April is Poetry Month in Writing Class! As an English teacher, it’s probably not surprising that I enjoy poetry. But honestly, I haven’t really gotten into it until later in life. If they are not already enjoying it, my goal is to open a door of poetry enjoyment for my students through reading some great poetry and attempting to write some lines of our own.
In that vein, our Quick Write was a poetic one. I asked students to think of three questions–(serious, funny, or mundane) and to write them in a list. We took a few minutes to arrange them into a poem while we listened to music. I am looking forward to reading them!
Writing
Today, the KWO for the Compare/ContrastEssay was due. Students who met their deadline received 20 points. Since two quotes and two sources are required for this composition, today we reviewed how to write both direct quotes and paraphrases for online sources. We talked through how to cite sources both with and without an author. After that, we reviewed how to put together a Works Cited page using some common generators. They should be in good shape to write one for this essay.
The Literature portion of class was dedicated to poetry. Some students enjoy poetry and some are not crazy about it. We talked about how poetry is art made with words. I told them that it is said that poets are born–but the rest of us can learn how to write verse and enjoy it. :)
After refreshing ourselves on last week’s poetry selections, we had a short discussion on themes and what stuck out to us. It was interesting to hear their insights. Their homework is to read the poems for next week and respond to two.
After that, we had a very brief Grammar teaching on Simple and Compound sentences and students had time to work on the two worksheets in class. We talked about the fact that when a FANBOY is connecting two independent clauses, it is called a compound sentence–and in that case, you must put a comma BEFORE the FANBOY. If there is a FANBOY, but it is not connecting two independent clauses, it is a simple sentence and there is no comma necessary.
Blessings on your weekend!
Mrs. G
Homework for this week
Read Poetry:
Poetry: Wordsworth (p. 12); Browning (p. 19); Bronte (24); Carroll (p. 29);
Hopkins (p. 31); Burgess (39)
Week 12 Grammar
Links for this week
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