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Example of a Sonnet- 14 line poem with iambic pentameter (10 syllables)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Week of November 28-December 2

Poetry Terms Quiz on Thursday
These are words from your packet.
1.Narrative Poem
2.Ode
3.Onomatopoeia
4.Point of View
5.Protagonist
6.Quatrain
7. Rhyme
8. Setting
9. Simile
10. Sonnet
11. Stanza
12. Style
13. Symbol
14. Theme
15. Tone


Also know the parts of a plot line.

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Middle School Language Arts

Well, Poe was interesting but it is time to move on.  Students will be writing poetry from now until Thanksgiving break.  Vocabulary tests will be on Poetry terms.  There will be 15 words this week and the remaining 15 on Thursday (Dec.1st).  Each student has a packet and is responsible for those words for the next 3 weeks.

Seventh grade is finishing character analysis papers on Fortunato or Montresor.  Essays will be completed before this Friday.  The supply list from the beginning of the year asked for everyone to have a flashdrive.  We will need those this week as we are typing in the computer lab each day.

We will have a spelling test this week!!

We are still working on phonics but it is time for a test.  Please check your student's notebook for their words.  We will concentrate on -ify VS -efy.

6th grade will be doing a writing assignment where they will "modernize" Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".

7th grade will be writing a character analysis on Fortunato or Montresor (also from "The Cask of Amontillado).

We have no school on Friday-so I guess we have lots to accomplish in 4 days!!!