May 14, 2018

Objective:  I can read "Knoxville, TN" by Nikki Giovanni and imitate it's form and style to describe my favorite real or fictional place.  
Agenda:  

• Entry Task:  Chat with a friend about your favorite place in the whole wide world--places in books count too!  
• Read this!  "Knoxville, TN" by Nikki Giovanni
  • ​See student examples--consider whether or not you want to write about a real or fictional place.
• Watch this!  These places really exist!
• Try this!  If you would like and you have a shared favorite place, you can do this with a partner; alternatively, you can do it on your own, so instead, write 30 lines, and then narrow it down to your favorite 24--play with the word order and think about why it matters.
• Exit Task:  Each of you should have the final 24-line poem in your anthology.  Share with another pair if time.  

Objective:  I can understand the connections between Lord of the Rings and Beowulf.  
Agenda:  

• Entry Task:  Get out your questions and finish National Geographic:  Lord of the Rings Beyond the Film
• Go over your questions with a partner to make sure you have them all complete. Turn them in to Miss Frost. 
• Walk-around:  Number your paper 1-15--go around to each picture (make sure you write on the right number!).  Use the word bank and pictures to write the sentences. 
• Exit Task:  Check your answers for the walk-around--you will turn this and the questions from the film in on Wednesday.