1. English Hon 9b, Day 04 * Thurs/Fri
In yer notebook
#10 Choose your own poem explication (we will finish this during class today)
11. Haiku
The poetic form of a haiku is a traditional Japanese poem celebrating the goodness of nature and its seasons.
It is 3 lines, written with syllable count
Write a NEW haiku = NATURE = GOOD (diff. from one you may have written last week).
IN A TRADITIONAL HAIKU
NATURE = GOOD!!!!!!
Haiku (nature = good)
(5) Lovely butterfly
(7) Fluttering above the earth
(5) How fragile you are
When you are done Open self-selected book & REEEEAAADD

2. The 20th century response to the haiku was the invention of the LOWKU.
In yer notebook
11. Haiku - Lowku
The 20th century response to the haiku was the invention of the LOWKU.
It bemoans the beginning of climate decay and negative environmental effects of industrialized nations.
It is 3 lines, written with syllable count
Write a lowku. Think of nature “gone bad.”
Climate change
Natural disasters
Animal endangerment
Pollution (of any kind – factory, car, rivers, oceans, etc.)
Lowku (nature “gone bad”)
(5) The sky is yellow
(7) The air burns my eyes and lungs
(5) Pollution alert

3. Reminder of expectations

4. Upcoming Due Dates B = 30 A B Ms. T = absent A = 6 B = 13
typed current event exploration # 1 due 12 p.m. w/ Works Cited entries = 1
Ms. T = absent
A = 6
typed current event exploration # 2 due 12 p.m. w/ Works Cited entries = 2
B = 13
typed current event exploration # 3 due 12 p.m. w/ Works Cited entries = 3
SAT = BSU STEM festival

5. You are working on . . .
Reading Self-Selected Book (audio books are awesome But your SSB should be in print or digital – requires diff brain activity and comprehension skills)
Due Wed, noon = CECE 2 w/ 2 works cited entries
Get a folder for poetry portfolio (due date TBD)
Notebook cover (due date TBD)
Poetry terms (vocab) definitions (due date TBD)

6. ~*~Table of Contents~*~
CECE Review
What is Poetry?
You’re a poet
Goals
Intelligence Test
Friendly 4-square
7. The Stonecutter
#8 Dueling Poets
# 9 Poetry Explication
#10 Choose your own poem explication . . .
11. Haiku - Lowku
I know, I know We didn’t finish Now we will Remember yer pard’ner???

7. Poetry Explication
It is like annotating a poem But specific and focused

8. Choose your own poem explication . . .
Get one of the class textbooks for each person.
Select ANY poem in the book. (see the list in front of book on pp xviii and xix)
Write down title (remember quotation marks), author, and page #

9. In yer notebooks . . .
#10 Choose your own poem explication At the top of the page write Our Poem Title: “ ” (poetry titles go in “ ”) Our Poem Author: Our Poem Page #: Number your paper 1-20, skipping lines. Go to the back of page if necessary.

10. 1 - Form
Free verse
Concrete poem
Stanza
Couplet
Quatrain
* Write complete sentences, showing that you UNDERSTAND each of the terms.
This is/is not a free verse poem because
This is / is not a concrete poem because . . .

11. Provide examples whenever you can!!!!
2 Sound
Repetition
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Rhythm (meter)
Provide examples whenever you can!!!!
There is REPETITION in this poem. An example of repetition is ________________________.
There is ALLITERATION in this poem

14. Provide examples whenever you can!!!!
3 Language
Imagery
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Provide examples whenever you can!!!!
12. There is IMAGERY in this poem. I get a picture in my mind when it says ________________________.
13. There is PERSONIFICATION in this poem

19. Provide examples whenever you can!!!!
4 Meaning
Title
Theme
Lyric poem
(heavy emotion)
Narrative poem
(story)
Provide examples whenever you can!!!!
17. The title of the poem helps me to understand the meaning of this poem because ________________.
18. The theme of the poem is ___________________, which helps me understand the meaning of the poem because

22. What do you call a group of giraffes?
A tower

25. Closing thoughts . . . = prob more than 50 words In yer notebook . . .
When you are done, read silently until the end of the period!!
#12 Poem about a collective
Read through the list of collective nouns (names for groups of animals). Find ONE that strikes you as particularly interesting or odd.
This becomes the TITLE of your poem (i.e., “A Tower of Giraffes”).
Write a poem (at least 10 lines) about the collective. Apply at least 6 poetry terms (you have 20 to pick from).
Label your terms.

26. You are working on . . .
Reading Self-Selected Book (audio books are awesome But your SSB should be in print or digital – requires diff brain activity and comprehension skills)
Due Wed, noon = CECE 2 w/ 2 works cited entries
Get a folder for poetry portfolio (due date TBD)
Notebook cover (due date TBD)
Poetry terms (vocab) definitions (due date TBD)