1. Today, you need… Notebook, open to reading journal Writing utensil
Poetry packet
While I’m stamping homework, discuss: What’d you write about in your journals?

2. From the Question Box

3. Cell Phone Clarification
If you want to use your phone for something, ask me first, please.
No phones in class unless I explicitly say otherwise.
One exception: listening to music during work time.
I will let you know when this is.

4. Questions for “Ode” excerpt
Pick one, and discuss:
Text-Based Questions
What does Wordsworth appear to be praising?
What’s the rhyme scheme? How do you feel about it?
How can you describe the meter? How do you feel about it?
What message is communicated to the reader?
Critical Literary Theory
Look at this text through an eco-critical lens; what are you able to take larger notice of?

5. You have another ode! Pablo Neruda Read it in your tables.
How do you know this is an ode?
Besides the title. 
Why does the structure matter?

6. Questions for the Haiku
Pick one, and discuss:
Text-Based Questions
What did you notice about the form of the haiku?
Do you see a common idea (motif) running through all of the haiku? If so, what is it? Why is it important?
What message is communicated to the reader?
Critical Literary Theory
Look at this text through a eco-critical lens; what are you able to take larger notice of?

7. HAIKU MADNESS Traditional: In the United States
5-7-5 based on Japanese “on” (basically a phoneme)
In the United States
We count in syllables
Syllables DO NOT equal “on”
Soooo, who cares how many syllables there are?

8. HAIKU MADNESS
The point of a haiku is to convey a lot of meaning in very few words.
If you want to write your own haiku, you can adhere to the structure or not.
Whatever.

9. Making Text Connections
Choose any poem to discuss (that we’ve read).
(Suggestions: “The Promise of Spring” and “So Much Happiness”)
What figurative comparisons do you see? What are their purposes?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
(Onomatopoeia)
How does each figurative comparison help you make meaning?

10. Homework: Read and annotate:
“I Am Offering This Poem” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
“Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
Write:
Two reading journal entries