Friday, November 18, 2011

Monday, November 21

Objective: SWBAT describe how a poem can be used to incite social change.  SWBAT create their own poems for social change.

Do-Now: Complete “Quickwrite” Activity on pg. 725.

Today: 1) Class will read “The Chimney Sweeper” on pg, 726 and “The Chimney Sweeper” on pg. 727.  What instances of parallelism can be found in each of these poems.  How are the attitudes of the speakers different in each poem?

2) Students will compose their own poems inspired by “The Chimney Sweeper” in which they comment on a problem they find in society that they would like to change.

Homework: Finish your poem

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