- If you need to finish your District Writing Test or your Scholastic Reading Inventory Test, please go to lab 223 for Cavetime.
- For the District Test, pick up a packet from Ms. Dorsey.
- For the SRI, carefully follow the directions on the poster in the lab to log-in.
I can now access the information for you to log into Utah Compose -- in case you'd like to write the Duct Tape Essay for the Writing Lab Contest.
2. The test on word parts will be given today, April 2/3.
It will NOT be multiple choice.
You will NOT be able to use your study guide or your notes.
Know what each word part means.
If you are absent, arrange to take the test. See the word list at the end of this post.
- utahcompose.com
- Contest Open from March 13 - April 24.
- Entries cannot exceed 2500 words in length
Also, NomenGlobal is sponsoring a writing, photography, video contest with cash prizes.
If you are interested, go to http://www.nomenglobal.com/contest/
Today's Activities:
1. Individual Reading -- Your choice.
By the way, your next book assignment is again your choice of genres among novels.
2. The test on word parts will be given today, April 2/3.
It will NOT be multiple choice.
You will NOT be able to use your study guide or your notes.
Know what each word part means.
3. Poetry
Learning about Poetry
a. Unscramble a Poem -- It is supposed to be funny. Save the punch line for last.
b. Watch a Video and Take Notes in Your Composition Book:
Watch and take notes: (Also, if you are absent, do this.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebd-0bjUjZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebd-0bjUjZk
It may be hard to hear what she is saying at first, so here it is -- more or less.
So you need to analyze a poem you've never seen before.
She's going to give you a secret formula that will take you about five minutes to learn.
She says that there's one thing you have to do first though:
That is to get over the daft (crazy) idea that poetry is somehow boring or scary.
POETRY ISN'T SCARY.
Lyrics are just poetry set to music.
So when your English teacher talks about metaphor or similes, don't just immediately assume that these terms are only used by some stuffy old English bloke.
You may not realize it, but you actually already understand metaphor.
ART WARS -- The handout
Poems: (If you are absent, fill out the ART WARS chart for Foul Shot and Base Stealer.)
This is the chart for you to print and fill out:
The Hunter
Foul Shot -- with as class
The Base Stealer -- by as pairs
Read by the poet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI2eB_1A-z8
Example of a base stealer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck0cq1Rqip0
Poem: The Light of a Candle
Poetry -- Fast Break
Teacher's Notes:
A1 -- working on analyzing "The Base Stealer" at the end of class -- still needs to hear and discuss it. They did watch the video of a real base stealer. B5 -- Did not hear "The Base Stealer" Handed in ART WARS B6 -- Need to finish Base Stealer B7 -- Need to finish Base Stealer listened and watched |
More About Poetry: (We haven't watched these yet.)
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Language Standard 4: b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
Craft and Structure
Reading: Literature Standard 4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
phrases
figurative language [Personification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n2FDufJOFw for song ideas]
connotative
rhyme
repetition (or sound)
alliteration
verse, stanza
poem
story
drama
Reading: Literature Standard 5
Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning
form -- Form, in poetry, can be understood as the physical structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition. - See more at: http://www.poetryarchive.org/glossary/form#sthash.UnZ15YzY.dpuf
structure
soliloquy
sonnet
What is the difference between form and structure?
Form relates to the external shape of a text, determined by how it is presented on
paper, organized by stanzas/paragraphs, lines, syllables, rhyme, justification – best
thought of as a silhouette. It is a simpler thing to comment on because it is usually
visible.
[Ms. Dorsey adds: Forms of poetry include haiku, sonnet, acrostic, free verse, limerick, etc.]
Structure is more interesting because it goes beyond the visible – it is a matter of
the internal development and relationship between parts: structure is about the
internal skeleton and organs – best thought of as an X ray or CT scan, displaying the
organic relationship between ideas, feelings and attitudes within a text.
For example, the form of a sonnet is its 14 line length, its 8 line/6 line division and
its rhyme scheme. Within that form the structure may be 8 lines of description
leading to 6 lines of reflection, generalization, resolution; or the mood may go from
neutral to sombre, or from sombre and resentful to acceptant.
Reading: Literature Standard 4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
phrases
figurative language [Personification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n2FDufJOFw for song ideas]
connotative
rhyme
repetition (or sound)
alliteration
verse, stanza
poem
story
drama
Reading: Literature Standard 5
Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning
form -- Form, in poetry, can be understood as the physical structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition. - See more at: http://www.poetryarchive.org/glossary/form#sthash.UnZ15YzY.dpuf
structure
soliloquy
sonnet
What is the difference between form and structure?
Form relates to the external shape of a text, determined by how it is presented on
paper, organized by stanzas/paragraphs, lines, syllables, rhyme, justification – best
thought of as a silhouette. It is a simpler thing to comment on because it is usually
visible.
[Ms. Dorsey adds: Forms of poetry include haiku, sonnet, acrostic, free verse, limerick, etc.]
Structure is more interesting because it goes beyond the visible – it is a matter of
the internal development and relationship between parts: structure is about the
internal skeleton and organs – best thought of as an X ray or CT scan, displaying the
organic relationship between ideas, feelings and attitudes within a text.
For example, the form of a sonnet is its 14 line length, its 8 line/6 line division and
its rhyme scheme. Within that form the structure may be 8 lines of description
leading to 6 lines of reflection, generalization, resolution; or the mood may go from
neutral to sombre, or from sombre and resentful to acceptant.
from http://mrswilliamsgcseenglish.blogspot.com/2012/11/difference-between-form-and-structure.html
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Word Parts with example words
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Word Parts with example words
- auto = self as in automobile, autobiography
- bio = life as in biology, autobiography
- con, co, col, cor, com = together, with (prefix) as in conversation, cooperation, communicate
- dict = speak as in diction, dictate, predict
- duc, duct = lead as in conduct, induct
- graph = write as in autograph, biography
- in, im = in, into (or) not (prefix) as in import, ineligible
- inter = between (prefix) as in interject
- ject = throw as in interject, reject
- meter = measure thermometer, telemetry
- micro = small microscope, microbiology
- -ology, -logy = study of (branch of knowledge, science of) (suffix) as in biology, geology, etc.
- port = carry as in import, export, deport, portage, portable
- pre = before (prefix) as in predict, prefix, prepare
- re = again (prefix) as in reject, redo
- scope = examine as in microscope, telescope
- tele = far as in telescope, teleport
- tract = pull as in tractor, retract, attract
- trans = across as in transport, transact
- vis or vid = see as in video, vision, revision
