Lesson Plans Dec 10-14
Homework – RESEARCH – go to the public library and take out books about your Famous Person. Read! Learn about him/her. Bring in books to take notes in school. All notes are to be taken in school. READ- you AR books 45 minutes each night. POETRY – study your poetry terms.
Mon, Dec 10 – Library – take AR tests and get new books. Poetry Worksheet #2 – see below – complete and review Poetry Terms.
Tue, Dec 11- Review Poetry Worksheet #2 and terms prepare for test. Research – take notes with a goal of 45 notes by the end of class.
Wed, Dec 12 – Test on Poetry Terms and Interpretation.
Thur, Dec 13 – Research notes with a Teacher check for quality – graded. Goal 60 notes.
Fri, Dec 14 – Book Review #5 – bring your book to class.
Poetry Worksheet #2
Read the poem and answer the questions below.
Sleeping in the Forest
Mary Oliver
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
- Name a poetic device or tool that this poem demonstrates and tell how it affects the poem.
- Name another device or tool that this poem demonstrates and tell how it affects the poem.
- What does the poet mean by “my thoughts, and they floated light as moths”?
- What does the poet mean by “I heard small kingdoms”?
- What do you think the poet was trying to say?
- Name some way that you relate to this poem.
