1. Today: Finals date correction: 2nd Q Final: Weds. 1/25
Tues. 1 /17 English 8
TODAY’S SLIDES WILL BE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE
Finals date correction: 2nd Q Final: Weds. 1/25
This week: quiz, commas, make-ups, finals prep
Tomorrow: collect, grade dodecahedrons
Today:
QUIZ: literary terms, mechanics
Assignments and make-ups workshop
Work on Cowboy poetry poster

2. QUIZ
Clear your desk
Quiet, do your own work; we’ll collect in :30 minutes, done or not
NEXT:
Handout: assignments and grades This is yours - keep it! - use to fix your grade
Make-up assignments and worksheets in the box by date
DONE? Finish Cowboy Poetry poster, fold in half, hand in
DONE? Workshop missing assignments

3. Today: (today’s slides are on the website)
English 8 Tues. 1 /17
QUIZ Tues.: literary terms, spelling and definitions
Today: (today’s slides are on the website)
Finish exercises When a Horse Hoof Hits the Ground
Make a poster
HW DUE Thursday: Finish all dodecahedrons 30 points
Past due: analysis, Acquainted With The Night, finish and hand in

4. SHOW ME YOUR COPY OF 15 LITERARY TERMS - quiz Tues
SHOW ME YOUR COPY OF 15 LITERARY TERMS - quiz Tues. on spelling and definitions;
Get out When A Horsehoof Hits the Ground, literary terms, exercises; review - get out 15 literary terms
NEXT:
WE MAKE A POSTER

5. Directions (don’t copy this onto your poster)
Study the poem, re-read it all
Choose three images; your favorite, your 2nd favorite, your 3rd favorite;
Make the poster around your favorite
Write this:
Imagery: (write definitiion beside it, Copy the stanza with your favorite image:
from Literary Terms sheet ) _________________________
_________________________
(Highlight the image word(s) in the stanza)
Poster Project: due in class Tues. 1/ Name _______________
Per ________
Date __________
Draw and color the most important detail of your favorite image. If a caption will help the viewer understand your picture, then, write a caption
(write this out like this) My choices: My second choice was _________________________________.
My third choice was ______________________.
My first choice was better because ______________ _______________________________________

6. 3rd per only
Quick Write:
½ page.
Head it and date it, title it : Acquainted with the night
Hand in at the end of the period.
If night is a symbol for something, what is it a symbol of?
If you could make a story about this speaker, what might the story be?
Why is he walking?
Why does he feel so bad?
Have you ever felt this way?

7. Responsive Writing: ½ page, 20 points, due this period Proper heading
4th per. only Tues 1/10
Two Young Poets
Taking my ball and go home
Sarah Kay, Love Letter
Responsive Writing: ½ page, 20 points, due this period
Proper heading
What I noticed,
what I liked,
what I disliked,
What was similar about the two poets,
What was different about them
a question

8. Notes:
Mon. 1/9
3rd finished adjectives, and got them into their notebooks; no acquainted with the night, no cowboy poetry, no binder check;
Seating isssus; change seating
4th completed adjectives and did cowboy poetry up through meter; binder check was completed;
Tues. 1/10
1st p. Complete adjectives; binder check, show cowboy poem, start worksheet;
3rd binder check, cowboy poetry; start worksheet; 4th show poetry slams: writing: what I noticed, what I liked, what I disliked, a question