1. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

2. “How do I write a response to a poem?”
Mon., Nov. 5, Poetry Analysis
“How do I write a response to a poem?”
TODAY:
Review poem “Execution”
Writing a response
What you need:
Pen/pencil
Notebook
YOUR BRAIN!
REMINDERS:
Write the EQ in your agenda!
Panther Prep every Wednesday
Vocab Quiz #8 on Thursday !
CBA #1 on next WEDNESDAY!!!
DO NOW: Response to “Execution”
Don’t forget to section this space off!
DO NOW:
What did you think about the poem that we read on Friday? Write a paragraph explaining your opinion.

3. REVISITING OUR ANALYSIS OF THE POEM “EXECUTION”
Let’s take a look at:
REVISITING OUR ANALYSIS OF THE POEM “EXECUTION”

4. “Execution” by Edward Hirsch:
Execution by Edward Hirsch The last time I saw my high school football coach He had cancer stenciled into his face Like pencil marks from the sun, like intricate Drawings on the chalkboard, small x's and o's That he copied down in a neat numerical hand Before practice in the morning. By day's end The board was a spiderweb of options and counters, Blasts and sweeps, a constellation of players Shining under his favorite word, Execution, Underlined in the upper right-hand corner of things. He believed in football like a new religion And had perfect unquestioning faith in the fundamentals Of blocking and tackling, the idea of warfare Without suffering or death, the concept of teammates Moving in harmony like the planets — and yet Our awkward adolescent bodies were always canceling. The flawless beauty of Saturday afternoons in September, Falling away from the particular grace of autumn, The clear weather, the ideal game he imagined.
And so he drove us through punishing drills On weekday afternoons, and doubled our practice time, And challenged us to hammer him with forearms, And devised elaborate, last-second plays — a flea- Flicker, a triple reverse — to save us from defeat. Almost always they worked. He despised losing And loved winning more than his own body, maybe even More than himself. But the last time I saw him He looked wobbly and stunned by illness, And I remembered the game in my senior year When we met a downstate team who loved hitting More than we did, who battered us all afternoon With a vengeance, who destroyed us with timing And power, with deadly, impersonal authority, Machine-like fury, perfect execution.
“Execution” by Edward Hirsch:
Read the poem
Answer the following questions in your notebook:
What is this piece about?
What is the author’s purpose in writing this piece?
How does the author use language to express his/her purpose?
What could the take-away (theme) be?

5. WRITING A (SHORT) RESPONSE TO A POEM
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WRITING A (SHORT) RESPONSE TO A POEM

6. “Execution” by Edward Hirsch Reflection Summary:
What do you think and/or feel about this poem? Write one sentence to express this.
2. Why do you think and/or feel this way about the poem? Write down 1 reason.
Explain your reason in at least two sentences.
Find text evidence from the piece to show or support your reason from #2. .
Explain how your text evidence supports your reason.
Write a thematic statement that could relate to your response to #1. Try to restate what you said in #1 into this statement.
“Execution” by Edward Hirsch Reflection Summary:
Now that you have discussed this poem, use your understanding of it to construct a summary of what you thought and/or how you felt about the piece by answering these questions.

7. “Execution” by Edward Hirsch Reflection Summary:
What do you think and/or feel about this poem? Write one sentence to express this.
The Giving Tree is a sad story that leaves the reader feeling empathy for the tree.
2. Why do you think and/or feel this way about the poem? Write down 1 reason.
One cannot help but to feel sorry for the tree because it constantly yearns for the love and attention of the little boy, but doesn’t always receive them.
Explain your reason in at least two sentences.
Since the boy was a youth, the tree would give all that she had to it. However, as much as she would give, was as much as the boy would take. The unfortunate part was that, throughout the story, the boy would always ask of the tree things that he should have been able to obtain on his own.
Find text evidence from the piece to show or support your reason from #2.
He would ask such things as, “Can you give me some money? Can you give me a house? Can you give me a boat?” (paragraphs 5, 10, and 15) .
Explain how your text evidence supports your reason.
These requests from the boy show how he values the tree in that all he wants is for the tree to “give” him things.
Write a thematic statement that could relate to your response to #1. Try to restate what you said in #1 into this statement.
The sadness of this story shows that it must be difficult to love something that does not love you in return.
“Execution” by Edward Hirsch Reflection Summary:
Review these examples of how the questions could be answered.

8. “Execution” by Edward Hirsch Reflection Summary:
The Giving Tree is a sad story that leaves the reader feeling empathy for the tree. One cannot help but to feel sorry for the tree because it constantly gives unconditional love to the boy, but that love is not always reciprocated.
Since the boy was a youth, the tree would give all that she had to it. However, as much as she would give was as much as the boy would take. The unfortunate part was that, throughout the story, the boy would always ask of the tree things that he should have been able to obtain on his own. He would ask such things as, “Can you give me some money? Can you give me a house? Can you give me a boat?” (paragraphs 5, 10, and 15) These requests from the boy show how he values the tree in that all he wants is for the tree to “give” him things.
Although this story is fictional in that there is no such thing as a talking tree, the characters in this book could actually represent real people. There are many relationships that exist like the one that the tree and the boy have. Whether the relationship is between a parent and child, two friends, or a couple dating, the sadness of this story shows that it must be difficult to love something that does not love you in return.
“Execution” by Edward Hirsch Reflection Summary:
When you put all of your sentences together, this is what it could look like.
What is this piece about?
What is the author’s position on the topic? What sentence show the author’s position?
How does the author support her position?
How is this piece organized?
What could the take-away be?
How could you expand this response into a longer essay?