Today in Language Arts the students began our poetry unit. We began by defining poetry and discussing its importance in small groups. We also took a pre-test to determine what we know about poetry. This will not be graded. It is simply to help us see what we know and what we still need to learn. The students also looked at a powerpoint about poetry terms. We looked at some examples of these terms in song lyrics we are familiar with. The powerpoint and youtube video with the song lyrics have been attached to this blog post.
Homework: 1 hour on the vocabulary section of mobymax.com is due Thursday. Students were assigned a poetry term to research with a partner. Students were asked to find and bring a song to school that has an example of a poetic term in it. This song must be school appropriate.
Journal Topic: Tell me about the book you are currently reading. (Followed by book presentations.)