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1 BELL RINGER Sit wherever you’d like in the classroom and read silently!!

2 HAPPY MONDAY!! – 9.14.15 1.SSR 2.Bell Ringer: Vocabulary #1 Review 3.Poetry Kickoff - What is Poetry? Essential Question: How do we measure whether life is fair or not? Learning Objective: I can recognize poetry and explain how its structure affects its meaning.

3 VOCABULARY #1 REVIEW Take out the flashcards you created on Friday, and review the words with a partner. For the words you are having difficulty with, review those multiple times.

4 BELL RINGER: VOCABULARY #1 REVIEW Use each vocabulary word in a complete sentence. Only one word per sentence! Be sure that each sentence demonstrates what the word means. Example: I really need to deal with the heap of laundry on my bed that takes up so much space I can’t even sleep in it.

5 HAPPY TUESDAY!! – 9.15.15 1.Bell Ringer: Vocabulary #1 Review 2.Review Syllabus 3.SSR Essential Question: How do we measure whether life is fair or not? Learning Objective: I can recognize poetry and explain how its structure affects its meaning.

6 BELL RINGER Review your syllabus and/or old syllabus quiz in preparation for the retake of the syllabus quiz!

7 IT’S HUMP DAY!! – 9.16.15 1.Syllabus Quiz Retake 2.SSR Essential Question: How do we measure whether life is fair or not? Learning Objective: I can recognize poetry and explain how its structure affects its meaning.

8 BELL RINGER/VOCABULARY #1 REVIEW Look over your complete sentences and be sure that they demonstrate the definition of the vocabulary word included in each sentence!

9 HAPPY THURSDAY!! – 9.1715 1.Bell Ringer: Vocabulary #1 Review 2.Poetry Notes Essential Question: How do we measure whether life is fair or not? Learning Objective: I can recognize poetry and explain how its structure affects its meaning.

10 BELL RINGER: Vocabulary #1 Review Create analogies using the vocabulary terms. If you don’t know what an analogy is, look it up! Example Verse is to stanza, as sentence is to paragraph.

11 T.G.I.F.!! – 9.18.15 1.Bell Ringer: Vocabulary #1 Review 2.Poetry Notes Essential Question: Is life fair? How do we measure whether life is fair or not? Learning Objective: I can recognize poetry and explain how its structure affects its meaning.

12 Vocabulary 1.Poetry – written or spoken rhythm that expresses beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thought 2.Verse – a line in a poem 3.Heap – a great quantity or number; a pile 4.Form/Structure – type of poem or the shape the poem takes (e.g. rhyming, repetition, etc…)

13 Vocabulary 5. Analyze – to examine carefully to bring out the critical elements; give the idea of 6. Auger – a boring tool 7. Stanza – a group of lines in a poem that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces

14 Vocabulary 8. Headlong – without delay; hastily 9. Glistening – a sparkling shine 10. Speaker – person assumed to be speaking in the poem

15 What do you know about poetry? Write one phrase or statement about poetry that is no more than FIVE words. For example… Famous poets or poems Types of poetry What poetry is Your experience with poetry

16 BELL RINGER Sit wherever you’d like in the classroom and read silently!!

17 HAPPY TUESDAY! – 9.22.15 1.SSR 2.Poetry Notes Essential Question: How do we measure whether life is fair or not? Learning Objective: I can recognize poetry and explain how its structure affects its meaning.

18 What is poetry? Poetry – written or spoken rhythm that expresses beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thought  an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content.  It may use condensed or compressed form to convey emotion or ideas to the reader's or listener's mind or ear  To impact readers, poems frequently rely on imagery, word association, and the musical qualities of language. The interactive layering of all these devices, to generate meaning, is what marks poetry.

19 Form/Structu re Form/Structure – type of poem or the shape the poem takes (e.g. rhyming, repetition, etc…) **The way a poem is structured or formatted contributes to how and what the poem communicates.  Specific Topic  Length of lines  Rhyming or repetition patterns  Specific rules (e.g. 5-7-5, couplet, etc.)

20 Types of Poetry *Haiku*Narrative *Acrostic*Sonnet *Free/Blank Verse*Concrete *Limerick*Spoken Word *Ode*Ballad

21 Types of Poetry - Concrete

22 Types of Poetry - Limerick

23 Famous Poems and Poets “Where the Sidewalk Ends” – Shel Silverstein “The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss “The Raven” – Edgar Allan Poe “Phenomenal Woman”/ “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” – Maya Angelou “O Captain, My Captain” – Walt Whitman “Invictus” – William Ernest Henley “A Dream Deferred” – Langston Hughes

24 BELL RINGER Pick up a copy of Vocabulary #2 from the student table and make the necessary changes to your vocabulary list.

25 HAPPY THURSDAY! – 9.24.15 1.Bell Ringer: Vocabulary #2 Changes 2.Read “The Sun Goes Down on Summer” Essential Question: How do we measure whether life is fair or not? Learning Objective: I can recognize poetry and explain how its structure affects its meaning.

26 “The Sun Goes Down on Summer” by Steve Lawhead First Time: Read “The Sun Goes Down on Summer” silently by yourself. http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/poetry/summer.html Second Time: Read the poem again AND highlight/underline AT LEAST TWO verses that resonate with you or relate to you personally. Third Time: Listen while I read the poem and highlight/underline another verse that resonates with you.

27 T.G.I.F.! – 9.25.15 1.Read “The Sun Goes Down on Summer” 1.Pair Share 2.Group Wrap-Up 3.Reflection Essential Question: How do we measure whether life is fair or not? Learning Objective: I can recognize poetry and explain how its structure affects its meaning.

28 Pair Share and Group Wrap-Up Pair up with someone sitting next to you and do the following: Share the verses you highlighted/underlined with your partner. Explain WHY you marked them. Think about how the speaker of the poem is feeling and what he is trying to say.

29 Reflection What are one or two things you would like to improve upon this year? How does the theme of this poem relate to our unit theme, Life Is Not Fair?

30 BELL RINGER FAIRUNFAIR ParentPolice Officer Place the words below in the column where you believe they belong. Based on your classifications, what does it mean to be “fair” or “unfair”? ParentTeacher Referee FriendLawyer Judge Media Police Officer SiblingCoach

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