Monday, October 10

Today our focus was on approaching a controversial issue with an open mind and basing our opinions on information and research, rather than making our minds up about a topic first and then simply finding evidence that supports our stance while ignoring evidence that supports the other side.

With poetry, we focused on poetic form. Your homework is to take the two free verse poems you have already written and revise them for format. These are due in class, on paper, on Wednesday, October 12. The rubric is posted below. If you didn't do one or either of these free verse poems, review requirements for them on the blog and write them and hand them in for this assignment on Wednesday.

Also, be sure to read for 20 minutes and purchase your copy of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Free Verse Poem Rubric: Format

Only first letters of sentences and proper nouns are capitalized:	/5
End punctuation is used at end of sentences:	/5
Stanzas are single spaced within stanzas:	/5
Stanzas are double spaced between stanzas:	/5
Poem is formatted against the hard left margin and has a ragged right margin:	/5
Lines are broken on strong words:	/5
Total:	/30