March 20, 2015imagery in poetry

Homework: Have a great weekend!

Objective

I can identify imagery in poetry and evaluate its impact on the poem's meaning.

Warm Up:

Clear your desk of everything except for your pencil. You can recycle your unit 3 flashcards. Today you will take two quizzes - the vocabulary unit 3 quiz, and a quiz from a passage from Scholastic Scope.

Take the vocabulary quiz

Read Your Phone Could Ruin Your Life (If You Let It) on pgs. 6-9 in the Scholastic Scope magazine and then complete the quiz questions.

Write out the letter of your answer beside each question for both quizzes.

When you are finished with BOTH quizzes, turn BOTH in at the same time.

In the red section of your Lit book, look up and copy into your notes the definition of IMAGERY.

3 main elements of poetry

3 main elements of poetry

sound devices

3 main elements of poetry

sound devicesfigurative language

3 main elements of poetry

sound devices imageryfigurative language

imagery

imagery consists of words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses. Writers use sensory details to help the reader imagine how things:lookfeelsmellsound taste

Create a chart like this one in your comp book

Fall

Change

taste sight touch smell hearing

Message from a Caterpillar

Fog

Turn to pg. 602 Fall

Which of the five senses do the details in the poem appeal to? Record your answers in your chart.

Turn to pg. 604 Change Find the simile in

lines 14-16. What does the simile help you hear? Why is it a good comparison?

Turn to pg. 610 Message from a Caterpillar

Restate what is going on inside the cocoon.

Turn to pg. 611

FogWhat is the fog compared to?

haiku

a form of Japanese poetry in which 17 syllables are arranged in three lines of 5,7,5 syllable pattern. Typically, they are about nature.

Now in your groups...Write a haiku relating to Your Phone Could Ruin Your Life (If You Let It).