Day 9 Communication (Adjectives and Poetry)

Students will be given a copy of Empowering the Learner 2, p. 42; Lesson 10 Traditional Poetry. Students will be given 10 minutes to read individually, and then the article will be read as a group. The students will then be given a handout on adjectives and explained how adjectives work in the English language. The questions and activities will be done initially as a class, and then finished individually.

Students will then be given a copy of the poem "The Old Man's Lazy", by Peter Blue Cloud to be read for discussion. Discussion will be lead on the different points of view of the two people in the poem. Diversity and acceptance of another's culture will be the main focus of the discussion.

Link to Poem; "The Old Man's Lazy"

http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~lorenzj/unisinos/bluecloud-lazy.pdf

The students will then be given several question to be completed and handed in fir correction.

Colour Poems
Students will be given an example of a colour poem written by the instructor:

Red is the colour of desire,
rubies, sport cars, and of fire.
Red is hot and maybe angry,
fire trucks and cotton candy.

Students will then be encouraged to write their own colour poems and share them with the rest of the class.