Today could have been a very successful day for everyone. Plenty of time to finish your poem analysis, write the essay with your group, and even have a little time left over to do some reading and prepping for tomorrow. The possibilities were limitless!
Today could have been a wasted day. Plenty of time to goof around with your peers, ignore the work that needed to be completed, and then leave yourself a lot of work to complete tonight. The possibilities were deadly!
Hopefully, you chose option number one. I will be collecting an essay from every group tomorrow. You will have no time in class to work on it. I will be reading those at home this weekend and then I will explain what your next task will be on Monday.
Tomorrow, we have some book group discussions to tackle. Check plus for everyone=Archer card signature for everyone. Remember 3-4 sentences per connection and clear passage selection explanations. After our 20-25 minute discussions, we'll come back to the class and do a little Acuity with figurative language. We'll also spend some time discussing how the poets wrote about the same thing but managed to do so differently. Be thinking how "Paradise: Prison" differs from "Robe" which in turn differs from "The Music of the Street" which is extremely different than either "Chicago" or "Poets and Men" yet they all talk about life in the city. Five good poems. Lots to discuss.
I love teaching you guys, and from what I can tell, I might actually be in class every day next week. No meetings on the horizon! Yippee!
See you tomorrow. For an Archer card signature, come up to me tomorrow and tell me why we are studying the poems and the pictures.
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