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1. Get your notebook and study guide. Start copying these notes into your study guide: Spoken word Found poetry • Word-based performance art • Often includes other art forms (music, theater, and dance) • Focus on content, tone, gestures, and facial expressions • Created by using “found” words (words and phrases in the environment, newspaper, etc.) • Reframes words as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, to create new meaning. Once the bell rings, you will have 2 minutes to finish copying these notes!

2. Vocab List: Week 6 • Allegory: When the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning • Alliteration: The beginning of two or more words in close connection with the same letter or the same sound • Irony: A contrast between appearance and actuality • Analogy: A comparison between two things that are similar in some way ( _________ is to _________ as ___________ is to ___________) • Oxymoron: 2 qualities that are normally considered impossible to exist together (ie. jumbo shrimp, random order) • Hyperbole: Exaggeration, the overstating of something for emphasis (ie. This bag weighs a ton!) • Assonance: Repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds (ie. row rowrow your boat) • Consonance: Repetition of a pattern of consonants (ie. pitter patter) • Enjambment: in poetry, the running over of a line from one verse or stanza into the next without stopping at the end of the line • Onomatopoeia: the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings (ie. boom, crash, crack)

3. Warm Up: Spoken Word • What are the 3 most serious social ills threatening the “health” of your mind, body, gender, race, home, community, neighborhood, city, country, or planet? • First Wave Hip Hop Theater (UW Madison): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgfW5d8COs

4. Warm Up: Spoken Word What are the “ills” that this poet speaks about? How does the spoken word form contribute to the poem?

5. Spoken Word Poetry • Word-based performance art. • Often includes other art forms (music, theater, and dance) • Focus on content, tone, gestures, and facial expressions • Originated from the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, blues music, and the 1960s beatniks • Became popular in the underground Black community during the Civil Rights Movement • Used to inform or make an audience conscious of some human aspect pertaining to life • Often performed in a competitive setting (Poetry Slam)

6. Spoken Word Poetry First Wave Hip Hop Theater: University of Wisconsin - Madison http://omai.wisc.edu/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gCsuuakSw

7. Found Poems • Created by using “found” words (words and phrases in the environment, newspaper, etc.) • Reframes words as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, to create new meaning. • Treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner • Untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original. • The concept of found poetry is closely connected to the revision of the concept of authorship in the 20th century: as John Hollander put it, 'anyone may "find" a text; the poet is he who names it, "Text"'

9. “Acquainted with the Night”by Robert Frost I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses from another street,But not to call me back or say good-bye;And further still at an unearthly height,O luminary clock against the skyProclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.I have been one acquainted with the night.

10. “Thread” by Jonathan Galassi Heartworn happiness, fine line that winds among the tapestry’s old blacks and blues, bright hair blazing in the theater, red hair raving in the bar—as now the little leaves shoot veils of gold across the trees’ bones, shroud of spring, ghost of summer, shadblow snow, blood- russet spoor spilled prodigal on last year’s leaves . . . When your yellows, greens, and yellow-greens, your ochres and your umbers have evolved nearly to hemlock blackness, cypress blackness, when the woods are rife with soddenness (unfolded ferns, skunk cabbage by the stream, barberry by the trunks, and bitter watercress inside the druid pool) will your thin, still-glinting thread insist to catch the eye in filigreed titrations stitched along among beneath the branches, in the branches where it lives all winter, occulted fire, brief constant fleeting gold . . .

11. “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns O My Luve's like a red, red rose,That's newly sprung in June;O My Luve's like the melodieThat's sweetly played in tune.As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,So deep in luve am I;And I will luve thee still, my dear,Till a' the seas gang dry, my dearWhile the sands o' life shall run.And fare thee weel, my only luve,And fare thee weel, awhile!And I will come again, my luveTho' it ware ten thousand mile!

12. Fifth of July My family is an expired firecrackerset off by the blowtorch of divorce. We layscattered in many directions.My father is the wick, badly burntbut still glowing softly.My mother is the blackened paper fluttering down,blowing this way and that, unsure where to land.My sister is the fallen, colorful parachute,lying in a tangled knot, unable to see the beauty sheholds.My brother is the fresh, untouched powder thatwas protected from the flame. And I,I am the singed, outside papers, curled awayfrom everything, silently cursingthe blowtorch.

13. The Olympic Runner The sun beat down so hard it burnt his back,His feet ate the dust as he ran the endless track,The wind gave him wings and the miles flew by,He was gunning for gold, for victory he’d die.Critics had a field day when he entered the arena,They could have knocked him down with a feather,“Sideways you can’t see him through a 50-cent coin,Bones on a cold carcass make up his manly loin.” “His feet so long he will surely fall flat on his face,Legs stretch down like two bamboo poles in place,From the land of famine he gets not his daily bread,If he wins, we’ll eat our hats,” in mockery they said.As he touched the finish line, the crowd went wild,Cheers heard across the land by every man and child,His heartbeats so erratic they were beating out of timeIf he could take a shot at his critics it’d be no crime.Sweat streamed down, pooled like rivulets on the floor,A warrior back from the battlefield, battered and sore,Standing tall as a giant, the anthem sungThe joy so sweet, he could taste it on his tongue.He was so tired he felt he could sleep for a yearThe cynics struck dumb, had no cause to jeer,‘A man in a million’ was the headlines that day“Not a mere man but a giant in spirit,” they say.

14. “The Train” by Emily Dickinson I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up,And stop to feed itself at tanks;And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,And, supercilious, peerIn shanties by the sides of roads;And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the whileIn horrid, hooting stanza;Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges;Then, punctual as a start its own,Stop-docile and omnipotent-A stable door.

15. “Onomatopoeia” by Eve Merriam The rusty spigotsputters,uttersa splutter,spatters a smattering of drops,gashes wider;slashsplattersscattersspurtsfinally stops sputteringand plash!gushes rushes splashesclear water dashes.

16. Creating a Found Poem • Find a passage that you like from your SSR book. • Look for words or phrases, in whatever order, that you find powerful, moving, or interesting • Make a list of those words • Go through your words and eliminate the ones you don’t like or that don’t fit • Think about the overall feeling (tone) of your final list • Take the words you have and arrange them in a way that makes a poem • You can add punctuation, letters, tense changes • Arrange the words so that they make a rhythm you like • Use 3 different types of figurative language (and label them in your poem) • Write your poem on a piece of construction paper.

17. TUESDAY • Get your Notebook and Study Guide • Turn in your Found Poem • Begin SSR

18. Warm Up: Free Verse Free Verse by Robert Graves I now delight  In spite  Of the might  And the right  Of classic tradition,  In writing  And reciting  Straight ahead,  Without let or omission,  Just any little rhyme In any little time  That runs in my head;  Because, I’ve said,  My rhymes no longer shall stand arrayed Like Prussian soldiers on parade That march,  Stiff as starch,  Foot to foot,  Boot to boot,  Blade to blade, Button to button,  Cheeks and chops and chins like mutton. No! No!  My rhymes must go  Turn ’ee, twist ’ee, Twinkling, frosty,  Will-o’-the-wisp-like, misty; • Find 3 Examples of Figurative Language (use your worksheet and vocab list from yesterday)

19. Free Verse • No set meter (rhythm), no rhyme scheme, or any particular structure. • Follows rhythm of normal, everyday speech • Some poets would find this liberating, being able to whimsically change your mind, while others feel like they could not do a good job in that manner. • Robert Frost commented that writing free verse was like "playing tennis without a net."

20. “Fog” by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDCXma0v-fY

21. Spoken Word Examples: • Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, “An Origin Story” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esgfG3BoAPc • Lisa B.. “Look It Up Kid” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSt9BBxhJ4k • Lauryn Hill, “Motives and Thoughts” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaJP9nMKJko • Chief the Poet, “Welcome to My Hood” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-w9KVliUwk • Taylor Mali, “Miracle Worker” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o53i0kL6-Jw • Suli Breaks, “I Will Not Let and Exam Result Decide My Fate” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-eVF_G_p-Y • Marshall Davis Jones, “Touchscreen” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAx845QaOck • UFP, “My Words” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6jtP1MCX6s

22. Found Poems • Take 15 minutes to finish/revise your found poem that was homework. • Be sure to include 3 types of figurative language (and label) • Write a clean copy on a piece of construction paper.

23. Found Poems to Spoken Word • With a partner, practice reading the poem aloud. Think about what words you want to emphasize or separate. (Underline words that should be emphasized, put brackets [ ] around words that you want to be separated) • Create 3 gestures that go along with your poem (movements you do as you say each part) • Practice performing for your partner. 10 points extra credit to anyone willing to perform for the class!

24. Guess what day it is!....Wednesday! Pick up your Notebook, Study Guide, and Spoken Word Wkst (Not here yesterday? Grab a new one!) Begin SSR! Begin SSR!

25. Warm Up: Poetry Genres Out of the poetry genres/forms that we have learned about so far, which has been your favorite? Why? Use your study guide to remember the different forms (you can choose something not on there as well)

26. Found Poems • Take 15 minutes to finish/revise your found poem that was homework Monday. • Be sure to include 3 types of figurative language (and label) • Write a clean copy on a piece of construction paper.

27. Found Poems to Spoken Word • With a partner, practice reading the poem aloud. Think about what words you want to emphasize or separate. • Underline words that should be emphasized • Put brackets [ ] around words that you want to be separated) • Create at least 3 gestures that go along with your poem (movements you do as you say each part) • Practice performing for your partner. 10 points extra credit to anyone willing to perform for the class!

28. Peer Assessment Rubric • Perform one final time for your partner. • As your partner performs, complete the rubric. • Switch roles • Once performances are finished, answer the following question on the back of your peer assessment: What was something that your partner did that you admired? How can you incorporate that into your own spoken word performance?

29. THURSDAY

30. Thursday ThursdayThursday • Get your notebook! • Begin SSR Hang in There! It’s almost Friday!

31. Vocab Quiz Week 6 • Take 2 minutes to review your vocab list. • Clear your desk (except for a pen/pencil) • Find a new seat in the room. • When finished, complete your project proposal (due tomorrow!) or use the time to work on your poetry portfolio.

32. Computer Lab Tomorrow! • Expectations: • Use this time TO WORK not to TWERK! (Future computer lab days depend on your ability to stay on task tomorrow! Participation points are worth double on computer days…aka 20 pts!) • Classroom Rules Apply (No eating, no electronics, professionalism, preparedness, ask permission to get up, etc.) • Make sure you know your log on information • Save and email me the work that you do (kerry1.wall@cms.k12.nc.us)

33. Irony Pre-Test: Answer on a separate piece of paper. • A son reluctantly walked outside to meet his father in the yard at 6:00 on a Saturday morning.  “Are you ready to do some yard work?” his father asked.  “Yeah, I can’t wait,” the boy replied. A. Verbal irony B. Dramatic irony C. Situational irony D. No irony • A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets. A. Verbal irony B. Dramatic irony C. Situational irony D. No irony • When watching a horror movie, you realize that the character walking into an abandoned warehouse will be killed because, chances are, a killer is waiting... but because you are a member of the audience you cannot disclose the information to the character. A. Verbal irony B. Dramatic irony C. Situational irony D. No irony

34. Irony Notes • A contrast between appearance and actuality • Goes against expectation • Types: Verbal, Situational, Dramatic

35. Irony Notes • Verbal Irony • When a character says something different than what is meant • Tone of voice makes it easier to detect • Pay close attention to context • Signals: contradictory actions and statements Examples: • Someone gets in a car accident and says, “Lucky me!” • In Julius Caesar when Mark Antony states, “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man.” (Brutus is the one that literally stabs Caesar in the back)

36. Irony Notes • Situational Irony • When what happens is entirely different than what is expected. Examples: • An ambulance driver goes to a bike accident scene and runs over the accident victim because the victim has crawled to the center of the road with his bike. • Guy Montag, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, is a fireman. However, in this novel set in the possible future, a fireman doesn’t put fires out: he starts them, burning books which society has deemed dangerous and unsafe.

37. Irony Notes • Dramatic Irony • When a writer allows a reader to know more about a situation than a character does. • Creates a difference between what a character says/things and what the reader knows to be true. • Often used to reveal a character. Examples: • In “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, Romeo finds Juliet in a drugged state and he thinks she is dead. He kills himself. When Juliet wakes up she finds Romeo dead and kills herself. • In The Gift of the Magi, Della cuts off her hair to earn money to buy her husband, Jim, a chain for his watch. Jim, however, sold his watch so he could buy her silver combs for her hair.

38. Irony in Poetry: Verbal “Smart “ by Shel SilversteinMy dad gave me one dollar bill Cause I'm his smartest son, And I swapped it for two shiny quarters Cause two is more than one! And then I took the quarters And traded them to Lou For three dimes -- I guess he don't know That three is more than two! Just then, along came old blind Bates And just 'cause he can't see He gave me four nickles for my three dimes, And four is more than three! And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs Down at the seed-feed store, And the fool gave me five pennies for them, And five is more than four! And then I went and showed my dad, And he got red in the cheeks And closed his eyes and shook his head-- Too proud of me to speak!

39. Irony in Poetry: Situational • From “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.

40. Irony in Poetry: Dramatic “Protocols” by Randal Jarrell We went there on the train. They had big barges that they towed. We stood up, there were so many I was squashed. There was a smoke-stack, then they made me wash. It was a factory, I think. My mother held me up And I could see the ship that made the smoke. When I was tired my mother carried me. She said, "Don't be afraid." But I was only tired. Where we went there is no more .Odessa. They had water in a pipe--like rain, but hot; The water there is deeper than the world And I was tired and fell in in my sleep And the water drank me. That is what I think. And I said to my mother, "Now I'm washed and dried.” My mother hugged me and it smelled like hay And that is how you die. And that is how you die.

41. FRIDAY • Get notebook and study guide. • Begin SSR Homer is excited that it’s Friday!

42. Computer Lab Today! • Expectations: • Use this time TO WORK not to TWERK! (Future computer lab days depend on your ability to stay on task tomorrow! Participation points are worth double on computer days…aka 20 pts!) • Classroom Rules Apply (No eating, no electronics, professionalism, preparedness, ask permission to get up, etc.) • Make sure you know your log on information • Save and email me the work that you do (kerry1.wall@cms.k12.nc.us)

43. Irony Test: Answer on a separate piece of paper. • A son reluctantly walked outside to meet his father in the yard at 6:00 on a Saturday morning.  “Are you ready to do some yard work?” his father asked.  “Yeah, I can’t wait,” the boy replied. A. Verbal irony B. Dramatic irony C. Situational irony D. No irony • A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets. A. Verbal irony B. Dramatic irony C. Situational irony D. No irony • When watching a horror movie, you realize that the character walking into an abandoned warehouse will be killed because, chances are, a killer is waiting... but because you are a member of the audience you cannot disclose the information to the character. A. Verbal irony B. Dramatic irony C. Situational irony D. No irony

44. Epic Poetry • Long, often book-length, narrative in verse form • Retells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of people. • Typically includes superhuman deeds, fabulous adventures, highly stylized language, and a blending of lyrical and dramatic traditions. • Often includes “archetypes”: Characters that display universal patterns of thought, image, actions, etc. Examples: Homer’s The Odyssey and The Iliad, Virgil’s Aeneid

45. Archetypes • A character that displays universal patterns of thought, image, actions, etc. • The term "archetype" has its origins in ancient Greek. The root words are archein, which means "original or old"; and typos, which means "pattern, model or type". The combined meaning is an "original pattern" of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are derived, copied, modeled, or emulated.

46. Archetypes and their Mottos: Which one are you?? • The Innocent: Free to be you and me. • The Orphan/Regular Guy or Girl: All men and women are created equal. • The Hero: Where there’s a will, there’s a way. • The Caregiver: Love your neighbor as yourself. • The Explorer: Don’t fence me in. • The Rebel: Rules are made to be broken. • The Lover: You’re the only one. • The Creator: If you can imagine it, it can be done. • The Jester: You only live once. • The Sage: The truth will set you free. • The Magician: I make things happen. • The Ruler: Power isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

47. Archetype Open Mind • Choose which archetype fits you (or which one you would want to be if your life was an epic poem) • Create an “Open Mind” for your chosen archetype. Include things your archetype would care about, think about, say, etc. • Decorate the head to represent what your archetype would look like.