I checked you annotations while you read for 10 minutes. I noticed many people went through the motions but didn't really dig in and do the hard work they needed to for the second read so we spent time in class doing that. I asked students to remember how we listed the word associations we had with house, horse and hound from "Questions" yesterday. We discussed the fact that these words were important to the understanding of the poem and that we knew their definitions but the word associations lead us to a deeper understanding of the poem.
Then students were instructed to highlight metaphors and similes from their poems in 2 different colors and keep a legend (for example metaphors are yellow, similes are blue). Then students circled in pencil the words they felt were significant to the understanding of their poems and then began word associating on the page. the last 5 minutes were spent working with a partner.
HW: Read/Log/Post it Logs collected Monday be sure to tally minutes and pages
and continue "digging in" to those circled words.
