Day 96

Objective:  The students will analyze the last two poems from this packet.

1.  Get the handout.

2.  Use poetry checklist to analyze the two Blake poems.

Packet Due Tomorrow!!!!!!!

Day 95

Objective:  The students will analyze their first sonnet.

1.  Go over "Mad Girl"

2.  Sonnet Notes

3.  "Perfectly Poised" analysis.

Day 94

Objective:  The students will analyze a another Plath poem.

1.  Get out your Chapter 7 Outline.  Go over my Power Point for it.

2.  Go over your analysis of "Weight of Sweetness" and get both stamped.

3.  "Mad Girl's Love Song" analysis

Day 92-93

Objective:  The students will analyze a tougher (but awesome) poem.

Note:  I will be absent tomorrow at a conference.  You will outline the last chapter of this poetry unit.  It is due Monday for a stamp.  Even if you are absent, it's due.  No points for it if it's not here.

1.  Get outline and get it stamped.

2.  "Weight of Sweetness" analyze.

Day 91

Objective:  The students will discuss poem analysis and then outline a chapter.

1.  Discuss your analysis of poem.

2.  Outline the next chapter (Chapter 6 Figurative Language 2, pp. 807-817)

3.  Tone Terms

Day 90

Objective:  The students will go over the two chapters and then analyze a Wordsworth poem.

1.  My Chapters PPs

2.  Wordsworth Handout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJ389WX07k&ab_channel=ReadingCompanion

Day 89

Objective:  The students will complete two chapter outlines so that we can analyze more poems.

1.  Get your Poetry Packet 1 out of graded work folder.

2.  Get the new packet cover sheet. 

3.  Outline the first TWO chapters.  Due tomorrow.

Day 88

Objective:  The students will practice 1/2 of a Q1 Essay.

1.  Turn in Poetry Packet 1 in order.

2.  Get out a pen, one sheet of paper and the prompt.

3.  Break down the prompt.  Underline key words that you MUST use in the essay.

4.  Analyze poem.

5.  Write intro and one body paragraph.

Isaiah I found your drone!

Day 87

Objective:  The students will complete a TTSTCANDI Chart Analysis of the poem analyzed.

1.  Get the TTSTCANDI Chart.

2.  Work with a partner/s to complete a thorough analysis of the poem.

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/12rDB78wCjKJRFKCLBgO5nYt6RL6zOO0neX-9_yp1KDk/edit?usp=sharing

3.  I will discuss my Power Point TTSTCANDI as an example of what you will do in the next packet.

4.  Tomorrow we turn in Poetry Packet 1

 

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Day 86

Objective:  The students will discuss their analysis of the poem and begin a new one.

1.  Allusion Notes:  Narcissus and Echo

2.  Liston to Platt's "Mirror."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZht4WMoMo&t=9s

3.  Go over analysis of "Mirror" PP.

4.  Analyze "kitchenette building"

Allusion Notes:  Greek Mythology:  Narcissus and Echo

·       Narcissus was a gorgeous male who admired himself enormously.

·       Echo loved him, but he ignored her.

·       Eventually she was cursed with not being able to voice her own thoughts but only repeat what others had said.

·       This bothered Narcissus and he taunted her because of it.

·       She eventually wasted away, with only her voice, repeating the words of others, remaining.

·       Narcissus became so enamored with himself that one day he admired his reflection in a pond.

·       He became stuck there, staring at his beauty.

·       He was stuck there so long that he became a flower that grows there.

Day 85

Objective:  The students will discuss what they saw in "Out, Out" and analyze a Plath poem.

1.  Go over Lit Terms:

Imagery        Metaphor        Symbol          Paradox         Irony         Allusion
Repetition             Rhythm            Pattern              Paraphrase           Enjambment
Inverted Syntax      Juxtaposition  (add onomatopoeia)

2.  Go over "Out, Out" analysis/close reading

3.  Analyze Plath's "Mirror, Mirror

Paradox: a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

Juxtaposition:   the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

Enjambment:   the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line

Day 84

Objective:  The students will analyze their first poem.

1.  Allusion notes:  Macbeth.

2.  How to Analyze Poems Notes:

2.  Listen to poem:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBdxu9t-zs&t=10s&ab_channel=BrianMonk

3.  Read and analyze with a partner.

 

 

Allusion Notes:  Macbeth and “Out, out”

Allusion Notes:  Macbeth’s “Out, out brief candle!”

 “Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

·      Macbeth in Macbeth has a soliloquy at the end of the play when he hears his wife cry out as she dies.

·      Shakespeare is speaking through Macbeth.  He is saying that existence for each of us is only a moment of light before emptiness and darkness.

·      Before we are born, there is nothing.

·      After we die there is nothing.  Only darkness.

·      Being alive is like a brief light burning in the darkness.

·      We think we are important and what we do in life has significance.

·      But we are only a shadow that disappears when the light goes out.

 

 

How to Analyze a Poem:

Steps:

Before Reading if possible:  Look into the poet and the time period.  This may provide you with information that will help you analyze.  You can use your phone for this.

1.        Identify Form:

a.       Count and label stanzas

b.       Count and label lines if not done already

c.       Look for a rhyme scheme and identify

d.       Look for a specific rhythm (look at the number of syllables in the first few lines.)

2.       Identify the subject/situation of the poem.

3.       Identify the speaker of the poem (NEVER assume the speaker is the poet)

4.       Identify characters in the poem

5.       Find shifts in the poem (in tone, speakers, time periods, etc)

6.       Come up with a UT

7.       Identify Literary Devices