4/7/15––Poetry Notes; read and discuss "To Autumn" by John Keats; write an analytical/claim paragraph
4/8/15––Read and discuss "Autumn Daybreak" by Antonio Machado; write an analytical/claim paragraph; write a Snapshot Poem (3-10 lines/20-50 words/capture a specific moment or image)
4/9/15––Read and discuss "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman; write an analytical/claim paragraph; write a Haiku (5 syllables/7 syllables/5 syllables; Japanese nature poem)
4/10/15––Read and discuss "Fog" by Carl Sandburg and "Falling Snow" by Amy Lowell; write an analytical/claim paragraph; write a Five by Five poem (five lines/five words per line/no rhyme)
4/13/15––Find examples of each poetry term from the packet (underline and label it)
4/14/15––Share examples; read and discuss "Spring is like a perhaps hand" by e.e. cummings; write a two-sentence summary for each part of the poem (whole; in parens; not in parens)
4/15/15––Read and discuss "Hurt Hawks" by Robinson Jeffers; write an analytical/claim paragraph; write a poem (your choice of topic and style)
Poetry Terms for April 20 Quiz––it's open-note, so make sure you find an example of teach term from your poem packet.
- Imagery: words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader
- Figurative language: writing appeals to the senses; using words that have unusual constructions or sounds
- Alliteration: two or more words in a grouping with the same opening sound (the super suicide society of summer session)
- Analogy: a comparison of two things (the umbrella for metaphor and simile)
- Cliché: overused phrase
- Conceit: an unusual or fanciful comparison
- Euphemism: an inoffensive expression used in place of a blunt or embarrassing one
- Hyperbole: an extreme overstatement
- Idiom: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).
- Metaphor: an implicit comparison that doesn’t use like or as
- Personification: giving human qualities to something not human
- Onomatopoeia: sound words
- Simile: an explicit comparison using like or as
- Symbol: a word or phrase that signifies something or has a range of reference
- Lit. Devices
- Allusion: a historical or cultural reference to something outside the piece of literature
- Ambiguity: uncertainty of intended meaning
- Atmosphere: mood, ambience, or emotional tone of a text
- Cacophony: the use of words and phrases that imply strong, harsh sounds within the phrase (these words have jarring and dissonant sounds that create a disturbing, objectionable atmosphere)
- Diction: word choice
- Fallacy: a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.
- Irony: playing around with words such that the meaning implied by a sentence or word is actually different from the literal meaning (the deeper, real layer of significance is revealed not by the words themselves but the situation and the context in which they are placed)
- Motif: a conspicuous element that recurs throughout a story
- Paradox: a statement that seems to be contradictory, but that actually makes sense
- Point of View: the way a story gets told; the way an author presents characters ,dialogue, action, setting, and events
- Theme: the big idea examined in the text
- Tone: overall effect
Vocabulary for April 20 Quiz (there will also be an open note portion for poetry)
- Theme: the big idea examined in the text
- Tone: overall effect
- Trickster: element of chaos, curious to know how and why, practical joker; often causes problems for everyone by accident; Comic relief
- Voice: agent or agency speaking through the poem; persona
