Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Open Mic!
3) Finish activities from yesterday
4) Blackout poems and found poems

Your poetry portfolio is due on December 20th.

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Introduce Poetry Portfolio Assignment
3) Automatic writing poetry--use the cards you created yesterday
4) Metaphors, similes, and extended metaphors
* Intro to Poetry (poem by Billy Collins)
* Easy metaphors
* Examine extended metaphor poems
* Try to write some of your own!

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Riff poems--watch a clip of the "riff off" from pitch perfect.
3) Create group riff poems
4) Create your own riff poems

Today's agenda
1) SSR and turn in your projects
2) Introduce poetry
3) Rhyming game
4) Picture poems--group poem. Everyone writes 2 lines based off of a picture. Popcorn style, each student reads off one line of poetry to build a poem.
5) Group reorganize the poem. As a group, reorganize the lines of the poem; you may omit up to five lines. Share out
6) Found first line poems. In your independent reading book, choose a random sentence. Then, use that as the first line of a new poem.

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Pick your Poison game and writing
3) Work time--finish your Unit 4 assignment that is due tomorrow

Coming up:
Your unit 4 assignment is due tomorrow

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Thankfulness poems
3) Games or worktime

Coming up:
1) Your Unit 4 assignment is due when on Tuesday, November 28th

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Literature Circle Groups--discuss your books! Fill out the reflection sheet
3) Work time--I will finish writing conferences today.

Your Unit 4 Assignment is due on Tuesday when we come back from break

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Open Mic
3) Scategories Tie Breaker
4) Work on your assignments while I finish writing conferences

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) World building assignment
3) Work Time
*While the students complete this assignment in class, I will be having writing conferences with students about the plot line they turned in yesterday.

Coming up:
1) Prepare something for Open Mic tomorrow if you want to
2) Complete your literature circle questions for Monday
3) Work on your Unit 4 assignment that is due the Tuesday after break

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Wednesday Fun Day--Scategories
3) World building exercise 1 and 2
4) Work time--writing conferences

Coming up:
1) Prepare something for Open Mic on Friday
2) Your literature circle questions are due on Monday
3)  Your unit 4 assignment is due on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.