Those of us who had our writing assignment today (I got a lot of those "I left mine on the dresser" and "Mine is at home" comments) shared with a peer. They looked for uses of figurative language, good action verbs and descriptive words, and imagery and filled out a 1/3 sheet of paper. Then, I handed back their first descriptive writing, and they compared the two. Now it's my turn to read and grade them!
We looked at a Pablo Neruda poem called "Ode to a Pair of Socks" and looked at why it's an ode. We also looked at all the figurative language that Neruda used. He stuffed his poem full of figurative language. He sure was a poet who loved his socks.
We also read a really difficult John Keats poem called "Ode to Autumn," a poem that praises the season. Lots of tough vocabulary in that one, but the students broke it down stanza by stanza and looked at the poetic tools that Keats used. Keats, by the way, died at the young age of 26, but is still regarded as one of England's best poets ever. Here he is:
You can find some of Keats' poems at this website. If you want to read Pablo Neruda's odes (and you should! They're pretty cool!), you can check some out here. That's the page where the odes start.
Have a great weekend!
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