12/19

Poetry "books" finished in class today.  I can't wait to share tomorrow!
HW: READ-LOG-POST IT
150 minutes due Monday after break.

12/18

Today we spent time searching for poems after a quick overview of how to navigate an anthology.

Ten poems should be selected and copied over by the end of the block on Wednesday.

See yesterday's post for links.

HW: Read, log, post it

150 minutes due after break.

Monday 12/17

Today we begin our quest for 7 of our favorite poems.  We will head to the library for the first part of the adventure, then will continue the process throughout the week.  Wednesday will be a blocked period and hopefully students will have all poems found and copied over by the end of the block on Wednesday.

Poets students may like:

Sandra Cisneros
Anne Sexton
Gary Soto
Langston Hughes
William Stafford
Seamus Heaney
Theodore Roethke
Robert Frost
Naomi Shihab Nye
Billy Collins
Rita Dove
Gwendolyn Brooks
Lucille Clifton
Nikki Giovani

Links to Poetry sites:

Academy of American Poets

Poetry 180--A Poem a Day for American High Schools

Find a poet at poetryfoundation.org

Barteby: Modern American Poetry

List from Mr. Nellen: Poets on poetry

Note--Stay away from .com poetry sites as anyone can post a poem.  The poems you select need to be ones the have been published in a forum other than just online.  

Expand your horizons. Read poems that challenge your ideas about what you like and don't like in poetry.

Friday 12/14

Today after the 10 minute read we watched two poetry performances and then read and discussed The poem "Saying Things" by M. Krysl.
HW; 150 minutes due Monday.

12/13

Today students were given a packet of poems about poetry. The instructions were to read each poem in the packet at least twice, underline the best line in the poem. Explain what you like about it in the margin then write 3-5 sentences explaining what the poem means to you. Repeat this for each of the 4 poems.Then consider and reflect on the questions below.  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?

HW: Rewrites due tomorrow 150 minutes due Monday.

Wednesday 12/12

Today we read and our essays were returned. I conferences with each student about rewrites and we added to our editing considerations page. Students who have to redo must resubmit by Friday.

Tuesday 12/11

We read for 10 minutes to start class off then Maggie presented top 5 lists of books. I collected logs from 12/3 to 12/10 and instructed students to date new logs 12/10-12/17.
  HW: 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.

Absence responsibility:
Turn in RL from 12/3-12/10