“THE HIGHWAYMAN”

And “The Gentleman of the Road”

BEFORE YOU READ

Open up your Poetry Daily Work file and at the top

of the document label it “The Highwayman”

THE GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD

Turn to page 357 and read "The Gentlemen of the

Road”

On a half sheet of paper, answer the Test Practice

questions on page 259.

We will be correcting and discussing these, so

don’t turn it in.

“THE HIGHWAYMAN”

Think about what you learned in “Gentlemen of the Road”.

Preview the text: look at the pictures and the footnotes on

the bottom of the pages (there are a lot of old English words,

so this will be necessary for your understanding!

Skim and scan the whole narrative poem and make a

prediction about this is about.

Make the prediction in your Poetry Daily Work file.

I think this poem will be about_________because_________.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR LOVE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkWrA-KEP30

Turn to page 247 and listen to the poem.

While you listen, look for the following:• Theme• Figurative Language Devices (Poetry Terms)

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

List the following terms and find at least TWO

examples of each in “The Highwayman”• Repetition• Metaphor• Simile• Onomatopoeia • End Rhyme• Imagery• Alliteration

TOPIC

Below your Figurative Language Devices write

“Topic”

List some “Topics” that fit “The Highwayman”• Topics can usually be expressed in just a word or

two: love, childhood, injustice

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THEME

Write “Theme” below the “Topics” you have listed

Looking at the topics we have listed, come up with

a theme for “The Highwayman”

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