4/5- ELA

4/5- ELA

By Joanna Baughman

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What is today's Wordle?

Consider our performance on this question:

Multiple Choice

Based on the image, which definition fits this use of the word 'set'?

"Article headings should be set to TNR 14 font"

• be situated or fixed in a specified place or position.

• arrange the type for (a piece of text).

• mount (a precious stone) in something.

• prepare (a table) for a meal by placing cutlery, dishes, etc., on it in their proper places.

Multiple Choice

Based on the image, which definition fits this use of the word 'set'?

"The poem is set in Cuba Mo, in the year 2057."

• put, lay, or stand (something) in a specified place or position.

• be situated or fixed in a specified place or position.

• represent- as happening at a specified time or in a specified place.

• cause (a hen) to sit on eggs.

Consider this definition: o·pen-end·ed /ˈōpən ˌendəd/ adjective having no determined limit or boundary. "the return invitation was open-ended" (of a question) allowing the formulation of any answer, rather than a selection from a set of possible answers. "the interview includes both open-ended and multiple-choice questions" Imagine you are leading a group discussion about a poem written by a classmate. Brainstorm how to apply open-ended questions to this situation...

Multiple Choice

Which would be the best questions to ask other members of the group to encourage extended discussion focused on the poem?

• How does the writer choose the image words that are used and how do they support the theme?

• What is the poet's name?

• Is this poem happy or sad?

• How old was the poet when they wrote the first version of this poem?

​Poem 1- Blackout

Finish your blackout poems if you have not already.

1. ​submit a photo of it on Canvas

2. if your notebook is online, add this photo to your notebook

3. if your notebook is on paper, tape this into your notebook​

​Poem 2- Free Verse

Free verse poetry is poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form. While free verse poems are not devoid of structure, they allow enormous leeway for poets, particularly when compared to more metrically strict forms like blank verse.

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View this quick video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnlwOn94uJs​

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Here is another example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IG88MlWqtk​

Figurative Language

-a couplet is two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

---- You should have at least one couplet in your free verse poem.

- alliteration is​ the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. (tongue twisters are alliteration)

---- You should have at least one alliteration in your free verse poem.

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Open Ended

Share with me what alliteration you used and what your couplet is:

Free verse Examples

Use this page to help you compose some free verse poetry!

http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/explore_famous_free_make.html​

Once you are done, you will submit this in canvas and add it to your notebook!​

Poem 3- Haiku

Many of you have already written haiku poems.

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Try this guiding website to help you generate haiku. You will need to have 3 haiku total fo your notebook.​

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http://interactives.readwritethink.org/haiku-poem-interactive

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Once you complete these, choose the ones you want to keep and do these two things:

1. submit them in canvas

2. add them to your poetry notebook!​

Poetry Notebook:

Take some time now to personalize your notebook:

1. add pictures- drawings or from online

2. add a creative title page

3. choose fun fonts or design​s to use

​You should have:

1. a title page with your name and the month/year

2. blackout poem

3. free verse​ poem

4. haiku​

If you are caught up, awesome!

Now, practice syllables and put a small dot over each syllable in your song lyrics!

Open Ended

What have you successfully completed? What have you struggled wit most?