1. Handed out course outlines
2. Handed back questions on At the Bus Stop, One Autumn Morning
3. Completed a 10 minute in-class write on #2 from p. 3 of sightlines.
4. Students worked on Suffixes and synonyms worksheet.
5. We discussed what the "Bus Stop" poem may reveal about the speaker in the poem and how that may affect what students do as they complete their own transformation poem (#4, p. 2 of Sightlines 9).
6. We discussed how poets use line breaks and how line breaks are used to emphasize words and phrases in a poem.
7. Students worked on their transformation poems. They are DUE on FRIDAY.
Key learning: free verse poetry, purpose of line-breaks in a poem, poems can reveal more than just events (In the case of "At the Bus Stop" the poem reveals a character's personality, fears, dreams)
