---
title: "02.25.08"
date: 2008-02-25
url: https://learningischange.com/2008/02/25/022508/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 02.25.08

Core 1:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080225-xm1ixe344ccn49cbtnbqam82i9.jpg?w=1225) (Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Rhyme, Imagery, Symbolism, et.c)
- Talk about Literary Devices and Terms  [Cheat Sheet #1](http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11332/Handouts/pdfs/WID%201c%20Literary%20Terms%20and%20Devices%20Tutorial.pdf)
- [Cheat Sheet #2](http://www.freewebs.com/alabamaworley/LitTerms.pdf)

- Return to Utopian poetry.  How does the Tipslastt format help you to understand and appreciate the poems you read?
- Which literary devices are present in the poems (yours and theirs) and how do the underscore the meaning?

- Share your poems with the class and look for imagery and other literary devices.
- Extensions:  Post your poem to your blog if you haven’t already.

Core 2:

- Describe-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080222-8rwegc54k36kr2txtcumfgb2m6.jpg?w=1225)
- Rev-it-Up: A Story
- What is your first day on the Island like?  How would you describe it?
- What do you see? Smell? Taste? Touch? Hear?
- Where do you go?
- What do you suspect?

- Write your first island journal entry.  Discuss it with your group.
- Does it go along with other people’s conceptions of their first day?
- What do you need to revise.

- Extensions:  Work on your Survival Simulation Google Docs
- Finish your first journal entry.

Core 3:

- ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080225-epq6qf9n62i9cj9xs5176665i8.jpg?w=1225)
- Read Hospital Sketches  Why did Alcott write this piece?
- How is it an example of Romanticism?
- What beliefs do you think that the narrator holds?
- Why is the journal form chosen for this piece?

- Do your own bit of reflection on starting a new endeavor. What was it like? How did you hear things differently?
- Extension:  Finish your reflective piece for Wednesday.

Core 4:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080225-xm1ixe344ccn49cbtnbqam82i9.jpg?w=1225) (Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Rhyme, Imagery, Symbolism, et.c)
- Talk about Literary Devices and Terms  [Cheat Sheet #1](http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11332/Handouts/pdfs/WID%201c%20Literary%20Terms%20and%20Devices%20Tutorial.pdf)
- [Cheat Sheet #2](http://www.freewebs.com/alabamaworley/LitTerms.pdf)

- Return to Utopian poetry.  How does the Tipslastt format help you to understand and appreciate the poems you read?
- Which literary devices are present in the poems and how do the underscore the meaning?

- Create a unique perspective in your own utopian poem.  What images are you going to invoke?
- What metaphors would help to explain your vision of utopia?

- Extension  Finish your utopian poem for tomorrow.