Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Tuesday/Wednesday, April 10/11, 2018


Announcements and Reminders:
                         
 April is Poetry Month!  Poetry is important because it is  
              “the best words in the best order.” -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

April/May Book Assignment 
Fantasy or Science Fiction 
(Including Dystopian Fiction)
See the tab for "Required Reading/Book Assessments."


Targets for Today:

I can read and analyze poetry -- and enjoy it.

I can recognize figurative language and several other poetic devices. 


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.

Reading: Literature Standard 5 
Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.


Today’s  Agenda:

A-Day, April 10

1. Reminders for Writing

2. Science Fiction and Fantasy


3.
Poetry A
1 min. 30 sec. Examples for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O8HYhDSBf0
simile
alliteration
hyperbole
personification
onomatopoeia
(pun)
Poetic Terms Notes .docx

poetry art wars two-sided.docx

Poetry B
 Poetry Terms PowerPoint.ppt

Poetry C
Learning about Poetry --
ART WARS!

Watch and take notes:  (Also, if you are absent, do this.)
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.


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B-Day, April 11

1. Science Fiction and Fantasy


2.
Poetry A
1 min. 30 sec. Examples for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O8HYhDSBf0
simile
alliteration
hyperbole
personification
onomatopoeia
(pun)

Poetry B
 Poetry Terms PowerPoint.ppt

Poetry C
Learning about Poetry --
ART WARS!

Watch and take notes:  (Also, if you are absent, do this.)
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.


Poems to examine with ART WARS:  If you are absent, pick one and fill out the back of Art Wars Notes to analyze that poem.
The Hunter  
The Base Stealer
Foul Shot
Southbound on the Freeway - Poem
Spring Storm
Tugboat at Daybreak
Hoods




If You Were Absent:

See above.
Watch the Videos and Powerpoint, and fill out the notes pages. 


Vocabulary:



 Help and Enrichment 










In Just 
by e.e. cummings

IN Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame baloonman
 
whistles far and wee
 
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
 
when the world is puddle-wonderful
 
the queer
old baloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
 
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
 
it's
spring
and
the
 
goat-footed
 
baloonMan whistles
far
and
wee



Read more at http://www.poetry-archive.com/c/in_just.html#uE2J0H2vlQdiUaAS.99


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