Poetry: American Haiku or Pops by John Kerouac
Writing: Poetry using poetic devices in POPS
Vocabulary: #s 866-890 authentic, averse, bane, caustic, comestible, consort, consummate, derision, desultory, diagnose, eccentric, epoch, excerpt, fervent, flaunt, glean, impediment, incomparable, malinger, moral, morale, motif, offset, portray, preposterous
Homework:
- SAT vocab notes #s 849-865 - due Monday, April 2
- SAT vocab notes #s 866-890 - due Monday, April 9
- American haiku or POPS - using technology (cellphone, Ipod, Ipad, Zune, or other internet capable device posted via text message, Facebook wall comment or update, Tumblr, Twitter, etc.) due the week of April 2 to share with the class. Poetry reading. Students will be allowed to use their device only in the classroom within class time. There should be a series of posts using haikus filled with deep meaning, connection to nature, images, and a poetic device. (NOTE: Please do not use MySpace.)
Assignments
Monday-Friday
- Take Test #6 covering vocab #s 824-848, Act III and parts of Acts I and II, figurative language, and poetic devices.
- American haiku or POPS sharing using Jack Kerouac's style in writing haikus.
- Continue watching "Reduced Shakespeare's Theater." Pay attention to the conventions of drama used by the actors and the retelling of each play in a reduced format.
- Continue reading Twelfth Night Act IV and answer and discuss guide questions.
