1-Month Unit: Day 11
Agenda:
Do Now: Read & Respond
Cornell Notes: Elegy
Glossary: Elegy
Guided practice: Identify and analyze the poems
Independent practice: Write your own elegy!
Do Now
Directions: Read the following poem and answer the
questions that follow.
Forever
by Makel
Really, there is no secret to it.
Live your life like you live
your day, each one,
one after the other,
dodging bullets.
Empty the chamber
so you are not tempted
to fire
back.
He is gone—
to be remembered. Forever. RIP. We
Love
You.
1. The poem is ________________ stanzas
long.
2. What is the poem about?
3. Who do you think the poem is written for?
4. When the poet says, “Empty the chamber
so you are not tempted to fire back” what
?does he mean?
5. What is the mood of this poem?
Thoughts to start the day…
Name that poetic device! Read the lines of poetry and decide
which poetic device is being used!
Personification
Metaphor
Which poetic device is used?
Symbolism
Alliteration
1. The click clack of her heels.
2. Life is like a river.
3. Life lives longer later.
4. The water screamed for me to drink it!
5. He is a lion.
Rhyme Scheme
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Simile
Today’s Objectives
SW
 identify and define the elements of an elegy.
 analyze an elegy for its structure and use of
poetic devices.
 create original elegies.
Notes: Rhyme Scheme
Questions & Key Words
Details
What are different ways
that poems can be structured?
What is a poem form?
What is an elegy?
A poem form is a type of poem with a specific layout
or about a specific topic.
An elegy is specific poem form written in
remembrance for a person or a group of people who
have passed away.
There are 3 pieces of an elegy.
What is the structure
of an elegy?
1. Pain: which is where the speaker expresses grief
and sorrow.
2. Praise: which is where the speaker admires and
honors the dead.
3. Relief: which is where the speaker finds peace of
mind with the death.
Questions & Key Words
Is this an elegy?
How do we know?
Details
Let’s look back to our poem from our “Do
Now”…
Forever
by Makel M.
Really, there is no secret to it.
Live your life like you live
your day, each one,
one after the other,
dodging bullets.
Empty the chamber
so you are not tempted
to fire
back.
He is gone—
to be remembered. Forever. RIP. We Love
You.
Is this an elegy? Identify the 3 pieces of the
elegy and mark where each part is.
Let's ADD to our glossary!
Elegy
Definition:
____________________________________________________
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Examples:
Analysis Time!
Directions: Together we will read the poems and
analyze them for their form and poetic devices.
DL
1. How do you know this is an elegy?
by Markel
You shined like the sun on a sunny day
There is no one who could fill your place.
You keep the streets alive,
Even when it was dead outside.
You were a man that held his pride.
I remember the days we were straight trappin.
And when we went in the house,
We went straight to snackin.
The night I heard that thing clappin,
The same night the sky spoke to me and told
me what happened.
I didn’t know what the hell happened.
We will always remember you for everything
you did.
Now all I got to say is Rest in Peace kid…
2. Does the elegy include the three
parts: pain, praise, and relief? Put a
star next each of the places in the
poem where these parts are
shown.
3. The poet uses both a simile and
personification in his poem. Underline
these two lines.
4. What mood does the poet create in
this poem?
5. What image does the poet create in
the poem?
Fallen Star (4 Huey P. Newton)
by Tupac
They could never understand
what u set out 2 do
instead they chose 2
ridicule u
when u got weak
they loved the sight
of your dimming
and flickering starlight
How could they understand what was so intricate
2 be loved by so many, so intimate
they wanted 2 c your lifeless corpse
this way u could not alter the course
of ignorance that they have set
2 make my people forget
what they have done for much 2 long
2 just forget and carry on
I had loved u forever because of who u r
and now I mourn our fallen star
Fallen Star (4 Huey P. Newton)
by Tupac
1. How do you know this is an elegy?
2. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
3. How is the “fallen star” used as a symbol? What does it
represent?
4. What is the mood of the poem?
On your own!
Directions: Read the 2 poems
and then answer the questions
that follow.
1. How does the poet use
the elegy form here? What
is this elegy about?
2. What is the mood of this
poem?
3. What image does the
poet create in the poem?
Rest In Peace
by Reggie C.
Rest in peace to my opportunity of seeing my
son’s 1st step
Rest in peace to my opportunity of seeing my
son’s 1st word
Rest in peace…
Rest in peace to my chance of seeing 2011
summer time
Rest in peace to my chance of taking pictures
with my son at a young age,
For him to see when he gets older
Rest in peace…
Rest in peace to my opportunity of being
with
my son his first time at Chuckey Cheese
Rest in peace to my opportunity of my son
really getting to know me
Rest in peace.
1. How do you know this is
an elegy?
2. What is the mood of this
poem?
3. The poet uses
onomatopoeia, simile, and
personification. Underline
where he uses this.
4. How does this poem
make you feel?
RIP L.I.P.
by Adrian
Boom Boom Boom Boom!!!
The sound of my friend
Getting killed made me
Think twice of my life
Style I was living.
Thinking back when we used
To play football in deep snow
And can barely run
It made me drop my head
As my eyes watered and
Tears fell softly on my cheeks
Like raindrops.
The pain speaks to me and is
Unbearable
When looking down at the person
You used to play “tag” with in a
Casket.
Man
It
Hurts.
You’re turn to
write!
Directions: Use this graphic organizer
to brainstorm before you write. No
complete sentences, ideas only!
YOU, the poet…organizing your elegy in a brainstorm!
The person (or group of people) I am writing about is:__________
Things I remember the
person saying:
Symbols (objects, places,
colors, sights…) that
remind me of this person
and/or represent this
person:
What this person looked
like:
What I learned from this
person:
Now
Create your own
elegy!
You can pull ideas from your brainstorm or you can simply write
without using your brainstorm.
• Your elegy must be at least 10 lines long (you can choose the
number of stanzas!)
• Your elegy should include the 3 pieces of an elegy: pain, praise,
and relief
• Try and use at least 2 different poetic devices in your elegy
Your poem for today is an elegy.
Your poem must be at least 10 lines long
Your poem must include at least 2 poetic devices.
You can always include other poetic devices!!
After 10 minutes, we will...
SHARE OUT!!
Wrap it up!
1. What is an elegy?
2. What is the structure of an elegy?
3. Why do poets write elegies?