Bell Work #2
• 1-13-14: Read page 423, and write down 6
important facts about Emily Dickinson.
• Read “If you were coming in the fall,” “Much
Madness,” and “Success is counted
Sweetest”
• Discuss word choice and punctuation.
• I will be in my classroom Wednesday and
Friday during lunch to help you with your
poems.
• Put your IDs on.
Bell Work #2
• 1-14-14: Vocabulary p. 424 – write down the
words, part of speech, definition, examples
sentence, and original sentence.
• Read “Because I could not stop for death”
and “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain”
• Compare and contrast versions of the poem
• Go over Persona Poem Handout
• Put IDs on.
Bell Work #2
• 1-15-14: Follow the directions. You don’t have to
write them down. Look up the terms in the Literary
Handbook section of your textbook – the purple
section in the back of the book. Write down the
definition and an example for each of the following
literary elements: hyperbole, irony, metaphor,
oxymoron. Don’t write the example from the book.
• Turn in the “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” assignment
• Work on poems
• I can help you after school today or during lunch
Friday.
Bell Work #2
• 1-16-14: Follow the directions. You don’t have to
write them down. Look up the terms in the Literary
Handbook section of your textbook – the purple
section in the back of the book. Write down the
definition and an example for each of the following
literary elements: personification, rhyme scheme,
parallelism, and understatement. Don’t write the
example from the book.
• Turn in the “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” assignment
• Work on poems
• I can help you during lunch Friday.
Bell Work #2
• 1-17-14: Write the following questions down and
answer them:
o What place are you writing your poem about?
o Who is the Persona in your persona poem?
o What do I still need help on?
• Turn in the “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” assignment
and Bell Work
• Work on poems. I will be checking your progress.
• I can help you during lunch Friday.
• Push back Due dates – Tuesday extra credit and
Wednesday no extra credit, Thursday Poetry Quiz
• If you turn in the project after Wednesday, I will take
25 points off per day it is late.