1. August 31st, 2015
AC Language Arts
Brown

2. Focus Standard
ELAGSE8L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Write today’s date.
Copy the standard.
Circle the verb and underline the nouns.

3. What is poetry? Explain your answer.
Opening- Quick Write
Read the following topic.
Answer the question in your LA Journal.
Write for five minutes.
You must write the whole time.
What is poetry? Explain your answer.

4. A Example

5. Continuation

6. Task- Build Your Own Vocabulary List
Form- stanza, free verse, lyrical
Sound- rhyme, rhyme scheme, alliteration, assonance, rhythm, meter, internal rhyme
Imagery- simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, understatement, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, idiom
Types- sonnet, haiku, limerick, narrative, elegy, ode
Level One- K.I.M. Chart- see teacher. Level Two- Create Vocabulary Flow Chart showing relationships between words and meanings. Level Three- Create a study guide for the words you need to know- along with one of the following: memory cues, an explained simile, or examples.

7. Vocabulary Flow Chart
Vocabulary flow chart- poetry should go in the middle. Chart should have the following:
All the words
Define only the words you do not know.
Give examples of words you do not know.

8. Closing
Closing-
Share some of the words you did not know and how you clarified their meaning.