We are starting POETRY! I love teaching poetry because usually my students are terrified at first but end up being very confident in writing and understanding it. We started last week by creating heart maps full of ideas and looking at the importance of vivid details, using "I", and making sure their poems have a point. Students are having a hard time understanding that poetry does not have to rhyme and is not always exactly about whatever the title is so we are changing it up this week (Jan. 23).
This week we are redirecting our focus using the TP-CASST system. This is a structured system to help students learn how to understand the title of a poem, paraphrasing, connotation, attitude, speaker, and theme.
We will have a quiz this Friday and a test next week.
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