RIP Notes

Today in class we finished up our practice RIP notes over Shakespeare. Be sure to turn in what you have if you were absent. Then we went to the library to begin our research for our RIP notes on our American author. We'll continue working on this tomorrow as well.

RIP Notes and Databases

Today in class we began our research unit. We chose our American authors for the research and we worked through a practice RIP notes. Those notes are here. You get with a classmate to get those notes. We'll finish up this work tomorrow.

Quizzes and Poetry Portfolios

Today we quizzed over subject-verb agreement and our poetry unit. After our quizzes, we went to the computer lab to type out the five poems we produced over the two weeks of our unit. Your poetry portfolio should include the following five poems:

Invitation poem (from 4/4)

Acrostic poem (4/5)

Chain poem (4/6)

Haiku (4/8)

Found poem (4/13)

Guidance Counseling Presentations

Today in class we heard from our guidance counseling department about post-high school planning. Tomorrow we'll finish up our poetry unit with a quiz over subject-verb agreement, a quiz of over our literary/poetry terms and we'll type out the poems we've written over the past week.

Analysis and Found Poem

We started our class today with some practice with subject-verb agreement.

Then we analyzed some poetry for the literary terms we took notes on last week using this as a guide. The poems can be found here. You will be expected to be able to do something similar on Friday's quiz.

Finally, we finished the day with our last poetry writing assignment. A found poem uses an existing text to provide the language of the poetry. The assignment sheet is here. You can use this copy of Charlie Sheen's recent interview as your text from which to base your poem.

Poetry Stations and Questions

Today's class was run by our practicum teacher, Ms. Lorts. Don't worry about making up her activities. At the end of the class, we answered a few questions concerning the poem we read to the class yesterday. This should be made up.

Poetry Performances

Today in class we read a couple of poems and watched their performances. Then we took some time to some poems individually and then read a poem to the class. If you were absent yesterday, you cannot (and do not need to) make this up. We also finished teaching each other our literary terms, so, if you were absent, be sure to get these notes from a classmate.