1) Silent Reading - 15/20 minutes... no napping or mp3 day-dreaming. Remember you have to be half way through your novel by Wednesday.
2) Watch Video - Just for fun, on the Highland Poetry Month Website, watch the teen poetry slam. Remember - soon, you will be looking for a poem to record your reading of...
3) Victorian Poetry - tomorrow we will start looking at some of the classics of Victorian Era Poetry (1837-1901). Victorians loved an elegant, rich life of fine things and imagination and play. One of the most playful poems ever written was, "Jabberwocky," written by Lewis Carroll in 1872 as a part of the novel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
The nouns and verbs are made up of nonsense of words and yet make a sort of funny sense.
Your work: Read it out loud to a partner. Discuss what you like about it.
Reflective Question: What rhymes or stories or poems or songs do you remember from your childhood? Why do you remember them? See if you can jot down one. What does it remind you of?
Creative Writing: Write your own nonsense poem. Give it a title. Make it sound fun to read out loud. Must be 14 lines long.
2) Watch Video - Just for fun, on the Highland Poetry Month Website, watch the teen poetry slam. Remember - soon, you will be looking for a poem to record your reading of...
3) Victorian Poetry - tomorrow we will start looking at some of the classics of Victorian Era Poetry (1837-1901). Victorians loved an elegant, rich life of fine things and imagination and play. One of the most playful poems ever written was, "Jabberwocky," written by Lewis Carroll in 1872 as a part of the novel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
The nouns and verbs are made up of nonsense of words and yet make a sort of funny sense.
Your work: Read it out loud to a partner. Discuss what you like about it.
Reflective Question: What rhymes or stories or poems or songs do you remember from your childhood? Why do you remember them? See if you can jot down one. What does it remind you of?
Creative Writing: Write your own nonsense poem. Give it a title. Make it sound fun to read out loud. Must be 14 lines long.
