1. Narrative Poetry Tells a story Has same elements as a short story
Often has cause and effect & comparing and contrasting relationships
Does not have to rhyme
Often has repeated refrains

2. TLW Write Listen and analyze Identify elements of narrative poetry
Write poetry
Create a time line
Construct Venn Diagrams
Identify a stanza
Identify lines of a poem
Generalize and classify
List to audio devices
Become more familiar with writers of the 1800’s

3. Narrative Poetry Voc Authors Ernest Thayer Alfred Lord Tennyson
Define narrative poetry
Stanza
rhyme
Refrain
Ballad
Fold ballads
Literary ballad
Timeline
Compare contrast
Mood
Facts
Verbs
adjectives
Ernest Thayer
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert Frost
William Butler Yeats

4. Casey at Bat
Construct
What effect does the name Mudville have on your mood toward the story of Casey?
Compare and contrast a poem to a short story using a Venn Diagram.
4 line poem begin with
1 Somewhere
2 But in Mudville
3 Somewhere
4 But in Mudville
Breece’s ex:
Somewhere a fan states, that’s alright
But in Mudville, no one loves him tonight
Somewhere there is a happy clap for Casey
But in Mudville, its only a smack on the back

5. The Charge of the Light Brigade p 169
Where have you heard this poem?
Do we know how to count stanzas? Do we know what stanza means?
Why did the men charge knowing they were defeated?
What mood are we to take regarding this poem?
Identify the verbs in stanza 1,3, & 5.
How many survived? What details do you have to support this claim?
Why do you think this poem is popular with soldiers?

6. Anonymous-Lord Randal p 170
VOC/Write
Classify the characters
What activity has made him weary?
Who did Lord dine with and what did he eat?
Where did the dogs go?
Mother’s thoughts?
Suspect? Evidence? Victim?
Why not tell mother the entire story?
Analyze L20, “Sick at heart”
means?
Ballad: a short musical song
Most common form of narrative poetry
Dramatic, tragic{love, death}
Few characters
Types of ballad
Folk/popular: past on
Literary: longer
Refrain-words repeated (id)
List characteristics of a ballad in this poem
You write a 4-6 Ballad

7. The Runaway p172 Writing a poem-POV What is the weather? Facts?
Verbs-what did the colt do?
Why should the colt no go outside the area?
L10 “winter broken” means?
What experience did the colt gain?
What is the mood of the speaker?
If you were the colt, what would you be thinking about people?
Write 4 non rhyming lines
Breece’s ex:
Why are they looking this way,
I simply want to exercise
Do you want to take a ride
Together we will explore beyond the trees

8. The Song of Wandering Aengus p 174
Activities
How did he make his fishing gear?
What does he catch?
Classify Aengus’s bucket list
Analyze “fire in his head” L2
What is he looking for?
Construct a time line of the poem
Compare and contrast any 2 characters from this unit or compare character to yourself, using a Venn Diagram

9. Narrative Poetry Vocabulary Authors Ernest Thayer Alfred Lord Tennyson
Define narrative poetry
Stanza
rhyme
Refrain
Ballad
Fold ballads
Literary ballad
Timeline
Compare contrast
Mood
facts
Ernest Thayer
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert Frost
William Butler Yeats