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Poetry Analysis Freshman Literature
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What are the benefits of being exposed to poetry and music?
Do Now What are the benefits of being exposed to poetry and music?
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S.M.A.R.T Goal By November 17th, 80% of the students in Mrs. Caffey’s Freshman Lit course will be able to analyze poetry and songs evidenced by their depiction activity and poem projects.
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Objective Students will be able to:
Analyze poetry by discovering its elements and reading/annotating two poems.
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Homework: Due This Week
Find a poem and song that are similar in theme. Please list the name of the song, and the name of the poem. Then write a paragraph that explains how they are similar.
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HOT Questions What is the purpose of poetry? Why does poetry exist?
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Tone and Mood Review Tone is the writer’s attitude toward the subject
Mood is way that you feel when you are reading Simply put… Tone= AUTHOR Mood= YOU
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Poetry Elements Poetry Elements Example Simile
A figure of speech that compares two or more things using “like” or “as” “As brave as a lion” Onomatopoeia Using words that imitate the sound they denote “Boom” or “Pow” Metaphor A figure of speech that compares two or more things “The curtain of night" or "all the world's a stage." Personification Giving non-human things human qualities “The waves clapped with a thunderous sound” Hyperbole Exaggeration “I’m starving” Rhyme Scheme The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. “ABAB” or “AABB” Example Here Internal Rhyme a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. Example Here Stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem End Rhyme when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
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“An Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins
Tone Mood Theme/Message
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“Hey Black Child” by Countee Cullen
Poem Video Click Here Tone Mood
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“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
Tone Mood
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Exit Ticket 3,2,1 Activity- 3 things you learned from today’s lesson, 2 questions you still have, and 1 personal connection you’ve made
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