TODAY'S HOMEWORK AND LESSON
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 careful and detailed essay map for Essay 11, the final essay of the year.
2. Write a poem in the form of a letter to Pine Point School. Begin with "Dear Pine Point". In your letter, tell who you are and what's on your mind on the night before you leave the school. Do you want advice? Do you want to ask the school some questions? Say thanks? Mention some memories? Apologize? Make suggestions?
2. Write a poem in the form of a letter to Pine Point School. Begin with "Dear Pine Point". In your letter, tell who you are and what's on your mind on the night before you leave the school. Do you want advice? Do you want to ask the school some questions? Say thanks? Mention some memories? Apologize? Make suggestions?
Sign your name at the end of the poem. (NOTE: The poem can be in "lines" like a traditional poem, or it can be in straight letter form. Aim for 100-150 words.)
Please post these and all future poems to Google Docs and share with me.
Title them like this "Letter poem: Jimmy".
Today's Lesson Objective
Today, I hope you will come to a clear understanding of how to use antithesis and appositives 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. ANTITHESIS AND APPOSITIVES
2. Poem assignment
3. Poetry Madness
4. The Tempest
