Day 100

Objective:  The students will complete and intro and one body paragraph for a Q1 Essay

Day 100 (by my count):  While other teachers sometimes complain about their students when we go out and socialize, I just smile because I am lucky to have all of you great kids in my class.  

1.  Q1 Prompt:  "The Man with the Saxophone"

Open up document in GC.  Break down the prompt and write intro and one body.

Print and add it to the Poetry 1 Packet.

Perrine’s Study Guide:  P o e t r y  1 (Warren from Herrera)

Q1 Prompt Practice:  Man with the Saxophone due: __________________

Chapter 1: What is Poetry, pp. 717-725 due: _________________
Chapter 2: Reading the Poem, pp. 737-747 due: _________________

Poems:
“Out, Out,- - -” by Robert Frost, Handout due____________________
“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath, Handout due ________________
“Kitchenette Building” by Gwendolyn Brooks, Handout due____________________

Tone Terms:
Blunt     Cynical      Desolate      Enraged       Fervent       Pithy
Sardonic      Solemn       Vitriolic       Wistful

Literary Terms:
Imagery        Metaphor        Symbol          Paradox         Irony         Allusion
Repetition             Rhythm            Pattern              Paraphrase           Enjambment
Inverted Syntax      Juxtaposition

Multiple Choice Terms:  I will add these as we go:

Idiosyncratic

Winnowing

Surcease

 

MC Practice:

To Autumn

The Frog

 

Allusions

Macbeth

Narcissus