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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, lyric poetry, imagery, simile and metaphor
Lyric Poetry- expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings. In acnient Greece, such poems were sung to the music of harp-like instruments called lyres. This type of poetry takes its name and songlike quality from this instrument.
Students will be introduced to Amy Lowell
1874-1925
Popular at the end of the 19th century.
Brooklyn Massachusetts- Lived in the family mansion.
Spent years reading, studying and writing poetry before joining a group of radical poets called "imagists" led by Ezra Pound
She used precise, concrete images, free verse and suggestion.
Popular at the end of the 19th century.
Brooklyn Massachusetts- Lived in the family mansion.
Spent years reading, studying and writing poetry before joining a group of radical poets called "imagists" led by Ezra Pound
She used precise, concrete images, free verse and suggestion.
Famous for her readings and lectures, as well as poetry.
1926- 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.
Answer the following:
1. Describe the figurative and literal appearance of the clouds
2. Lowell uses an extended metaphor. List ALL of the details that compare clouds to mares. Include line numbers
3. Why are the horses "hoofs" golden?
4. What does the "milky dust of the stars" refer to figuratively and literally?
5. What is the effect of the "Tiger Sun"?
6. The speaker in the poem urges the white mares of the moon to exert themselves to the utmost. What do you think is the implied message for the reader?
Fueled by Marcie Hans
Hans (1928-75)
Born in Chicago
Work: Advertising Copywriter
Author
There's an Elephant in My Sandwich
She has a whimsical approach to life
Fueled
Fueled
by a million
man-made
wings of fire-
the rocket tore a tunnel
through the sky-
and everybody cheered.
Fueled
only by a thought from God-
the seedling
urged its way
through thicknesses of black-
and as it pierced
the heavy ceiling of the soil-
and lauched itself
up into outer space -
no
one
even
clapped.
Fueled
by a million
man-made
wings of fire-
the rocket tore a tunnel
through the sky-
and everybody cheered.
Fueled
only by a thought from God-
the seedling
urged its way
through thicknesses of black-
and as it pierced
the heavy ceiling of the soil-
and lauched itself
up into outer space -
no
one
even
clapped.
Answer the following;
1. What is fueled by "a million man-made wings of fire"?
2. What reaction does the above event bring?
3. What is fueled by "a thought from God"?
4. What reaction does the event bring?
5. What does "a million man-made wings of fire" mean?
6. What do you think the author is inferring with the phrase "fueled only by a though from God"?
7. What does "outer space" refer to in the line 16?
8. Compare what fuels the rocket to what fuels the seedling?
9. What does the rocket tear through compared to what the seedling tears through?
10. What is People's reaction to the rocket in the contrast to their reaction to the seedling?
11. What point about society is Hans making?
12. Do you agree or disagree with 11 , the author's point?
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
2. In class:
Narrative Poetry
Goal: Students will read, comprehend, and interpret poetry
Students will relate poems to personal connections
Students will identify the speaker in the poem
Students will recognize elements of narrative poetry
Bell Ringer: Explain the following statement: One's immediate actions may result in immediate consequences.
Introduction to Rudyard Kipling:
Rudyard Kipling - 1865-1936
Most famous work: The Jungle Book
Born in India to English Parents.
Spoke Hindustani and English as a child
Went to England for formal education
At the age of 18, he returned to India as a journalist
Many of his first poems appeared in newspapers
In 1907, he became the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
1. Students will read the poem pg 851 in the packet
2. Students will discuss How the passage has narrative and dramatic elements of poetry
Terms:
Narrative poem- Tells a story and is usually longer than other types of poems.
-Like a story, a narrrative poem has one or more charaters, a setting, a conflict and a series of events that come to a conclusion
-Most narrative poems are divided into stanzas --- groups of lines that have the same pattern, rhythm and rhyme
Dramatic Poetry-
Poetry where one or more characters speak
Uses the words of one or more characters to directly convey what is happening
- Dramatic poetry creates the illusion that the reader is actually witnessing a dramatic event
Questions:
A. How would you feel if you were in the regiment about to watch the hanging of a friend?
B. What might lead someone like Danny Deever to make a choice that he must have known would result in execution?
C. Describe the setting in Danny Deever
D. Of the two speakers, which has prior experience with military executions?
E. Why is Danny being executed?
F. What does Files-on-Parade mean when he says "I've drunk 'is beer a score o' times?"
G. Compare and contrast the two speakers
H. "Bitter cold" - CS excuse for the soldiers hard breathing
""A touch o' sun" - CS excuse for a fainting in the ranks
Are these excuses believable? What really accounts for the physical problems of the men?
Students will relate poems to personal connections
Students will identify the speaker in the poem
Students will recognize elements of narrative poetry
Bell Ringer: Explain the following statement: One's immediate actions may result in immediate consequences.
Introduction to Rudyard Kipling:
Rudyard Kipling - 1865-1936
Most famous work: The Jungle Book
Born in India to English Parents.
Spoke Hindustani and English as a child
Went to England for formal education
At the age of 18, he returned to India as a journalist
Many of his first poems appeared in newspapers
In 1907, he became the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
1. Students will read the poem pg 851 in the packet
2. Students will discuss How the passage has narrative and dramatic elements of poetry
Terms:
Narrative poem- Tells a story and is usually longer than other types of poems.
-Like a story, a narrrative poem has one or more charaters, a setting, a conflict and a series of events that come to a conclusion
-Most narrative poems are divided into stanzas --- groups of lines that have the same pattern, rhythm and rhyme
Dramatic Poetry-
Poetry where one or more characters speak
Uses the words of one or more characters to directly convey what is happening
- Dramatic poetry creates the illusion that the reader is actually witnessing a dramatic event
Questions:
A. How would you feel if you were in the regiment about to watch the hanging of a friend?
B. What might lead someone like Danny Deever to make a choice that he must have known would result in execution?
C. Describe the setting in Danny Deever
D. Of the two speakers, which has prior experience with military executions?
E. Why is Danny being executed?
F. What does Files-on-Parade mean when he says "I've drunk 'is beer a score o' times?"
G. Compare and contrast the two speakers
H. "Bitter cold" - CS excuse for the soldiers hard breathing
""A touch o' sun" - CS excuse for a fainting in the ranks
Are these excuses believable? What really accounts for the physical problems of the men?
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
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?
_______________________________________________________-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?
III. 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
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IV. 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
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V. Shakespeare used by modern artists
Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjPc8RVJ0Dc
http://bhscomp1.blogspot.com/2018/01/song-lyrics.html
In pairs, find similar phrasing, figurative and literal meanings.
Compare/ contrast the way both artists present the subject matter (problem/ solution)
In pairs, find similar phrasing, figurative and literal meanings.
Compare/ contrast the way both artists present the subject matter (problem/ solution)
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
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
