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Announcements and Reminders: If you have handed in your March Book Project, and have not picked it up from the bottom wire basket, please do that now.                                                                    Put away kendamas and other toys BEFORE you come into the classroom. Your book sign-ups were due on April 28/29.  Your book projects are due by May 12/13. See the "Required Reading" tab above.    SAGE Testing will be on May 12, 13, 16, 17: reading (poetry and prose), listening, conventions (grammar, capitalization, punctuation)           Figuratively Speaking Poster By May 18/19 – for English class Bring a photo of yourself DOING SOMETHING. In class you will create a poster about that photo including (Change your assignment to ONE each of the following:) -1 simile -1 metaphor -1 hyperbole -1 personification -1 onomotopia -1 allusion extra for alliteration (at least three repetitions of the sound)    Friday, May 20 is the last day to hand in late work, revised work, and extra credit. If you have an F, see me.

Targets for Today: I  can compare a fictional account with a nonfiction account of a time, place, or character. Reading: Literature Standard 9  Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history. I can read, understand, and enjoy poetry and prose through recognizing SOLILOQUY AND SONNET. . 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

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Independent Reading:  You will receive your points for reading  an historical fiction book.  Be in your seat reading by the time the bell rings. 2. Poetry  -- More on poetry Review and New:  Poetry terms, parts, and types. View PowerPoint. Take Notes Create/Complete some examples. Couplets from Little Daddy Longlegs Little Daddy Longlegs played in the sun, Climbing up the front steps just for fun. from Turtle Trouble Tell me if you think you know How to make a turtle go. from Nature's Shows Nature puts on little shows Every time it rains or snows.            -- Charles Ghigna. These come at the ends of sonnets: "So, till the judgement that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes." "You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen, Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men." -- Shakespeare And this poet, Alexander Pope,  is famous for these sayings: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." "Good nature and good sense must ever join;/To err is human, to forgive, divine." -- Alexander Pope  Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/couplet-examples.html#te2oVbOYzmsVpTkF.99 A1     still needs irony.   B5    needs to finish couplets and soliloquys, look at sonnets B6    Need to write soliloquys. B7:  Watched two soliloquys. Still need to watch Hamlet. Soliloquy Mulon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BtlAw4trg Frozen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU Hamlet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjuZq-8PUw0 Allusions to Hamlet's Soliloquy: "To be, or not to be." Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country B or Not a B  with Patrick Stewart        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7lv1SDzno and just for fun -- NOT a soliloquy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFatVn1hP3o __________________________________________ Sonnets:   14 lines -- 10 syllables per line -- standard rhyme scheme -- Shakespearean sonnet ends with a couplet. Two Dogs Sonnet __________________________________________ What would you do if you saw this on a test?  What are you seeing here? What is the theme of this poem?  _______________________________ A Sample Soliloquy      It was like a 7,786,424 degrees outside. Everyone turned into a sea animal and was in some kind of water, either a bathtub, a shower, or a swimming pool. It was so hot everyone was melting like butter.  But I wasn't. I was locked away in an ice cream shop, surrounded by freezers and delicious cold substances. Poetry, Part 2 In case we get to IRONY:    Irony vs. Coincidence _______________________ B5 needs to look at the poem in two languages. They need more irony. B6 also needs to look at the poem in two languages. They still need to do irony. B7 took notes through metaphor.

If You Were Absent: See above. Here is the PowerPoint:  7th grade Poetry PP.pptx Here are the handouts: Poetry Practice Couplet, Soliloquy, and Sonnet.docx Poetry Terms and Writing.docx Poetry, Part 2 Lit. Devices.docx B5 needs to look at the poem in two languages. They need more irony. B6 also needs to look at the poem in two languages. They still need to do irony. B7 took notes through metaphor.