We continued discussing how to find meaning in these figures of speech. "She is in the autumn of her life" was written on the board. Students copied this down in their journal and write its meaning. Discussion followed.
Next we looked at the poem "The Wind" by Robert Louis Stevenson again, and matched the terms assonance, personification, metaphor, simile and alliteration to the lines in the poem where they occurred.
Tomorrow, they will start class by writing the meaning of a metaphor (which will be taken for a grade), then we will start work on choosing research topics.
We'll return to the poetry unit after this and a novel.
