Language Arts I: Poetry Project Website Scavenger Hunt!

Search out the following items as you visit and enjoy your classmates’ poetry websites!

Learn more about figurative language and the different poems and songs that employ it!

Directions:  

1. Find the following and log them on your worksheet: Name of the student whose website you are visiting and the name of the poem or song or prose piece. 
• An exceptionally well-written analysis of figurative language in a poem. 
• A poem that you felt matched really well with the website’s theme.
• A song that you felt matched really well with the website’s theme.
• A prose piece that you felt matched really well with the website’s theme. 
• A description of a 5 step analysis that taught you something about a poem
2.  Describe a website that you felt was exceptionally well designed (layout, graphics, color scheme, font, etc)
3. Log your responses on the class blog
   

Final Impromptu Essay Preparation

Your final impromptu exam will require you to synthesize all of the reading, writing, and thinking that you have been doing in this class all year. Our themes have been "empathy" and "interdependence."
You will be asked to take a position and incorporate material from our various readings and projects into your essay. You will not have to use all of them, but here is the complete list, to start you thinking:

• Roots and Recipes Essay & Presentation
• Querencia Essay
• KC3 Project
• Thesis Essays (overfishing, aquaculture, fast food, etc)
• Metaphor poetry ("Apartment House" "Coney Island Life")
  
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Sci-Fi Movie Trailer
• Poetry website

In addition, you will need to bring in at least two articles or other pieces that also connect to the themes. You will have time to browse for material during class on Tuesday 5/15, but please print your hard copies at home. These will be turned in with your impromptu exam on Monday 5/21.