1. American Red Cross American Rescue Workers Central PA Food Bank Hope Enterprises Albright LIFE Valley Prevention Services Wise Options 11/4/13 1.5 Quality of Writing Objective: To write a two-paragraph response with clear focus and adequate content Bellringer: What is the United Way?

2. 11/6/13 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature Objective: To demonstrate knowledge of poetic terms BR: Copy the following notes in your notebook: After the Poetry Unit, students will know and be able to do the following: * Independently read and understand a poem * Discuss a poem’s rhyme, form, meaning, and theme * Define, identify, and create figurative language * Be able to discuss idioms and symbolism * Write a poem * Define, identify, and correctly use pronouns and antecedents

3. November 7, 2013 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and interpreting Literature Objective: To discuss analysis of poetry To analyze poetry using a six-step method. Copy this definition alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words Give an example of alliteration with an autumn theme: ex. The lovely leaves layered the landscape. Define couplet: Write a couplet about fall: Now copy these definitions onto your poetic terms sheets. Each day write the term in your notebook AND copy onto your terms sheet! Homework: Read “Our Mom” and do four tasks

4. 11/11/13 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature Objective: To read and analyze poetry. To define and identify poetic terms. The following are idioms: Has the cat got your tongue? It's time to hit the hay. He kicked the bucket. Define idiom: What are two other common idioms? HOMEWORK tonight Frost style paragraph!

5. Robert Frost The New England Poet (1874-1963) Although Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, he lived in New England most of his life and was known as "the New England Poet." Frost found his subjects in the landscapes and people of New England. He once wrote that a subject for poetry... "...should be common in experience and uncommon in books...it should have happened to everyone but it should have occurred to no one before as material.“ In 1961, Frost read one of his poems at John F. Kennedy's inauguration. He was the first poet to be invited to participate in a presidential inauguration ceremony. (Maya Angelou has also been honored in this way)

6. November 12, 2013 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature Objective: To discuss pronouns types and uses- To discuss antecedents -To analyze poetry using a six-step method. SUBMIT HOMEWORK TO BIN Copy the following notes: pronoun- a non-specific word that takes the place of a noun antecedent- the word a pronoun takes the place of- you should be able to find it earlier in the writing (put this definition on your poetic terms sheet too) For instance: The autumn leaves lose their beautiful colors in November. pronoun- their antecedent- leaves

7. personal pronouns name people, animals or things I me my he she him her his you your we us our they them their it demonstrative pronouns point out people, places or things this that these those interrogative pronouns start questions that can be answered with a noun who whom which whose what relative pronouns relate extra information about a noun who whom that which whose indefinite pronouns anybody anyone anything each either everybody everyone everything neither nobody no one nothing somebody someone something somebody someone something both few many others several all any most none some

8. The Anxious Leaf Once upon a time a little leaf was heard to sigh and cry, as leaves often do when a gentle wind is about. And the twig said, "What is the matter, little leaf?" And the leaf said, "The wind just told me that one day it would pull me off and throw me down to die on the ground!“ The twig told it to the branch on which it grew, and the branch told it to the tree. And when the tree heard it, it rustled all over, and sent back word to the leaf, "Do not be afraid. Hold on tightly, and you shall not go till you want to.“ And so the leaf stopped sighing, but went on nestling and singing. Every time the tree shook itself and stirred up all its leaves, the branches shook themselves, and the little twig shook itself, and the little leaf danced up and down merrily, as if nothing could ever pull it off. And so it grew all summer long, till October.

9. And when the bright days of autumn came the little leaf saw all the leaves around becoming very beautiful. Some were yellow and some scarlet, and some striped with both colors. Then it asked the tree what it meant. And the tree said, "All these leaves are getting ready to fly away, and they have put on these beautiful colors because of joy.“ Then the little leaf began to want to go, too, and grew very beautiful in thinking of it, and when it was very gay in color it saw that the branches of the tree had no bright color in them, and so the leaf said, "O branches! why are you lead- color and we golden?" "We must keep on our work-clothes, for our life is not done - but your clothes are for holiday, because your tasks are over," said the branches. Just then a little puff of wind came, and the leaf let go, without thinking of it, and the wind took it up and turned it over and over, and whirled it like a spark of fire in the air, and then it dropped gently down under the edge of the fence, among hundreds of leaves, and fell into a dream, and it never waked up to tell what it dreamed about. What is an antecedent?

10. A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, This much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? 1. read poem 2. define unknown words 3. analyze form 4. paraphrase 5. literary techniques & figurative language 6. theme

11. A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe Take this kiss upon the brow! A And, in parting from you now, A This much let me avow- A promise You are not wrong, who deem B consider That my days have been a dream; B Yet if hope has flown away C In a night, or in a day, C In a vision, or in none, D Is it therefore the less gone? D All that we see or seem B Is but a dream within a dream. B I stand amid the roar E in the middle of Of a surf-tormented shore, E tortured And I hold within my hand F Grains of the golden sand- F How few! yet how they creep G Through my fingers to the deep, G While I weep- while I weep! G cry O God! can I not grasp H Them with a tighter clasp? Hgrip O God! can I not save I One from the pitiless wave? I cruel Is all that we see or seem B But a dream within a dream? B 1. read poem 2. define unknown words 3. analyze form 4. paraphrase 5. literary techniques & figurative language 6. theme 2 stanzas: 11 line / 13 line It is hard to accept reality metaphor personification imagery

12. November 13.2013 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature Objective: To read and analyze poetry. To define and identify poetic terms. Define metaphor: Complete the following metaphor: Autumn is… Define hyperbole: Write a hyperbole about Thanksgiving dinner

13. If you say... "Every dog will have its day..." "Into thin air..." "Parting is such sweet sorrow." "In my heart of hearts..." "To thine own self be true." "Come what may..." "Knock, knock, who's there?" "One fell swoop..." "A sorry sight..." "What's done is done." "An eye sore..." "Budge an inch." "It was Greek to me." "Eats me out of house and home." "Dead as a doornail" "Too much of a good thing." "Elbow room" "Good riddance"...you are quoting Shakespeare!

14. November 14, 2013 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To define and identify poetic terms What are the rhyme schemes of the short poems below? Pumpkins in the cornfields Gold among the brown Leaves of rust and scarlet Trembling slowly down Birds that travel southward Lovely time to play Nothing is as pleasant As an autumn day! Make a statement about the division of each of the poems. Fog by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

15. Harlem Renaissance time period in America (originating in Harlem in NYC) between abolishment of slavery until the Civil Rights movement (1900-1950) where African American artists flourished Authors like: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks STYLE: *wrote about plight of African Americans at the time *meant to inspire young black youths *advocated change *simple arrangement- to be understood by many

16. What happens to a dream deferred? By Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

17. 11/15/13 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature Objective: To read and analyze a poem Submit homework to bin. Copy these notes into your notebook; then fill in definitions on your poetry terms sheet. ballad- narrative poem that is meant to be sung that has rhyme & refrain (repeat) epic- long narrative poem about heroic encounters Homer's Odyssey Homer's Illiad Ovid's Metamorphoses allusion- reference to a person, place, event, or literary work in history that an author expects the reader to know ballad

18. 11/18/13 1.7 Characteristics and Function of the English Language Objective: To demonstrate knowledge of pronouns What types of pronouns are represented in the sentences below: The table was set for our Thanksgiving feast. It was my mom's masterpiece! This was the meal we had anticipated forever! Mom's turkey, that my dad ran out and bought, was as tasty as a prisoner's last meal. Who doesn't love Thanksgiving! Nobody! Now find the metaphor, simile, and hyperbole!

19. 11/19/13 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To demonstrate knowledge of poetry analysis. What is a theme? What does it mean to paraphrase? Next, get out your poetic terms sheet and submit it to the bin. Now get out your poem packet. There should be ten poems highlighted and annotated. Put it FACE DOWN on the corner of your desk.

20. 11/20/13 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature Objective: To read and assess paragraph responses. To demonstrate knowledge of poetry analysis steps. Bellringer: Get your poetry analysis paragraph out (it may be in the submission bins if you finished yesterday, if not you have it because you completed it for homework).

21. 11/21/13 1.3 Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Literature Objective: To demonstrate knowledge of literary terms To write a poem Define gratitude: What are three things you are thankful for?

28. onomatopoeia- words that imitate sound The ghost howled and moaned as the kids entered the room couplet- two consecutive lines that rhyme Pumpkin pie is the best; I love that pie above the rest! Copy these terms in your notebook AND on your terms sheet.

29. 11/1/13 1.1 Learning to Read Independently Objective: To practice a PSSA poem selection Bellringer: Submit your POE-STER project to table. Affix rubric to back. We start poetry on Monday. You will demonstrate your prior poetry knowledge through an assessment. Grab a PSSA packet off the front table. It is a QUIZ. Read and complete carefully.

30. November 8, 2013 1.3 Reading Analyzing, and interpreting Literature Objective: To read and analyze poetry. To define and identify poetic terms. Define couplet: Write a couplet about Thanksgiving: Define style:

31. 1.Now, grade using the keys on the front table and red pens. Do not grade the paragraph response. DO NOT BRING YOUR PENCIL OR PEN TO THE TABLE. THERE ARE 3 KEYS. NO MORE THAN 3 STUDENTS AT FRONT TABLE AT A TIME! 2.Put the number missed in red at the top by your name (ex. -6). 3.Leave packet opened to the paragraph response on the table. 4. Take another student’s response and a rubric. 5.Take it back to your seat and highlight/assess it. 6.Submit packet and rubric (unattached) to bin.