We had our next argumentative writing prompt in the writing lab.
​If you missed this day, you need to make it up outside of class time.

Today we wrote a cheesy Hallmark card poem, a happy and a sad poem about the same moment, and a poem with some made up words.

We looked at words that Shakespeare invented and then we each invented a new word.

Then we invented a new word for a group of a species. 

Then we wrote 3 short poems and used the newly invented word in one of the poems.

We finished our second poem called "A Bunch of NounSense" and started our next poem which is a dialogue poem.
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We looked for a moment in a picture from a textbook. We wrote down imagery words from the picture, then we wrote a poem to capture that moment.
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After reading, we finished our Bloomberry pie quiz.

​Then we started our poetry unit.

We watched the film, worked on book projects, and did ACT practice.

We read act 4 of the play.

Then we learned about the tragic hero elements.

Today we learned about the 3 types of irony.
Students got into groups and presented their type to the rest of the class.
Then we analyzed The Crucible for irony using a handout.

Today we read act 3.