Bellwork ✤ In your notebook, please read the following riddle carefully and try to solve it. **Tips: Read the riddle more than once. Use a diagram to help you solve the riddle. ✤ You are traveling with a fox, a rabbit, and a cabbage. You get to a river, and want to get across safely, but the boat you would like to take can only carry you and one other item at a time without sinking. The problem is... if you leave the fox with the rabbit alone, the fox will eat the rabbit. If you leave the rabbit and the cabbage alone, the rabbit will eat the cabbage. How can you get all three across safely so you can continue your journey?

Rabbit Fox Cabba ge You

Poetry as a Puzzle Discussing poetic style and structure...

Looking beyond the obvious... ✤ Poetry is intended to be unpacked. ✤ This means that it is important to pay attention to the little details and stylistic devices that a given author employs. The more you read and think about poetry, the better you’ll get at this. ✤ Today we will the poet e. e. cummings ( ), who is a very famous and very bizarre American poet, most well know for his intentional misuse of English grammar and language conventions. We’ll read three of his poems, going from relatively easy to very hard ✤ We will slowly work together, understanding how to look at the style and form of the poem to understand the deeper meaning that e.e. cummings is attempting to portray ✤ The key skill here is to Ask Good Questions of the Poem during the “interaction” stage. Still, as always, use the reading process.

What makes a good question? ✤ Let’s use an apple: a common household fruit to model how I would like you to look at questioning in poetry. ✤ Level 1 Question (Knowledge)- What color is an apple? ✤ Level 2 Question (Analysis)- Why is the apple the color red? (analyse, distinguish, examine, compare, investigate, identify, explain, separate) ✤ Level 3 Question (Application)- How would an artist paint an apple to have the same red color? (solve, show, illustrate, construct)

Lesson Goals & Objectives ✤ Use questioning skills in order to develop a topic and a theme in regards to the poem being read. ✤ Ask appropriate questions during the reading process in order to understand the meaning behind the form and style being used in the poem. ✤ Examine the form of a poem in terms of capitalization, rhyme and parts of speech ✤ Work with others in order to share their questions about the poem and the topic/theme of the poem.

a(1 1 le af fa ll s) one l iness (a by e.e. cummings

a(1 leaffalls)oneliness1(a a(1 by e.e. cummings

leaffalls) oneliness1 (a

1 le af fa ll s) one l iness (a 1(a by e.e. cummings Now that I have figured out some of the puzzle pieces, let me look at the original puzzle again. What does the shape of the poem looking like this have to do with the theme of loneliness as portrayed by a leaf falling?

a(1 1 le af fa ll s) one l iness (a a(1 by e.e. cummings

a(1 1 le af fa ll s) one l iness (a a(1 by e.e. cummings

a(1 1 lele af fa ll s) one l iness (a a(1 by e.e. cummings

a(1 1 lele af fa ll s) one l iness (a a(1 by e.e. cummings

a(1 1 lele af fa ll s) one l iness (a a(1 by e.e. cummings

a(1 1 lele af fa ll s) one l iness (a a(1 by e.e. cummings

a(1 1 lele af fa ll s) one l iness (a(a a(1 by e.e. cummings

a(1 1 le af fa ll s) one l iness (a(a a(1 by e.e. cummings

a(1 1 le af fa ll s) one l i-ness (a(a a(1 by e.e. cummings } The repetition of the concept of the one, a, I ideas all contribute to a sense of solitude and loneliness, which supports my hypothesis of the the theme!

a(1 1 le af fa ll s) one l iness (a a(1 by e.e. cummings Why the spaces here, here and here? Why the vertical structure?

Loneliness.

(i carry it in my heart) i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart What function do the parenthesis serve? Why no caps? huh?

(i carry it in my heart) i carry your heart with me (i carry it inmy heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart

(i carry it in my heart) i carry your heart with me (i carry it inmy heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart

(i carry it in my heart) i carry your heart with me (i carry it inmy heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart

(i carry it in my heart) i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart Topic: Two people who are so in love with each other than they complete one another. Theme: Don’t settle in love. Love deeply, because thats the only thing worthwhile.