1. Welcome Back! Please get the following:
A Kipling handout from the purple table
Your binder…set up a journal for today 

2. 9/18 Journal
Do your parents or family members give you advice? Is it good advice or bad advice? Why or why not?

3. (write the definition from the video in your notes)
What is
Theme?
(write the definition from the video in your notes)

4. “If” by Rudyard Kipling
Read the poem
Annotate for theme…write in the margins what theme you are seeing develop over the course of the reading
Answer the questions on the back

5. 9/19 Please do the following:
Get your binder (set up journal for today)
Turn in AOW #2 in the class bin – staple the article to your response
Yesterday’s poem/short response should be complete and in the writing section of your binder.

6. 9/19 Journal
How can inspiration sustain you in a difficult time? Where do you find inspiration?

7. Performance Assessment booklet page 91
“Kipling and I”
By Jesus Colon
Read the excerpt from the poem.
Why do you think it means so much to the narrator?

8. A.C.E. (and C.E) this question:
(New sheet of paper in the writing section. Please write the prompt )
Why do you think the narrator burns the poem at the end of the story? What theme, or insight about life, is suggested by his final actions?
Something I have noticed in your ACE responses thus far:
Incorrect citations (make sure you are telling me WHO said it!)
Not using the words in the question to answer the question.
You are not writing a full essay right now. ONLY a short response…some are giving too much and need to scale back!

9. Respond to these questions using complete sentences: (page 94 in Performance Assessment)
What are the values set forth in the poem “If” that the writer Jesus Colon responds to?
Question 2
How are the themes of the poem and the memoir alike? Cite text evidence in your response.
Question 3
How does the poem “If” sustain Colon through his difficult time? Cite text evidence in your response.