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Tuesday, 4 th February 2014 Learning Objectives: Make Connections Build Vocabulary Analyze Harlem Renaissance Poetry Predict. AGENDA: Please get journals PowerPoint Analyze Poetry. Journal Entry. In the College and Career Unit you explored your dreams and hopes for the future.
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Tuesday, 4th February 2014Learning Objectives: Make Connections Build Vocabulary Analyze Harlem Renaissance Poetry Predict AGENDA: Please get journals PowerPoint Analyze Poetry
Journal Entry In the College and Career Unit you explored your dreams and hopes for the future. • How do you think you can attain those goals?
Write and Define the following Vocabulary Words • Barren - • Defer - • Raisin in the sun - • Fester - • Explode -
Check your definition with ours and make any adjustments • Barren - empty • Defer – delay • Raisin in the sun – dried up and shriveled. • Fester - rot • Explode – be destroyed
Write a sentence using each word. • Barren - empty • Defer – delay • Raisin in the sun – dried up and shriveled. • Fester - rot • Explode – be destroyed SHARE YOUR SENTENCES WITH YOUR PARTNER
Review Metaphors and Similes compare object. These comparisons focus on a characteristic that both objects have. Tone is the mood created for the reader by the writer’s attitude toward the subject or audience. Identify the Metaphors, Similes, and Tone in the following two poems.
DREAMS by Langston HughesIdentify the Metaphors, Similes, and Tone Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. What is this poem about?
A DREAM DEFERRED by Langston Hughes Identify the Metaphors, Similes and Tone Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode? What is this poem about?
DRAW A VENN DIAGRAM TO COMPARE THE TWO POEMSHOW DO THEIR TONES DIFFER?Dreams Dreams Deferred Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
Predict Based upon the structure of the plays you wrote, the essential questions for this unit, your QFT questions, and these poems, predict what A Raisin in the Sun is about. Write your prediction down in your journals.