Bell Ringer

1. Hold onto the home learning, we’ll collect it after the bell ringer.

2. (10 minutes to complete) Get your computer & go to: http://studentpollsurvey.gallup.com/GNB48BW70

3. Select your preferred language, read the information, and click the ‘begin survey’ button.

4. When you finish/while you wait for a computer answer the following in your comp. book: In 3-5 sentences, restating the prompt, write about what frightens you. Be sure to write specific evidence.

Housekeeping

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Make-up Monday cancelled next week, but will resume 10/19. Lit. book needed next class

HOME LEARNING: If you get a scholarship warning today, have a parent sign it and return it

next class. Read (only) Wonder p. 236 – 248.

If not finished in class today… Achieve 3000: “Schools Take Steps to Stop Bullies” (article + activity tabs

only.) Questions?

Intro to poetry

Analyze and explain how a specific element contributes to overall structure and development of the theme, setting, or plot.

Objectives

LAFS.6.RL.2.5 (Text Structure – Literary Texts)

I can… analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene,

or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

Elements of Poetry0Poetry is not prose. 0Prose is the ordinary language people use

in speaking or writing.0Poetry is a form of literary expression that

captures intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world in a musical language.

0Basically, if prose is like talking, poetry is like singing.

0By looking at the set up of a poem, you can see the difference between prose and poetry.

Distinguishing Characteristics of Poetry0Unlike prose which has a narrator, poetry has a speaker.0A speaker, or voice, talks to the reader. The

speaker is not necessarily the poet. It can also be a fictional person, an animal or even a thing.

0 ExampleBut believe me, son.I want to be what I used to bewhen I was like you.from “Once Upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara

Distinguishing Characteristics of Poetry

0Similarly to how prose uses sentences to express ideas, poetry uses lines.

0Prose organizes sentences into paragraphs, but poetry groups lines into stanzas.

0 Example1 Once when I was running, From all that haunted me To the dark I was succumbing To what hurt unbearably

5 Searching for the one thing That would set my sad soul free

In time I stumbled upon it, An inner calm and peace And now I am beginning To see and to believe,10 In who I am becoming— And all I’ve yet to be. “Self Love” by Lang Leav

Stanza 1

Stanza 3

Stanza 2

Rhyme0Rhyme is the repetition of the same

stressed vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in two or more words.

0Internal rhyme occurs within a line of poetry.

0End rhyme occurs at the end of lines.0Rhyme scheme is the pattern of end rhymes that may be designated by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme

Example “All mine!" Yertle cried. "Oh, the things I

now rule!I'm king of a cow! And I'm king of a

mule!I'm king of a house! And what's more,

beyond that,I'm king of a blueberry bush and cat!I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me!For I am the ruler of all that I see!”from “Yertle the Turtle”by Dr. Seuss

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In the pathway of the sun,In the footsteps of the breeze,

Where the world and sky are one,He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave.

I shall sit at home, and rock;Rise, to heed a neighbor’s knock;Brew my tea, and snip my

thread;Bleach the linen for my bed.

They will call him brave.

“Penelope” by Dorothy Parker

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Connotation and DenotationConnotation - the emotional and imaginative

association surrounding a word.

Denotation - the strict dictionary meaning of a word.

Example: You may live in a house, but we live in a home.

Which of the following has a more favorable connotation?

1. thriftypenny-pinching

2. pushyaggressive

3. politician statesman

4. chef cook

5. slender skinny

Elements of PoetryWhen we explore the connotation and denotation of a poem, we are looking at the poet’s diction.

Diction – the word choice an author or poet uses.

Many times, a poet’s diction can help unlock the tone or mood of the poem.

Free Verse0Free verse is poetry that has no fixed pattern

of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement.

0When writing free verse, a poet is free to vary the poetic elements to emphasize an idea or create a tone.

0In writing free verse, a poet may choose to use repetition or similar grammatical structures to emphasize and unify the ideas in the poem.

I Do

0 Open your lit. books to the poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All” p. 282

0 Teacher reads first few lines & discusses repetition of phrase “doesn’t frighten me at all”

0 Discuss how repetition affects the structure of the poem.

We Do

0 Finish reading the poem as a whole group.0 Identify various text structures located throughout

the poem.0 Teacher fills out the example chart.

“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me”

“On Turning Ten”

Who is the speaker?

A young girl

What situation does he/she face?

Life

How does he/she feel about the situation?

She’s fearless and confident in herself.

Work Period

0 Now read “On Turning Ten” p. 285 (lit. book) with your elbow partner.

0 After reading discuss the poem’s structure.0 Fill out the chart together. You may refer back to the

example we did together.0 When you finish, get your computer and complete

Achieve 3000: “Schools Take Steps to Stop Bullies” (article + activity tabs only.)

Packing Up Checklist

#1 - Comp. books returned to bin/computers returned to cart #2 - All your belongings packed up #3 - My supplies neatly returned to where you got them #4 - All trash thrown away & paper recycled #5 - Desks in neat rows #6 - Seated silently waiting for Ms. Barker to dismiss you #7 – (8B only) sit silently during announcements & wet wipe

the desks. #8 – (8B only) Stack chairs on desks after the announcements

have finished.