1. Lesson #1 Figurative and Connoitative Language in Poetry
Sixth Grade ELA / Mr. Kelley / Northeast Middle School

2. Jaguar Jumpstart Read this excerpt of “The Road Not Taken”:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Imagine that you are hiking near the Hatchie River. The trail splits. One trail is well-traveled. The other is not. Write five sentences describing which way you decided to go and what you saw. Use your imagination.

7. Let’s Listen!

11. In poetry, there are often two different meanings: .
LITERAL MEANING = what is actually happening in the poem .
FIGURATIVE MEANING = what it could represent or connect with in our lives

12. In poetry, .
METAPHOR = comparing two things without using like or as .
EXTENDED METAPHOR = keeping that comparison going for most of the poem

18. In THE ROAD NOT TAKEN… What is the literal meaning
In THE ROAD NOT TAKEN… What is the literal meaning? What is the figurative meaning?

20. TCAP Preparation
Understand the definitions of these words:
Allegory
Allusion
Central Idea
Claim
Clause
Complex Sentence
Compound Sentence
Connotation
Denotation
Dependent Clause
Edit
Evidence
Figurative Language
Genre
Idioms
Independent Clause
Inference
Mood
Objective Summary
Paraphrase

21. TCAP Preparation
Understand the definitions of these words:
Plot Structure
Point of View
Prose
Rhetoric
Simple Sentence
Summary
Textual Evidence
Theme
Tone
Word Choice

22. TCAP Preparation:
TONIGHT: Do the next online review.
Go to the TCAP PREP tab.
Turn in the completion ticket for extra points.
TOMORROW: We will begin putting these definitions into practice.