Theme for the Year: CONNECTIONS
As you leave my classroom,
be sure to thank someone
for helping us have a good English class.
Homework Assignment
1. Write a poem in the form of a recipe. Be sure that it has something to do with the themes of "goodbye", "thank you", "learning", or other themes related to graduation.
Please post this and all future poems to Google Docs
and share with me.
Title them like this "Recipe poem: Annie".
2. On Google Docs, write three careful and detailed comments about your partners’ first body paragraphs. Give one specificcompliment and two specific suggestions.
Today's Lesson Objective
Today, I hope you will come to a clear understanding of how to use assonance and asyndeton to enhance your writing.
Also, I hope you will come to a clearer understanding of some of the poems in the Poetry Madness Tournament.
Finally, I hope you will come to a better understanding of The Tempest.
The Steps of the Lesson
1. A look at your paragraphs
2. Poem assignment
3. Review: assonance and asyndeton
3. Poetry Madness
4. The Tempest
