All of Mr. Warren's AP Literature classes will use this site as a daily log of activities and subjects taught.
Objective: The students will analyze a new poem.
1. Get out "She Dwelt..." and discuss your analysis and what you would write about.
2. Analyze "The Weight of Sweetness" using your checklist.
Emotional Reading of poem by ex-student:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uSeqMpXhr4
Link below of the poem for all of you who decided to take today off:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhGGUzKJVsFhlveAGZVhrzCkoGP4uA58wetgr3wkCc/edit?usp=sharing
Objective: The students will analyze a great poem by Wordsworth.
1. Get out two chapter outlines and tone terms for stamps.
2. Go over my Chapter PPs.
3. Analyze "She Dwelt...."
Ibrahim: Hope your surgery went well. Keep it clean... you don't want an infection like I had after my knee replacement!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k_q5lYpHdavA2HTypLCWyYUU_JKoA4hqufDkdLG9_B0/edit?usp=sharing
Be prepared to write on it in depth tomorrow.
Objective: The students will discuss figurative language.
1. Get out the outline for stamp and discussion.
2. Go over my chapter PP.
3. Outline the next chapter and complete Tone Terms.
Objective: The students will discuss imagery and figurative language.
1. Get out the outlines for stamp and discussion.
2. Go over my chapter PPs.
3. Outline the next chapter.
4. Tomorrow we will do the last one and the tone terms.
Objective: The students will begin Perrine's Poetry Unit 2.
1. New Unit Cover Sheet: Ibrahim, here is the link for you: Hope your surgery goes well!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YYxcc-YWzhxFNT6LVLESVtMC6V5A3UtX/view?usp=sharing
2. Complete outlines for the first two chapters. Do them on separate sheets of paper.
Due tomorrow.
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
Objective: The students will complete a MC Practice.
1. Write an intro paragraph for the following Q1 Prompt:\
In a clear and thoughtful essay, discuss how Gwendolyn Brooks uses literary devices to convey themes about aspiration and survival. How do the speaker's reflections on dreams reveal the poet's purpose?
2. Go over your poem analysis.
3. MC Practice: The Frog
Objective: The students will analyze another poem.
Note: Yesterday I saw three students using the internet for analysis of the poem. As I have said before, I don't care what the internet says, I only care what you think (right or wrong). As long as you try. I don't want to see any more of this... it will not be pleasant if I do.
1. Get out "Mirror" and write an intro paragraph for the following prompt:
In Sylvia Plath's poem "Mirror," the speaker reflects on identity, self-perception and the passage of time. Analyze how the poet uses literature devices such as tone, imagery and structure to contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole.
2. Go over what you found in the poem with me.
3. Analyze ""kitchenette building."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yQ7hOjX9v0
Objective: The students will analyze their second poem: "Mirror."
1. Allusion Notes: Narcissus and Echo
2. Listen to the poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZht4WMoMo
3. Use your How to Analyze Poetry Checklist to analyze the poem:
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.
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.
4. Write an intro paragraph for the following prompt:
Robert Frost, in his poem "Out, Out," seems to be making a statement about the fragility of life. In an essay, explain how the poet uses literary devices to present the overall purpose of the poem.
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.
Objective: The students will analyze their first poem.
EDIT: Due to a meeting during 4th, MC Practice "To Autumn" and then copy notes on "How to Analyze a Poem" below.
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