In homage to Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, students are composing odes to foods this week. After exploring the word choices and devices Neruda used in his food odes, students are attempting to describe their food items in fresh new ways, using descriptive words and poetic devices such as personification, hyperbole, similes, metaphors, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. They are also creating, this week, two more device pages for their poetry folders.
This week brings spring snow showers and MCAS testing! Students will test on Tuesday/Wednesday mornings. Please make sure that they get a good night's sleep (sans electronics!) and eat breakfast, so that their brains are working on maximum fuel. I am confident that they are prepared to take the test and perform well.
This is a good week for catching up on missing assignments, if need be. Aspen is current and 0s are standing in as placeholders for missing work. If it is turned in this week, I will score it and put it into Aspen so that it counts towards the upcoming report card.
Homework:
Monday-Wednesday: Device pgs. 3 & 4 due Thursday.
Thursday: Food ode due Friday.
Literary Device Pages
Neruda's food odes
