1. Spring Week 1 English I
Mrs. Buikema
2014

2. Bellwork January 6, 2014 Welcome Back!! Happy 2014!!
In your writer’s notebook, write a paragraph reflecting on:
Winter break,
Last year’s highlights, or
Your hopes and goals for this year

3. Classroom Resolutions
Put phone away.
Stay quiet and listen when other classmates are sharing.
Keep being awesome.

4. Missing assignment sheet
If you don’t turn in your work, you will turn in one of these sheets.
Late Work Penalties
One day late: minus 20
Two days late: minus 30
Three or more days late: minus 50

5. What are we going to do today?
Discuss the EOC
Define literary terms.

6. THE EOC End of Course Exam March 31, 2014
Reading comprehension, punctuation, CAPE short answer questions, expository essay

7. Literary terms
You will rotate around five stations. Keep these literary terms because they will be for a grade.

8. Exit Ticket
When you are finished with your literary terms, pick up a sticky note. Write your name and a seven word definition of “poetry.” Stick it on the white board.

9. Bellwork January 7, 2014
Write a poem about a poem. See page 193 of SpringBoard Book for template.

10. What are we going to do today?
Analyze similes and metaphors
"Identity" p. 217 of SB
"Ode to Socks" p. 222 SB

11. “Identity” Julio Noboa Polanco
First impression
Connotations of “flowers” and “weeds”
Juxtaposition of verbs
Repeated words/phrases?
Similes/Metaphors

12. “Ode to My Socks” Pablo Neruda
“Ode”: lyric poem expressing feelings or thoughts of a speaker, often celebrating a person, event, or thing
Find the similes, extended metaphors
Write your own ode!
At least five lines

13. Bellwork January 8, 2014
Write a couplet using “big” and “wig”

14. What are we going to do today?
Begin our Poetry Contract
Worth TWO MAJOR GRADES!!!!
Analyze personification
“Wandered Lonely as a Cloud“

15. Bellwork January 9, 2014
Write one line containing alliteration using the first letter of your first name.

16. What are we going to do today?
Discuss the poetic terms you find in these poems:
“Scars” SB p 239
“Hanging Fire” SB p 220
Answer a CAPE question comparing the two works.
Continue working on poetry contracts

17. CAPE question
How do the moods in the poems “Hanging Fire” and “Scars” compare or contrast?

18. Bellwork January 10, 2014
Take a sticky note and stick on the board: what are some of your favorite poems or poets? If you don’t have one, which of the poems we have read so far do you like best?

19. GWENDOLYN BROOKS

20. What are we going to do today?
Learn TP-CASTT
Continue working on poetry contract

21. Catch up
Have you finished
Vocabulary terms
CAPE question