Welcome Hale Eighth Graders and Parents!

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Language Arts 2-26-14

This morning, a meeting was held for students on the "Off track" list for graduation.  Progress reports went home today -- calculate your points towards graduation.  Are you doing your best?

DO NOW:
Six flash cards created on Poetry.

Review of figurative language and literary techniques.  Students should know the vocabulary without hesitation.
    ie.  simile, metaphor, hyperbole, synecdoche, oxymoron, synonym, antonym, alliteration, consonance, assonance, idiom, cliche', jargon, anecdote, allusion, denotation, connotation, analogy
      irony, satire

Review Table of Contents.  Read "The Choice" by Dorothy Parker & copied this poem.

Watched the brainpop on Poetry & took a "listening" quiz.

Homework:
draft of your "origin myth" (create a narrative describing creatively the origin of any item; minimum of one page maximum five pages)
create a "fortunately.....unfortunately.... poem."  Use 5 couplets and one line.
Get your binder signed. (genre/figurative language test returned and should be in your binder)


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