Lesson Plans – Week 8
Lesson Plan for: October 3 – 7, 2011
English 7 / Mrs. Scales
Monday—
- Turn in Friday’s Homework ( Quotation Marks with Dialogue)
- Quick Write—Write an “I Remember…” poem
- Read Daily Classroom Blog / Daily Classroom Reading Activity
- Jeopardy review for 1st grading period root words. (Extra Credit Points)
- Introduction to A Week of Poetry, Genre Study
- What is Poetry?
- How does a poem look?
- Craft in Poetry—Onomatopoeia, End Rhyme, Near Rhyme, and other crafting techniques
- Homework: Complete your “I Remember…” poem and you must write two other poems this week. One needs to be in the style of one of the poets we study, and one is your choice (any format). All poems must be six (6) to ten (10) lines in length. (This is not the Quick Write responses to poetry you are doing in class)
Tuesday— Book Talk Tuesday
- Grade / Review Monday’s Homework (Usage, Comma Rules, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Big/Little Rule, Numbers, Capitalization)
- Quick Write: “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman – Your response
- Read Daily Classroom Blog / Daily Classroom Reading Activity
- Book Talk Tuesday Presentations:
- The poetry of Walt Whitman —Writing a poem in the style of Whitman
- Homework: Continue Monday’s Homework / Study for Root Word Test
Wednesday—
- Grade / Review / Turn in Tuesday’s Homework (Interjection, Colon, Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives, Subject-Verb Agreement, Numbers, Apostrophe)
- Root Word Test
- Read Daily Classroom Blog / Daily Classroom Reading Activity
- The poetry of Robert Frost
- Writing Workshop – Writing a poem in the style of Robert Frost
- Homework: Continue Monday’s Homework
Thursday—
- Grade / Review Wednesday’s Homework (Comma Splice, Verb Tense, Usage, End Punctuation, Numbers, Subject-Verb agreement)
- Quick Write: “I Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes – Your response
- Read Daily Classroom Blog / Daily Classroom Reading Activity
- The poetry of Emily Dickinson and E. E. Cummings – Writing a poem in the style of Emily Dickinson or E. E. Cummings
- Writing Workshop – Poetry
- Homework: Continue Monday’s Homework, poems will be turned in tomorrow by the end of class.
Friday—
- Turn in Thursday’s Homework (Comma Rules, Usage, Capitalization, Spelling, Irregular Verb)
- Turn in your 3 poems for the week by the end of class today.
- Quick Write: “This Is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams – Your response
- Read Daily Classroom Blog / Daily Classroom Reading Activity
- Sharing poems in the style of Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and E. E. Cummings.