1. Unit 3: Poetry Week 1

2. ObjectiveAssignmentsHW MonRhetorical Analysis, speeches WU: Pronouns Notes: Poetry Terms FDR’s Inaugural speech Review & organize grammar handbook notes TuesRhetorical Analysis, speeches WU: Pronouns Notes: Poetry Terms FDR’s Inaugural speech WedIdentify poetic terms & devices WU: fragments, run-ons Read & Analyze Pat Mora “Reading Warm-Up” homework Reading Warm-Up due Friday ThursAssess understanding WU: Fragments, Run-Ons Notes: Poetic Terms Handout: “Learning About Poetry” & “Model Selection: Poetry” Rhyme Scheme Practice Reading Warm-Up due Friday FriAnalyze a lyric poem WU: Review & turn in HW Analyze a lyric poem (in a song) GH: coordinating conjunctions Song analysis due Tues. GH page due Mon if not done in class 11/3-11/7: FDR Speech, Poetry

3. MONDAY TERMS

4. Notes: Poetic Terms Connotation Denotation: set of ideas associated with a word in addition to its meaning dictionary meaning of a word Ex: heart—denotation is the organ in the body that pumps blood. Connotation is place that controls and represents our emotions and feelings

5. Notes: Poetic Terms Poetry/ verse:A type of literature that is highly concise, rhythmical, and often rhyming Elizabeth Barrett Browning Nikki Giovanni

6. Notes: Poetic Terms Rhyme scheme:regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem, identified by using letters of the alphabet

7. Notes: Poetic Terms Figurative language: When a speaker/writer conveys something other than the literal meaning of his/her words Ex: metaphors, similes, hyperbole (exaggeration), etc.

8. TUESDAY TERMS

9. Notes: Poetic Terms Types of poetry: Forms: –Narrative: writer tells story in verse –Dramatic: writer tells story using character's thoughts or statements –Lyric: writer expresses feelings of a speaker, creating single effect on reader –patterns of rhyme, rhythm, etc Haikus, sonnets, epics, ballads, etc.

10. Notes: Poetic Terms Metaphor Ex: Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. comparison between unlike things that does not use words like like or as.

11. Notes: Poetic Terms Paradox:a statement, an idea, or a situation that seems contradictory but actually expresses a truth: “I must be cruel to be kind.”—Shakespeare (Hamlet) “I can resist anything but temptation.” Oscar Wilde

12. Notes: Poetic Terms Personification Ex: Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud Giving inanimate objects or concepts animate or living qualities.

13. Notes: Poetic Terms Simile The comparison between two unlike things using like, as, or though. Ex: Robert Burns O my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.

14. THURSDAY TERMS

15. Notes: Poetic Terms Assonance Ex: I rose and told him of my woe Allen Ginsberg Repeating same or similar vowel sound in sentence or line of poetry

16. Notes: Poetic Terms Consonance Ex: Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Repeating same or similar consonant sound in a sentence or line of poetry

17. Notes: Poetic Terms Alliteration:the repetition of initial sounds in stressed syllables: “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew...”

18. Notes: Poetic Terms Onomatopoeia:the use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning, such as pop or hiss

19. Read “Hughes, Mistral, & Wordsworth” (619) w/ fig. lang. chart

20. Grammar Handbook: Coordinating Conjunctions FANBOYS RULES –For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So 1.Use coordinating conjunctions to connect words, phrases, and clauses, (sentences). 2.When connecting two clauses, use a comma before the coordinating conjunction. –Ex: I went swimming, and I felt refreshed. –Both parts could stand alone as sentences. This makes them both clauses.

21. Second Grading Period Progress Last week: Clauses 1.A sentence must contain at least one independent clause (subject and verb that can stand alone). 2.A sentence without an independent clause is a FRAG (fragment). 3.A sentence with more than one independent clause that is not properly punctuated is a R/O (run- on). This week: Coordinating Conjunctions 1.Use coordinating conjunctions to connect words, phrases, and clauses, (sentences). 2.When connecting two clauses, use a comma before the coordinating conjunction.