Day 59- Foundations R&J intro and Gerunds

Objectives 1. Identify Participles and Analyze sentences for their effect. 2. Analyze how sound devices can affect the interpretation of a poem. Homework: Print off Drama/Poetry terms from the wiki Close reading Poems- due Friday

Gerund- Warm up- Copy the following sentences. Label S, V, DO, IO, PN, PA and identify the gerund and Objects in the gerund phrase. 1. Eating a sandwich will make me feel better. 2. My dream of shopping for a living can never happen in reality.

Binder check during class Fiction remediation will be this Thursday- Retakes are offered on Friday

Sounds of Poetry Poets can pick certain words to make their poetry sound a certain way. Alliteration- Repetitive consonant sounds at the beginnings of words Examples: Peter Piper picked a peck… Lazy living led Leonard to loath labor… Purpose: gives words “pep and pop” by emphasizing their sound

Assonance- Repetitive vowel sounds within words Examples: Avid fan in the grand stand… Tony dropped a bowling ball on his toe. Purpose: helps making your words flow in a musically pleasing way.

Onomatopoeia- Words that sound like what they are describing Examples: splash, splat, pop, woof, meow… Purpose: It realistically describes the sound using the real sound.

Rhyme-The repetition of the accented vowel sounds and all succeeding sounds Examples- mouse/house, basement/casement, June/spoon Purposes- Rhyme gives specific flow, can connect ideas together. Typically seen in children’s poetry, humor or light verse (Hallmark cards).

Rhyme Scheme: A way to label a pattern of rhyme occurring throughout a poem. The cat was really big. A He ate lots of mice. B He liked to wear a wig. A He chewed on some dice. B Some poems require a certain rhyme scheme (limericks and sonnets for example.) Rhymezone.com is website for rhyming.

Examples of Rhyming Poems Ogden Nash-The King of funny rhyme “Celery” Celery, raw Develops the jaw, But celery, stewed, Is more quietly chewed. “The Wasp” The wasp and all his numerous family I look upon as a major calamity. He throws open his nest with prodigality, But I distrust his waspitality.

 Terms:  Rhythm: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line.  Rhyme: the musical quality of a poem. Correspondence of sound between words.  Internal Rhyme: rhyme that occurs within the lines of a poem.  End Rhyme: rhyme that occurs at the end of lines.  Approximate Rhyme: rhyme that uses similar but not exact sounds. Ex. Consonant sounds: Mind - Sign

Meter: a regular pattern of rhythm. Rhyme Scheme: a regular pattern of rhyme. Scansion: charting meter in a poem.

To identify a poem’s meter, you have to break each line into smaller units called feet. A foot consists of one stressed syllable and one or two unstressed ones. Combine the type of feet and number of feet from the left to describe a poem’s meter. Shakespeare is famous for using Iambic Pentameter

MONTAGUE vs. CAPULET Romeo Lord Montague (his dad) Lady Montague (his mom) Mercutio (friend) Benvolio (cousin) Juliet Lord Capulet (her father) Lady Capulet (her mother) Tybalt (cousin) Nurse

Setting The story is set in the late 1500’s mostly in the town of Verona, Italy. However, there are a few acts set in Mantua, Italy a smaller town just a few miles away.

Interesting… “Star-crossed lovers” refers to two people who are in love but have conflicting astrological signs. In Shakespeare’s times, people believed the course of their lives was determined by the exact second they were born. The Italian city of Verona, where Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.

Verona Today Today, Verona has an incredible amount of graffiti, which is legal, provided that you are writing about your love for someone.

Romeo and Juliet - Prologue

 Write three things you learned about gerunds today.  Write two examples of gerunds.  Write one question you still have about Romeo and Juliet.