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Jaguar Jumpstart Write a story about either playing baseball or attending a baseball game. It can be a true story, or completely made up. The story should be at least eight complete sentences. Remember to follow the three conventions of the English language.

We reviewed the concepts of essay writing. Yesterday... We reviewed the concepts of essay writing. We wrote an essay.

Read “Casey at the Bat,” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer Today, We Will... Read “Casey at the Bat,” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer Describe the characters Analyze the plot

About the Author… Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey at the Bat," which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac. . Thayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Worcester. He graduated from Harvard University in 1885 with a degree in philosophy. During his time there, he was editor of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of the theatrical society. William Randolph Hearst, a friend from both activities, hired Thayer as humor columnist for The San Francisco Examiner. He worked in that position from 1886 to 1888. Thayer's last piece, dated June 3, 1888, was a ballad entitled "Casey" ("Casey at the Bat") which made him "a prize specimen of the one-poem poet" according to American Heritage. He did not become famous for the poem until several months later.

About the Author… There are still a couple of mysteries about the poem. Nobody knows for sure whether Casey (the main character) and Mudville (the setting) were based on real places, or whether they were completely made up. The poem was first recited publicly on August 14, 1888, by an actor named  De Wolf Hopper, on Thayer's 25th birthday. During the mid-1890s, Thayer wrote several other comic poems for the New York Journal. He also began overseeing his family's mills in Worcester full-time. He moved to Santa Barbara in 1912, where he married Rosalind Buel Hammett and retired. He died in 1940, at age 77.

Let’s Watch the Disney Version…. 3 …from 1946

Now Follow Along With Your Copy…. 3

Using Our Context Clues…. preceded = came before latter = coming after

Using Our Context Clues…. stricken = deeply affected, usually with fear or grief .. multitude = large group of people melancholy = sad

Let’s Learn…. narrative story plot characters events Casey at the Bat is a ___________ poem. A narrative poem is a poem that tells a _______. Every narrative poem has a ______, or storyline. A narrative poem also has ______________ and _________. story plot characters events

main events plot the players the crowd do something reacts cause Let’s Learn…. When reading a narrative poem, we want to figure out how the _______ ________ fit into the ______. … In this poem, there are two groups of characters: _______________ .. Every time the players ____ ____________, the crowd _________. This is known as ________ and ________. main events plot the players the crowd do something reacts cause effect

Let’s Learn….

reason thing connect become leading Let’s Learn…. CAUSE is the ________ that something happened. .. EFFECT is the _______ that happened. .. Cause and Effect ________ events. An effect can then _______ a cause. And one thing keeps _________ to another. thing connect become leading

CAUSE EFFECT Let’s Analyze…. Cooney and Barrows strike out. The crowd goes silent. Flynn and Blake (not very good players) are scheduled to bat before Casey. The crowd feels hopeless

CAUSE EFFECT Let’s Analyze…. Casey comes up to bat. The crowd cheers like crazy! The umpire calls “strike 1!” The crowd wants to kill the umpire. The crowd settles down. Casey raises his hand

CAUSE EFFECT Let’s Analyze…. The umpire calls “strike 2!” The crowd yells “fraud!” [fraud means cheater] There is no joy in Mudville. Casey strikes out.

Let’s Discuss…. What is happening in the game as the poem starts? How does the crowd feel about the other players on the team? What kind of player is Casey? Describe the crowd before Casey gets up to bat. How does the crowd feel when Casey is at bat? What happened when Casey went up to bat? What happens when Casey doesn’t swing at the first pitch? What happens when Casey doesn’t swing at the second pitch? What happened at the end of the poem? Describe the crowd after Casey strikes out. 3

A Great Moment in Baseball… November 3, 2016 (shortly after midnight)

Let’s Close… … Additionally, you learned about cause and effect..