NO WARM-UP TODAY! Instead, wait for instructions…

Warm-up: Answer the following TRUE or FALSE questions. If the answer is false, write why it’s false. 1. Finding out the speaker of a poem means you simply have to find out if the speaker is male or female. 2. The mood of the poem is how the speaker feels in the story. 3. The following is an example of a theme: listening to authority vs. standing up for yourself. 4. In yesterday’s haiku, the word “sufficient” would be a good piece of diction to study because it is one word that adds a great deal of meaning to the poem.

 I will stamp completed annotations and analysis for “Piano” and “Those Winter Sundays”.  Does everybody have To Kill a Mockingbird?

Literary Criticism 3.11 Evaluate the aesthetic qualities of style, including the impact of diction and figurative language on tone, mood, and theme, using the terminology of literary criticism. (Aesthetic approach)

Stretch your legs out… it’s time for a poetic terms relay race!  You will be put into groups of four.  Select one person in your group who does not want to “race” to come up to the front of the room to be the “holder of definitions”.  The “holder of definitions” will be given a packet of definitions of poetic terms.  On the board, you will find the names of the poetic terms that we’ve gone over so far. The “holder of definitions” holds the definition to each one of these terms.

 When I say “go”, select the first group member to run to the “holder of definitions” to get your group’s first definition.  Group member #1 will run back to the group, talk to the team about which term the definition matches with. Group member #1 will have to run to the board to tape the definition FACE DOWN next to its definition.  Select the next group member to run to the “holder of definitions” to pick up the team’s next definition and find where it goes. The first team done correctly wins!

RULES 1. Every member of the team must remain behind the LCD projector table unless they are running to the “holder of definitions” or to the board. 2. Each group member must participate in the race; if anybody in the group races twice, the group will be disqualified. 3. You have to discuss where the definition goes with your group; if each person tries to figure it out on his/her own, the team will be disqualified. 4. There are some “trickster” definitions that are not definitions for any term; if you get a trickster definition, you must tape it up on the “trickster” area of your group’s board. 5. The “holder of definitions” isn’t allowed to look at which definitions he/she is giving the group.

Now that we’ve reviewed, let’s read our next poem: “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”.  After we read it twice, take five minutes to annotate for:  metaphors**  symbols**  irony**  diction  speaker  tone  mood  theme ** focus on finding these terms

Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year. Thirtyfive years I lived with my husband. The plumtree is white today with masses of flowers. Masses of flowers load the cherry branches and color some bushes yellow and some red but the grief in my heart is stronger than they for though they were my joy formerly, today I notice them and turned away forgetting. Today my son told me that in the meadows, at the edge of the heavy woods in the distance, he saw trees of white flowers. I feel that I would like to go there and fall into those flowers and sink into the marsh near them. -William Carlos Williams

 Finish the worksheet for “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”.  Read, annotate and complete the worksheet for “48 Hours After You Left”