1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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”?

6. 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.

7. 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.