11/17/14

1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature

Objective: To demonstrate knowledge of literary termsTo write a poem

Define gratitude:

What are three things you are thankful for?

NOTEBOOK QUIZ TOMORROW!

11/19/14

1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature

Objective: To demonstrate knowledge of poetic terms

BR: Copy the following notes in your notebook:

After the Poetry Unit, students will know and be able to do the following:* Independently read and understand a poem * Discuss a poem’s rhyme, form, meaning, and theme * Define, identify, and create figurative language * Be able to discuss idioms and symbolism * Write a poem * Define, identify, and correctly use pronouns and antecedents

How to devour a POEM…1. READ the poem2. Define Unknown WORDS3. Analyze FORM**rhyme scheme**genre**division4. Paraphrase LINES by restating them in simpler terms5. Look for LITERARY TECHNIQUES**alliteration **allusion **imagery ** tone/mood& FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE**metaphor**personification**simileand their effect on the poem6. Analyze THEME, meaning, or message

November 18, 2014

1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and interpreting Literature

Objective: To discuss analysis of poetryTo analyze poetry using a six-step method.

Copy this definitionalliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of wordsGive an example of alliteration with an autumn theme:ex. The lovely leaves layered the landscape.

Define couplet:Write a couplet about fall:

Now copy these definitions onto your poetic terms sheets. Each day write the term in your notebook AND copy onto your terms sheet!

11/19/14

1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature

Objective: To read and analyze poetry. To define and identify poetic terms.

The following are idioms:Has the cat got your tongue?It's time to hit the hay.He kicked the bucket.

Define idiom:

What are two other common idioms?

November 20.2014

1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature

Objective: To read and analyze poetry. To define and identify poetic terms.

Define metaphor:

Complete the following metaphor:Autumn is…

Define hyperbole:

Write a hyperbole about Thanksgiving dinner

Finish Imagery exercise for HOMEWORK

November 21, 2014

1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature

Objective: To discuss pronouns types and uses- To discuss antecedents -To analyze poetry using a six-step method.

SUBMIT HOMEWORK TO BINCopy the following notes:

pronoun- a non-specific word that takes the place of a noun antecedent- the word a pronoun takes the place of- you should be able to find it earlier in the writing

For instance:The autumn leaves lose their beautiful colors in November. pronoun- their antecedent- leaves

HW Shakespeare BIO

personal pronounsname people, animals or thingsI me myhe she him her hisyou yourwe us ourthey them theiritdemonstrative pronounspoint out people, places or thingsthisthatthesethose

interrogative pronounsstart questions that can beanswered with a nounwhowhomwhich whosewhatrelative pronounsrelate extra informationabout a nounwhowhomthatwhichwhose

indefinite pronouns

anybody anyone anything each either everybody everyone everything neither nobody no onenothing somebody someone something

both few many others several all any most nonesome

The Anxious LeafOnce upon a time a little leaf was heard to sigh and cry, as leaves often

do when a gentle wind is about. And the twig said, "What is the matter, little leaf?" And the leaf said, "The wind just told me that one day it would pull me off and throw me down to die on the ground!“

The twig told it to the branch on which it grew, and the branch told it to the tree. And when the tree heard it, it rustled all over, and sent back word to the leaf, "Do not be afraid. Hold on tightly, and you shall not go till you want to.“

And so the leaf stopped sighing, but went on nestling and singing. Every time the tree shook itself and stirred up all its leaves, the branches shook themselves, and the little twig shook itself, and the little leaf danced up and down merrily, as if nothing could ever pull it off. And so it grew all summer long, till October.

And when the bright days of autumn came the little leaf saw all the leaves around becoming very beautiful. Some were yellow and some scarlet, and some striped with both colors. Then it asked the tree what it meant. And the tree said, "All these leaves are getting ready to fly away, and they have put on these beautiful colors because of joy.“

Then the little leaf began to want to go, too, and grew very beautiful in thinking of it, and when it was very gay in color it saw that the branches of the tree had no bright color in them, and so the leaf said, "O branches! why are you lead-color and we golden?""We must keep on our work-clothes, for our life is not done - but your clothes are for holiday, because your tasks are over," said the branches.

Just then a little puff of wind came, and the leaf let go, without thinking of it, and the wind took it up and turned it over and over, and whirled it like a spark of fire in the air, and then it dropped gently down under the edge of the fence, among hundreds of leaves, and fell into a dream, and it never waked up to tell what it dreamed about.

What is an antecedent?

A Dream Within A Dreamby Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, This much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?

1. read poem 2. define unknown words 3. analyze form 4. paraphrase5. literary techniques & figurative language 6. theme

A Dream Within A Dreamby Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow! AAnd, in parting from you now, AThis much let me avow- A promiseYou are not wrong, who deem B considerThat my days have been a dream; B Yet if hope has flown away CIn a night, or in a day, CIn a vision, or in none, DIs it therefore the less gone? DAll that we see or seem BIs but a dream within a dream. B

I stand amid the roar E in the middle ofOf a surf-tormented shore, E torturedAnd I hold within my hand FGrains of the golden sand- FHow few! yet how they creep GThrough my fingers to the deep, G While I weep- while I weep! G cryO God! can I not grasp HThem with a tighter clasp? HgripO God! can I not save IOne from the pitiless wave? I cruelIs all that we see or seem BBut a dream within a dream? B

1. read poem 2. define unknown words 3. analyze form 4. paraphrase5. literary techniques & figurative language 6. theme

2 stanzas: 11 line / 13 line

It is hard to accept reality

metaphorpersonification

personification

personification

imagery

November 24, 2014

1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature

Objective: To analyze Shakespearean Sonnets

Bellringer:Get your homework out, grab a red pen, and clear your desk of everything else.

If you say..."Every dog will have its day...""Into thin air...""Parting is such sweet sorrow.""In my heart of hearts...""To thine own self be true.""Come what may...""Knock, knock, who's there?""One fell swoop...""A sorry sight...""What's done is done.""An eye sore...""Budge an inch.""It was Greek to me.""Eats me out of house and home.""Dead as a doornail""Too much of a good thing.""Elbow room""Good riddance"

...you are quoting Shakespeare!

12/3/141.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting LiteratureObjective: To read and analyze a poemCopy these notes into your notebook; then fill in definitions on your poetry terms sheet.

ballad- narrative poem that is meant to be sung that has rhyme& refrain (repeat)

epic- long narrative poem about heroic encountersHomer's OdysseyHomer's IlliadOvid's Metamorphoses

allusion- reference to a person, place, event, or literary work in history that an author expects the reader to know

ballad

Harlem Renaissance

time period in America (originating in Harlem in NYC) between abolishment of slavery until the Civil Rights movement (1900-1950) where African American artists flourished

Authors like:Langston HughesGwendolyn Brooks

STYLE:*wrote about plight of African Americans at the time*meant to inspire young black youths*advocated change*simple arrangement- to be understood by many

What happens to a dream deferred?By Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore--

And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

December 4, 2014

1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature

Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To define and identify poetic terms

What are the rhyme schemes of the short poems below?

Pumpkins in the cornfieldsGold among the brownLeaves of rust and scarletTrembling slowly downBirds that travel southwardLovely time to playNothing is as pleasantAs an autumn day!

Make a statement about the division of each of the poems.

Fog by Carl Sandburg

The fog comeson little cat feet.It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.

12/5/14

1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature

Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To demonstrate knowledge of poetry analysis.

What is a theme?

What does it mean to paraphrase?

Now get out your poem packet. There should be ten poems highlighted and annotated. Put it FACE DOWN on the corner of your desk.

12/9/13

1.7 Characteristics and Function of the English Language

Objective: To demonstrate knowledge of pronouns

What types of pronouns are represented in the sentences below:

The table was set for our Thanksgiving feast. It was my mom's masterpiece! This was the meal we had anticipated forever! Mom's turkey, that my dad ran out and bought, was as tasty as a prisoner's last meal. Who doesn't love Thanksgiving? Nobody!

Now find the metaphor, simile, and hyperbole!

Robert FrostThe New England Poet(1874-1963)

Although Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, he lived in New England most of his life and was known as "the New England Poet." Frost found his subjects in the landscapes and people of New England. He once wrote that a subject for poetry...

"...should be common in experience and uncommon in books...it should have happened to everyone but it should have occurred to no one before as material.“

In 1961, Frost read one of his poems at John F. Kennedy's inauguration. He was the first poet to be invited to participate in a presidential inauguration ceremony. (Maya Angelou has also been honored in this way)

onomatopoeia- words that imitate sound

The ghost howled and moaned as the kidsentered the room

couplet- two consecutive lines that rhyme

Pumpkin pie is the best;I love that pie above the rest!

Copy these terms in your notebook ANDon your terms sheet.

11/1/13

1.1 Learning to Read Independently

Objective: To practice a PSSA poem selection

Bellringer: Submit your POE-STER project to table.

Affix rubric to back.

We start poetry on Monday. You will demonstrate your prior poetry knowledge through an assessment. Grab a PSSA packet off the front table. It is a QUIZ. Read and complete carefully.

November 8, 2013

1.3 Reading Analyzing, and interpreting Literature

Objective: To read and analyze poetry. To define and identify poetic terms.

Define couplet:

Write a couplet about Thanksgiving:

Define style:

1. Now, grade using the keys on the front table and red pens. Do not grade the paragraph response.

DO NOT BRING YOUR PENCIL OR PEN TO THE TABLE.

THERE ARE 3 KEYS. NO MORE THAN 3 STUDENTS AT FRONT TABLE AT A TIME!

2. Put the number missed in red at the top by your name (ex. -6). 3. Leave packet opened to the paragraph response on the

table. 4. Take another student’s response and a rubric.

5. Take it back to your seat and highlight/assess it. 6. Submit packet and rubric (unattached) to bin.