Week of April 16th-20th

Monday-Review poetic devices 

              -complete Poetry is Like an Onion worksheet

              -grammar practice on -noredink.com

Tuesday- Discuss history, form/structure of a limerick

                -read and discuss examples of  limerick poetry 

                -write original limericks with the help of sentence starters.

                -word work:  using semicolons and colons in writing

Wednesday- Discuss Letter Poem form/structure/use of line break

                   -complete graphic organizer on poem “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams

                    -practice writing  letter poems focused on emotions

-grammar review: Prepdog.org

Thursday  Introduction to free-verse poetry.

                 -discuss Walt Whitman, the “Father of Free Verse”

                 -students complete free-verse poem

Friday-Review Game for poetry quiz

           -grammar review: Prepdog.org