1. Week of Monday, October
th
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2. English 9
Wednesday, October 16th
Learning Intention
Today, we’re learning about figurative language and how to
paraphrase.
Terms I need to know:
• Figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification
• Paraphrase:
Success Criteria
• If you can point out in a poem and create your own
example of figurative language, you know you’ve learned
it.
• Also, if you can paraphrase a reading selection, you’ve
learned that too.

3. Dream Reader’s Log
Turn to page 902
Connect: Describe your hopes and dreams.
Background: Read the background paragraph on
page 902. Write down the most interesting or
important sentence.
Literary analysis: Write down the definitions for the
terms, Figurative language: simile, metaphor,
personification.
Reading strategy: Write down the definition for
paraphrase.
Vocabulary: Create an immersed in words chart

4. Immersed in Words Chart
Word
Deferred
Fester
Barren
Azure
Sore
Abash
Experience
What it isn’t
Definition
Picture

5. Sponge
Thursday, October 17th
1. Walk in quietly
2. Pick up your notebook and sit down
3. Open notebook and answer the following
question
What is a poetry slam? Have you ever seen or
heard one? What does it take to perform in
front of an audience and share ones thoughts
and feelings?

6. English 9
Poetry
Turn to page 904
1. Read quietly to yourself “Dream Deferred”
2. Outline the poem
What happens to a dream deferred? (restate)
Does it dry up (restate)
like a raisin in the sun? (restate)
Or fester like a sore-- (restate)
And then run? (restate)
Does it stink like rotten meat? (restate)
Or crust and sugar over-- (restate)
like a syrupy sweet? (restate)
Maybe it just sags (restate)
like a heavy load. (restate)
Or does it explode? (restate)
*Paraphrase the poem

7. 3rd period better have their homework done.
We will be checking in your work!
Line from the poem
Your words
What happens to a dream deferred?
When goals are put off, where do these
goals go?
Does it dry up
Do the goals wither away? Or die?
like a raisin in the sun?
or fester like a sore-And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
Like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Or do the goals become infected as if it
were an injury?

8. Dreams
Line
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannnot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Paraphrase

9. Summarize Dream Poem
1. After paraphrasing the poem, Dream, line by
line, write a summary.
2. A summary is a brief statement about the
overall meaning of the poem.
3. Compare your summary with a partner.
a. Look at the similarities and differences
b. Turn in summary

10. Sponge
Thursday, October 17th
1. Walk in quietly
2. Pick up your notebook and sit down
3. Open notebook and answer the following
question
What is a poetry slam? Have you ever seen or
heard one? What does it take to perform in
front of an audience and share ones thoughts
and feelings?

11. English 10
Thursday, October 17th
Learning Intention
Today, we’re learning about figurative language and how to
paraphrase.
Terms I need to know:
• Figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification
• Paraphrase:
Success Criteria
• If you can point out in a poem and create your own
example of figurative language, you know you’ve learned
it.
• Also, if you can paraphrase a reading selection, you’ve
learned that too.

12. Thursday, October 17th
English 10
Open books to page 948
Connect: What does it mean to “start fresh”. Have
you had a fresh start?
Background: read and write down the most
interesting and important sentence in the
background paragraph.
Literary analysis: Figurative language, simile,
metaphor and personification
Reading strategy: paraphrase
Vocabulary: immersed in words chart

13. Immersed in words chart
Word
Experience
What it isn’t
Definition
Countenance
It’s on your
head
It’s not the
elbow
Face
tremulous
picture

14. Line from the poem
Morning is
Paraphrase- Metaphor
Paraphrase
Pg 953 of the day
The start
A new sheet of paper
Is fresh
for you to write on
For people to begin anew
Whatever you want to say
all day,
until night
folds it up
and flies it away.
The bright words and the dark words
are gone
until dawn
and a new day
to write on.

15. Quote
Paraphrase/Mighty kids
meal
Summarize/Happy meal
10 nuggets in an adult
meal
6 nuggets
4 nuggets

16. Louder Than a Bomb
-Documentary about a group of Chicago high school
poets performing their work
-A documentary is a movie that captures real life
Why we are watching this:
1. Understand where these young poets draw their
thoughts and feelings from.
2. Observe how they work through their fears and
anxieties
3. Appreciate the spoken word—how does the audience
experience it differently from reading it on paper?