Five Sense or 8 line poem

1. Happy Happy Merry Merry
2. See you next year!
3. I am or Dear poem check in with blue partner and volunteer in class
4. Today: Five Sense Poem or 8 line poem
5. Due Friday:
· 4 typed poems
· Staple rubric to the poem you want me to grade
· Frost’s four poems and questions/answers

I am or Dear poem

1. I remember poem (green partner and volunteers)
2. Today, write an I am poem or Dear poem

I remember poem

1. Check in sensory detail words – 10 pts
2. Check in Nature poem – 10 pts
3. Show sample nature poem – published
4. I remember poem OR When I Was Young poem – samples
5. Homework: write the poem

Bonus Independent Reading

As a class, we are not going to get to The Scarlet Letter this trimester. If you read this book for your independent reading novel, you will receive bonus points. I have books at school. Do not go out and buy a book. Pick one up any time.

On the AP Test, 18th century American literature is usually on it.

Write poetry this week

1. Finish 4 Frost poems with your blue partner – due Friday
2. Week of writing poetry
· Nature poem – homework due tomorrow
· When I was Young/I remember
· I am or dear poem
· Five sense poem

Bonus Points

Write a 14 line sonnet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg

First quatrain - main theme, main metaphor

Second quatrain - theme and metaphor exteneded of complicated, often some imaginative example is given

Third quatrain - a twist or conflict often introduced by a "But"

Couplet - summarizes and leaves the reader with a new, concluding image

Sample modern day sonnets were published in the Calliope for examples

Poetry Analysis

1. Turn in “Auto Wreck” TPCASTT in basket
2. Complete Sound Devices packet with desk partner

3. Show sample iMovies