Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Catchphrase!
3) Spoken word poems brainstorm
4) Flipping idioms
5) Watch spoken word poems for inspiration. Work on writing your own.
Use this playlist to watch some poems.  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYJDMCz0UyGi71WJNPw8JllY9USHO_hF9

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) OPEN MIC!
3) Review sonnets and limericks
4) Black out poems
5) Expand a saying

Coming up:
1) Your portfolio is due on December 20th, so make sure you are working on that.

Hi all: I woke up feeling really poorly, so I didn't make it in to school today.

In class, you should have received, and completed, the following:
1) A handout on Sonnets and how to write them (and you should have written your own)
2) A handout on Limericks and how to write them (and you should have written your own)
3) If you have time left over, you should work on your portfolio.

Coming up:
1) Open mic tomorrow--you only have 4 left, including tomorrow
2) Your portfolio is due on December 20th, so make sure you are working on that.

Today's agenda:
1)SSR
2) Wednesday Funday: Improv games
3) Riddle Poems--see attached ppt

Coming up:
1) Open mic on Friday--you only have 4 left, including this week
2) Your portfolio is due on December 20th, so make sure you are working on that.

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Anthropomorphized poems--write from an inanimate object's perspective
3) Work time--work on your portfolio. If you are in the honors section, make sure that I have approved your title

Coming up:
1) Open mic on Friday--you only have 4 left, including this week
2) Your portfolio is due on December 20th, so make sure you are working on that.

Today's agenda:
1) SSR
2) Unusual narrator poems
3) Picture poems
4) Work time

Coming up:
1) Your Poetry portfolio is due on December 20th