Reading/LA Syllabus: Week of April 4

Ms. Koplin

Reading/ LA Syllabus

Week of April 4, 2011

Email: lkoplin@op97.org

Website: http://op97-koplin.blogspot.com/

 

Important Information:

• Happy National Poetry Month! In honor of this we will spend the month exploring poetic devices, reading poetry, and writing a variety of different poems.
  
• Our seventh Reading Log is due on Tuesday, April 12. Students must read 2 or more books each month, log the book, and obtain parent signatures for each book read.
  
• End of the Year Field Trip permission slip and money is due on April 5. No
  refunds.
  

  
   

Monday, April 4

Introduce List #12 Vocabra

Introduce Poetry Unit with Visualization Poem

Elements of Poetry Notes (Poetry Packet Page 1-2)

 

Homework: None!!! End of the year permission slips and money are due TOMORROW! NO EXCEPTIONS!

 

Tuesday, April 5

Read Books from Poetry Cart

Likes and Dislikes Chart (PP pg 3)

Alliteration (PP pg 4)

 

Homework: Read Poetry Packet Page 5. Write SIX Vocabra sentences using any six words you would like. No vague sentences.

 

Wednesday, April 6

Personification, Onomatopoeia, and Symbol (PP pg 6-9)

Vocabra: Draw the Meaning Using the Word Itself

 

Homework: Idioms in Poetry Packet (Page 10). You can ask your parents if they know the meanings of the idioms you don't know and/or use the internet to find out.

 

Thursday, April 7

Metaphors and Descriptive Words (PP pg 11-13)

Vocabra Sell It- with groups

 

Homework: Irony in Poetry Packet (Pages 14-15).

    
Friday, April 8

Oxymoron, Paradox, and Rhetorical Questions (PP page 16-19)

Read Poems from Poetry Cart

Vocabra Charades

 

Homework: Have an AWESOME weekend! Work on your reading log- it is due on Tuesday!