I doesn’t understand, why people think
they can skip school and get a way
with it.
Misplaced comma
Verb usage
a way= away
I cant wait untill school gets out for the summer,
I will be at the pool everyday.
Rules:
-Apostrophe
-Spelling
-Run-on sentence
1. MUG shots
2. Journal 1
3. Journal 2
1. I have not graded the journals yet, so start a
new section and then place them in a pile
again for me to grade
4. With a partner, work on your handouts for
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
5. Complete exercise one in your vocabulary books
and I will check tomorrow
 MUG shots
 Read a poem
 Journal
 Finish TPCASTT poems
“Poetry has two outstanding
characteristics. One is that it is
indefinable. The other is that it
is eventually unmistakable,”
- Arlington Robinson
 By a 1924 act of Congress all Native Americans
received his United States citizenship.
 Rules:
Pronoun-Antecendent agreement, comma to separate
clauses and phrases
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MUG shots
Food for Thought discussion
Journal 4
Check vocabulary exercises 1-3
Check figurative language worksheet
Notes
 Figurative language
 EOC poetry…that rhymes and it has a little rhythm…just
saying
 Go over TPCASTT
 “The Road Not Taken”
 “maggie and milly and molly and may”
 “Blackberry Eating”
Food for thought
 Find an important word or line in the following poem
by Stephen Crane.
 Write it down in your journal
 Reason for your choice
 One/two statement reaction
 We are going to discuss this as a class and why
 Take notes
War is Kind
Stephen Crane
 Do not weep, maiden, for war is
kind,
Because your lover threw wild hands
toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on
alone,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.
Because your father tumbles in the yellow
trenches,
Raged at his breast, gulped and died,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
Swift blazing flag of the regiment,
Eagle with crest of red and gold,
These men were born to drill and die.
Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
Make plain to them the excellence of
killing
And a field where a thousand corpses lie.
Hoarse, booming drums of the
regiment,
Little souls who thirst for fight,
These men were born to drill and
die.
The unexplained glory flies above
them.
Great is the battle-god, great, and
Mother whose heart hung humble as a
his kingdom-A field where a thousand corpses lie. button
On the bright splendid shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
War is kind!
Home is behind, the world ahead.
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Describe this pastel portrait of a
“Woman Combing her Hair” by
Edgar Degas as if you were
hanging out with someone who
was blind.
(at least 5 sentences)
Rhythm:
Roses are red/violets are blue/sugar is sweet/and so are
you.
Rhyme:
I went to the zoo/ Tommy went too/ I felt rather blue/ ‘cuz I
didn’t see you
Alliteration:
Sad, sad sally sits by the seashore
Stanza:
How much wood/ would a woodchuck chuck/ if a
woodchuck could chuck wood
A woodchuck would chuck wood/ as much as a woodchuck
could/ if a woodchuck could chuck wood
(T)
TITLE: Examine the title before reading the poem. Consider
connotations.
(P) PARAPHRASE: Translate the poem into your own words
(literal/denotation). Resist the urge to jump into interpretation!
Not understanding what happens literally inevitably leads to an
interpretive misunderstanding.
(C) CONNOTATION: Examine to poem for meaning beyond the
literal. Focus on how the poetic devices contribute to the meaning
or the effect of the poem. Look for:
· Figurative Language
· Symbolism
· Irony
· Allusions
· Effect of Sound Devices
(A) ATTITUDE: Tone- Examine the speaker’s attitudes. Remember, don’t
confuse the poet with the speaker! Look for:
·
Speaker’s attitude towards self, other characters, the subject
(S) SHIFTS: Note any shifts in speaker and attitude
·
Occasion of the poem (time and place)
·
Key words (but, yet)
·
Punctuation (dashes, periods, colons, etc.)
·
Stanza divisions
·
Changes in line or stanza length
·
Effect of structure on meaning
(T) TITLE: Examine the title again, this time on an interpretive level.
(T) THEME: First, list what the poem is about, or, its subject or subjects. Then,
determine what the poet is saying about that subject or subjects. This is the
THEME. It is a general statement about life, not about the characters or speaker
within the poem. IT IS WRITTEN AS A COMPLETE SENTENCE.
“The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
T:
P:
C:
A:
S:
T:
I love to go out in late September
among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries
to eat blackberries for breakfast,
the stalks very prickly, a penalty
they earn for knowing the black art
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries
fall almost unbidden to my tongue,
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words
like strengths or squinched,
many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps,
which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well
in the silent, startled, icy, black language
of blackberry -- eating in late September.
 Martin Luther King Jr was awarded the nobel peace
prize in 1964.
 Rules:
 Comma, period, capitalization
 MUG shots
 Journal
 Check vocabulary homework exercise 5
 Finish TPCASTT
 Do your own TPCASTT
 Mini-lesson: concrete poetry
 Go over poetry
 Share poem from Monday
Words
Shaun Corley
you say that I’m in love with your words
the hundreds of thousand have down are a gateway to
the millions more in your head
swirling and fighting tooth and nail for the right to be
expressed
“I have too many readers” you say
and when I read that kaleidoscopic swirling
incandescent
mass of life hope longing sadness desire lust love
I almost have to wonder why you don’t have more.
What does this say
to you? What is
appealing about
this painting?
(at least 5
sentences)
Ernst, Max
Blind Swimmer
(Effect of a Touch)
1934
Oil on canvas
 Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Concrete Poetry
 important in conveying the intended effect as the
conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning
of words, rhythm, rhyme
 Also known as shape poetry or visual poetry
“l(a” By e.e. cummings
I
l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness
You have the rest of the period to create a concrete
poem. You may use the magazines, construction
paper, markers, crayons, etc. Get to work and make it
good!
 The first Nuclear reaction was triggered at the
University of Chicago on December 2 nineteen fortytwo.
 Rules:
 Commas for dates, capitalization, numbers
 MUG shots
 Poem reading
 Brassai Journal
 TPCASTT own poem by Robert Frost
 Journal II for the day
 Mini-lesson: Found Poetry
 What is found poetry?
Stained Glass
Mike Vance
I see others in pain,
But I do nothing. For I am
only concerned with
image.
How will I be remembered?
It doesn’t matter really.
No one knows of me now.
I cannot take it for what it is.
I must make everything
Greater than its reality.
My fantasy of this large epic
Of which I am the hero.
But past the disillusions
And the gilded memories.
All that exists is a tattered
tapestry
Of mistakes.
Images of regret and selfishness.
But I must live with it.
The cross I created
Is mine alone to carry.
One day I will learn.
One day, I will be everything I
believe
I am.
 One statement to
Describe this
photograph
By Brassai
She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when the sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guys it gently sways at ease,
And its supporting central cedar pole,
That is its pinnacle to heavenward
And signifies the sureness of the soul,
Seems to owe naught to any single cord,
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To everything on earth the compass round,
And only by one's going slightly taut
In the capriciousness of summer air
Is of the slightest bondage made aware
How do you think
Athens, Greece
influenced this oil
painting by Giorgio de’
Chirico? This is part of
the Cubist Movement.
He painted this after
returning home from
WW I.
(at least 5 sentences)
Found Poetry
 Literally anything you find in anything and anywhere
 The only rule is that you are NOT allowed to add any
words to what you find.
 You can, however, take out words and shift around.
The Trek –Andrew Tillman
Borge Ousland did what n one else had done
He skied to the North Pole by Himself
And
He skied to the South Pole by himself without any
Assistance
Then he tried to go across The White Wilderness the
Saemway
But, alas, he failed.
“No
matter”
Says he.
He says,
“Skiing alone for so long gives you a different
Perspective
on
Life, you
Really understand what a small piece you are in
Nature’s Greatness,”
His son painted his skis various colors so Ousland had
Something
To Concentrate on
While crossing a
White Wilderness.
Create a found poem from any word in this room, any
picture in a magazine describing this
class…room…subject…
You have the rest of the period. Go.
 During world war II, Pres. Roosevelt ordered 120,000
japanese americans locked up in internment camps in
the U.S.
 Rules:
 Abbreviations and capitalization
 MUG shots
 Reading poem
 Journal
 TPCASTT poem
 “Money” C.K. Williams
 Mini-lesson: found poetry
 Visual collage
14
Kate St. John
For tasting lips
Would be too much
For now we just walk around
Town in wonder.
Naive minds
Turned towards
Window displayed mannequins,
Standing in silence
As we grow older.
Taking our time,
Especially in the summer
When our skin turned brown
And all the boys turned their heads.
The Angel Standing in the Sun, 1846
William Turner
This painting shows the Archangel Michael appearing
on the Day of Judgment with his flaming sword. In the
foreground are Old Testament scenes of murder and
betrayal: Adam and Eve weeps over the body of Abel
(left), and Judith stands over the headless body of
Holofernes (right).
With this painting, create a found poem using words from the
magazines on the table. You have 15 minutes.
Journal
Write a reaction to this poem after we read it and listen to it.
http://www.slate.com/id/2116754/
In groups, create a visual collage for the poem.
You have 15 minutes.
How could the second doctor have knew
what the 1st doctor prescribed if the patient
did not tell him or her
Rules:
Verb usage
Spell out numbers (first)
End punctuation
Harlem Hopscotch
Maya Angelou
One foot down, then hop! It’s hot.
Good things for the ones that’s got.
another jump, now to the left.
Everybody for hisself.
In the air, now both feet down.
Since you black, don’t stick around.
Food is gone, the rent is due,
Curse and cry and then jump two.
All the people out of work,
Hold for three, then twist and jerk.
Cross the lone, they county you out.
That’s what hopping’s all about.
Both feet flat, the game is done.
They think I lost. I think I won.
What is a free verse poem anyway?
Free verse (is just what it says it is)- poetry that is
written without proper rules about form, rhyme,
rhythm, meter, etc.
Fact: The greatest American writer of free verse
is probably Walt Whitman. His great collection of
free verse was titled Leaves of Grass and it was
published in 1855.
In free verse the writer makes his/her own rules.
The writer decides how the poem should look,
feel, and sound.
Winter Poem
Nikki Giovanni
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it so much and i kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower
Describe your favorite season in a free
poem.
The girl’s eaten the cupcakes
in the classroom they are good.
Apostrophe
Verb usage
fragment
They’re, their, there
Dusty and Chris came to the essay exam without __________ dictionaries.
The disapproving look of Mrs. Mauzy, their teacher, haunted them for
the entire test.
My dog Oreo loves to chase things, especially the lizards sunning
themselves on the sidewalk; __________ not as dangerous as the two
family cats who will stand their ground and swipe her with sharp claws.
Despite the complaints from his girlfriend Gloria, Frank continues to wear
his old, dirty, smelly sneakers because __________ the most
comfortable shoes that he owns.
Dallas and Kelly crammed until 4 a.m. for their final exam in accounting;
__________ hoping for As on the test to bump their wretched averages
up to Cs
On the following slide, describe “Green
Wheatfield with Cypress” by Vincent van Gogh
in a free verse poem
Fishing
Andrew Dooley
I wrangle my prey to the surface
Grilled victim raised from the water
To flop on the floor
Still reeling from the abduction
Gasping for oxygen in the salty air
Simmering on a bed of ice
I’ll remember our struggle
By the fish-oil smudge on my shirt
A Change Outside Our Window
Elizabeth Gregg
on your way from some parking lot or
another
they don’t want air conditioning
they don’t want to sell you a new long
distance plan
they’re not raising money for Jerry’s
kids
they’re reaching in broken tendrils of
look close at the palms of the oak leaves
fiber and sinewy
that wave
grace
along the highway
like lepers on the roadside
to you
the singed curl of cancerous embers
in your car
flaks away,
on your way
even in spring
to some parking lot or another
they wave to get your attention
it’s a subtle change so look closely
(it may be your last glimpse)
smeared shadows out the car window
or tiny manicured blocks of green
floating below like
heaven
Unhappy Girl
Kate St. John
Hiding behind
Pink painted lids.
Delicate flowers
Sleeping the days away.
A fading rose indeed
With fair white skin.
Your words have
All withered away
Diminishing with the setting sun.
Loitering too long within yourself.
A chamber of lost loves.
Sadness is disguised in
Your quiet eyes.
Running colors blending into gray
As flooded fields show you the way.
An Ode to Cheese
Robin Guillory
A mere woman cannot
By the strength of her pen alone
Convey the sheer sublimity
Of cheese.
From the Singles of kindergarten
To the starving student artist’s Velveeta
To Brie and Triscuits
In the twilight teatime of the soul
By its nature it unifies,
Classifies and completes us.
Sometimes it is good to be human
And appreciate cheese.
If I am ever someone from Ohio
in the water having trouble
off a continent’s west edge
and am translated to my element
by a sudden warm great animal
with sea-dark fur sleek shining
and the eyes of Shiva,
I hope to sink my troubles like a stone
and all uneducated ride
her inshore shouting with the foam
praises of the freedom to be saved.
--Ursula K. LeGuin
Oedipus Rex II
There once was a king that was wise,
who conquered a sphinx of great size.
He went on a date,
And met the wrong mate,
And ended up losing his eyes.
--Sally Wilson
There once was a king called Rex
Upon whom the gods laid a Hex.
He did a bad thing
With mom had a fling
And developed an awful complex.
-- Jonathan Milner
MUG shots
Choosing the Right Word
Vocabulary Quiz
Journal
TPCASTT overview
Mini-lesson: Nonfiction
Activity
1. MUG shots
2. Journal: “Anticipation Guide”
3. Mini-lesson: Memoirs and speeches
Activity with the two and tying in Sojourner
Truth “Ain’t I A Woman” and
Langston Hughes’ “Let America be America
Again”
May 5, 2008
Objectives: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2
Journal
EOC review
Mini-lesson: Nonfiction
Activity
May 6, 2008
 Journal “Anticipation Guide”
 Talk about Narrative
 Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream”
 Mini-lesson: Memoirs vs. speech
 Poem by Langston Hughes
 Activity with nonfiction
“unusually fortunate circumstances” of her early childhood before she
realized she was a slave.
Linda’s father is a carpenter who is granted many of the privileges of a
free man.
who is sold at age ten.
When Linda is six years old, her mother dies.
When she is 12, her mistress dies
is sold to the five-year-old daughter of her mistress’ sister
Her grandmother’s mistress had always promised grandmother would be
granted her freedom.
mistress dies, Dr. Flint reneges on this promise and puts Linda’s
grandmother up for sale.
sister of the deceased mistress purchases her
her grandmother is granted her freedom.
vivid accounts of the Flint’s cruelty and brutality—as well as that of
neighboring slaveholders—toward their slaves.
New Year’s Day with the New Year’s festivities enjoyed by whites.
January 1 was hiring day.
A memoir is a piece of autobiographical writing, usually
shorter in nature than a comprehensive autobiography. The
memoir, especially as it is being used in publishing today,
often tries to capture certain highlights or meaningful
moments in one's past The memoir may be more
emotional and concerned with capturing particular scenes,
or a series of events, rather than documenting every fact of
a person's life (Zuwiyya, N. 2000)
Dr. Beth Burch, a professor of education at Binghamton University. It is
from her book, Writing For Your Portfolio (Boston: Allyn and Bacon,
1999).
Characteristics of the memoir form: another
perspective
... explores an event or series of related events that
remain lodged in memory
... describes the events and then shows, either directly
or indirectly, why they are significant
... is focused in time; doesn't cover a great span of years
(that would be an autobiography)
... centers on a problem or focuses on a conflict and its
resolution and on the understanding
of why and how the resolution is significant in
your life
public speaking a whole lot easier for
you. Build solid foundations for a
successful speech by using your
knowledge of the occasion, the
audience, and their expectations.
What is the origin or source of most of
your views toward members of other
ethnic/racial/gender groups?
1.Journal
2.MUG shots Quiz
3.Finish groups from yesterday
4.Go over as a class
5.Look at Langston Hughes’ poem on America
1.MUG shots
2.Journal and turn in…
3.EOC review
4.Turn in Literary Responses…
5.Test review handout and talk about test
6.TPCASTT another poem individually and
then as a class
Multiple Choice questions on elements of poetry and
nonfiction and examples from poetry and nonfiction
TPCASTT two poems
TPCASTT format will be on the test so you don’t
have to memorize it.
EOC format- excerpts of poetry and nonfiction
Extra credit due as well
MUG shots
 Golf ball’s used to be little feather pillows maid of
leather.
Rules:
Using the right word, Plurals
In a haze, a stormy haze
I'll be round; I'll be loving you
always, always
Here I am and I take my time
Here I am and I'll wait in line
always, always
After you read and listen to this,
what/who do you think this
lyrical poem is about? How did
you feel while reading or
listening to the song?
Really.