Announcements and Reminders for Friday, May 10, 2019:
Mike Thayer, author, hunter, gamer, engineer, will be doing a presentation during
 CAVETIME on Friday, May 10. Free Tickets are available in the Media Center. Space is limited. Also, he will be speaking during A3 on Friday, May 10. If you are in any of my English classes and would like to go, and would be a great audience member, I can recommend you. Extra Credit: Memorize Poetry -- You could pick one of these to learn. 
Please return any classroom books you have checked out by Friday, May 17.
Be very careful not to bump the projector or cart.
Letters About Literature
These students advanced to Round 2, state-level judging, which is an achievement!
Congratulations!
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Targets for Today:
I can write poetry!
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Today’s Agenda for
1. We discussed some of the word parts you will be tested on -- on May 20/21. See the Enrichment box below. 2. Writing for Mother's Day Today you will experiment with several types of poetry, and will write a "six (or more) ways of looking at" poem or a tritina or an ode or a limerick or two or one or more haiku or an I Am Poem for your mom or someone else you appreciate. |
If You Were Absent:
See Canvas for Gifts of Poetry
Watch the PowerPoint and write the poems.
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Vocabulary:
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Help and
Enrichment
Mother's Day jokes: http://boyslife.org/features/29557/20-funny-mothers-day-jokes/ Word Parts 2018-2019  tele = far vis or vid = see
"John Baird coined the word TELEVISION by uniting the Greek word tele (“distant” or “far”) with the Latin word vision (“to see”). Had the word been all Greek or all Latin, we might be complaining that there’s nothing to watch on the teleopsis or the proculvision." from Brian P. Cleary
What other words can you think of that include the word parts "tele-" or "vid" or "vis"?  meter = measure  Projection project = throw forward 
Interjection
Inter = between
ject = throw
Auditorium   audi = hear -tory = a place for  pre = before dict = speak What other words can you think of that include the word parts "pre-" or "dict"?  auto = self bio = life graph = write What words can you think of that include the word parts "auto" or "bio" or "graph"?
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