Bell Ringer
1. Hold onto the home learning, we’ll collect it after the bell
ringer.
2. (10 minutes to complete) Get your computer & go to:
http://studentpollsurvey.gallup.com/GNB48BW70
3. Select your preferred language, read the information, and
click the ‘begin survey’ button.
4. When you finish/while you wait for a computer answer
the following in your comp. book: In 3-5 sentences,
restating the prompt, write about what frightens you. Be
sure to write specific evidence.
Housekeeping
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
 Make-up Monday cancelled next week, but will resume 10/19.
 Lit. book needed next class
HOME LEARNING:
 If you get a scholarship warning today, have a parent sign it and
return it next class.
 Read (only) Wonder p. 236 – 248.
If not finished in class today…
 Achieve 3000: “Schools Take Steps to Stop Bullies” (article +
activity tabs only.)
 Questions?
Intro to poetry
Objectives
LAFS.6.RL.2.5 (Text Structure – Literary Texts)
I can…
 analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene,
or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text
and contributes to the development of the theme,
setting, or plot.
Elements of Poetry
0 Poetry is not prose.
0 Prose is the ordinary language people use in speaking
or writing.
0 Poetry is a form of literary expression that captures
intense experiences or creative perceptions of the
world in a musical language.
0 Basically, if prose is like talking, poetry is like singing.
0 By looking at the set up of a poem, you can see the
difference between prose and poetry.
Distinguishing Characteristics of Poetry
0 Unlike prose which has a narrator, poetry has a speaker.
0 A speaker, or voice, talks to the reader. The speaker
is not necessarily the poet. It can also be a fictional
person, an animal or even a thing.
0 Example
But believe me, son.
I want to be what I used to be
when I was like you.
from “Once Upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara
Distinguishing Characteristics of
Poetry
0 Similarly to how
prose uses sentences
to express ideas,
0 Example
1 Once when I was running,
From all that haunted me
To the dark I was succumbing
To what hurt unbearably
poetry uses lines.
0 Prose organizes
sentences into
paragraphs, but
poetry groups lines
into stanzas.
5
Searching for the one thing
That would set my sad soul free
In time I stumbled upon it,
An inner calm and peace
And now I am beginning
To see and to believe,
10 In who I am becoming—
And all I’ve yet to be.
“Self Love” by Lang Leav
Stanza 1
Stanza 2
Stanza 3
Rhyme
0 Rhyme is the repetition of the same stressed
vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in two
or more words.
0 Internal rhyme occurs within a line of poetry.
0 End rhyme occurs at the end of lines.
0 Rhyme scheme is the pattern of end rhymes
that may be designated by assigning a different
letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme
Example
“All mine!" Yertle cried. "Oh, the things I now rule!
I'm king of a cow! And I'm king of a mule!
I'm king of a house! And what's more, beyond that,
I'm king of a blueberry bush and cat!
I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me!
For I am the ruler of all that I see!”
from “Yertle the Turtle”
by Dr. Seuss
A
A
B
B
C
C
“Penelope” by Dorothy Parker
In the pathway of the sun,
In the footsteps of the breeze,
Where the world and sky are one,
He shall ride the silver seas,
He shall cut the glittering wave.
I shall sit at home, and rock;
Rise, to heed a neighbor’s knock;
Brew my tea, and snip my thread;
Bleach the linen for my bed.
They will call him brave.
A
B
A
B
C
D
D
E
E
C
Connotation and Denotation
Connotation - the emotional and imaginative association
surrounding a word.
Denotation - the strict dictionary meaning of a word.
Example: You may live in a house, but we live in a home.
Which of the following has a more
favorable connotation?
1.
thrifty
penny-pinching
2.
pushy
aggressive
3.
politician
statesman
4.
chef
cook
5.
slender
skinny
Elements of Poetry
When we explore the connotation and
denotation of a poem, we are looking at the
poet’s diction.
Diction – the word choice an author or poet
uses.
Many times, a poet’s diction can help unlock the
tone or mood of the poem.
Free Verse
0 Free verse is poetry that has no fixed pattern of
meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement.
0 When writing free verse, a poet is free to vary the
poetic elements to emphasize an idea or create a
tone.
0 In writing free verse, a poet may choose to use
repetition or similar grammatical structures to
emphasize and unify the ideas in the poem.
I Do
0 Open your lit. books to the poem “Life Doesn’t
Frighten Me At All” p. 282
0 Teacher reads first few lines & discusses repetition of
phrase “doesn’t frighten me at all”
0 Discuss how repetition affects the structure of the
poem.
We Do
0 Finish reading the poem as a whole group.
0 Identify various text structures located throughout
the poem.
0 Teacher fills out the example chart.
“Life Doesn’t
Frighten Me”
Who is the
speaker?
A young girl
What situation
does he/she face?
Life
How does he/she
feel about the
situation?
She’s fearless and
confident in
herself.
“On Turning Ten”
Work Period
0 Now read “On Turning Ten” p. 285 (lit. book) with
your elbow partner.
0 After reading discuss the poem’s structure.
0 Fill out the chart together. You may refer back to the
example we did together.
0 When you finish, get your computer and complete
Achieve 3000: “Schools Take Steps to Stop Bullies”
(article + activity tabs only.)
Packing Up Checklist
 #1 - Comp. books returned to bin/computers returned to
cart
 #2 - All your belongings packed up
 #3 - My supplies neatly returned to where you got them
 #4 - All trash thrown away & paper recycled
 #5 - Desks in neat rows
 #6 - Seated silently waiting for Ms. Barker to dismiss you
 #7 – (8B only) sit silently during announcements & wet
wipe the desks.
 #8 – (8B only) Stack chairs on desks after the
announcements have finished.