1. Dickinson Day 2 17 April 2013 Miss Rice

2. Warm-Up  What is personification?  How is death typically personified in books or movies?  Examples?

3. Agenda  Vocabulary  “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”  “I Heard a Fly Buzz”  Dickinson Style Writing Assignment

4. CP Objectives 4/17  To review vocabulary words.  To analyze Emily Dickinson’s poetry for style, theme, and literary devices.  To write in the style of Emily Dickinson.

5. Vocabulary Unit 5  HW due tomorrow  Quiz Friday  Vobackulary  You can use your lists today

6. Lit. Terms: End Rhyme  Words at the ends of lines of poetry that rhyme with each other  Slant rhyme: Words that almost rhyme with one another AKA near rhyme or half rhyme  Farm and yard (The stressed syllable have the same sound) *Sight rhyme: Words that look like they should rhyme  Said and paid

7. Lit. Terms: Rhythm  The flow or feeling in a piece of poetry  The way words come together  The pace of the poem Cadence

8. Lit. Terms: Word Choice  The types of words authors choose to put in a piece  Vivid verbs  Loaded words

9. Lit. Terms: Style  The method which a poet uses to convey meaning, tone, and emotion in his/her poem  Word choice  Sentence structure

10. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”  Review warm-up  Read “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” together  Annotate independently: 1 example of each…  Personification  Capitalization  Content: what is really being talked about here?  First impressions? The look of the poem and how to read it  Literary devices  In groups:  What is the poem about? Why?  What is the theme  One group member presents your response to the class

11. “CXXVIII”  Read as a class  First impressions?  Complete the worksheet with a partner  Class discussion  Rhyming  Imagery  Summary  Fly  Literary devices  How does this poem compare and contrast with the first one we read?  How is death personified in each?

12. Writing Assignment  Write in the style of Emily Dickinson  Imagine that you are afraid to leave your house  Write a poem to describe your feelings  Isolated? Content? Afraid? Secure? …  Your poem must include:  Numbered title (when in your career did you write this?)  8-12 lines  Imagery: simile, metaphor, personification highlighted and labeled  Slant rhyme highlighted and labeled  Style  Reflection

13. Homework  Research paper due Thurs. or Fri.  “Yes” test  Highlighting  Bolding, underlining, or highlighting thesis  All materials  Folder  Vocab. unit 5 HW due tomorrow  Vocab. unit 5 quiz Friday  Whitman/Dickinson test tomorrow (open note) In class tomorrow we will:  review vocab.  finish our poems  share our poems  take the open- note Whitman/Dickinson quiz