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Elements of Poetry. English 10, Session 6. Alliteration. Go to http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/elements.html Read definition of alliteration Do alliteration exercises Email to stmonaghan@lwsd.org. Demonstration of the learning target.
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Elements of Poetry English 10, Session 6
Alliteration • Go to http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/elements.html • Read definition of alliteration • Do alliteration exercises • Email to stmonaghan@lwsd.org
Demonstration of the learning target • We will read Annabel Lee (Edgar Allen Poe) and The Tyger(William Blake) • For a C: Identify and mark every place alliteration occurs in both poems • For a B: Identify and mark every place alliteration occurs in both poems AND explain the impact • For an A: Write an original poem or a response to Annabel Lee or The Tygerthat uses alliteration
Connotation and Denotation • Go to http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/elements.html • Read definitions of connotation and denotation • Do exercises • Email to stmonaghan@lwsd.org
Demonstration of the learning target • We will read In a station of the Metro (Ezra Pound) and My Papa’s Waltz (Theodore Roethke) • For a C: Complete the connotation and denotation exercises for both poems • For a B: Complete the connotation and denotation exercises for both poems AND explain the impact • For an A: Write an original poem or a response to My Papa’s Waltz that uses the same denotation but a very different connotation
Diction • Go to http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/elements.html • Read definition of diction • Do exercises • Email to stmonaghan@lwsd.org
Demonstration of the learning target • We will read Dulce et Decorum Est(Wilifred Owen) and We Real Cool (Gwendolyn Brooks) • For a C: Complete the diction exercises for both poems • For a B: Complete the diction exercises for both poems AND explain the impact • For an A: Rewrite Ex-Basketball Player with more complex vocabulary or more unusual syntax
Imagery • Go to http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/elements.html • Read definition of imagery • Do exercises • Email to stmonaghan@lwsd.org
Demonstration of the learning target • We will read Chicago (Carl Sandburg) and Photograph of my father in his twenty-second year (Raymond Carver) • For a C: Complete the imagery exercises for both poems • For a B: Complete the imagery exercises for both poems AND explain the impact • For an A: Write a poem that describes the literal image of one of the images on the next slides AND evokes a feeling (at least 8 lines)
