2) Lit. Circle Books - Who is reading what and off to sign out from the library... (no mini-writing lesson today as our time will be taken up with getting books out.)
3) Silent Reading.
4) Questions to ask of a poem.
5) First Poems -all about fathers... let's put our questions to work.Daddy, by Sylvia Plath - I will model how to use the questions to garner ideas and understandings about a poem.
Papa's Waltz, by Theodore Roethke
To a Sad Daughter, by Michael Ondaatje
In pairs, you will be responsible for determining the speaker, setting, tone, plot.
In groups you will discuss the remaining questions. Your group will select three of the most significant quotes to write on the board... with some annotations about what these quotes reveal.
Discussion.
Writing Topic: Nothing today... I know you wrote all weekend. :)
