad Image Sensory details Figurative language Simile Metaphor
Poetry Unit Read literary, reading, and writing focus p. 634 Read haiku p. 636 Answer questions #1, 2, 4, 7 p. 637 Do Writing Focus p. 637 (2 original haiku with appropriate pictures) Read "Daily" p. 650 and discuss Do questions #10, 11, 13 p. 651 Do Writing Focus p. 651 (original catalog poem)
Poetry Unit Read “Fog" and “Fire and Ice" p. 661-662 and discuss Answer questions #1, 2, 7-10 p. 663 Do writing focus p. 663 Read “Women" p. 681 and “The Courage That My Mother Had" p. 691 Compare/contrast poems and discuss Do questions #2, 4, 6, 7 p. 682 and writing focus p. 693
Pre-write for R&J What do you already know about Romeo and Juliet? What would you like to know about it?
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Read "An Intro. to Romeo and Juliet" p. 797 Read “William Shakespeare's life…" p. 798-799 Read “Shakespeare and his theatre” p. 800-801 Discuss and take notes Read “reading Shakespeare aloud" p. 802-803 Discuss play’s characters p. 805 Distribute Act I study guide and begin working on it as we read Begin reading play: prologue and act I, scene 1 p. 807-817