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 the first body paragraph of Essay 11. Be sure to include an appositive as subject-verb split and a participle as a sentence opener.
2. Memorize the first 14 lines of "Ithaka".
3. OPTIONAL: 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.
2. Memorize the first 14 lines of "Ithaka".
3. OPTIONAL: 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".
Today's Lesson Objective
Today, I hope you will come to a clear understanding of how to use antithesis 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
2. Poem assignment
3. Poetry Madness
4. The Tempest
