Fertile Ground by Mr. Lambert / Poetry Intro

College Prep 12

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  Discussed chapter one of Ghosts of War, students gave feedback, all postitive
  
  
  
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  Identified the heart of the chapter as 9/11, and the authors visit to the site. I then read a personal essay to the class of my own visit to the site.
  
  
  
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  I will be out tomorrow. Essays are due. I will check logs for chapters one through three on Wednesday.
  
  
  

Grade 10

• Added the following vocabulary words:
• 15. Poetry: the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
  16. Prosody: study of poetic meters and writing verse; the particular system of verse in a poem.
  17. Prose: the ordinary form of spoken or written language
  18. Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily means one thing is used to mean another, thus making a comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).
  19. Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using ‘like’ or ‘as’, as in “she is like a rose.”
  20. Conundrum - (noun) 1. a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun 2. an intricate and difficult problem
  
• There will be a vocabulary test on all 20 words next week.
  
• Tomorrow, students will write a critical lens essay with the substitute.