DO NOW

Take out your Independent Reading book

Complete the Reading Plan worksheet• This is a promise to yourself…• Be honest • Be a better reader!!

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Independent Reading• Will be “check-ins” every week

• Be sure to stay on your plan!

• Will be a new topic to write on when completed!

SlaveryLearning Objectives

I can select an appropriate independent reading book and create and effective plan for completing it.

I can analyze the impact of rhymes and repetitions of sound on a specific section of poetry.

I can identify common poetic devices, especially those that have to do with structure, figurative language and repetition.

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POETRY!

• Can tell stories

• Can be clever and fun

• Can show great emotion

• Perhaps most beautiful of the

literary arts!

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Quotes on Poetry!

“What is poetry? And why has it been around so long? …When you really feel it, a new part of you happens, or an old part is renewed, with surprise and delight at being what it is.”

~James Dickey

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Quotes on Poetry!“Part of the spell of poetry is the rhythm of language, used by poets who understand how powerful a factor rhythm can be, how compelling and unforgettable. Almost anything put into thyme is more memorable than the same thing in prose. Why this is, no one knows completely, though the answer is surely rooted far down in the biology by means of which we exist; in the circulation of the blood that goes forth from the heart and comes back, and in the repetition of breathing.”

~James Dickey

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POETRY!

• Why does this poet believe poetry

endures?

• Talk to your neighbor• Be ready to share out (equity

sticks!!)

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POETRY!• A genre of literature that uses

• LINES and STANZAS and• RHYTHM (a “beat”)

• Some poems rhyme, some do not

• Poems use images and sounds to create feeling and drama

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POETRY!

• Two (2) layers to every poem:

1) What it SAYS

2) What it MEANS

• Poetic devices show the “secret path” to deeper meaning

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POETRY!

craftsmanship: detailed, beautiful

work that has been skillfully done for a

purpose.

• Chance to share YOUR poetry craft!

POETRY TOOLBOXFigurative Language

Sound Form

Metaphor Alliteration Line length

Extended metaphor Onomatopoeia Poetic inversion

Simile Repetition

Personification Assonance

Allusion Consonance

Apostrophe Rhyme scheme

Vivid word choice

Juxtaposition

Star anything

you already know!

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“If We Must Die” (excerpt)By Claude McKay

While round us bark the mad and

hungry dogs,

Making their mock at our accursèd lot.

What image (picture) do you have in your mind with these

lines?

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“If We Must Die” (excerpt)By Claude McKay

While round us bark the mad and

hungry dogs,

Making their mock at our accursèd lot.

What words SOUND like

dogs’ barking?

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“If We Must Die” (excerpt)By Claude McKay

While round us bark the mad and

hungry dogs,

Making their mock at our accursèd lot.

Which words make you feel the

most unsettled/ nervous?

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“If We Must Die” (excerpt)By Claude McKay

While round us bark the mad and

hungry dogs,

Making their mock at our accursèd lot.

Why do “mad” and “hungry” make the

dogs scarier?

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POETRY!• Takes skill, thought and practice to

be a good poet

• Takes understanding of poetic devices to understand a good poem

• Sometimes meaning is ambiguous

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Found Poem….TAKE 2!

• Choose two (2) tools from the

toolbox

• Add them to your Found Poem

from yesterday!

Mother

She journeyed to see me in the nightImmune to the weariness in her bonesWhile the moon illuminated her solitary walk.

Lying beside meLike embers,Like stones slowly baked by the sun,Like the blanket she wished she could be.

Never by the light of dayWhipping – the penalty

But worse yet,Even in death, She was a strangerto me.That distance Her feet couldn’t cross.

Although let by her motherly heart, she tried.

New Devices Added:

1) Stanzas

2) Assonance

3) Similes

4) Vivid words

5) Alliteration

6) Poetic inversion

Homework

• Revise your FOUND POEM

• Use two (2) poetic devices from the toolkit!

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