“The Raven” Scansion Day 2

“The Raven” Scansion Day 26 March 2013Miss Rice

Warm-Up• What is the difference between line length and stanza

length?

Please take out your comma rules HW and scansion HW to be checked

Agenda• Scansion Review• Scansion Practice (Stations)• Comma Rules

CP Objectives 3/6• To finish and practice comma rules• To review and practice scansion

Warm-Up• What is the difference between line length and stanza

length?

Scansion CategoriesBracket Together the Dif. Pieces of Scansion…

• Sound (repetition/hearing)• Alliteration, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia

• Rhyme• End rhyme• Rhyme scheme• Internal rhyme

• Poem organization• Stanza• Meter• Foot

Meter Steps ReviewScansion Handout

• Sample 1• Rules• Sample 2

Practicing Scansion“Practicing Scansion” WS

• Work on example 1• Review

Scansion Stations• Station 1: Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance• Worksheet

• Station 2: Meter• Miss Rice• “Practicing Scansion” WS examples 1 and 2

• Station 3: Rhyme Scheme and Stanza Length• “Practicing Scansion” WS examples 1 and 2

• Station 4: Putting it All Together• Mrs. Mohap

Review• How did we do at the rhyme scheme and stanza length

station?

I will check the alliteration, assonance, and consonance sheet for completion tomorrow!

“Quick Check” Slip• Show me that you understand meter…

Comma Rules!• # 7

That’s right- THE LAST RULE!!!!!!!!!!

7. Using commas with quotations

• Commas set off a quotation from words used to introduce or identify the source of the quotation.

• ***A comma following a quotation goes inside

the closing quotation mark.

7. Using commas with quotations

• Use a comma before the quotation marks and after a phrase that introduces a quotation.

• A comma following a quotation goes inside the closing quotation mark.

• Do not use commas if you are ending a quotation with a question mark or exclamation point.

Practice…

7. Using commas with quotations

• “No one becomes depraved all at once,” wrote Juvenal.

• A German proverb warns, “Go to law for a sheep and lose your cow.”

• “All I know about grammar,” said Joan Didion, “is its infinite power.”

• “Out, out, damned spot!” cries Lady Macbeth.

Comma HW Review• Sections 1-3 answers…

Homework• Prefixes HW due tomorrow• Finish assonance, consonance, alliteration WS• Mark the meter for examples 1 and 2 on the “More

Practice with Scansion” WS

• Dark Romanticism Test Friday• “This I Believe” essay due MondayTomorrow we will hand back essays and introduce the TIB presentation