Tuesday, April 8

Objective: Students will be able to identify sentence fragments in order to turn them into full sentences. Students will be able to identify the elements of haiku and tanka in order to compose their own haiku and tanka.

Do-Now: Fragments II: Test 1 and Test 4 (Practice Quiz)

Today: 1) Go over Fragments II: Test 3

2) Finish watching "Romeo & Juliet"

3) Notetaking: Haiku vs. Tanka: 

~ Haiku and Tanka are Japanese forms of poetry

~ A haiku has THREE unrhymed lines and a tanka has FIVE unrhymed lines

~ Both haiku and tanka use images from nature

~ Both haiku and tanka capture a single moment

~ A haiku has a syllable count of 5-7-5, and a tanka has a syllable count of 5-7-5-7-7


4) Read Haiku and Tanka examples

5) Begin composing your own THREE haiku and your own TWO tanka.

Exit Slip: Share out one of your haiku or tanka.

Homework: Finish your THREE haiku and TWO tanka.  Fragments II Quiz on Thursday!!!  All Make-Up Work Due by Thursday, April 17!!!