SEE BELOW FOR CHECKLIST:
1. 12/6—LW
2. 12/10—LW
3. 12/11 In reflections section of RN create an entry with your top 5 five lists
of books in your life. Tell what has stuck with you about the book and
explain for each of the 5 titles you have provided.
4. 12/13 Do all
reflecting in your reader’s notebooks in the reflection section.
1. What is poetry?
2. Where do we find it?
3. What is your experience with poetry?
5. 1/2 Read
through your ten poems from your book again.
1. •Choose the poem that has the best imagery in your opinion.
2. •Highlight the words in the poem that create images
3. •In reflections on reading section explain which senses those
words speak to and how they work for you
6. 1/3 HW: Read,
log, post it –find figurative language in your IR book and write a longwrite
about it—ID the type of figurative language (simile, metaphor,
personification….) then comment on its effectiveness.
7. 1/7 HW: Read/log/post
it complete a long write that focuses on a literary device we have studied in
class (use the orange sheet to guide you).
8. 2/4 Today we worked on a long write. I stressed the importance of
going back to the words in the book to find out how the author was able to
create the reaction s/he did.
9. 2/4 HW:
Another long write!
1 2/7 LONGWRITE
2/13
Longwrite--writer's craft
Find a post-it wherein you reacted
strongly then go back to the text and try to figure out how the author was able
to elicit that response. Was it through plot? Imagery? figurative
language? Point out particular words or phrases that struck you from that
particular scene.
2/14
"LW" identify at least two new words you have run across today.
Provide the context in which you saw the word and provide a guess
definition for the word. If you found the word in your book--copy the
whole sentence that contains it, if you heard it in a conversation provide the
context in which it was used.
1 2/28 Today we
watched the poem performed by Shane Koyczan. We then wrote in our
reflections on reading section of Reader's notebooks for 3 minutes.
3/5 LW author’s
craft
3/7 LW author’s
craft
POST ITS are they all in there from
the books you have completed and the page on which you have put them labeled
with title of book and author?
