Week 1- Current Focus (September 20 - 24)

 

Here is what we are currently focusing on:

 

Essential Question for this assignment: 

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Learning Outcomes for this week: Identify and analyze the use of connotation in poetry

 

Essential Questions for this week: How is meaning created in poetry?

 

 

 

 

NA- STUDY.png The following things should be completed in the Learning Center this week: 

 

 

Task/Activity Supporting Documents Comments
Journal of Poetic Exploration Please find the list of poems here Use the template linked in the assignment
Connotation Analysis - Practice Please use Still I Rise by Maya Angelou - Found Here Make sure to have a look at the example at the bottom of the assignment

 

 

 

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Day/Lesson Task/Activity Assignment

Friday - Lesson A: Introduction - Style and Form Download Introduction - Style and Form

Video Lesson:  

Pre-Lesson Activity:

  • What do you think the poem will be about based on the title? Title - "Still I Rise"
  • Watch/Read the Poem Still I Rise Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZO08C5vL2A Links to an external site.
  • What is your initial reaction/feeling after "reading" the poem?

Choose a poem from the list

  • Read the Poem
  • Use the template for the Journal of Poetic Exploration
  • Answer all the questions you can for that poem

 

  1. Journal of Poetic Exploration
Next Week - Lesson B: Connotation and Denotation Analysis Download Connotation and Denotation Analysis
  • Complete the practice Connotation Analysis using the poem "Still I Rise"
  • Choose a poem from the list
    • Read the Poem
    • Use the template for the Journal of Poetic Exploration
    • Answer all the questions you can for that poem

 

  1. Connotation Analysis - Practice
  2. Journal of Poetic Exploration
Next Week - Lesson C: Work Period/Conferencing
  • Complete the practice Connotation Analysis using the poem "Still I Rise"
  • Peer Edit two peers Connotation Analysis Practice
  • Choose a poem from the list
    • Read the Poem
    • Use the template for the Journal of Poetic Exploration
    • Answer all the questions you can for that poem
  1. Connotation Analysis - Practice
  2. Journal of Poetic Exploration

 

 

 

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