Welcome!Language Arts

Ms. Marek

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Independent Reading

Retrieve your library book

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Schedule

• ALL WEEK: Meetings during reading• FRIDAY: CELEBRATIONS

Wednesday Sound ElementsThursday Setting and MoodFriday Tone and Word Choice

OBJECTIVE

SWBAT analyze sound elements of poetry that contribute to meaning

Objective 3.A.4.c: Analyze sound elements of poetry that contribute to meaning

Mastery Scores on unit test: Team Yale: 58.5% Team Princeton: 61.4% Team Harvard: 46.2%

Poetry Rapid Review

Take 3 minutes to write down everything you remember about poetry

Do these words jog your memory?– Rhyme scheme– Sonnet– Onomatopoeia

Poetry Rapid Review

Take 3 minutes to compare your list with your neighbor

Create a venn diagram to compare and contrast your lists!

Sound Features

Alliteration– Repetition of the same or similar sounds at the

beginning of words

She sells sea shells by the sea shore

Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers.How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Sound Features Consonance

– the repetition of consonants that sound the same

Dark deep dread

Lady lounges lazily

Sound Features

Assonance– the repetition or a pattern of similar vowel

soundsFrom The Bells, Edgar Allan Poe

Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And an in tune, What a liquid ditty floats

Sound Features

Onomatopoeia– words are used to imitate sounds

Tick tock! Tick tock! The clock is ticking!

The bees are buzzing in the garden.

Sound Features

Repetition– Words and / or phrases are used multiple times in

a poem – Stresses important words / phrases

Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack,

the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up- for you the flag is flung- for you the bugle trills,

Sound Features and Meaning

It’s great that we can identify sound features The next level is thinking about how poets

use these sound features to create meaning

Harlem Hopscotch by Maya Angelou

One foot down, then hop! It’s hot. Good things for the ones that’s got.Another jump, now to the left. Everybody for hisself.

In the air, now both feet down. Since you black, don’t stick around.Food is gone, the rent is due, Curse and cry and then jump two.

All the people out of work, Hold for three, then twist and jerk.Cross the line, they count you out. That’s what hopping’s all about.

Both feet flat, the game is done.They think I lost. I think I won.

My Grandmother Is Waiting for Me to Come Home by Gwendolyn Brooks

My Grandmother is waiting for me to come home.We live with walnuts and apples in a one-room kitchenette above The Some Day Liquor Gardens.

My Grandmother sits in a red rocking chair waiting for me to open the door with my key.

She is Black and glossy like coal.

We eat walnuts and apples, drink root beer in cups that are broken, above The Some Day Liquor Gardens.

I love my Grandmother. She is wonderful to behold with the glossy of her coal-colored skin. She is warm wide and long. She laughs and she Lingers.

BCR

Explain how the author uses sound features in “Harlem Hopscotch” to emphasize the main idea of the poem?

BCR

Explain how the author uses sound features in “My Grandmother Is Waiting for Me to Come Home” to emphasize the main idea of the poem?

REMINDERS

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Start thinking about a book you

want to read.

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