June 11 Acrostic Poems

 Great class today!

1. Updated marks review

2. Silent Reading

2. Word of the day

Pervasive adj. Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate. “The pervasive odor of garlic.”

3. Review of Final Exam Date & makeup

·    June 21^st afternoon double block – it is a Friday

·    Will not do poetry test – this will be rolled into the final exam

 

·   Exam Makeup – min 125 marks

·    Units Included;

     Grammar

     Short Story Questions

     Outsiders

     Poetry

    Test Outline

 

·    Large portion of test will be MC/Matching on Scan Tron (min 100)

·    Short Answer

·    Min 2 Paragraph Questions (you will have options to choose from)

·    1 Essay Question (you will have options to choose from)

4. Homework check – 2 photo based poems & place these in your poetry book

5. Acrostic poem definition & examples

Acrostic poem; a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message

Example:

6.Time to write 2 Acrostic poems (one must be your name)

Due Thursday June 13th 2013