1. 12/4/15 Objective: To discuss how to analyze a poem. To review the goals for the unit. Bellringer: Grab a backpack paper off the front table. Cut it out and glue into your notebook. Copy the notes on the next slide inside the backpack.

2. What we will know and be able to do after the POETRY unit. (on backpack) (write inside) * 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

4. 12/7/15 Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To define poetic techniques. (Read “Cliché”, define 8 terms) Bellringer: Take the Notebook Quiz off the front table. Submit to bin.

5. 12/7/15 Bellringer part 2: Copy these definitions alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words Give an example of alliteration with an winter theme: ex. The lovely leaves layered the landscape. Define couplet: Write a couplet about snow: Now copy these definitions onto your poetic terms sheets. Each day write the term in your notebook AND copy onto your terms sheet!

6. 12/8/15 Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To define poetic techniques. (Read “Pennies”, define 4 terms) Bellringer: 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? HW: figurative language exercise

7. 12/9/15 Objective: To review pronouns. To demonstrate knowledge of poetry analysis steps. (Pronoun Doors foldables, Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream” foldable) Bellringer: Define metaphor: Complete the following metaphor: December is… Define hyperbole: Write a hyperbole about Christmas morning. Homework: Shakespeare Pronouns Biography

8. 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

9. 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 Bconsider 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 forehead crawl allusion repetition

10. 12/10/15 Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To define poetic techniques. (Read 2 Shakespeare poems, define 7 terms) Bellringer: Get your homework out. Grab a red pen. Define pronoun in your notebook.

12. 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!

13. 12/11/15 Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To define poetic techniques. (Read “Dreams” and Narcissa”, define 3 terms) Bellringer: Record this sentence in your notebook. Underline the pronoun once and the antecedent twice. The autumn leaves lose their beautiful colors in November. Homework: Highlight Frost Biography & answer question

14. 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

15. 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?

16. 12/15/15 Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To define poetic techniques. (Review homework, read 2 Frost poems) Bellringer: ballad-ballad- narrative poem that is meant to be sung that has rhyme & refrain (repeat) epic- long narrative poem about heroic encounters ex: Homer's Odyssey Homer's Illiad Ovid's Metamorphoses

17.  "Hello" Hello, it's me I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet To go over everything They say that time's supposed to heal ya, but I ain't done much healing Hello, can you hear me? I'm in California dreaming about who we used to be When we were younger and free I've forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet There's such a difference between us And a million miles Hello from the other side I must've called a thousand times To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done But when I call you never seem to be home Hello from the outside At least I can say that I've tried To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart But it don't matter, it clearly doesn't tear you apart Anymore Hello, how are you? It's so typical of me to talk about myself, I'm sorry I hope that you're well Did you ever make it out of that town where nothing ever happened? It's no secret that the both of us Are running out of time So hello from the other side I must've called a thousand times To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done But when I call you never seem to be home Hello from the outside At least I can say that I've tried To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart But it don't matter, it clearly doesn't tear you apart Anymore, ooooohh Anymore, ooooohh Anymore, ooooohh Anymore, anymore Hello from the other side I must've called a thousand times To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done But when I call you never seem to be home Hello from the outside At least I can say that I've tried To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart But it don't matter, it clearly doesn't tear you apart Anymore

18. 12/16/15 Objective: To read and analyze a poem. To define poetic techniques. (Read “The Sea”, define 5 poetic terms ) Bellringer: Record the definition and answer the question. allusion - reference to a person, place, event, or literary work in history that an author expects the reader to know Write an allusion about this picture:

19. 12/21/15 Objective: To assess knowledge of pronouns. (Pronouns Assessment Coloring Booklet) Bellringer: What are the rhyme schemes of the short poems below? Snow Kisses By Suzie Bitner If you go out when it’s snowing And look up at the sky. You’ll feel lots of icy kisses As the snowflakes flutter by. 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.

20. 12. 21.15 Objective: to review literary terms (Lit Terms Ornament- Day One) Bellringer: Read the excerpt and identify the type of each pronoun underline. The table was set for our Christmas 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 Christmas dinner? Nobody! Now find the metaphor, simile, and hyperbole!

21. 12. 23.15 Objective: to review literary terms (Lit Terms Ornament- Day Two) Bellringer: What terms are you doing your ornament on? Define that term.

22. 12/23/15 Objective: To effectively use quoted evidence in writing (QUOREO interactive notebook piece, evidence cut out, non-fiction reading, paragraph response) Bellringer: Grab the QUOREO sheet and the evidence paper off the front table. Cut them out and glue them in your notebook.