Wiki Page, ELA 10A - Heintschel - Tri 1: Wed 10.20: Fluency + Poetry Reading and Writing Cycle - Day 2

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Writing Fluency Exercise

#26 - Fluency: Ignorance is bliss - 10.20

It has often been said, “Ignorance is bliss,” and “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.”

Do you agree with these statements? Why or why not? Be sure to use SHOWING writing practices.

You may also choose to write about whatever is on your mind.

Remember to keep writing the entire time to increase fluency!

Before starting Analysis Work:

Finishing comprehension work from yesterday!

See instructions from yesterday's module

Poetry Reading/Writing Cycle Day 2: ANALYSIS

Think through the images that you annotated

For each image that you drew a box around, annotate with feelings words (use this handout for ideas)

A sample of images annotated with feelings words

Think through the sections that you annotated by talking to each other about these questions and use this discussion to generate ideas about the theme/message.

What is happening in each section? Use feelings words as clues

What comes first, next, and why?

What do the sections have to do with each other? Use feelings words as clues

What are the feelings connected to the images in each section? Is there a pattern?

Why are these words, phrases, lines repeated? Are there any connections to the feelings words you annotated?

Is there a story being told?

Capture your thinking about these questions on your poem paper or on a sheet of notebook paper. You will turn them in later!

Use your thinking about the poem to make a list of THEME subjects that relate to the poem as a whole. These might be the subject of the message, or “what the message is about.” Use the Universal Themes in Literature and Life handout to help with this!

[Click here for a sample of what your annotations, thinking, and theme subject list might look like! You do not need to write as much as I did on the second page, but those are examples of what you might talk about. Use that conversation to generate ideas about the message/theme]

Start to think about the interpretive question: What is the message of the poem?

write ideas down if you have some bubbling to the surface of your mind

if you don't have ideas yet, wait until the small group discussions tomorrow