1. Explain what you did this weekend. Is it possible to write your description of your weekend as a poem? If so, create a poem in the spaces provided on your journal sheet. If not, create a descriptive paragraph. Setting the Tone: Journal Writing

2. Purpose 4 What are you learning? –Identify extended metaphor 4 Why are you learning this? –To understand how to analyze a poem for metaphors and explain the comparison throughout the poem.

3. Read the paragraph and find the corrections. (1 ) In may 1804, thirty-three Americans left St. Louis, Missouri. (2) There goal was to travel west to the Pacific Ocean. (3) The trip would be the nation’s earliest and importantest exploration of that vast wilderness. (4) Its animals and land was unknown to people in the East. 1. What change should be made in sentence 1? a. Change Americans to American’s b. Change St. Louis to St. louis c. Change may to May d. Change Missouri to missouri 2. What change should be made in sentence 2? a. Change Pacific Ocean to Pacific ocean b. Change There to Their c. Change There to They’re d. Made no change 3. What change should be made in sentence 3? a. Change earliest to more early b. Change earliest to earlier c. Change importantest to most important d. Change importantest to importanter 4. What change should be made in sentence 4? a. Change people to People b. Change was to were c. Change to to too d. Change the period to an exclamation point

4. Crafting the Lesson (Me) 4 Metaphors are bridges. They create images by connecting any two different ideas, persons, places and things to show them in new ways. 4 Extended metaphors – 1. When the two things are compared at some length and in several ways. 2. It is a longer comparison Questions to ask yourself as you read: What is the Metaphor? How are the characteristics of the second noun used to describe the first noun?

5. Crafting the Lesson (We) Life is Dirt The longer you hang on the smaller it gets. Get it wet, and you've got mud on your hands. Take care of life or it's overrun with weeds. Life can be rocky or smooth and it's great for throwing at people. What is the extended metaphor in this poem? List characteristics of the two things being compared. Was the metaphor used through the entire poem? If so, then we have an extended metaphor.

6. Crafting the Lesson (We) Life is Dirt The longer you hang on the smaller it gets. Get it wet, and you've got mud on your hands. Take care of life or it's overrun with weeds. Life can be rocky or smooth and it's great for throwing at people. Metaphor: Life is dirt. List characteristics of the second noun: mud, weeds, brown, rocky, smooth, throw it, shrinking, earth, bumpy. YES

7. Composing Meaning (Two) 1. As a class read “Hope”. 2. Number the stanzas and lines. 3. Underline end rhyme and label rhyme scheme. 4. Write down the two unlike items being compared. 5. What qualities of the second item are being used to describe the first item? 6. Was refrain (repetition) used in the poem? If so, give examples.

8. Composing Meaning (You) 1. On your own, read the poem, “Hope”. 2. Use the poem to answer the questions.

9. Reflecting: 4 What is an extended metaphor? 4 Give an example.