Reading Bellwork Week Ten: Rhyme

Tuesday, October 25 Write the definitions for: 1. end rhyme occurs at the ends of lines. 2. internal rhyme occurs within a line. 3. slant rhyme is approximate rhyme. 4. A rhyme scheme is a pattern of end rhyme. Dude, it’s reading time! Complete a TCJ while you read. Remember: Use quotation marks and the page number. Correct Format: Author’s name (Last, First.) Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Source Type.

Tuesday, October 25 Write out, then label the lines of poetry. 1. The garbage reached across the state,/ from New York to the Golden Gate. (Shel Silverstein) 2. Hands that can grasp, eyes – / that can dilate, hair that can rise (Marianne Moore) Dude, it’s reading time! Complete a TCJ while you read. Remember: Use quotation marks and the page number. Correct Format: Author’s name (Last, First.) Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Source Type.

Wednesday, October 26 Label the Rhyme Scheme A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I think it just begins to live that day. (Emily Dickinson)

Example If love is like a bridge or maybe like a grudge, and time is like a river that kills us with a shiver, then what have all these mornings meant but aging into love? (To My Wife, by George Wolff) Label the rhyme scheme and identify the types of rhyme.

Thursday, October 27 Write out, then label the lines of poetry. 1. Her early leafs a flower;/ But only so an hour. (Robert Frost) 2. Then leaf subsides to leaf. / So Eden sank to grief, (Robert Frost) 3. When have I last looked on/ The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies/ Of the dark leopards of the moon? (WB Yeats) Dude, it’s reading time! Complete a TCJ while you read. Remember: Use quotation marks and the page number. Correct Format: Author’s name (Last, First.) Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Source Type.

Friday, October 28 Write out the lines of poetry and label the type of rhyme. Through dreams made whole,/ Unfettered free---help me! (Langston Hughes) From what I’ve tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire. (Robert Frost) Dude, it’s reading time! Complete a TCJ while you read. Remember: Use quotation marks and the page number. Correct Format: Author’s name (Last, First.) Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Source Type.

Rhyme Quiz 1. end rhyme occurs 2. internal rhyme occurs 3. slant rhyme is 4. A rhyme scheme is