1. Do Now 5-1: Write Your Name, Week 14, Date, and Class on Your Form and put it in your Grammar Section! Turn in your blog posts up front! Use a comparative or superlative form of the modifier in parentheses to write a sentence of your own about each topic. 1.The weather today compared to yesterday (nice) 2.One class compared to another (difficult) 3.One candidate compared to three others (logically)

2. Grammar Notes Adjectives and adverbs have three forms or degrees Comparative Degree: Most adjectives with one and two syllables compare with –er ending Use more/less for adverbs and adjectives with more than 2 syllables) Some words are irregular (better, worse, more)

3. A.E. Housman: Failed out of college but became a professor on his own work Wrote poems in early 20s, turned down offer of poet laureate Literature Notes- Poetry

4. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Great performer of his poetry, had financial troubles Uses emotions like Romantic poets Used vilanelle: French poetic form of 19 lines (5 three-line stanza with aba rhyme and a quatrain with abaa rhyme) Literature Notes- Poetry

5. Making Inferences About Poetry An inference is an intelligent guess. Inferences are based on two things: current evidence (figures of speech) and prior knowledge. current evidence: information that’s in front of you right now prior knowledge: things you already know + inference

6. “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas Poem overview: Speaker looks back on childhood on a farm and sees his youth as going by too quickly Has sound devices like assonance and consonance Literature Notes- Poetry

7. Read “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” on page 1160 with a partner! Literature Notes- Poetry Review: Elements of Romanticism Emphasis on individual Lyric poem style Value emotion, nature, and common things Language resembles natural speech Elements of the mysterious and supernatural Know these for the unit test!

8. Do Now 5-2: Turn in your blog posts up front! Use a comparative or superlative form of the modifier in parentheses to write a sentence of your own about each topic. 1.The sun shining today compared to yesterday (brightly) 2.Your level of tiredness this year and last year (energetic) 3.Walking at school and walking home (carefully)

9. Literature Notes Review: Elements of Romanticism Influenced by revolutions of 1700s and agitation for change Popularized lyric poems: short poems with a single speaker expressing personal thoughts and feelings Value emotion, nature, and common things Language resembles natural speech Elements of the mysterious and supernatural Know these for the unit test!

10. Romanticism: Movement in literature art, and politics in 1800s Let’s watch the first half of this documentary on the Romantics! As you watch, be prepared to tell me one way the poems we studied were shaped by this period- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scck3YCiRxg Literature Notes- Poetry

11. Do Now 5-3: Write each sentence on your form with the correct form of adjective or adverb in parentheses. 1.This is the (hard) test I have ever taken in my life. 2.Mr. Mark speaks (rapidly) than I thought possible. 3.The girl in the back speaks English (fluently) than the rest of the class.

12. Grammar Notes A compound subject is made up of two or more subjects joined by a conjunction Compound subjects take singular verbs only if: The sentence starts with “each”, “every”, or “many a” Subjects joined by “or” or “nor”, and the second subject is singular If the two parts of a compound subject act as one unit

13. Mood: the feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for a reader Elements creating mood in a poem: Diction (word choice) Imagery Sentence structure Sound devices Literature Notes- Poetry

14. Let’s play Review Jeopardy! Get into teams of no more than 4 and get an answer sheet. You must fill out the correct answer and turn it in without running to get credit for your team. It doesn’t matter who gets the answer in first, but they can choose the next category! Literature Notes

15. Vocabulary multiple choice to definitions and synonyms from the poems Poet matching to descriptions Grammar- adjective/adverb degrees, compound subjects and verb agreement, subjects in unusual places Multiple Choice/Short Answer- Lit notes, steps to understanding poetry, Romanticism and Victorian era info, mood in poetry Test tomorrow

16. Test 5-4: 1.ANSWER EVERY QUESTION- LEAVE NOTHING BLANK! 2.The essay/poem part is no longer on the test – DON’T DO IT (unless you want some EC) 3.Any talking, looking at others, or turning in your test after the bell will hurt your grade! 4.DO YOUR BEST

17. Romanticism: Movement in literature art, and politics in 1800s Let’s watch the second half of this documentary on the Romantics! As you watch, be prepared to tell me one way the poems we studied were shaped by this period- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scck3YCiRxg Literature Notes- Poetry

18. Silent Sustained Reading For 15 minutes, read Pages 1162-1165 silently! You will practice outlining an argument with a partner after this.

19. With a partner, come up with a thesis, 3 body points, and a concluding thought for the following argument: “Are people happier when they are children are when they are adults?” Answer in the third person, with an argument! Writing Notes

20. In the WPP, keep these things in mind: Are my sentences complex enough (use conjunctions and words like “because” and “although”? Do I avoid “I” and keep it third person? Do I have a good thesis, and good topic sentences? Do I set up a point, give some evidence of that point, then explain it by analyzing its importance to the topic overall? Writing Notes