Curriculum focus: identifies, interprets, and analyzes the use of figurative language (11.1.K3), uses information from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions (11.1.4.K5), compares/contrasts themes in texts (11.1.4.K7b), compares/contrasts author's use of literary devices (11.1.4.K7k), uses paraphrasing and organizational skills to summarize underlying meaning of the text (11.1.4.K9e), analyzes and evaluates how an author's style work together to achieve purpose: irony, symbolism, tone, mood, imagery, allusion (11.1.4.K11c, d, e, f, h, and j), and analyzes contextual aspects of setting: historical, social, cultural (11.2.1.K2).
Root words for this week (root - definition - examples):
- cardio - heart - cardiac, cardiologist
- cerb - brain - cerebral, cerebellum
- gastr - stomach - gastric, gastritis
- osteo - bone - osteoporosis, osteopathy
- rhin - nose - rhinoceros, rhinoplasty
This week we'll do our final readings and assignments for our American Poetry unit. Students have spent three weeks studying our authors' development of the unique American themes within their poetry. On Wednesday, it's the students' turn: students will begin the American poem assignment. This assignment challenges them to develop their own free verse American Poem and will serve as a unit exam for this assignment. As always, we will also begin and end the week with root words and a quiz.
- Mon: New root words; quiz on Friday. American Poetry - The Melting Pot, Okita and Hughes. Study guide due by the end of the hour.
- Tues: American Poetry - American Dreams, Hughes and Robinson. Study guide due by the end of the hour.
- Wed: Pass back papers and current grades. American Poem - assignment, expectations, and example. Come to class on Thursday with a selected theme.
- Thurs: American Poem - identify the selected theme. Begin shaping and drafting the free verse poem.
- Fri: Root words quiz. Handwritten rough draft of the American Poem due by the end of the hour.
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