November/December 2011 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 15 16 17 18 Poetry Introduction Free Verse/Annotating Theme Analysis SGA Poetry Splash “Hanging Fire” Analysis TP-CASTT Rhythm Essential Vocabulary Homework: Read Homework: Read “We Real Cool” Essential Questions “Mentor” by Thomas Murphy; “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Homework: Read “Wheels” by Jim Daniels; “The Brooks Homework: Read “I’m Alive, I Believe in Everything” Meadow” by Kate Knapp; “In the by Lesley Choyce; “On Turning Well” by Andrew Hudgins; : “Undertaker” by Patricia Smith Ten” by Billy Collins; “Heredity” “Otherwise” by Jane Kenyon; by Thomas Hardy; “Conceit” by DH “Lesson” by Forest Hamer; “My Lawrence; “Lost” by David Life” by Joe Wenderoth; “Hate Waggoner; “My Life” by Joe Poem” by Julie Sheehan; “Before Wenderoth; “I’m Nobody” by the World Intruded” by Michele Emily Dickinson; “Ode to Family Rosenthal; “Kyrie” by Tomas Photographs – Will You Know Us?” Transtromer; “End of April” by by Gary Soto; “Alone” by Maya Phillis Levin Angelou 21 22 23 24 25 Comparing Themes in Poems (Self Playing with Words NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING Identity Poems) BREAK BREAK BREAK Author’s Word Choice Homework: Read WORK ON POETRY PROJECT WORK ON POETRY PROJECT WORK ON POETRY PROJECT Homework: Read “adam thinking” by Lucille Clifton; “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco; “Please Fire Me” by Deborah “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Garrison; “Halley’s Comet” by Roethke; “Young” by Anne Stanley Kunitz; “Jump mama” by Sexton; “In Memoriam” by Lord Kurtis Lamkin; “Riding into Alfred Tennyson; “Ode to Family California” by Shirley Geok-lin Lim; Photographs” by Gary Soto; “We “Yesterday” by W.S. Merwin; “X” Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks; by Amiri Baraka “Eviction” by Lucille Clifton; “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes; “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
November/December 2011 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 15 Poetry Introduction Poetry Splash Essential Vocabulary Essential Questions Homework: Read : “Undertaker” by Patricia Smith 16 Free Verse/Annotating “Hanging Fire” Homework: Read “Mentor” by Thomas Murphy; “Wheels” by Jim Daniels; “The Meadow” by Kate Knapp; “In the Well” by Andrew Hudgins; “Otherwise” by Jane Kenyon; “Lesson” by Forest Hamer; “My Life” by Joe Wenderoth; “Hate Poem” by Julie Sheehan; “Before the World Intruded” by Michele Rosenthal; “Kyrie” by Tomas Transtromer; “End of April” by Phillis Levin 17 Theme Analysis Analysis TP-CASTT Homework: Read “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks 18 SGA Rhythm “We Real Cool” Homework: Read “I’m Alive, I Believe in Everything” by Lesley Choyce; “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins; “Heredity” by Thomas Hardy; “Conceit” by DH Lawrence; “Lost” by David Waggoner; “My Life” by Joe Wenderoth; “I’m Nobody” by Emily Dickinson; “Ode to Family Photographs – Will You Know Us?” by Gary Soto; “Alone” by Maya Angelou 21 Comparing Themes in Poems (Self Identity Poems) Homework: Read “adam thinking” by Lucille Clifton; “Please Fire Me” by Deborah Garrison; “Halley’s Comet” by Stanley Kunitz; “Jump mama” by Kurtis Lamkin; “Riding into California” by Shirley Geok-lin Lim; “Yesterday” by W.S. Merwin; “X” by Amiri Baraka 22 Playing with Words Author’s Word Choice Homework: Read “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco; “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke; “Young” by Anne Sexton; “In Memoriam” by Lord Alfred Tennyson; “Ode to Family Photographs” by Gary Soto; “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks; “Eviction” by Lucille Clifton; “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes; “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes 23 NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK WORK ON POETRY PROJECT 24 NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK WORK ON POETRY PROJECT 25 NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK WORK ON POETRY PROJECT
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