8 th Graders Welcome! 1. Row Leaders: Please grab your row’s folders from the folder box. 2. Have a seat before the bell rings or you will be late. :O) 3. Get out your materials and prepare to write your agenda. -Thank you!

A Quick Reminder: Do not get out of your seat without permission. If you are eating, put it away or throw it away. Do NOT shoot trash into the trash can. Be ready to work and stay on task.

1. Write your agenda 2. Warm-up (A.L. #18)* 3. Review: “…Grasshopper…” & “O Captain…”* 4. Fig. Lang. pkt part 2 wksht* Objective: On a worksheet, SWBAT identify different types of figurative language. HW: Finish worksheet 17.) Poetic Dev. & Misused 4/5 A.L.: 17.) Poetic Dev. & Misused 4/5 8 th Grade Agenda Wednesday

Copy down the following sentences using the word in the brackets that best completes each one. 1. Have you ever noticed that there are [less, fewer] pencils than before? 2. My sister [she, ____] works at a hospital. 3. Be careful with that balloon or it might [bust, burst]. 4. A(n) [ballad, ode, elegy] is a poem that tells a story, often a sad story, of betrayal, death or loss and is usually easy to memorize because of its songlike qualities. 5. When there are two consecutive lines that rhyme, together they are called a [meter, couplet]. 6. I [can’t, can] hardly seem to remember anything anymore. 7. I thought I asked you to [leave, let] your brother alone. Assignment Log #18 18.) Poetic Dev. & Misused 4/6

“On the Grasshopper and the Cricket,” by John Keats The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead In summer luxury,--he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought silence, from the stove there shrills The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. 10 5

“O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt Whitman O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up--for you the flag is flung --for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead I II

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. “O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt Whitman cont… 20 III

Winding Down *Class is almost over, so it is time to: 1. Recap: Did you accomplish this objective?  Objective: On a worksheet, SWBAT identify different types of figurative language. 2. Take out agenda to be checked. 3. When you are dismissed, row leaders please put the folders away.

Materials needed 1. Holt L&LA books copies of Fig. Lang. Pkt Part 2 wksht

State Standards 3.1Determine and articulate the relationship between the purposes and characteristics of different forms of poetry (for example, ballad). 3.6 Identify significant literary devices (e.g., metaphor, symbolism, dialect, irony) that define a writer's style and use those elements to interpret the work.