1. Share your reading journals with your table. What did you think of the poems? Homework on your desks. It’s stamp time!

2. How did last night go? We care. Promise.

3. Poetry Reading Strategy 1.Examine the title. – Make a prediction 2.Read the poem. 3.Summarize the poem. 4.Ask: What is the subject? 5.Ask: What is the message about that subject? (theme) – Figurative language – Prosody – Critical literary theory

4. In your group: Pick a poem that we’ve already read. Talk about it! – Go through EVERY SINGLE reader’s response prompt. (Well, except seven…) – Critical literary theory? :D

5. Write your name on a piece of paper. How many syllables is it? On which syllable do you put the emphasis? What happens when you emphasize a different syllable?

6. Let’s talk about meter! Being able to describe the pattern of a poem’s meter can help us to analyze its meaning. Sometimes, however, especially with more modern poetry, you will find that there is no clear dominant meter, that the poet has written the line as it would be spoken, in a more casual mix of syllables, a more conversational tone.

7. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” Read the first line Count the syllables Figure out which syllables are stressed and which are unstressed

8. Homework Read and annotate “This Is a Photograph of Me” by Margaret Atwood. Complete one reading journal entry. Study for your quiz.