Apr+16-20


 * Monday:**

Today we started to write about our own ideas surrounding our chosen themes. I'm attaching my writing about my theme as a sample. If you didn't finish this, do it for homework.


 * Tuesday:**

Today we looked at free verse poetry and spent some time drafting a free verse poem. Then, we looked at cinquains. Finish your cinquain, using your chosen theme, for homework.

In the next couple of weeks, you'll be presenting your shorter text that has to do with your theme. Today I presented two "music videos" to do with my theme: [] and []. Your shorter text should match your theme and you should prepare so discussion questions to go with that text. Like mine, your text could be a short video, also appropriate would be a magazine article, short story, poem or song, etc.
 * Wednesday:**

Today we looked at three different forms of poetry, sestinas, tritinas and pantoums. Then, we had time to explore one of these forms using our own theme and/or question. Also, tomorrow I'll be collecting your journals. There are four writers journals I'll be looking for:
 * Response to "Comedy" by Christopher Fry
 * Why do people write fiction?
 * The Power of Uncertainty
 * Your writing from Monday re: your question/theme

Then, after reading, you'll write your first reader's journal with your new book, based on your theme.

Today, we passed in our journals and spent the rest of the class working on our sestinas, tritinas and pantoums.
 * Thursday:**

**Good Friday - No School!**
 * Friday:**