April 14th, 2014

4/14/14

In Class:
Journal--  Write an expository poem on one of the following:
      - How to break a heart
      - How to fail a class
      - How to skip school
      - How to win a fight

Shared out several students' Poem-a-Week choices.

Using student-generated responses, we established a code-of-conduct for Writers’ Workshop:

Then, using student-generated responses, we identified guiding questions for Writers’ Workshop:

With fish-bowl modeling group, the instructor and several students demonstrated Writers’ Workshop practice using “Barefoot” by Shane Abrams.
In groups of 5, students workshopped their poetry from the last several weeks using the methods and ideas we developed as a class; each student shared at least one poem.


Students free-wrote on selected prompts (jumping-off points) for 60 seconds on each slide.

Exit ticket: Define 'metaphor.'

Homework:
Continue tending your seeds!
Find Poem-a-Week #3 for Monday.