2. Turn in bell ringer essay
3. Talk about 451 essay....Peer editing day will be Thursday, 10/30. Your essays MUST be turned in at the end of class.
-Read aloud - by author
-Read aloud by a peer
-Grammarly
Amy Lowell
"Generations" and "Night Clouds"
Goal: Students will be able to identify Cycles presented in text
Students will identify imagery and supporting details from text
Students will make inferences and draw conclusions based on text
Students will identify and evaluate text organization
Terms: Figurative language, imagery, simile and metaphor
Students will be introduced to Amy Lowell
1874-1925
Famous for her readings and lectures, as well as poetry.
Won Pulitzer Prize after her death for her writing
A pioneer of the Imagist movement
Influenced by haiku poets, the Imagists focused on a single, precisely presented image.
"Night Clouds" typifies Imagist poetry, with its strong central image and its rhythmic but irregular lines.
Pre- Reading discussion
"Generations" will discuss their families and the importance of generations
"Night Clouds" will discuss shapes of clouds
1. Students will read the poems by Lowell: "Generations" and "Night Clouds"
2. Students will pick out Figurative language, imagery, simile and metaphor and imagery,
3. Students will discuss both poems
4. Students will analyze the cycles presented in both poems.
5. Students will compare and contrast both poems
Structure Poems
11.A.2.4.1 Identify main ideas and supporting details from the text
11.B.2.1.1 Interpret personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire imagery, foreshadowing and irony
Students will identify imagery and supporting details from text
Students will make inferences and draw conclusions based on text
Students will identify and evaluate text organization
Terms: Figurative language, imagery, simile and metaphor
Students will be introduced to Amy Lowell
1874-1925
Famous for her readings and lectures, as well as poetry.
Won Pulitzer Prize after her death for her writing
A pioneer of the Imagist movement
Influenced by haiku poets, the Imagists focused on a single, precisely presented image.
"Night Clouds" typifies Imagist poetry, with its strong central image and its rhythmic but irregular lines.
Pre- Reading discussion
"Generations" will discuss their families and the importance of generations
"Night Clouds" will discuss shapes of clouds
1. Students will read the poems by Lowell: "Generations" and "Night Clouds"
2. Students will pick out Figurative language, imagery, simile and metaphor and imagery,
3. Students will discuss both poems
4. Students will analyze the cycles presented in both poems.
5. Students will compare and contrast both poems
Structure Poems
Goal: Students will analyze poetry Students will interpret and make conclusions about the meanings and structure of the poems
Students will be introduced to different structures/ formats of poetry: sonnet, haiku
Wednesday, 10/26
Students will be introduced to different structures/ formats of poetry: sonnet, haiku
Wednesday, 10/26
I. Bell Ringer
Define Haiku
Define Sonnet
II. Students will be briefly introduced to William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
-Actor, theater owner, playwright and poet
-wrote 38 plays over twenty years
-Wrote many of his sonnets and poems during a time when theaters were closed in London
-The sonnet was the most popular form of poetry during his time
III. Students will Read "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
(Page 6 packet; 868 in text)
(read once for meaning and once to hear Iambic Pentameter)
Terms: Metaphor; Rhyme Scheme of a SS Sonnet; Iambic Pentameter
1. As in a Shakespearean sonnet, The first 8 (Octet) lines present a problem or issue and the last 6 (Sestet) have a solution or outcome.
To what is the speaker comparing the subject of the poem?
2. What does the speaker say shall not fade?
3. What does the speaker say Death shall not do?
4. To whom is the poet speaking?
5. To what does "The eye of heaven" refer?
6. To what does the world THIS in the last line refer?
7. In comparison, does the beloved fare better or worse than a summer's day? Give a detail to support your opinion.
8. What makes the beloved immortal?
9. Find a metaphor
10. What is the rhyme scheme
IV. The Haiku
Basho- Most famous of the Japanese haiku poets.
-Believed that a poet must express the essential nature of an object
Issa- Favorite haiku poet
-led a life of hardship and personal loss
-Lived in poverty
-All children died in infancy
-His young wives died during his lifetime
-Found strength in small creatures and insects (Creatures whose lives are fleeting and appear overwhelmed by the elements)
The Haiku
-Can be read from line 1-3 and line 3-1
Define Sonnet
II. Students will be briefly introduced to William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
-Actor, theater owner, playwright and poet
-wrote 38 plays over twenty years
-Wrote many of his sonnets and poems during a time when theaters were closed in London
-The sonnet was the most popular form of poetry during his time
III. Students will Read "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
(Page 6 packet; 868 in text)
(read once for meaning and once to hear Iambic Pentameter)
Terms: Metaphor; Rhyme Scheme of a SS Sonnet; Iambic Pentameter
1. As in a Shakespearean sonnet, The first 8 (Octet) lines present a problem or issue and the last 6 (Sestet) have a solution or outcome.
To what is the speaker comparing the subject of the poem?
2. What does the speaker say shall not fade?
3. What does the speaker say Death shall not do?
4. To whom is the poet speaking?
5. To what does "The eye of heaven" refer?
6. To what does the world THIS in the last line refer?
7. In comparison, does the beloved fare better or worse than a summer's day? Give a detail to support your opinion.
8. What makes the beloved immortal?
9. Find a metaphor
10. What is the rhyme scheme
IV. The Haiku
Basho- Most famous of the Japanese haiku poets.
-Believed that a poet must express the essential nature of an object
Issa- Favorite haiku poet
-led a life of hardship and personal loss
-Lived in poverty
-All children died in infancy
-His young wives died during his lifetime
-Found strength in small creatures and insects (Creatures whose lives are fleeting and appear overwhelmed by the elements)
The Haiku
-Can be read from line 1-3 and line 3-1
-The Camillia Flower
- Sumida River
-Discuss structure
-Students will Read BASHO and ISSA
(page 6 in packet)
1. What simple/ natural elements do these poets describe?
2. A haiku can make us see two things at the same time. What two things do we see in these works?
Quiz on 2 poems
Introduction to Nonfiction
11.A.2.4.1 Identify main ideas and supporting details from the text
11.B.2.1.1 Interpret personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire imagery, foreshadowing and irony
-Discuss structure
-Students will Read BASHO and ISSA
(page 6 in packet)
1. What simple/ natural elements do these poets describe?
2. A haiku can make us see two things at the same time. What two things do we see in these works?
Quiz on 2 poems
Introduction to Nonfiction
11.A.2.4.1 Identify main ideas and supporting details from the text
11.B.2.1.1 Interpret personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire imagery, foreshadowing and irony
11.A.2.4.1 Identify main ideas and supporting details from the text
11.B.2.1.1 Interpret personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire imagery, foreshadowing and irony
Students will need:
Prentice Hall Literature Book
- Study Guide Questions Handout
- Sample Missing Person’s Report
- Rubric
- Paper
- Pencil/Pen
Assessment- Rubric
