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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="04aa45a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Ms. Twaite's Special Desk</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ms. Twaites Special Desk"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meet Your Teacher"><U>Meet Your Teacher</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tips and Hints"><U>Tips and Hints</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Assignments"><U>Assignments</U></A>   |   <B>Class Bulletin Board</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04bd2b03.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Class Bulletin Board</I></div> <div> K period English 10</div> <bR> <div> <B>Poetry</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Learn and enjoy poetry</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>We're learning poetic elements of form, voice and sound.  </B></div> <div> <B>We have read poems by different poets and identified who the speaker is, sound elements and the meaning of the poem.  </B></div> <div> <B>Specific devices learned so far</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011866009900.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">      repetition of words, phrases, lines</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011866009900.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">      metaphors and similes</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011866009900.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">      sound devices such as alliteration, onomatopoeia and  </B></div> <div> <B>          consonance</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Students have found their own poems (on computer) and identified poetic elements and what the poem means to them.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We have also looked at music lyrics and identified poetic elements and devices in specific songs.</B></div> <div> <B>Each student has found lyrics of a favorite song on line, printed copies for the class, read the lyrics to the class and talked about the message the speaker is sending to us.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This week 2/16/04</B></div> <div> <B>The life and poetry of Langston Hughes.</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>