AGENDA
American Literature: Periods 3 and 4
Week of January 18th, 2010
MONDAY: Holiday – No School
TUESDAY:
Introduction to Poetry Out Loud Competition
Explore Poetry Anthologies
Assignment: Choose a poem and memorize it by Thursday
WEDNESDAY:
Grammar in Writing: When Good People Write Bad Essays
Handout – 12 Common Editing Errors
“Jenny Kissed Me”- exercise in tone and expression in poetry reading
THURSDAY and FRIDAY:
- Memorize and rehearse poems
- Work on Portfolio Journal Entries
- Write, edit, proof, and revise Impromptu Writing
Assignment: Spring Semester Independent Reading – you may choose a book to read
independently this semester from any genre but it must be written by a 20-21st century
writer.
THIS WEEK’S VOCABULARY WORDS ARE LITERARY DEVICES AND TERMS
RELATED TO POETRY:
You will be provided with a hardcopy handout of the following terms:
Diction
Meter
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Paradox
Personification
Alliteration
Assonance
Blank verse
Free verse
Couplet
Quatrain
Sonnet
Stress
Pause
Iambic
Anapestic
Iambic pentameter
Literal meaning
Figurative meaning
End-stopped line
Enjambment