E9+-+February+20+-+24

=Monday, February 20= =No School - Presidents' Day= = =

=Tuesday, February 21= = = =Wednesday, February 22= = = =Thursday, February 23=
 * poetry warm-up
 * write a silly poem about giving a cat a bath
 * look at poems
 * notes on C-notes from Friday
 * question sheet on "Miss Rosie", "The Rose that Grew from Concrete", and "Goodbat Nightman"
 * due tomorrow at the beginning of class
 * poetry warm-up: your name
 * look at poems
 * picture of "Water Picture" by May Swenson
 * homework: metaphor sheet
 * poetry warm-up:
 * Imagine you are the king or queen of your own country.
 * What is important to you for your country?
 * Make a flag for your country that represents what is important.
 * look at poems
 * "The Telephone" by Robert Frost
 * "Lessons in Hunger" by Anne Sexton
 * you can write about a person by calling them something that is a part of them:
 * a blue blazer
 * you can describe changes in things that show changes in feelings
 * "a sort of kindly oxygen,/turned into a gas oven.
 * "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
 * Hand out copies of "A Play on Words" by Eugene Field
 * "Assert ten Barren love day made . . ."
 * Homework: Dislike Poetry using Imagery
 * due tomorrow, Friday, at beginning of class: 10 pts.
 * after beginning of class: 5 pts.

= = =Friday, February 24=