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September 12, 2018

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Welcome! As students know, we started off the year focusing on a handful of poetic devices, as well as some grammar review and vocabulary building activities.

Due TOMORROW (at the BEGINNING OF THE CLASS PERIOD):




POETIC DEVICES WE HAVE EMPHASIZED THIS WEEK 
(See your email for a copy of the handout that you were given in class.  This was the sheet I called "your new best friend," and it has definitions and examples of each poetic device.)
  • Apostrophe
  • Enjambment
  • Hyperbole
  • Metaphor
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Personification
  • Repetition
  • Alliteration
  • Anaphora
  • Consonance
  • Epistrophe/Epiphora
  • Chorus
  • Sensory Language/imagery
  • Simile
  • Symbol

DLP SO FAR (These are obviously the uncorrected versions. We went through these together in class.) The bold words are the vocabulary words. DLP QUIZ will be Tuesday, September 25.

DLP #1 (9/6) every day in this spot you will be regaled with a sentence or 2 from the revised tragic tale of romeo and juliet 2 star crossed lovers of long ago

DLP #2 (9/7) this story however is a less tragic version of shakespeares lugubrious tale and it is set in modern times with several new twists

DLP #3 (9/10) much of the action takes place at the verona mall in a town called tragedy florida

DLP #4 (9/11) one fine sunny day a lovely young lady named juliet capulet took her meager clothing allowance and went to verona mall with a freind