Week 19Semester 2

Mrs. Barnett

English 1

Bellwork #1

• [ Punctuation (Title), Quotation Marks, Hyphen, Comma (Other)

• In an essay entitled Why We Still Can’t Wait Coretta Scott King wrote If the alternative to full employment is simply to wait to tolerate in silence the shattered dreams of jobless youth and the broken hearts of laid off men then my choice is clear.

Bellwork #2

• Quotation Marks, Comma (Other)

• George Bernard Shaw once said If you cannot get rid of the family skeletons you may as well make them dance.

Bellwork #3

• Capitalization, Sentence Fragment, Comma (Other)

• If ice did not float. (this is called a hypothetical question) Tons of it at both the north pole and the south pole would sink, covering the earth with water.

Poetry Unit - Introduction

• Do poetry vocabulary (p. 616-619) (see next slide for vocabulary list)

• Do “your turn” activity on p. 619 and discuss

• Read/discuss reading focus p. 622-623 and do “your turn” activity p. 623

• Read “In just”- p. 632 and discuss question #12 p. 633– Do Writing Focus p. 633

Poetry Vocabulary1. Speaker

2. Lyric poem

3. Free verse

4. Haiku

5. Sonnet

6. Catalog poem

7. Ballad

8. Image

9. Sensory details

10.Figurative language

11. Simile

12.Metaphor

13. Direct Metaphor

14. Implied Metaphor

15. Personification

16. Rhyme

17. End Rhymes

18. Rhyme scheme

19. Internal Rhyme

20. Approximate Rhyme

21. Rhythm

22. Meter and all parts of meter

23. Onomatopoeia

24. Alliteration

25. Assonance

Poetry Unit

• Read literary, reading, and writing focus p. 634

• Read haiku p. 636• Answer questions #1, 2, 4, 7 p. 637 • Do Writing Focus p. 637 (2 original haiku with

appropriate pictures)

• Read "Daily" p. 650 and discuss• Do questions #10, 11, 13 p. 651• Do Writing Focus p. 651 (original catalog

poem)

Poetry Unit

• Read “Fog" and “Fire and Ice" p. 661-662 and discuss– Answer questions #1, 2, 7-10 p. 663

• Do writing focus p. 663

• Read “Women" p. 681 and “The Courage That My Mother Had" p. 691– Compare/contrast poems and discuss

– Do questions #2, 4, 6, 7 p. 682 and writing focus p. 693

Pre-write for R&J

• What do you already know about Romeo and Juliet? What would you like to know about it?

Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

• Read "An Intro. to Romeo and Juliet" p. 797

• Read “William Shakespeare's life…" p. 798-799

• Read “Shakespeare and his theatre” p. 800-801– Discuss and take notes

• Read “reading Shakespeare aloud" p. 802-803– Discuss play’s characters p. 805

– Distribute Act I study guide and begin working on it as we read

• Begin reading play: prologue and act I, scene 1 p. 807-817