Supplies you need today:

• Writer’s notebooks• Reader’s notebooks• Binders• Pens/pencils• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Agenda

1. Logistics2. Feedback3. Poetry Example4. Poetry work time5. Poetry workshop6. Break7. Sample Annotations8. Garcia Girls packet; reading time

Logistics

1. Extra credit opportunity: Thank you note Su Teatro2. Honors Students:

• Permission forms should have been submitted (still accept for ½ credit)

• Books should be chosen; start to conference with you about them today

3. Deadlines:• Today= Socratic Seminar reflection in box• 9/30 vocabulary presentation• 10/2 US poems presentations

Feedback

1. What did you think about Enrique’s Journey? (Be specific!!!)

2. Was it a worthwhile field trip?3. Do you want to do more field trips?4. What did you like about the Socratic Seminar? (Be

specific!!!) 5. What would you want to change about the Socratic

Seminar? (Be specific!!!)6. What are you enjoying in class?7. What do you wish we would do differently?8. Any other thoughts, suggestions or updates?

List Poem Format1. List of specific things you like/dislike about the

US2. Maintains format in each line, often in

response to the title3. One possible format you can use for your US

poems

Sample US List PoemMy Country, Tis of The…

Vast mountain ranges, peak tips coated in snowPainful swaths of old growth forest, razedVibrant city streets with hip hop and jazz and and street art meeting on 29th and WalnutStalled traffic on I-25, carbon dioxide plumes spilling over roadways, trapped overhead…

Work Time

Your job in these:• Write or edit your US poem• Must be 7 lines or longer• Must contain imagery (smell, touch, sound,

taste and/or sight)• Must be about your relationship with the US

Partner Feedback

1. What do you love about this poem? What is “beautiful work”? Why?

2. What is confusing about this poem? What needs refinement? Why

3. HELP YOUR PARTNER WRITE THE BEST POEM POSSIBLE!!

Break Time

Sample Annotations

• We will examine sample annotations to understand how to get full points on well-written annotations next time.

Garcia Girls: Reading Guide and Group Reading Time