Great Start to a Great Year!

It has been a great start so far for us this year in AP Reading.  The first day of school we went over all the rules, routines, expectations, and took care of any paper work that needed to be filled out.  Yesterday, we hit the ground running introducing the poetry unit.  We will spend the next two and half weeks working on all the different elements of poetry.  We opened up the units with notes yesterday and will continue to finish those today.  Tomorrow we will be exploring and analyzing poetry through music.  At the end of the week or beginning of next week a group assignment will be given out ("Songs Are Poetry! Project).  We are discovering how different types of figurative language play such a huge role in poetry.  I want them to be able to recognize and differentiate the types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, idioms, symbolism, imagery, hyperbole, etc.) used in a song (lyric poem).   Again, I think we are off to a great start and look so forward to the rest of the year.  Continue to check for added assignment links out the the side.