Tuesday 31st

 Today we spent the whole class period answering the question of the poem "Constantly Risking Absurdity.¨ We had to write our answers in complete sentences and write them down on a separate sheet of paper. The answers for the poem were due by the end of class. For most of the questions, I had the answers already from annotating the poem yesterday. For the other questions we had to visualize a line of the poem and write down what we felt it meant or talked about. I was able to finish 8 of the 9 questions.

Monday 30th

 Today in class we started learning about a new poet writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti. We watched a short video about him and were given one of his poems called "Constantly Risking Absurdity." As a class, we annotated the poem and learned that the poem was talking about taking risks. We also learned that the author is comparing the poem to an acrobat, so we watched a video of the famous acrobat Nikolas Wallenda who walked across the Grand Canyon. Once we finished annotating the poem we had to write down 2 themes from the poem which were; Being creative is a slow and tedious process, and interest comes with risks. Out of today's lesson, I enjoyed getting to watch the video of Nikolas Wallenda walking across the Grand Canyon because it caught my attention. 

Friday 27th

 Today we finished presenting all the poems. My group presented yesterday, so we were taking notes from the rest of the groups. We had to write three things we learned from the poem and two themes. The poems we took notes on today were "Acquainted with the Night", "The Road Not Taken", And "After Apple Picking." I was able to learn that in most poems of Robert Forst, he talks about nature or mentions it in his poems. 

Thursday 26th

 

Tuesday 24th

 Today in class we finished working on our group assignment. One of our teammates was absent today so the rest of the group had to just finish working on their part. We are going to present our poems on Thursday or Friday depending on what group gets called and if we have enough time. I had already finished doing my part of the assignment which was writing down the question that I could come up with from the poem. In class, I just had to write down the answers that I thought fit the questions I made up best.

Monday 23th

 Today in class we were sitting in groups of 4 and we were given a poem. Each group received a different poem. Each person in the group was given a different task that we had to complete based on the poem. My group poem is called ¨Nothing Gold Can Stay."My task for the group is to write down questions that we can come up with for the audience based on the poem. I had difficulties at first coming up with questions that were open-ended for the rest of the classroom, but after some time I was able to come up with 4 good questions. I also have to write down answers to the questions I have.

Friday 20th

 Today in class we had a book on our desk that we had to use to work on our assignments. In the book, we had 3 different activities to complete, and had to write down 15 new vocabulary. We had to write down our answers on a separate sheet of paper that we had to turn in by the end of the class. The first activity was dealing with the vocabulary words and we had to choose which ones would go best on the sentences we were provided. The second activity was dealing with root words and prefixes. I had a harder time in the second activity than the first one. I wasn't able to get the last activity done by the end of class, but I still turned in the paper with the rest of the work I was able to complete.