1. Homeroom Reminders Open House next Thursday the 28th
Make sure I have a working phone number!
Do something helpful today

2. Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Warm-Up: Correctly punctuate and capitalize the following sentence. rhina espaillats poem bilingual/bilingue from her book where horizons go was written in kirksville missouri in 1998

3. With Corrections
Rhina Espaillat’s poem, “Bilingual/Bilingüe,” from her book, Where Horizons Go, was written in Kirksville, Missouri in 1998.

4. World Lit Agenda for Today
Summer Reading Check
Culture and Identity in Poetry Assignment:
Choose your poem
Annotate
Vocabulary
Speaker
Literary Elements
Theme
Unit Theme
Personal Response
TOTD

5. “Title of Poem” by John Q. Author
Vocabulary
Irvin (n): A dude who isn’t listening
Abby (n): Tall person
Ashley (n): Not tall person
Ms. Geller (n): Tired person
Carlos (n): Person who needs to do his work
Speaker: The speaker of the poem is Jose, a doctor who specializes in elbow diseases.
Literary Elements:
Simile: “Her eyes shine like the sun”
Metaphor: “Life is a rollercoaster”
Alliteration: “Pretty perfect puppies”
Theme: The theme of this poem is that we often find ourselves in conflict between our families and the outside world.
Unit Theme: This relates to the theme of “culture and identity” because the speaker in the poem is trying to resolve his cultural identity with his friends’ expectations.
Personal Response:
I thought this poem was….blah blah blah here is where you talk about YOUR OPINION of the poem.

6. American Lit Agenda for Today
Summer Reading Check
Finish and present “American Dream” poetry assignment
Presentation:
Title and author
What the poem was about
Personal response
“America” Shedorma
TOTD

7. “America” Shadorma
A shadorma is a traditional Spanish poetic form. Each stanza has five lines. The first line has three syllables, the second line has five syllables, the third line has three syllables, the fourth line has three syllables, the fifth line has seven syllables, and the last line has five syllables:
School is out
I am so sleepy
Five o’clock
Party time?
Sadly, no. Time for a nap
Friday, where are you?
Your task is to write a two-stanza shadorma about some aspect of American life and culture.

8. Ticket Out the Door One-sentence summarizer:
“The most important thing I have learned about poetry this week is…”