Tuesday, May 21, 2019 -- B-Day

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, May 21, 2019: All late work, revised work, and extra credit are due by May 22 - Wednesday. No cave time on Wednesday.  Study your word parts!                             BRING A PHOTO You will need to bring a photo of yourself doing something -- by May 20/21.  We are going to use them to make small posters.  You will write about that experience using figurative language.  The rest of the year for B Day --  B Day 15th    book groups, practice word parts,  figurative language assignment -- B Day  17th    book groups,  learn about figurative language B Day  21st     BRING YOUR PHOTO!  Make Posters --  Watch The Outsiders, if time. B Day   23rd   Word Parts Test -- Reading Inventory -- The Outsiders --   Bring treats if you wish. May 28 is Yearbook Day   May 28th- YEARBOOK DAY Bell Schedule d B5 8:15-9:50 B6 9:55-10:25 B7 10:30-11:00 B8 11:05-11:35 Lunch 11:40-12:25 A1 12:30-1:00 A2 1:05-1:35 A3 1:40-2:10 A4 2:15-2:45

Targets for Today: I can recognize and use several types of figurative language:  allusion, alliteration,

Today’s  Agenda for Tuesday, May 21, 2019: 1. Drill each other on your word parts for the test next time. 2. Review figurative language. Review ______________________ in Batman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmjIPRqPChs _________________ in  Toy Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_53YsFkFZ4 Teacher:  https://allearssite.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/allusion-teach-it/ 3. Create your Figuratively Speaking Poster Write out your figurative language first BEFORE you add it to your poster.  Label each type of figurative language.  It's a good idea to do it on a separate piece of paper from your photo, then tape them together.   Write first in pencil.  Then go over it in ink.  Your work must be neat and legible.  By May _20/21– for English class Bring a photo of yourself DOING SOMETHING. Your poster must be neat and legible.  In class you will create a poster about that photo including -1 simile -1 metaphor -1 hyperbole -1 personification -1 onomatopoeia    -1 allusion    Label each type of figurative language. Extra credit for alliteration (at least three or more repetitions of a sound) Sample picture and Figurative Language  from the famous Ms. Dorsey Though the night was as dark as pitch,  (simile/comparison) seeing the play Nosferatu live on stage was a dream come true. (metaphor) We were dying to meet the actor who played the title role. (hyperbole) You can tell that the camera loved us as we danced with the vampire after the show. (personification) Thud, thud, stomp, stomp went our feet.  (onomatopoeia)  This was a vampire who neither sparkled nor made girls swoon,  but spending time with him was a thriller.  (allusions)  Very soon the villainous, vigorous, voracious vampire  vanished from view.   (alliteration)

Samples of Types of Figurative Language and a Sound Device

Simile:

Poised between going on and back, pulled
Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker,

Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball,
Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on!…

Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird,
He’s only flirting, crowd him, crowd him,

(The Base Stealer by Robert Francis)

Metaphor:

• The assignment was a breeze. (This implies that the assignment was not difficult.)
• Her voice is music to his ears. (This implies that her voice makes him feel happy)

Personification: 

• The wind whispered through dry grass.
• The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
• Time and tide waits for none.
• The fire swallowed the entire forest.

Onomatopoeia:

• The buzzing bee flew away.
• The sack fell into the river with a splash.
• The books fell on the table with a loud thump.
• He looked at the roaring sky.
• The rustling leaves kept me awake.

Hyperbole:

• My grandmother is as old as the hills.
• Your suitcase weighs a ton!
• She is as heavy as an elephant!
• I am dying of shame.
• I am trying to solve a million issues these days.

Allusion:

• “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” – “Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and Juliet”.
• The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes. – This is an allusion to one of Greek Mythology’s origin myth, “Pandora’s box”.
• “This place is like a Garden of Eden.” – This is a biblical allusion to the “garden of God” in the Book of Genesis.

Alliteration:

From Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,

The furrow followed free;

We were the first that ever burst

Into that silent sea.”

If You Were Absent:

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  Your word parts: audi hear dict speak ject throw port carry rupt break scrib/script write spect see, look struct build tract pull vis, vid see auto self bio life graph write hydro water meter measure ology study of photo light scope examine tele far therm heat