The weather is really starting to turn Springy now!
We started out with Visual Vocabulary. Today’s words are: fallacious and ardent. Hopefully these students are never ardently fallacious! We only have one more installment of Visual Vocabulary before the end-of-semester quiz.
The next 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. :)
Writing
We blurred the lines between writing and literature today because we worked with a poem that is assigned for next week. It’s actually one of my very favorites! “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams is short and packed with imagery–we read another short one by him last week. After discussing reading, hearing and discussing, we also read another example of “imagist” poetry by Ezra Pound. Students are assigned to try to imitate one or both poems for homework.
Literature
We had a Poetry Devices Scavenger Hunt. After discussing different Poetic Devices like onomatopoeia, imagery, and enjambment, we practiced identifying devices together in the large group. After that, I assigned groups and they were given time to read and “scavenge” their own poems for different devices. We had time for a few station rotations of this. They found that there were some favorites among this batch–especially poems by Billy Collins.
Grammar
After that, we had a very brief 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.
That is all! Blessings on your weekend!
Mrs. G
Homework
Week 12 Grammar
Compare/Contrast Essay (if not yet finished or would like to reduce checklist)
Links for this week
WK 12 Poetry Discussion– “The Red Wheelbarrow”
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