Week of March 18th to March 22nd 6th Grade Literature Week of March 18th to March 22nd

Monday, March 18th BOCA Journal Prompt: We will be reading the drama, “The Crane Wife” today. What do you think the drama will be about? Today’s Agenda Finish Paper Cranes Read “The Crane Wife” Discuss the setting of the play Discuss TDA prompt & sample answers

Tuesday, March 19th BOCA Journal Prompt: Think about a time in your life when you couldn't make a decision, and write three sentences based on this.

What is a poem? A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme. - Dictionary.com

What makes a good poem? Figurative Language

Similes Comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as Example: The baseball player sprinted to first base like a rocket.

Similes: Examples in poetry “Friends are like chocolate cake You can never have too many. Chocolate cake is like heaven -Always amazing you with each taste or feeling. Chocolate cake is like life with so many different pieces. Chocolate cake is like happiness, you can never get enough of it.” - Unknown author Compares many things to chocolate cake Using “like”

Metaphors Also compare two unlike things, but does NOT use like or as Example: The baseball player was a rocket sprinting to first base.

Metaphors: Examples in poetry Compares hope with feathers “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all… Emily Dickinson

Alliteration Repetition of the first consonant sounds in neighboring words Example: The drooling, daring, dog stole food from the table. Doesn’t always have to be consecutive Example: Daren decided to do his dreaded homework after school.

Alliteration: Examples in poetry She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. - Lord Byron Repeats consonant sounds

Onomatopoeia Spell out sounds Sound like what they mean Examples: Crack, Boom, Pop

Onomatopoeia: Examples in poetry Uses many sound words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ezxZvOmPMg

Personification Gives human qualities to objects, ideas, or animals Example: The trees roared during the storm.

Personification: Examples in poetry "Ah, William, we're weary of weather," said the sunflowers, shining with dew. "Our traveling habits have tired us. Can you give us a room with a view?" They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took root in the carpet where the topaz tortoises run.  -William Blake Sunflowers performing human actions

Hyperbole Extreme exaggeration for emphasis Example: I must have eaten a million pieces of candy on Halloween!

Hyperbole: Examples in poetry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_mxsjHrMmY#t=68 The poem exaggerates the amount of garbage that has piled up.

A group of lines, or a verse, in a poem Stanza Example: So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. A group of lines, or a verse, in a poem

Stanzas: Examples in poetry A poem is a little path That leads you through the trees. It takes you to the cliffs and shores, To anywhere you please. Follow it and trust your way With mind and heard as one, And when the journey’s over, You’ll find you’ve just begun. Stanza 1 Stanza 2

Rhyme Scheme The pattern of end rhyme in a poem, assigning a letter of the alphabet to each line, and starting with a Example: I am going to the store A To search for a boar A And when I arrive B I hope it is not alive B

Repetition The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

Free Verse Verse that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme, and thus achieves a rhythm more like that of everyday speech.

Imagery The descriptive words and phrases a writer uses to re- create sensory experiences by referring to "concrete" objects, scenes, actions, or states

Wednesday, March 20th BOCA Journal Prompt: Imagine weather indoors. Perhaps a thunderstorm in the attic? A tornado in the kitchen? Describe what it would be like.  Today’s Agenda Finish vocabulary if need be Read “Gathering Leaves” and discuss different elements in the poem