Warm-up 4/9 Organize your poetry notebook. Create a tab for warm-ups (4-5 pgs) Create a tab for vocabulary (2 pgs) Create a tab for poems (15–20 pgs) Create a tab for analysis (10pgs) Once you are done organizing: Write a six word poem about your favorite teacher.

Turn to the vocabulary section of your notebook: Record the following vocabulary terms in your notebooks

Speaker speaker - the created narrative voice of the poem (i.e. the person the reader is supposed to imagine is talking). The speaker is NOT necessarily the poet. The poet often invents a speaker for the poem in order to give him/herself more freedom to compose the poem.

Audience audience - the person or people to whom the speaker is speaking.  Identifying the audience within a poem helps you to understand the poem better. There are different people the speaker can address in the poem: The speaker can address another character in the poem. The speaker can address a character who is not present or is dead. The speaker can address you, the reader.

Mood Mood is the atmosphere of a piece of writing; it’s the emotions a selection arouses in a reader. A good way to determine mood is to look at the specific words or diction that the author is using and determine whether they give of a positive or negative feeling. Determining the feeling that a word evokes in addition to its literal meaning is called connotation. For example – what emotion is evoked by the words “spring break” vs “detention”?

Within your group… Read through your poem twice Have a different person read each time Discuss the poem as a group – take notes on your handout. Who is the speaker – how do you know? Who is the intended audience – how do you know? What is the mood of the poem – how do you know? Overall, what does this poem mean to you? We will discuss as a class in 10 – 15 minutes.

HW: Take your poem that you analyzed as a group and complete the 1st paragraph of the poetry explication. Submit your paragraph to turnitin.com. Due tomorrow before class.