1. English Language Arts
Level 8 Lesson 25
Mrs. Morrisey

2. Grammar Grabber
If he try hard enuf Bill can become a actor
someday

3. Grammar Grabber
If he tries hard enough, Bill can become an
actor some day.

4. Quickwrite: (5 min.)
Tell me your life story in seven lives or less?

6. Quickwrite: (5 min.)
Tell me your life story in seven lines or less.

7. Lesson Objectives
Narrative Poetry

8. What is Narrative Poetry?
(a poem that tells a story)
More about Narrative Poetry?
Has many elements of Short Story (i.e. plot,
setting, characters, conflict)
Examples: ballads, epics, lays

9. Papa’s Fishing Hole
I place my tiny hand in his
as we walk to Papa’s Fishing Hole.
I hand him a wiggling night crawler
fighting for his life.

10. Papa’s Fishing Hole
The deadly hook squishes
through the worm’s head,
and I watch the brown guts ooze out.
Papa throws the pole’s long arm back and then forward.

11. Papa’s Fishing Hole
The line lands in a merky spot along the reedy shore.
Now I get to reel it in.
Nothing yet, he says.
He casts again. I reel it in.
Still nothing.

12. Papa’s Fishing Hole
Three time’s a charm, he says.
He casts.
A strike.
We turn the crank together.
The fish jumps from the water
and his colors form a rainbow

13. Papa’s Fishing Hole
as he arches his body above the reeds.
My Papa handles him
with the skill of a master
as I stop helping to watch him work.

14. Papa’s Fishing Hole
A stiff jerk, a quick reel, a stiff jerk again.
The fish doesn’t have a chance, I yell.
I know. I know. I know, he says.
Elisabeth Babin

15. Papa's Fishing Hole Questions
1. Who are the characters in the poem?
2. What do you know about the speaker in the poem?
3. What is the setting of the poem? (time and place)
4. What types of conflicts occur in the poem? (hint: there is more than one)
5. What is the mood of the poem?

17. Papa's Fishing Hole Questions
1. Who are the characters in the poem?
2. What do you know about the speaker in the poem?
3. What is the setting of the poem? (time and place)
4. What types of conflicts occur in the poem? (hint: there is more than one)
5. What is the mood of the poem?

18. Papa's Fishing Hole Questions
1. Who are the characters in the poem?
Child & Grandfather
2. What do you know about the speaker in the poem?
Excited & happy about fishing with Grandfather
3. What is the setting of the poem? (time and place)
Fishing Hole, late 20th Century

19. Papa's Fishing Hole Questions
4. What types of conflicts occur in the poem? (hint: there is more than one)
Man v. Self -boy is anxious
Man v. Nature- boy/grandfather v. fish
5. What is the mood of the poem?
Warm & Exciting

20. What did we learn in this lesson?
1. Definition of Narrative Poetry
2. Example of Narrative Poetry
3. Papa's Fishing Hole/Questions

21. Read “Charge of the Light Brigade”
Write a narrative poem of your own.