COLLECTION 5
OVERVIEW
A Matter of Life or Death
TURN TO PAGE 305 IN YOUR TEXTBOOK
 Analyze this quote:
“To endure what is unendurable is
true endurance.”
- Japanese proverb
1. What does endurance mean?
2. What is a proverb?
3. What do you think this quote means to say? Write it in your
own words.
PG. 305
 Analyze this quote:
“To endure what is unendurable is true
endurance.”
- Japanese proverb
1. What does endurance mean?
(noun) the ability or strength to continue or last, especially
despite fatigue, stress, or other adverse conditions
2. What is a proverb?
(noun) a short popular saying, usually of unknown and
ancient origin, that expresses a profound or wise saying
3. What do you think this quote means to say? Write it in your own
words.
Answer is in your own words.
LOOK AT THE PICTURE ON PAGE 305
 Analyze the picture:
What about this picture relates to the
collection’s theme of being a matter of life or
death?
In your own words, write at least three sentences explaining
how the picture relates to the theme.
(We will share as a class)
TERMS FOR THIS UNIT:
1. Sensory Language - precise words and phrases to create
powerful images that appeal to the reader’s senses (sight,
sound, smell, touch, and taste)
2. Repetition- the use of a word or phrase again and again for
emphasis
3. Parallelism- the repetition of the same grammatical structure
to show that two or more ideas and similar or equally
important (usually two ideas connected by the word “and”)
4. Tone- this is the author’s attitude toward the subject. This is
shown through word choices, images they create, and subjects
they explore
1.
Tone examples = anger, disappointment, excitement, adoration
TERMS FOR THIS UNIT:
LOOK AT PAGE 353
1. Theme- the central message or idea (It’s tricky! There can
sometimes be more than one theme)
2. Imagery- descriptive words and phrases that re -create
sensory experiences for the reader (ex: “corpse -filled
wagons”)
1.
Can cause a strong emotional response
3. Denotation- the dictionary meaning of the word
1.
Ex: Ratchet (n) = a toothed bar with which a pawl engages
4. Connotation- meanings that go beyond the dictionary
definition; subjective meanings
1.
Ex: Ratchet (n)= “A diva, mostly from urban cities and ghettos, that
has reason to believe she is every mans eye candy. Unfortunately,
she's wrong” (urbandictionary.com)
ANALYZE THE CLIP:
The Impossible
1. What does endurance mean?
2. If you were to write a proverb as a lesson based on
this clip, what would you write?
3. “To endure what is unendurable is true endurance .”Japanese proverb
1. How do you think this quote applies to this clip?
4. What is the tone of this clip?
GUESS WHAT?
ANALYZING A FILM
CLIP IS JUST LIKE
ANALYZING A
POEM!
LET’S ANALYZE THIS POEM:
1. Turn to page 351 in your textbook
2. We are going to:
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2.
3.
4.
Learn about the author
Read the poem together
Look at the terms and what we can find in the poem
Answer some questions at the end to show off our skills
(Next slide = explains some terms)
TERMS YOU MAY NOT KNOW:
 Socialism: a way of
organizing a society in
which major industries are
owned and controlled by
the government rather than
by individual people and
companies
 a system of society or group
living in which there is no
private property
 Communism: a way of
organizing a society in
which the government
owns the things that are
used to make and
transpor t products (such as
land, oil, factories, ships,
etc.) and there is no
privately owned proper ty