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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Language Arts 3-13-14

ISAT Math III today!  8th Grade ISATS are done!

All classes:
Today we prepared study guides for tomorrow's test on our poems & poets.  We listed the poems presented by our teams, the poet, and a short summary of each one.
Students are also responsible to know:
   *the five elements of poetry
   *the five ways poets put "sound" in their poetry
   *what a two-lined stanza is called
   *what is an unstressed stressed foot called?
   *what are five feet of the above foot called in poetry?

Current events was collected and published poems.

Harvard:  took a test on their novel.
Yale turned in their reading journals.

Homework: (ALL)
Study for the test tomorrow
Simple Solutions #58

Prepare drafts of "topic" poem and "form" poem. (Yale & Princeton)
Continue to work on Acrostic poems (Harvard)
Discussion questions Part I (Yale)
Read Cassette 3A (Princeton)
Work on performance assessment (Harvard)

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