1. Take out a piece of paper for later.
Bell Work
Take out your flipbooks. You will take today’s notes on the back side of the flipbook.
Take out a piece of paper for later.

2. How to begin a poetic explication
S.P.O.T.The.T.O.A.D.S or Spot the Toads – a mnemonic device to help you attack poetry.
Speaker: Who is talking? Persona?
Purpose: Why? Why was this poem written?
Occasion: When? What prompted it?
Theme: What is the poet’s main idea?
Tone: Author’s attitude toward subject?

3. How to begin a poetic explication
Tools: How did poet do it? Imagery? What kind? Devices of sound? Rhythm? Rhyme? Meter? Irony? Mood? Metaphor? Figures of speech? Allusion? Mood?
Organization: Appearance? Kind?
Audience: Is this written for a specific group?
Diction: Word Choice! Find specific words/phrases that show poet’s meaning.
Style: Anything else. Style IS meaning.

4. Sun a
Toad b
Fun a
Road b
Mine c
Sold d
Fine c
Bold d
Time e
Loss f
Lime e
Floss f
Enjoy g
Oh boy g

5. Analyze the text p
Write answers to the “Close Read” questions on your piece of paper that will be turned in.
Write the answers to SPOT The TOAD on this same paper

6. Bell Work: 1. Take out yesterday’s Close Read/SPOT The TOAD notes and flipchart. 2. Take out paper for today’s assignment. 3. Review the following terms before the quiz:
Understatement
Symbol
Pun
Paradox
Oxymoron
Hyperbole

7. QUIZ
At the end of your “Close Read” answers from yesterday, draw a line and label it Poetry Quiz #2.
Number from Do not skip lines.
When you are finished with the quiz, start the analysis of today’s poems by yourself on your new piece of paper. Everything will be due and must be turned in by the end of class today.

8. Paraphrase the poem in as many sentences as it is written in. Purpose:
Analyze the poems on p. 746, 747, 758, and 761. Write the answers with explanations to SPOT The TOAD and the questions.
Speaker:
Paraphrase the poem in as many sentences as it is written in.
Purpose:
Occasion:
Compare and contrast the two love poems to each other and the two spring poems to each other. (Total of 4 paragraphs of at least 8 sentences each)
Theme:
Tone:
Tools:
Organization:
Audience:
Diction:
Style