What is poetry?

1. What is poetry? Monday, November 18, 2013 Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

2. Vocabulary • Today’s Root Word of the Day: • Gress or grad- step, walk, or go • Words derived from today’s root word: (look them up today!) • Egress gradual • Gradation regress • Transgression graduated • Transgress Retrogression • RetrogradeGradient • Graduate

3. More Vocabulary • Choose words from yesterday’s vocabulary to complete these sentences. • If you are habitually late, you will ___ the displeasure of your employer. • Does your school ___ include a course in driver training? • The ___ film at the bijou is a western; the war drama is no longer playing there. • A difficult passage requires more than a(n) ___ reading if it is to be fully understood. • Our conversation, as usual, was ___, ranging from the latest popular tunes to the prospects of our favorite teams.

4. Schedule B/C

5. What are we doing? • Progression – Today you will begin to work with phrases and clauses, in order to learn when and how to use, semi-colons, colons, and commas. Take the pretest on page 295 in your notebook. Elect a team leader. The team leader will see me for the answer key when you have all finished. If we have computers today, send me your score and any questions you have about what you are about to learn using the Google protocol, keyword :confused.

6. Reflection • Compose two responses (each a 2 paragraph minimum): • Compare two poems by the same poet. How are they recognizable by the poet’s diction and voice? How are the poems different in theme, style, genre, or mood? • Differentiate – choose one • Read an online version of the fairy tale, “The Frog Prince,” then read Adrienne Marcus’s poem, “Annunciation” (Daybook 110) How are these tales different variations of the same story? What parts of the story are similar enough to recognize that they are about the same character? What was the poet’s purpose for altering the story: humor, theme, moral, something else? Keyword: poemdiff • Read an online version of the fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood,” then read Roald Dahl’s “Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf” off the online poetry packet (scroll through the poems in my poetry packet on my webpage under the link “Poetry.” How are these tales different variations of the same story? What parts of the story are similar enough to recognize that they are about the same character? What was the poet’s purpose for altering the story: humor, theme, moral, something else? Keyword: poemdiff

7. Inquiry/Research • Students will read and investigate “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes (Daybook 19.) • Students will view the following video link that encompasses a dramatic reading of the poem with images from 1920s Harlem nightlife and music • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyqwvC5s4n8 • Students will work as a group to respond to the prompts on Daybook pages 20 and 21 that culminate in an original poem.

8. Peer Share • Use this time to read and share as many poems from the poetry link on my web page as you can. Use the log to help keep them organized.

9. What are we doing? • Conference – I am reading your mp1 reflection or poetry reflection for a grade and reviewing your progress on the Benchmarks. This is also your time to get one:one help from me.