Day 50 Foundations– Intro to Poetry, Vocab 3B, and Phrases(Verbals)

Objectives 1. Identify Verbals and Analyze sentences for their effect. 2. Recognize characteristics of a variety of forms of poetry Homework: Vocabulary 3B Flashcards

Warm Up Answer each question with 2 good sentences. What comes to mind when you hear the term poetry? Is poetry something that you view as difficult? What is your favorite poem and why?

Verbals Background info – do not copy down!!!!!

Participle A participle is a verb form that is used as an adjective. Verb I’m having an identity crisis.

Examples: The rapidly developing storm kept small boats in port. The pleased student smiled at the teacher.

Present Participles Present participles are formed by adding –ing to the plain form of the verb. Example: The laughing student grinned like a Cheshire cat.

Past Participles Past participles are formed by adding either – ed, -d-, -t, -en, or –n to the plain form of the verb. Others may be formed as irregular verbs. Ellie, my dachshund, had a bewildered look on her face when the water from the nozzle in her bathtub suddenly turned cold.

Gerunds A gerund is a verb form used as a noun. The gerund can be formed by adding –ing to the present tense of the verb: Jogjogging Jogging at night without reflective gear can be dangerous.

Gerunds can be used as: A subject: Jogging is a popular form of exercise. A direct object: My sister enjoys jogging. Enjoys what? jogging An object of the preposition : These shoes are made for jogging. participle jogging shoes ** Remember: A participle is a verb form that describes a noun.**

Infinitive: An infinitive is a verbal that appears after the word to. The “to” before the verb is called “The sign of the infinitive.” TO to run to see to hear

The word “to” is a preposition when it is followed by a noun or pronoun that is its object. I need a ride to the game. We went to Jeff’s party. prepositions

The Participle Copy down these notes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Verbals and Verbal Phrases A VERBAL is a word that is formed from a verb but is used as a noun, an adjective or an adverb. There are 3 types of verbals – The participle – The gerund – The infinitive

The Participle A participle is a verb form that can be used as an adjective. – 1. Present participles end in –ing Ex) The smiling child waved. » Smiling, a form of the verb smile, modifies the noun child. Ex) The horses trotting past were not frightened by the crowd. » Trotting, a form of the verb trot, modifies the noun horses.

– 2. Most past participles end in – d or –ed. Some past participles are irregularly formed.

Examples Ex.) The police officers searched the abandoned warehouse. » Abandoned, a form of the verb abandon, modifies the noun, warehouse. Ex.) This plate, bought at a flea market, is a valuable antique. Ex.) Chosen for her leadership abilities, Dawn was an effective team captain.

*One last Tip: Do not confuse a participle used as an adjective with a participle used as part of a verb phrase. –ADJECTIVE: Planning their trip, the class learned how to read a road map. –VERB PHRASE: While they were planning their trip, the class learned how to read a road map.

Vocabulary: Lesson 5 English I 3A Foundations Take out your vocabulary book and highlighter. We will begin lesson 3B #11-20

Mrs. Louis Introduction to the Aspects of Poetry

How to use this PowerPoint This PowerPoint is designed to help you understand what makes poetry such a creative and wonderful form of self- expression. It will prepare you to write your own poetry. Anything typed in red is something you need to write down in your notebook and/or do on paper to save in your notebook. If you are absent, go to my website to make up what you missed.

Poetic expression is hard to define and even harder to label since in itself it can comprise so many styles, ideas, lengths and forms. In this class we will focus on these poetic aspects: Idea and Emotion Type and Form Style of the Line Concise Word Choice

When students tell me they write for their own enjoyment, most students tell me they like to write poetry. Answer in your notebook on a piece of paper #1: Why is this so? Why do some teens write and/or read poems?

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for.” Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poet’s Society

Idea and Emotion Poetry is the one type of writing that truly comes from an emotional response to an image, an event or experience, or a memory. Most poets say they are inspired to write a poem. "A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.”-Robert Frost “If you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem, it’s going to be average.” –Derek Walcott

Emotion- Some poets begin writing a poem for an emotional release. Idea- Some poets begin writing a poem because they are inspired by something they’ve experienced.

Answer the following questions in your Notebook #2 (write on the same page as #1) : What are typical emotions and topics shown in poetry? Are there bad poetry topics?

Answer in your notebook #3: What does a poem need to look like and contain to be a poem? Things to think about in your answer: Do most poems rhyme? Are poems about emotions? Are poems a certain length? What is the goal of a poem? Can poets ignore grammar rules like capital letters and punctuation? Can poems be funny? What types of word choice or language do you see in poems?

IS THIS A POEM? A Supermarket In California by Allan Ginsberg What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! --and you, García Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

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Coming Up by Ani DiFranco Our father who art in a penthouse Sits in his 37th floor suite And swivels to gaze down At the city he made me in He allows me to stand and Solicit graffiti until He needs the land I stand on I in my darkened threshold Am pawing through my pockets The receipts, the bus schedules The urgent napkin poems The matchbook phone numbers All of which laundering has rendered Pulpy and strange Loose change and a key Ask me Go ahead, ask me if I care I got the answer here I wrote it down somewhere I just gotta find it Is This A Poem?? qKWU

/watch?v=yG24ohpacDk Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Is This A Poem? The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

The answer ? They are all poems. When you write a poem, it should have a subject, a goal, a tone, and a flow. It should contain specific, condensed word choice and literary devices like metaphor, simile and imagery.

If I asked you to write a poem right now, how would you write a poem?

One way is to follow a specific formula. Another way is to just write. On the next five slides pick one or more pictures and write what comes to mind. Try to write it as a poem in your notebook # 4.

Closure Write 3 things you have learned about poetry. Write 2 examples of poetic forms. Write 1 question you have concerning poetry.