1. Literary Elements Glossary Reserve a few pages in your notebook to become your literary elements glossary. We will be adding to this list of terms throughout the year, and you will be asked to refer to and use them as we read and write.

2. “Oranges” by Gary Soto Wednesday February 15th: Class Work: Analyzing poetry: "Oranges" by Gary Soto. 1. Students will take notes on the following literary term: binary opposition. Click here for the ppt notes. 2. Students will work in small groups for 10 minutes to analyze the binaries and discuss other literary terms within the poem. Click here for the discussion questions. 3. Discuss the light/dark binary as a class. What symbols and connotations are associated with the light/dark imagery? What does the "fire in my hands" symbolize? Homework: BRING The Book Thief TO CLASS TOMORROW: THURSDAY 2/16. This will count as a homework grade. We will have a discussion introducing the novel, and I will assign the reading that will be due when we return from break. Also Bring your Poetry/SS reader back to class tomorrow. Click here for the ppt notesClick here for the discussion questions

3. Binary Opposition Relationship between opposing ideas some common binaries: youth/age masculinity/femininity good/evil Life/death one side of the binary pair is usually seen by a particular society or culture as more valued over the other.

4. WHERE DID THIS IDEA COME FROM? 20th century European academic thinkers, Claude Levi Strauss and Roland Barthes, believed: the way we understand certain words depends on our understanding of the difference between the word and its 'opposite’, not on the direct definition words merely act as symbols for society's ideas the meaning of words, therefore, was a relationship rather than a fixed thing: a relationship between opposing ideas.

5. Notes on binaries (continued): When studying poetry, it is worth looking for the ways in which layers of meaning are being created or reinforced through 'binary opposition’ Recognizing binaries can open up the ideas the writer is trying to express.