1. SSR (15) SSR (15) CAHSEE (10) CAHSEE (10) “Helplessly Hoping” (15) “Helplessly Hoping” (15) –Alliteration –Assonance –Repetition –Refrain –Connotation Other Poems (12) Other Poems (12) –Free verse –Prose –Concrete Poem HW: Personification worksheet/Study for Quiz HW: Personification worksheet/Study for Quiz

2. Agenda 2/22/13 Poetry Quiz #2/SSR Poetry Quiz #2/SSR Free Write Friday Free Write Friday Homework: Personification Homework: Personification Chain Poem Chain Poem

3. Assonance Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation

4. Free Verse “The Red Wheelbarrow” so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. - William Carlos Williams

5. Free Verse Free verse is an open form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech Free verse is an open form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech

7. Concrete Poetry Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the arrangement of words is as important as the conventional elements of the poem. Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the arrangement of words is as important as the conventional elements of the poem. It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry. It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry.

8. Prose (“11” by Sandra Cisneros) What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don't. You open your eyes and everything's just like yesterday, only it's today. And you don't feel eleven at all. You feel like you're still ten. And you are --underneath the year that makes you eleven. Like some days you might say something stupid, and that's the part of you that's still ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama's lap because you're scared, and that's the part of you that's five. And maybe one day when you're all grown up maybe you will need to cry like if you're three, and that's okay. That's what I tell Mama when she's sad and needs to cry. Maybe she's feeling three. Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one. That's how being eleven years old is.

9. Prose Prose is a form of language which uses ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure. Prose is a form of language which uses ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure.