OCTOBER 24, 2012

DLT: I can identify and apply various literary and poetic devices in order to interpret its meaning.

You will need your clickers!

Bell Ringer Numbers 39-41

FLEX GROUP DAY

You will be going to different rooms to participate in different learning activities.

Each Teacher will be recording participation points and distribute back to your English 2 teacher.

TRASHKETBALLFigurative Language

RULES OF TRASHKETBALL1. Stay in your seats at all times.2. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss

the answer to a question AND3. Write ONE response to the question

on a sheet of paper.4. All teams will hold up their answers.5. If you are correct, your team will get

the opportunity to shoot the correct response into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line.

6. If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit.

7. Shots will be made after ALL the questions have been answered.

1

A boy told me that if he roller-skated fast enoughhis loneliness couldn’t catch up to him.

ANSWER

Personification

2

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia StoutWould not take the garbage out!It filled the can, it covered the floor,It cracked the window and blocked the door,The garbage rolled on down the hall,It raised the roof, it broke the wall…At last the garbage reached so highThat finally it touched the sky.

ANSWER

Hyperbole

3

Fast breaks. Lay ups.Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silkTen feet out.When girls Cheered on the sidelines.

ANSWER

Simile

4

Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

ANSWER

Metaphor

5

It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee;-And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

ANSWER

Hyperbole

6

A big room with heavy wooden tables, heavy oak chairs.

To the left side the card catalogue.All those books–another world–just waiting at

my fingertips.

ANSWER

Metaphor

7

old age sticks

up Keep

Off

signs)&

youth yanks them

down(old

age cries)

youth laughs

old age

scolds Forbid

den Stop

Must

n’t Don’t

&youth goes

right on

gr

owing old

ANSWER

Personification

8

Better you should have a nose impertinent1

as a flower,sensitive As a root;

1. Something impertinent is improperly bold or rude.

ANSWER

Simile

10

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it isnot easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; theywalk off proud; they can’t hear youcalling–Look out how you use proud words.

ANSWER

Personification

READ AND ANNOTATE

Read and annotate your poem, individually.

Be sure to use your annotation key and TP-CASTT.

CREATE

Create your own “I Am” poem.

You may use the template, if needed.

DESIGN A METAPHOR/SIMILE COLLAGE

Use magazines and cut out words or pictures to illustrate metaphors or similes.

Metaphors and similes should express how you feel about poetry.

Example: Poetry is

Poetry is as beautiful as a

Poetry is as hard as a