Homework Due
- RJ for "Elegy for Jane"
Discussion: Poetry
- We talked about the unit overview on page one: what looks familiar, what's new, what pieces we'll be reading, what skills we'll be working on, what Hirsch has to say about grief....
- I read "Elegy for Jane" (p. 3) aloud, and we discussed general questions people had, then moved on to discussing the RJ questions.
- I read "To an Athlete Dying Young" (p. 4), and we broke into the philosophy groups to discuss and answer the questions on page 5.
- We got back together as a whole class and talked about our responses to page 5
- Big Ideas from today's discussions: grief, dying young, different kinds of love, metaphors, rhythm, rhyme, syntax.
- Read Dylan Thomas' essay on the sounds in poetry (pages 6-7), and respond to the three RJ questions. You will need to look online for either "Jabberwocky" or "The Nosty Fright". Read one of them to answer the RJ question, please.
CREATIVE WRITING
- We worked extensively on our kids' stories.
- I'd blog more, but I am completely exhausted by today's class. :-)
- Brian said it best today: "Mmmmm--I hate working under pressure." :-)
Anywho, please come to class tomorrow, THURSDAY, ready to jump on the bus, ride over to Stewart, eat lunch and have recess with the first-graders, and READ STORIES TO THEM!
TACW
We continued to work on revisions!
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