The Poscars Award

The following 'Poscar Awards'  will be handed out at the end of the Poetry Party on Thursday.

• Best Visual Interpretation (Use of Body Language)
• Best Projection (Volume)
• Best Inflection and Pacing 
• Best Memorized Delivery
• Best Multiple Voice Poem
• Best Original Poem (Overall 'top' award for poem and performance)
• Best Props
• Best Group Poem
• Most Improved Poet

Awards will also be given to the PIPE off 

Class and Block champions

Will you raise your performance and be nominated for one of the awards?

Slam Poetry: Expecting

Lesson Recap:Enjambment

 

H/W
50 mins of Membean this week

Poetry H/W

• You must have at least one of your poems MEMORIZED by Wed. 
• You will need to recite the poem to me privately. 
• You must speak of the poetic moves in the poem. 
• You will receive SUMMATIVE craft grade for your poetic moves and a speaking and listening grade (PIPES) for this poem. This poem can be a group poem (paired)
• Rubrics are on left side of the blog.
• Most of Tuesday's class will be spent revising your poems and preparing for this.

Sentence Fluency Test - Next WED - Spend 5 mins each night doing some of these exercises

Sentence Fluency: Test Practice Exercises -

http://www.csus.edu/owl/index/sent/clause_quiz.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g4c26/nadia.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index_pre.html

http://itech.pjc.edu/writinglab/senpat.htm types of sentences

http://eslbee.com/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?helenkeller

http://webschool.wash.k12.ut.us/language/lessons/compoundsentences.html

http://www.quia.com/pop/37751.html

http://www.quia.com/quiz/242899.html?AP_rand=1383585617

http://www.quia.com/quiz/299540.html (ignore question 13 and 16)

http://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html

Some of the questions on this exercise, we have not covered yet...but we will. Try it for fun!

http://www.quia.com/quiz/815621.html?AP_rand=60951870

TEST PRACTICE: ASK the Teacher sheet

Reading Classes
Partner Book Talk: the argument book discussion is postponed until after the poetry party.

Next week:
Poetry party audition Wednesday
Poetry party Thursday (Read instructions from last week)
Membean test Friday

Root of the Week:  Man

Membean stats for February - Summative Assessments are in powerschool based on minutes practiced.

Making the Invisible -Visible

HB CHALLENGE  - Find out who these people are, meet them, and come next Friday telling the HB what you think we should do for them. If you need any HB time to work on this - Monday is available. Will you rise to the challenge?

Lesson Recap

No additional homework. READ

Recap: Complex Sentences

warm Up:  Do this link

Do you know all the characteristics of complex sentences?

H/W - You paragrah should be finished by tomorrow

C/D Compound and Complex Sentence Paragraph

E/F Compound and Complex Sentence Paragraph

G/H Compound and Complex Sentence Paragraph

Drop your final pieces in here - Final piece is due FRIDAY!
C/D Class Extended Metaphor
E/F Class Extended Metaphor
G/H Class Extended Metaphor

How's your extended metaphor coming? Remember THE STRUGGLE IS THE LEARNING