Monday - I
will collect last week's reading
logs today! (With the spelling bee, I forgot to collect it
on Friday.)
I also gave all students
a progress report so that they could see how they are doing.
Official progress reports will be ready by Wednesday. Students
have been given many opportunities to make up and turn in
missing work. Parents, there is no excuse if your child is
failing.
We
will begin looking at some Edgar
Allan Poe poems.
HW - Reading
log for this
week!
Tuesday - We
will finish reading the Edgar
Allan Poe poems I chose for
the class.
HW - Today
I sent kids home with a field trip permission slip for Wednesday's
tree planting trip. If your child did not get a permission
slip, he or she got a letter for you to sign.
Wednesday - After
reading The
Highwayman and some Edgar
Allan Poe poems, students are going to write their
own poem about any topic that they like today.
I gave students
the following poetry
templates. The easy assignment, which can
get a up to a C+ possibly a B-, is to use the
limmerick template and just fill in the blanks.
To earn a B+ possibly an A- students had to
connect several couplets into an integrated
poem (about one topic like a story, not several
different, little couplets). A couple of kids
asked to write acrostic poems, which is just
fine. To earn the high A's students had to
take what we've
been
reading
and studying in class (similar syllables per
line or stanza, metaphor, similie, alliteration,
repetition, different rhyming styles, etc)
to create a poem of their own choice, about
one topic that is pretty long.
HW - Finish
your poem if you did not finish in class.
Thursday - Project
Alert with Heidi Dodd.
HW - Read the sheet Heidi gave you, What
Teenagers Want to Know About Alcohol. Write your name on top, have a parent
sign it, and turn it in to me for credit.
Friday - Students
will have the opportunity to read their poems.
HW - None
