Tuesday November 10, 2009

Comp/Lit 9: Poetry

• I collected the "One Day"/"Lost Generation" Poem and the Challenge Day Permission Slips
• I reviewed the Tutorial Staff expectations and verified which students have already earned points versus those that still need to serve.
• I reviewed the Outside Reading Log Requirements. The special grammar requirement is:include & identify the following parts of speech in two different sentences: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction. The two different sentences should utilize different versions of the part of speech (i.e. Noun-person, place, thing, idea, abstract, concrete, common proper; verb-action, linking; conjunction-coordinating, correlative, subordinating).
• I introduced the Found Poem assignment. The students will borrow lines from a minimum of 10 poems to create a new poem. See the Found Poem assignment sheet.
• The students completed a commonly confused words practice on the words good, well-notable, noticeable.
• Committed to Memory came next: The students wrote down their poem from memory (like a test), they took out the original poem so that the poem test could be corrected by a partner, then each student recite the poem in front of the class.
• Homework: Finish and Upload the Outside Reading Log. Bring at least one original poem to read during the poets cafe on Friday. Check grades and complete make-up work by Thursday. Work on the Found Poem due Tuesday November 17. Study the last section of Commonly Confused Words.