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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU ENTER THE CLASSROOM

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU ENTER THE CLASSROOM. Get Poetry Journal from calm partner workspace table. Complete your Put it Aside card for the day. Prepare your forecasting sheet to bring to guidance at 8:35

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU ENTER THE CLASSROOM

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  1. THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU ENTER THE CLASSROOM • Get Poetry Journal from calm partner workspace table. • Complete your Put it Aside card for the day. • Prepare your forecasting sheet to bring to guidance at 8:35 When we have too much stuff on our desks, it can become distracting for all of us. Please take out your materials for the day and put your backpack on the floor under your desk.

  2. Ms. Sonn’s Junior English 3/9/2012 Write this down: Classroom webpage: www.ilovereadingandwriting.weebly.com 1. Put it Aside cards / Attendance 2. Turn-in Forecasting Sheets (8:35) 3. On-Demand Writing 4 .Write Poetry 5. Exit Note READING LOG NOTEBOOK GROUP A TURN-IN AT END OF PERIOD Objectives: I will… Practice writing on-demand Compose Poetry Make changes to poetry using poetic devices Homework: Be sure to be staying up-to-date on your Reading Log Notebook and Your poetry Journals. Use the Webpage to support you in your efforts.

  3. On-Demand Writing ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER, WRITE ON-DEMAND WRITING AND YOUR NAME Pretend you have been given one of the following Narrative prompts. Respond to it. Write as much as you can. Include: • A clear and interesting voice • Varied sentence and paragraph structure • Interesting and creative overall structure of the narrative. • A clear Beginning and ending. 5. Identify a moment where you came to a major understanding about yourself or life. Tell a story about something that has really happened to you or to someone you know that fits one of the following titles: “Seeking Independence” or “Invincible” or “They all laughed” or “I’ll Never do that Again.” Tell a story about your name and how you understand your name and its representation of you (Think about Sandra Cisneros’s “My Name”)? You have 10 minutes. PUT YOUR WRITING ON THE STOOL WHEN TIME IS UP.

  4. Poetry Journal -Today we write! -Draw a Line under your last entry and date your entry. March 9 2012. -Title your page Composition -Today You are going to compose a series of poems -Aim for three. -Don’t over think what you write. Write what you think about.

  5. Pick from three of these prompts • Write a poem about your name. • Write a poem where you name and use colors to describe an experience with friendship. • Write a poem where you share something you have learned about life that you feel the world should also know. • Write a poem about a day when you thought you would have a snow day, but did not. • Write a poem where you express anger over a current event in school or outside of school in the world. • Write a poem where you invite the reader to go on a journey through your imagination. Take the reader on the journey. • Write a poem about a time you have felt belittled, unimportant, or small. • Write a poem about a dream you have had. Try to use some of the devices from your poetry terms list.

  6. Exit Note: • Find a place in one of your poems to add a simile or metaphor. Add one and draw a star next to it. • Find a line in one of your poems that you can change and use alliteration in. Change it using alliteration and draw a Triangle next to it. • Find a place in your poem where you can elaborate on the imagery. Add to that part to help the reader see, hear, smell, touch, and taste that moment. Draw a Circle next to it. Turn your poetry Journal into me. 4. Circle one word you would like to find a better word for. READING LOG NOTEBOOK GROUP A PUT YOUR READING LOG NOTEBOOKS ON THE BLUE CHAIR NEXT TO MY DESK BEFORE YOU LEAVE.

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