1. “Most Dangerous Game” Literary Analysis Essay
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“Most Dangerous Game” Literary Analysis Essay
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Get out your shaping sheet and a textbook
Using your textbook, make sure you have thesis, quotes, and analysis. (if you don’t, you’ll need to catch up today!)
On Cornell/ notebook paper
Complete your heading
Topic: “MDG” Essay formation
EQ: What does an essay look like?
Prepare to take notes!!!
Let’s talk about your thesis!
Someone remind me to put away books at 2:44!

2. Thesis previews your body paragraphs!
Thesis: Maya Angelou uses diction to illustrate the characterization of Marguerite and Miss Flowers in “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Body P#1: Characterization of Marguerite Body P#2: Characterization of Miss Flowers

3. Add in topic sentences! TS introduces which idea you will talk about in the paragraph.
Thesis: Maya Angelou uses diction to illustrate the characterization of Marguerite and Miss Flowers in “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Body P#1: Characterization of Marguerite TS: Angelou uses diction to illustrate that Marguerite changes from shy to confident in the course of the story. Body P#2: Characterization of Miss Flowers TS: Angelou uses diction to illustrate that Miss Flowers changes from intimidating to comforting in the course of the story.

4. Add in the quotes! *Quotes need to be long enough to illustrate your idea.
Thesis: Maya Angelou uses diction to illustrate the characterization of Marguerite and Miss Flowers in “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Body P#1: Characterization of Marguerite TS #1: Angelou uses diction to illustrate that Marguerite changes from shy to confident in the course of the story. Quote #1: Quote of diction that illustrates Marguerite’s shy personality. Body P#2: Characterization of Miss Flowers TS: Angelou uses diction to illustrate that Miss Flowers changes from intimidating to comforting in the course of the story. Quote #2: Quote of diction that illustrates Miss Flower’s comforting personality.

5. Add in analysis! Ties your quote to your thesis statement.
Thesis: Maya Angelou uses diction to illustrate the characterization of Marguerite and Miss Flowers in “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Body P#1: Characterization of Marguerite TS #1: Angelou uses diction to illustrate that Marguerite changes from shy to confident in the course of the story. Quote #1: Quote of diction that illustrates Marguerite’s shy personality. Analysis: Diction describes her changing from shy to confident. Expand! Body P#2: Characterization of Miss Flowers TS #2: Angelou uses diction to illustrate that Miss Flowers changes from intimidating to comforting in the course of the story. Quote #2: Quote of diction that illustrates Miss Flower’s comforting personality. Analysis: Diction describes her as changing from intimidating to comforting. Expand!

6. Round off your idea with a Concluding Sentence
Round off your idea with a Concluding Sentence! Sum up what the paragraph was about and begin the transition to the next idea.
Thesis: Maya Angelou uses diction to illustrate the characterization of Marguerite and Miss Flowers in “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Body P#1: Characterization of Marguerite TS #1: Angelou uses diction to illustrate that Marguerite changes from shy to confident in the course of the story. Quote #1: Quote of diction that illustrates Marguerite’s shy personality. Analysis: Diction describes her changing from shy to confident. Expand! CS: Not only does Maya Angelou use diction to illustrate Marguerite’s character, but she also uses word choice to characterize Miss Flowers.

7. Last, but not least… the big Conclusion!
Conclusion readdresses your TS (not restates word-for-word!)
Sum up the entire essay
Make universal statement of theme!
Thesis: general to specific (universal to specific)
Body Paragraphs: VERY specific with text evidence as proof!
Thesis: general to specific (relate your idea to the world!)

8. Rough Draft and Shaping

9. Poetry: What Poems Do You Remember?
Switching gears!
Poetry: What Poems Do You Remember?
Sing along: “You are my sunshine…” “Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas,…”
Begin a new section of notes titled “Poetry”

10. Final Draft due Feb. 15th for a summative grade!
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Reminder: Your rough draft (26-line box) and Shaping Sheet is due Friday!
Final Draft due Feb. 15th for a summative grade!

11. Rhapsody in Blue What story is being told?
What images come to mind when you hear this music?
If this was a soundtrack to a scene in a film, what would be happening?

12. How does this relate to poetry?
Poetry is emotional, just like music
What you “hear” in a poem will not always be what someone else hears. Poetry speaks to everyone differently

13. Poetry Official definition: literature in rhythmic form
Concentrated, powerful language ~ EVERY word has meaning and significance
Poetry is really indefinable
a.) It doesn’t have to rhyme
b.) It doesn’t have to be short (Take the Odyssey for example!)
c.) It doesn’t have to be in stanzas

14. What is Poetry?
"The best words in the best order." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." William Wordsworth

16. “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

17. DO NOW Take out your rough draft and shaping sheet.
Staple them together.
Trade papers with a partner and complete the Peer Edit Form.
If you do not have a rough draft, you must complete the NO ROUGH DRAFT sheet.
You have 10 minutes to peer edit.
When finished, take out your poetry notes and turn to page 741 in the textbook.

18. Sound devices: Rhyme Rhyme scheme End rhyme Internal rhyme meter
Poetry Terms: Using your textbook, look up the terms below and write out the definitions. You have ten minutes or less!
Sound devices:
Repetition
Alliteration
Assonance
consonance
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
meter

19. Unit Goals
Analyze sound devices: repetition, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, meter
Analyze speaker
Synthesize ideas from multiple sources
Paraphrase
You will be able to write a concrete poem and write an interpretive response to a poem.
Recognize characteristics of variety of forms of poetry: lyric, elegy, concrete, ode, ballad, dramatic monologue, sonnet, and free verse
Analyze imagery
Analyze diction
Analyze structure and form, including line and stanza
Analyze figurative language: metaphor, simile, personification

20. Form: a poem’s structure or the way words are arranged on the page
All poems are made up of a series of lines.
Length of lines
Where they break
How they are punctuated contribute to rhythm and meaning.
Lines grouped together are stanzas.
Writing connection: stanzas are like paragraphs in prose.

21. Traditional Follows fixed rules. (a specified number of lines)
Has a regular pattern of rhythm and/or rhyme.
Forms: epic, ode, ballad, sonnet, haiku, limerick
Ex:
Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit—Life!
by Emily Dickinson

22. Traditional Example: Petrarchan Sonnet P. 741
“Pretty Words”
Poem by Elinor Wylie
Poets make pets of pretty, docile words;
I love smooth words, like gold-enameled fish
Which circle slowly with a silken swish,
And tender ones, like down-feathered birds
Words shy and dappled, deep-eyed deer in herds,
Come to my hand, and playful if I wish,
Or purring softly at a silver dish
Blue Persian kittens, fed on cream and curds.
I love bright words, words up and singing early;
Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;
Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;
I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,
Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees,
Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.
How many lines make up the first stanza? How many are in the second?
In the first, end-rhyme words are in red. Identify the end-rhyming words in the second stanza.
Compare the ideas expressed in the first stanza with those in the second.

23. Organic Ex. Does NOT follow traditional rules
Beware: Do Not Read This Poem
by Ismael Reed
the hunger of this poem is legendary
it has taken in many victims
back off from this poem
it has drawn in yr feet
it has drawn in yr legs
Identify three characteristics that make this poem unconventional
This poem has a natural rhythm. How is it punctuated?
Do you see any repetition? Why do you think the poet uses this sound device?
Does NOT follow traditional rules
No regular pattern of rhythm and may not rhyme at all!
May use unconventional spelling, punctuation or grammar
Forms: free verse and concrete poetry

24. Concrete
Concrete: one in which a poet uses visible shape to create a picture related to the poem’s subject.
Ex. A poem about stars might be written in the shape of a star.

25. Spoken Word Poetry

26. Read both poems: “Body Builder’s Contest” p. 768 and “400 Meter” p. 764
Discuss and analyze, hitting on concrete and abstract.
Look for overarching idea, and compose a free style poem
Give directions and rubric for the poem assignment for a summative grade.
Finished product is due on Monday.