Spring Week 1
English I
Mrs. Buikema
2014
Bellwork
January 6, 2014
• Welcome Back!! Happy 2014!!
• In your writer’s notebook, write a paragraph reflecting on:
• Winter break,
• Last year’s highlights, or
• Your hopes and goals for this year
Classroom Resolutions
• Put phone away.
• Stay quiet and listen when other classmates are sharing.
• Keep being awesome.
Missing assignment sheet
• If you don’t turn in your work, you will turn in one of these sheets.
• Late Work Penalties
• One day late: minus 20
• Two days late: minus 30
• Three or more days late: minus 50
What are we going to do today?
• Discuss the EOC
• Define literary terms.
THE EOC
• End of Course Exam
• March 31, 2014
• Reading comprehension, punctuation,
CAPE short answer questions,
expository essay
Literary terms
• You will rotate around five stations. Keep these literary terms because
they will be for a grade.
Exit Ticket
• When you are finished with your literary terms, pick up a sticky note.
Write your name and a seven word definition of “poetry.” Stick it on
the white board.
Bellwork
January 7, 2014
• Write a poem about a poem. See
page 193 of SpringBoard Book
for template.
What are we going to do today?
• Analyze similes and metaphors
• "Identity" p. 217 of SB
• "Ode to Socks" p. 222 SB
“Identity” Julio Noboa Polanco
• First impression
• Connotations of “flowers” and “weeds”
• Juxtaposition of verbs
• Repeated words/phrases?
• Similes/Metaphors
“Ode to My Socks” Pablo Neruda
• “Ode”: lyric poem expressing feelings or
thoughts of a speaker, often celebrating a
person, event, or thing
• Find the similes, extended metaphors
• Write your own ode!
• At least five lines
Bellwork
January 8, 2014
• Write a couplet using
“big” “wig”
and
What are we going to do today?
• Begin our Poetry
Contract
•Worth TWO MAJOR GRADES!!!!
• Analyze personification
• “Wandered Lonely as a Cloud“
Bellwork
January 9, 2014
• Write one line containing alliteration
using the first letter of your first name.
What are we going to do today?
• Discuss the poetic terms you find in these poems:
• “Scars” SB p 239
• “Hanging Fire” SB p 220
• Answer a CAPE question comparing the two works.
• Continue working on poetry contracts
CAPE question
• How do the moods in the poems “Hanging Fire” and “Scars” compare
or contrast?
Bellwork
January 10, 2014
• Take a sticky note and stick on
the board: what are some of your
favorite poems or poets? If you
don’t have one, which of the
poems we have read so far do
you like best?
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
What are we going to do today?
• Learn TP-CASTT
• Continue working on poetry contract
Catch up
• Have you finished
• Vocabulary terms
• CAPE question