It’s Thursday!! Which means tomorrow is Friday, which means….
QUIZZES TOMORROW!!
This morning we discussed another type of ‘compacted’ metaphor: a kenning. A kenning is a much-compressed form of metaphor, originally used in Anglo-Saxon and Norse poetry. In a kenning, an object is described in a two-word phrase, such as ‘whale-road’ for ‘sea’. We made a little kenning poem about teachers by listing things that teachers do/how they act/what they look like/what they sound like. This was VERY telling by the way – yikes! Ask your student how they decided to describe teachers.
This was our example kenning poem. Can you tell what it is?
Egg layer
Insect betrayer
People scarer
Trap preparer
Silent creeper
Death reaper
Meal storer
Fly adorer
Duster hater
Web creator
Corner hider
Tonight students are to write their own kennings. We will be putting these together to make a short little riddle poem tomorrow.
Students also have left over work from their LA centers. There are a total of two sheets. In one, they identify the figurative language used in lines from poems. In the second they read a poem and find figurative language inside of it as well as answer some questions about the poems tone and mood.
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We also read a good bit more of “Love That Dog” and a LOT of “The Night Gardener”.
In math we spent a good amount of time reviewing. Students picked a set of math problems to do based on what they have to practice with. Tonight students should study either addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division with decimals. They should do the set of problems they were given and even make up their own problems if need be.
so, tl;dr
Write some kennings:
Find some figurative language:
identify some figurative language:
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Practice whatever you need to practice concerning operations with decimals.
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter