1. Bellringer: March 18
Read the following poem. Then explain what you think the meaning of the poem is. Write your explanation in your notes. oceanoceanocean oceancanoeocean
Pd 4: 9: :55
Pd 6: 11:00 – 12:55
Pd 8: 1:00 – 2:15

2. End of MP 3
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 1, 3, and 5)
(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. 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)

5. TERMS YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW and which you will use to discuss the poems!
It’s not just enough to identify their appearances in the poem – consider the EFFECT on the meaning of the work as a whole (the theme!!!)
Everything builds together!!1
Connotation
Diction (levels – formal, standard, informal, colloquial, slang, jargon)
Tone
Alliteration (and all the other sound devices)
Rhyme
Figurative Language (metaphor, simile, personification, symbol…)
Parallel Structure
Stanza
Author’s Purpose
Theme

6. Close Reading
Re-read “Legal Alien”. 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…
Let’s re-discuss what we see. Add to your notes.
Now answer the 8 questions on the next handout. Use your TONE wheel to help you.

7. Homework
If you didn’t finish the “Legal Alien” questions, finish those for Friday.
Don’t do the “Negro Hero” work YET – you could pre-read it though.

8. Bellringer: March 20
Read the poem. Then explain how the structure is emphasizing the meaning of the poem. Write your explanation in your notes.
You all know this poem unless you have been deprived as a child.

9. Review of “Legal Alien”
Let’s check her tone. What did you write for #8?
What’s the effect of having this poem be ONE stanza and ONE sentence (with many different parts)?
What’s her theme? Write the theme on that paper. You’ll need that later.

10. “Negro Hero”
Who’s Dorie Miller?
What’s a daily and a weekly? – a daily printed newspaper and a weekly printed newspaper.
The Enemy – the people attacking Pearl Harbor
Mirage – an illusion or hallucination
A Galley – the kitchen on a ship
A creed – a belief
REMEMBER TO READ the sentence and NOT the poetic line. It won’t make sense if you try to see the poetic line as a complete thought
With your assigned partner, read the poem through first. Then work through the poem with the close reading questions. Mark the text and the question paper to create notes.

11. Homework:
Finish the close reading questions for “Negro Hero (to suggest Dorie Miller)”

12. Bellringer March 23 ANSWER THIS IN YOUR NOTES
Naturally, the important thing is, I helped to save them, them and a part of their democracy, even if I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to do that for them. And I am feeling well and settled in myself because I believe it was a good job, despite this possible horror: that they might prefer the preservation of their law in all its sick dignity and their knives to the continuation of their creed and their lives.
This is the final stanza of the poem written as if it were prose. What ideas are emphasized when it is written as a paragraph?
As part of our discussion, we will compare it to the poetic version.

13. Your Task
Create a comparison/contrast chart for “Legal Alien” and “Negro Hero”.
List what they have in common – remember we are looking at diction and structure.
Identify the categories of differences and then show how they are different.
What conclusion can you draw about their similarities and differences?

14. Comparing and Contrasting pd 1
How are the poems similar?

15. Comparing and contrasting pd 1
How are the poems different?

16. So what if they are similar and different? Pd 1

17. Comparing and Contrasting pd 3
How are the poems similar?

18. Comparing and contrasting pd 3
How are the poems different?

19. So what if they are similar and different? Pd 3

20. Comparing and Contrasting pd 5
How are the poems similar?

21. Comparing and contrasting pd 5
How are the poems different?

22. So what if they are similar and different? Pd 5