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Wednesday, 2/12: Begin New England Poets Presentation preparation. Click here for the Presentation Handout.   At the end of the presentations, you are going to take an open-note test on the presentations; if you miss a presentation, you need to get notes from someone who saw it, read the bio in the book and the wikipedia page, and study the poem presented on your own. 

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Thursday: prepared for presentations. GFTD: complete bio and explication.

 

Friday: Worked on presentations.

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Tuesday, 2/18: Completed final preparations for presentation.

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Wednesday: no school; snow day.

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Thursday: worked on student-written poem #2 and presentations. (WE ARE DELAYING THE DUE DATE OF POEM #2 UNTIL 

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Friday: Guest speaker, Callie Trosley, accountant at Prairie Farms.

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Monday, 2/24: Begin presentations. 

 

Tuesday: Complete presentations.

 

Wednesday: Choose the best poem.

 

Thursday: Counselors visit.

 

Friday: Guest Speaker, Alex Ward

 

Monday, 3/3: Completed presentations.

 

Tuesday: Switch unit. Begin watching Mark Twain film. 

 Students take 20 Cornell Notes. The assignment is on schoology. 

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NOTHING BELOW THIS LINE IS OFFICIAL!

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Tuesday: Switch to next unit. 

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Tuesday: 2nd and 5th hour only: Open-note test on Fireside Poets Presentations--the makeup is 3 formal, expository paragraphs answering the following questions: which poem was the best? which poet was best? and what did you learn during this unit? 4th: complete presentations. 

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Friday: begin new unit.

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCw8ydqkrg

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california . Work on films.

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