Take out your copy of The Brook and complete the 3rd close read questions
A. What is the speaker describing in each stanza? What is happening?
1.
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.
2.
3.
Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
4.
I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.
With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.
5.
6.
I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
7.
I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,
And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,
8.
9.
And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
10.
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.
11.
12.
I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;
13.
And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
The Brook
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkYB3kMLaLA
B. How would you describe the speaker's tone throughout the poem? Provide
words, phrases or lines to support your answer.
C. List the imagery that you noticed in the poem. What mood does the imagery
create for the reader?
D. What lines does the poet choose to repeat through the poem?
Take out your copy of The Brook and complete the 4th close read questions
A. What does the speaker keep reminding us of throughout the poem? Why?
B. What is the purpose of lines 29-34?
C. What is the theme of the poem? How do you know?
D. How does the poet develop the theme throughout the poem? Explain.
Jabberwocky
-
Lewis Carroll
pg. 606
1. Each person in your group is responsible for rewriting 2 stanzas from Jabberwocky.
2. You will rewrite your stanzas on your paper, substituting the bolded, underlined words
with real words, based on the context, that make the meaning more clear.
3. Your rewritten stanza should also be accompanied by a colorful illustration that depicts
what is going on in your stanza.
Due at the
end of class
for a group
grade!
So what exactly DO the words in the
first stanza of the poem mean?
Humpty Dumpty explains...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDlE-COWOcM
Is there a strong feeling that you just can't put into words or a hilarious sight that is impossible to describe? What
if you could invent a word that would capture the idea exactly? A nonsense word may be just what you need!
You will be given a few scenarios. Your job is to come up with a word that you feel accurately captures this
scenario. Be creative! Let's take a look at some examples....
Come up with a creative word that accurately captures the
following scenarios...
1. That feeling you have after taking the final EOG of the week.
2. That smell of a group of 7th graders coming down the hall after gym class.
3. When you think you are about to get in trouble, but then someone else gets in trouble instead.
4. That feeling you have after eating way too much of something.
Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky is an excellent example of
an entire poem written using made up words. Even though
most of the poem is "nonsense," you can still figure out what is
happening. Let's take a listen...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpKcqraRdfs
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
1
2
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
3
4
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought -So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
5
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
6
7
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Define the following words from the poem. Pay attention to context and how they are used.
brillig
2. slithy
3. toves
4. gimble
5. wabe
6. mimsy
7. borogoves
8. mome
9. raths
10. outgrabe
1.
11. frumious
12. vorpal
13. manxome
14. uffish
15. whiffling
16. tulgey
17. burbled
18. galumphing
19. beamish
20. frabjous