2. Table of Contents: Unit 4 Decisions and the Future SKIP Page # Title Date 1-10-13 Essential Questions “red questions”1-2 1-9-13Rule of Three3-4 1-22-13 Persuasion Notes5-6 1-28-13Faulty Reasoning7 2-4-13 Transition from Persuasion to Poetry8

4. Pair – Share What do persuasion and poetry have in common?

5. Compare and Contrast

6. Homework, Oh Homework! Jack Prelutsky Homework! Oh, Homework! I hate you! You stink! I wish I could wash you away in the sink, if only a bomb would explode you to bits. Homework! Oh, homework! You're giving me fits. I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark, or wrestle a lion alone in the dark, eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines, than tackle the homework, my teacher assigns. Homework! Oh, homework! you're last on my list, I simply can't see why you even exist, if you just disappeared it would tickle me pink. Homework! Oh, homework! I hate you! You stink! Oh Homework You are the Reason Bryce S: Crownover 8 th grader Oh homework you are the reason For every single season You help me understand The confusing and bland It is true You give me something to do You give me straight A’s For days and for days In science, history, writing and math You take away all of its wrath You give me practice, a lot And you keep my brain from going rot You help my knowledge grow And if someone says you’re dumb, I say “NO” You’ve made me a lot smarter And made my knowledge a ton broader

7. Compare and Contrast

8. Simile Personification Metaphor Figurative vs. Literal symbolism Onomatopoeia Imagery Alliteration hyperbole idioms

9. Concrete Haiku Narrative Limerick Lyrical Ballads Couplet Free verse Acrostic