1/19 and 1/20 Welcome to the Wonderful World of Poetry

Hello everyone and welcome to second semester.  We will begin with a unit on Poetry.  We will start with some vocabulary.

On a piece of paper, you need to write the definitions, parts of speech (verb, noun, adj. etc), you need to write an original sentence that uses the word correctly, and finally you need to draw some kind of small picture (even use a word) that helps to remind YOU of the vocabulary word.  

These are the words you need to look up:

forebode

tumult

monotonous

venerable

sullen

clench

euphony

rhyme

onomatopoeia

You need to turn this in for a grade.  

We then read the poem "Making a Fist" by Naomi Shihab Nye, which can be found on page 57 of the purple Close Reading Workbooks that I gave you earlier this semester.  The poem can also be found on page 363 of the new Pearson textbooks in my classroom.  We discussed the poem in class.