AGENDA 3/31

Open House Letters!
Pass out Poetry Project Requirements sheet

HW: Begin thinking about the poet you want to study for your poetry project.

AGENDA 3/30

TPS-FAST Analysis of two poems: "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman and "I, Too Sing America" by Langston Hughes

HW: Think about the poet you might want to study for your poetry project...

AGENDA 3/23

Everything you ever wanted to know about rhyme and sound but were afraid to ask:

onomatopoeia - words that sound like what they do--"Batman" words or "Rice Krispies" words (snap, crackle, and pop; buzz, clang, howl, flutter, etc.)
end rhyme - words that sound alike on the final syllable (contains assonance AND consonance) (begin and win)
masculine rhyme - words that sound alike on only one syllable (begin and win; undo and blue)
feminine rhyme - words that sound alike on more than one syllable (beginning and winning; fluttering, stuttering, and buttering)
eye rhyme - words that are spelled similarly but have different sounds (have and gave)
slant rhyme - the use of assonance or consonance--when words "kind of rhyme" (begin and sing; tenth and bell; trance and prince)
assonance - repeated vowel sounds (begin and sing; tenth and bell)
consonance - repeated consonant sounds (trance and prince; delicate and dark; clinking and thankful)
alliteration - repetition of initial consonant sounds, usually for a playful or humorous effect (dark, dank, and dreary) NOTE: This is a type of consonance.

Read and analyze "A Fire-Truck" by Richard Wilbur using TPS-FAST. Pay particular attention to sound devices.

HW: For Wednesday, write a poem about friendship, love, heartache, death, or something you see every day that uses sound and some kind of rhyme for effect.

AGENDA 3/20

TPS-FAST analysis for two poems:
"A Clear Midnight" by Walt Whitman
"The Fly" by William Blake
"The Parakeets" by Alberto Blanco, trans. by W.S. Merwin
"Spring is like a perhaps hand" by e.e. cummings


HW: For Monday, write a poem relating to an aspect of nature in which you use one or more of the following techniques: unusual punctuation, repetition of verb endings (-ing or -ed), rhetorical questions, or apostrophe.

AGENDA 3/19

TPS-FAST Analysis as a class: "Grass" by Carl Sandburg

HW: For tomorrow, write a poem in which you EITHER
1) compare two people
OR
2) reflect on an event from the perspective of an inanimate object
AND
use personification, metaphor, color symbolism, and/or repetition

AGENDA 3/18

Finish satire presentations

HW: None :-)

AGENDA 3/17

GOOD LUCK ON THE CAHSEE!!!
No class today- periods 2, 4, and 6 meet on the special schedule.

AGENDA 3/16

SATIRE TEA PARTY!!!

Enjoy tea, muffins, scones, and cucumber sandwiches while we celebrate the end of our satire unit: turn in satire projects with reflections and three satire terms entries (with all earlier terms entries drafts).

Thanks for a terrific unit and good luck on the English portion of the CAHSEE tomorrow!