1. Poetry Day 1

2. Bell Ringer
Imagine that someone was verbally attacking someone you strongly admired. What would be your verbal defense?
You MUST respond in at least 10 complete sentences.

3. What is poetry?

4. TP-CAST: A way to analyze poetry
Title – What does the title mean?
Paraphrase – Summarize the entire poem.
Connotation – Are there words that are used differently from their original definition?
Attitude – What is the author’s tone?
Shift – Changes in tone
Theme – Overall idea from the poem

5. “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
Make a prediction based on the title.
Independently, read the poem and write a short response with these questions in mind:
What is the poem about?
Who do you think the audience is?
How did it make you feel?
Could you connect? Explain why or why not.

6. Discussion: Connotation
What is the difference between connotation and denotation?
Why do poets use connotative language over denotative language?

7. Figurative Language Discussion Question: What is figurative language?
After reading stanza one, what do you see?
Discuss with a partner.

8. Figurative Language
Answer the following questions in your annotations:
The author mentions very specific job titles. What do you visualize when you hear these job titles?
What do these jobs have in common?
Why did the poet include this stanza immediately after the title?
What affect does this imagery have on the reader’s impression of Chicago?

9. Imagery Independent Practice
Read the next SIX lines of the poem to “wanton hunger”.
In your annotations, identify an example of imagery and note the affect it has on them as a reader.
You have 5 minutes!!!!!!

10. Figurative Language Discussion:
Based on the six lines you just read, who is “you”?
What type of figurative language is this?
Answer the following questions in your annotations:
What type of figurative language is the poet using when he says “you”?
What is the tone at this point in the poem?

11. Independent Practice Independently, read the remainder of the poem.
Answer the following questions in your annotations:
Identify examples of imagery and explain how the imagery affects the tone.
Is there a shift in tone? If so, where does it occur and what are the tones?
What is the tone at the end of the poem?
How does the author’s use of formal diction convey the tone? Be sure to explain your answer and provide textual evidence to support your response.
You have 10 minutes!!!!!!

12. Exit Ticket
SAQ: What affect does imagery and diction have on the reader’s impression of Chicago? Be sure to explain your answer and provide textual evidence to support your response.

13. Poetry Day 2

14. Bell Ringer
What do you know about irony? Describe an event in your life (or something you have witnessed in film/TV/songs) and explain why it’s ironic.

15. There are three types of irony:
Situational
Dramatic
Verbal

16. Situational Irony
Situational Irony: An event or outcome of events opposite to what was or might naturally have been expected.
Example:
When John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, all of his shots initially missed the President; however a bullet ricocheted off the bullet- proof windows of the Presidential limousine and struck Reagan in the chest. Thus, the windows made to protect the President from gunfire were partially responsible for his being shot.

17. Situational Irony

18. Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Irony: This is when one of the characters is unaware of important information that the audience is made aware of.
Example:
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Romeo believes Juliet to be dead when she is merely asleep. This turns into tragic irony when he decides to end his life to be with her.

19. Dramatic Irony

20. Verbal Irony
Verbal Irony: The speaker or writer of verbal irony says one thing while INTENDING the reader to get a different meaning.
Verbal Irony vs. Sarcasm
Verbal irony strictly entails the speaker saying one thing but meaning the opposite.
Sarcasm IS when the speaker says one thing but means the opposite BUT the purpose of sarcasm is to injure the feelings of another person.

21. Verbal Irony

22. “Equal Opportunity” by Jim Wong-Chu
Make a prediction based on the title.
Independently, read the poem and write a short response with these questions in mind:
What is the poem about?
Who do you think the audience is?
How did it make you feel?
Could you connect?

23. “Equal Opportunity”
Follow along and answer the following questions in your annotations:
Why are the Chinese sitting in the back of the train?
What makes it ironic that everyone in the front of the train dies?
What type of irony is this?

24. Partner Practice
With a partner, read the remainder of the poem and answer the following questions in your annotations:
What was the intent of changing the rule?
What makes it ironic that everyone in the back of the train dies?
What type of irony is this?
What is the theme in “Equal Opportunity”?

25. Exit Ticket
SAQ: What role does irony play in the poem “Equal Opportunity”? Be sure to explain your answer and provide textual evidence to support your response.

26. Poetry Day 3

27. Bell Ringer
Question 1: In your opinion, how do you believe the world was created?
Write at least FOUR complete sentences to explain your answer.
Question 2: Have you ever heard of any alternate theories that contradict what you believe?
Write at least TWO complete sentences to explain your answer.

28. “I don’t have enough faith” by Daniel Human
Make a prediction based on the title.
Independently, read the poem and prepare to discuss the following questions:
What is the poem about?
Who do you think the audience is?
How did it make you feel?
Could you connect?

29. Paradox
Definition: A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth.
Example: “You gotta be cruel to be kind”
Example: “You must die in order to live eternally”

30. TPCAST T- What can you learn from the title?
P- Paraphrase each stanza briefly.
C- Are there any connotations? What do they mean?
A- What is the author’s attitude through the poem?
S- Does the author’s attitude shift or change in the poem?
T- What is the overall main idea of the poem?

31. Homework
Re-read “I don’t have enough faith” with your annotations and write a summary of the entire poem. Write at least FIVE complete sentences.
Define the following words in the context of “I don’t have enough faith,” and write an original sentence accurately using the word.
1. Faith Potion
2. Scarce Gospel
3. Theoretical 9. Smidgen
4. Heretical Programmed
5. Contrary Wisdom
6. Notion
DUE NEXT CLASS PERIOD!

32. Types of Expository Writing

33. Analyze a Prompt
When you see a prompt, how do you know that is what you are supposed to write about?

34. Brainstorming

35. Poetry Day 4

36. Bell Ringer Short Answer Question:
What is the author’s message in the poem, “I don’t have enough faith”? Be sure to use textual evidence to explain your answer.

37. Aside
Definition: A dramatic device in which a character makes a short speech intended for the audience but not heard by the other characters on stage.
Example:

38. Rhyme Scheme
Definition: A way of describing the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter, starting with “A,” then “B,” and so on. If an end sound repeats the end sound of an earlier line, it gets the same letter as the earlier line.
Example:
1. My cat is nice A
My cat likes mice. A
My cat is fat B
I like my cat B
2. My cat is nice A
My cat likes mice. ?
I like my cat ? 
3. My cat is gray. ?
My cat is fat ?
My cat is cute. ?
I like my cat. ?

39. Rhyme Scheme

40. Independent Practice
Find at least THREE examples of figurative language and identify the type.
One of these examples must be a paradox.
Short Answer Question:
How does the author’s use of figurative language help the reader understand his message? Be sure to use textual evidence to support your answer.