1. So much to do, so little time… We need to get busy.
Good Day To You!
So much to do, so little time… We need to get busy.

2. Do Now
In your opinion, what makes a poem good? Use an example to support your answer.

3. Information Journals due Friday Wiki is updated
- journals, vocabulary, handouts
Midterm – 16 days

4. Auspicious – (adj.) favorable; fortunate
Synonyms – encouraging, promising
Antonyms – sinister, ominous

5. Biased - (adj.) favoring one side unduly; prejudiced
Synonyms – unfair, partial, bigoted
Antonyms – fair, impartial, just

6. What is a poem?
In the next minute, discuss with a partner what a poem is. Be able to come up with a definition of a poem.
A poem is a work of literature in verse that often, but not necessarily, employs meter, rhyme, or figurative language in an attempt to communicate an aesthetic experience or statement which cannot be fully paraphrased in prose.
A Poem is

7. Poetic Devices Speaker - voice behind the poem, point of view
a. 1st person – the writer is a character (I)
b. 2nd person – not typical, usually in song lyrics (You)
c. 3rd person – narrated (he, she, it)
d. 3rd person omniscient – Narrator/reader knows all of the characters’ thoughts, not a character in the poem
Situation- circumstances surrounding the poem

8. Poetic Devices Diction- choice of words
Take a moment and think about the reason why the word choice is important.
Why?
Imagery- verbal expression of a sensory detail (visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory)

9. Poetic Devices
Symbolism- representation in which an object or action represents something beyond itself
meter: measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse
- it’s the beat of the poem
rhyme: correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse

10. Jimmy Santiago Baca
Lived with grandparents and was placed in an orphanage
Taught himself to read and write
On the streets by age 21
Arrested and spent 6 years in prison
Sold his poems to inmates for cigarettes

11. Who Understands Me but Me
Read the poem
Identify symbolism
Identify imagery used
Identify “other” poetic devices
- language used
- rhyming patterns
Write your answers on the back of the Poem

12. “Who Understands”
Point-of-View/Speaker:
Situation:

13. “Who Understands”
Diction:
Imagery:
Symbolism:

14. “Who Understands”
Meter:
Rhyme:
Meaning of the Poem:

15. New Poetry Terms
Literal Meaning
Figurative Meaning

16. New Poems Read Each Poem twice - 1st time read it
- 2nd time, look for additional information
Be detailed with your answers
- use examples from the poems
Use class time to complete the assignment