1. ONLY 5 weeks of school left

2. Announcements Tutoring Schedule
Monday 3:30 – 4:30
Thursday 3:30 – 4:30
Friday 3:30 – 4
The last day to turn in missing or “resubmit” was last Friday.
Your Poetry Portfolio and a Final Essay will be the only opportunities you have to bring up any NP’s.
Need Volunteers to help put School Writing Book together.
Tuesday 3:30 – 4
Extra Credit

3. Agenda
Objective: To create 5 – 6 examples of the figurative language we have learned about:
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Imagery (sensory details)
DO NOW: (10 min) Reread and Edit/Type/Finish Poem #2
COLLABORATIVE: (30 min) Create Digital Copy of Brochure
DIRECT: (30 min) Alliteration & Spoken Word
INDEPENDENT: (30 min) Poem #3
Closing: save your work onto your desktop.

4. alliteration The repetition of sounds in words or phrases.
(Need Worksheet)
PETER PIPER picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, then how many picked peppers did peter piper pick.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

5. “Hey, I really felt that too… “
11 – 12 lines
5 – 6 examples of figurative language
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Imagery
Alliteration
Be creative about the way you use punctuation, spacing, spelling & most importantly, TELL STORIES.
Write something that is meant to be heard, not read

6. Brochure brilliance 1 computer per group
While one person is typing their panel, the rest are working on their poems.
Open WORD.
Click: NEW
TEMPLATE > BROCHURE
Select one that says TRIFOLD
Click DOWNLOAD

7. Wednesday Direct Station: (Poem 1,2 or 3) Finishing or Typing Poetry
All 3 Poems are done today! DUE THURS
- If poem is not edited today, you need to find someone to edit it for you before you turn it in.
COMPLETED Brochure is DUE THURS
- 30 min in class on Thurs to
Direct Station: (Poem 1,2 or 3) Finishing or Typing Poetry
Independent: (Brochure) Researching or Typing up Research
Collaborative: (Editing Poetry) Work with a partner to edit a partner’s poetry ( see SLIDE 8)

8. DO NOW: Editing poetry ELBOW PARTNER: Read over your partners’ work.
Highlight misspelled words
(don’t change them.. they might want it that way)
Underline or circle comparisons that don’t make sense.
Leave comments at the bottom or side of the paper.
What did you like?
What did you connect with?
Is the poem complete? Is it long enough?
Improve your choice of words?
Could your verbs and adjectives be STRONGER?
Improve Figurative Language:
Change cliché or cheesy comparisons?

9. Reyanna Vance
English 10 P. 4
Ms. Teacher
May 16th, 2012
Poem 1: “My Poem”
This is a Poem
I like this Poem
I wrote this Poem
It is a Poem
Poem Poem
From Poem to Poem
Poems are nice
Poems have lice
Edited by Ms. Madruga