1. March 16: Bellringer: ON A PIECE OF PAPER TO TURN IN. View the video.
Then write a question you might ask Jeff Hobbs.
Jeff Hobbs is the author who was here on Friday to speak with William Penn students. He visited period 5 English.
Link
Suggested questions include:
How did you set up interviews with Rob Peace’s friends and family? Did anyone have to be persuaded to participate?
How did you decide what to include in the book?
Were there any sources whose credibility you questioned?
Did anyone seem to have a hidden agenda?
Ask him personal questions too (but not too persona!)

2. “Birmingham Letter” assignment
It is due today.
Turn it in with the scoring guide attached.
March 20th is the absolute final day that I will accept work from MP 3. NOON on March 20th. After that date and time, I will not accept any assignment.
If you have already set up with your counselor to receive an incomplete for MP 3 so that you have an extension, you have one week after the end of MP 3 to get those assignments in. This extension applies to maybe 3 people about of the 150+ students of mine.

3. REMIND
I signed up for REMIND – that thing that’ll let me send you reminders of due dates and other notices.
TEXT to: 81010
(periods 4 and 8)
(period 2)
Or go to the weebly page and follow the link.
The messages can go to your phone OR an address.

4. NEW LESSON!!!!!
We move from prose and argumentation/persuasion to poetry.
We are not just looking at what the poem says and the theme. We are looking at the STRUCTURE of the poem and how the STRUCTURE supports or emphasizes the theme.

5. How do the poets control diction and structure to explore problems with isolation?
We’re going to examine two poems for this lesson, “Negro Hero” from 1945 and “Legal Alien” from 1985.
Your assignment will be to show how each poet shows the problems with isolation through their use of diction and structure.
To help you, here are a few…. (go ahead to the next slide)

6. TERMS YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW!
You should know these and you should know that we’re going to identify them AND figure out how their effect contributes to the meaning
of the work as a whole.

7. Connotation
Definition: an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Positive/Negative/Neutral
A dove implies peace or gentility.
Home suggests family, comfort and security.
Politician has a negative connotation of wickedness and insincerity while statesperson connotes sincerity.
Pushy refers to someone loud-mouthed and irritating.

8. Diction
Definition: Word choice What’s the difference? She’s pretty. She’s bonny. She’s beautiful. She’s pulchritudinous. She’s fetching.

9. Tone Definition: the attitude of the author/speaker towards a subject.
Tone is created through word choice, point of view, and level of formality in writing.
Examples of tone in a story include just about any adjective you can imagine:
Scared
Anxious
Excited
Worried
Foolish
Smart
Depressing 
Look at your tone wheels!!!

10. Alliteration
Definition: a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. A tongue twister Carrie's cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.

11. Rhyme
Definition: Words that sound the same. Rhyme scheme: A pattern of rhyming words. AABB The animal over there is a cat. The animal would look funny in a hat. The animal has a brick thrown at its head. The animal is recovering in its bed.

12. Parallel Structure
Definition: using the same pattern of words to show that two or more words or ideas are of equal importance. (same pattern means same grammatical structure!!)
Ashley likes to ski, to swim and to jump.
Ashley likes to ski, swimming, and to jump.

13. Stanzas
Do the stanzas have consistent line breaks? (couplets = 2 lines, quatrains = 4, cinquains = 5)
Are the lines even? Are they different lengths? What’s the effect on the meaning?
Is there a different idea in each stanza? Are all the ideas connected into one stanza?

14. Author’s purpose Definition: Why the piece was written.
Entertain/Persuade/Inform
Prove a point
Make a statement

15. Theme
Definition: The message of a piece (NOT THE SUBJECT or topic!!) Subject= Theme= LOVE Love is unpredictable

16. Close Reading
Let’s read “Legal Alien” together. While we’re reading, I want you to mark up your copy of the poem. Look at HOW Pat Mora is getting across her WHAT.
Remember stylistic elements – types of words, figurative language, types of sentences, tone, types of STANZAS…
At the top of the page, write what her message is about being a minority in the US.