Scansion Day 37 March 2013Miss Rice

Warm-Up•What are the two types of words that

make up meter? •What is the first step when trying to find

the meter in a line of poetry?

*Please take out your prefix HW

*Please take out scansion worksheets

Students of the Week•Block 2

▫Nick: participates, always does his work, kind, funny (Kanye!)

•Block 4▫Esteban: engaged, participates, asks great

questions, remains on-task

Agenda•Prefixes•Scansion•“This I Believe”•Review

CP Objectives 3/7•To reinforce understanding of prefixes.•To review and practice scansion.•To learn the elements of an effective

presentation.•To review for dark romanticism exam.

Prefixes•Star your 3 favorite

•Share with a partner

•Debrief with class

Warm-Up•What are the two types of words that

make up meter?

•What is the first step when trying to find the meter in a line of poetry?

Stations•Finish stations from yesterday

•Start at the station AFTER the one you ended at yesterday

Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance•Let’s review the answers!

Rhyme Scheme and Stanza Length•Review examples 2 and 3

Quick Check•Head down- who feels confident with

scansion?

•Show us what you know!

“This I Believe”: Common Errors•Philosophies

▫Need to be more personal & more specific▫Action-driven/clear

What does love give us? What does freedom allow? What does it result in?

“This I Believe”: Common Errors•Comma splices

▫What are they?▫How do we fix them?

Owen obviously picked that team, he loves the Sixers.

Fragments, run-ons

“This I Believe”: Common Errors•Examples

▫Stay away from general examples▫Stronger essays use personal and specific

examples▫Sometimes just one strong example is

better than a lot of general ones▫Your example should be connected to your

philosophy and prove it

“This I Believe”: Common Errors•Spelling

▫Try reading your essay BACKWARDS to catch spelling errors (spell check doesn't catch everything!)

•Word choice▫NOOOOO “thing”▫NOOOOO “you”

“This I Believe”: Common Errors•Formatting

▫Title▫Spacing between paragraphs▫Tab to indent▫Word count▫No “This I Believe” in our title

A personal title, specific to your philosophy

“This I Believe”•Look at comments from us

•Clear up any questions

“This I Believe” PresentationsDUE FRIDAY, 3/15 (write this in on the rubric)

• 15 points to present in front of class▫ Tone▫ Clarity▫ Emotionality

• If you do not want to share with the class, you can opt to not present and get a 0/15

• 5 extra credit points for a radio/voice recording▫ YOUR VOICE

• 10 extra credit points for your voice recording with a videoTECHNOLOGY

Student TIB Example•What’s good?

•Suggestions?

Dark Romanticism Test•Study Guide

▫Any questions?

•Practice Question▫Which of the 5 characteristics of

romanticism do you see the most in the stories and poem we have read? Give three examples from the literature to support this characteristic.

Scansion Revisited•Mrs. Mohap with the verdict….

Homework•Study!•TIB for Mon. and Fri. next week