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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson. 16 April 2013 Miss Rice. Warm-Up. Do you know anyone who never leaves his or her house? Why do they never leave? What would make someone not want to ever leave his or her house?. Agenda. Peer editing Emily Dickinson bio. Dickinson literary terms. CP Objectives 4/16.

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Emily Dickinson

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  1. Emily Dickinson 16 April 2013 Miss Rice

  2. Warm-Up • Do you know anyone who never leaves his or her house? Why do they never leave? • What would make someone not want to ever leave his or her house?

  3. Agenda • Peer editing • Emily Dickinson bio. • Dickinson literary terms

  4. CP Objectives 4/16 • To make personal connections to words in order to understand new vocabulary. • To constructively peer edit a partner’s paper for both format and content. • To apply peer comments on the research paper write draft in order to edit and revise writing. • To understand Emily Dickinson’s biographical information and how it explains her work. • To understand the typical literary terms apparent in Emily Dickinson’s poetry and how they affect her style and meaning.

  5. Vocabulary • HW due Thursday • Quiz Friday • Vobackulary

  6. Peer Editing • Your papers are due either THIS Thursday or Friday • You must have the section headings modeled after the sample • Your Works Cited is your final page of the paper with the RH heading 1. Check for format 2. Read the paper, comment along the way, and check content 3. Write constructive comments 4. Conference with your partner

  7. Closure • What is the biggest suggestion you have for you partner? • How could you use this suggestion to improve your own paper? *Editing between now and Thursday *“Yes” test

  8. Emily Dickinson: Childhood • Massachusetts • Wealthy • Amherst • Lawyer • Brilliant and Determined • Belle • 17th • Admirers • Women’s • Lectures, parties • Philadelphia and Washington, DC

  9. Emily Dickinson: Adulthood • Recluse • Home • 30 • 44 • Room • Notes • Poems • White • Rev. Charles Wadsworth • Sister-in-law • Depression • Live alone

  10. Emily Dickinson: Her Writing • Poetry • Doubts her Ability • 56 • 1,775 • 7 • Anonymously • Rejection notices

  11. Emily Dickinson: Why the Trouble Getting Published? • Match • Look • Rhyme • Figures of Speech • Radical • Death • 33 • Died

  12. Emily Dickinson: Her Writing Style • Style • Time • Capitalization and punctuation • Brevity • Quatrains • 4 • 2nd and 4th • Slant or partial • Similar • Iambic rhythm • 2nd • Figurative language • Literally • Titles and numbers • Death, life, solitude, madness, society, unhappiness

  13. Emily Dickinson: The End of Her Life • Health • Doctor • Distance • Dies • Sister • Destroy • Published • 20th century • 1955

  14. Emily Dickinson: Side note • Title • First lines • Numbers

  15. Emily Dickinson • Compare Dickinson to someone in our world today. • Discuss with a partner and then share with the class

  16. Lit. Terms: Metaphor • Comparison between two unlike objects using “is” or “are” • Saying one think is something else, even though it is not literally (it is a figurative comparison) • Imagery “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – In corners – till a Day The Owner passed – identified – And carried me away”

  17. Lit. Terms: Simile • Comparison between unlike things using “like” or “as” • Figurative • Imagery • “There is no frigate like a book"

  18. Lit. Terms: Paradox • a statement that seemsto contradict itself or to be absurd, but really contains a possible truth. “Cowards die many times before their deaths.”
Act II, scene ii : line 32 • Oxymoron:the combination of words of opposed and contradictory meanings • a kind of verbal paradox “jumbo shrimp”

  19. Lit. Terms: Personification • Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects • Imagery “The book spoke words of wisdom to me ”

  20. Lit. Terms: Onomatopoeia • Words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to Buzz Murmur Plod

  21. Lit. Terms: Free Verse • Poetry without a consistent meter Whitman

  22. Lit. Terms: End Rhyme • Words at the ends of lines of poetry that rhyme with each other • Slant rhyme: Words that almost rhyme with one another AKA near rhyme or half rhyme Farm and yard (The stressed syllable have the same sound) *Sight rhyme: Words that look like they should rhyme Said and paid

  23. Lit. Terms: Rhythm • The flow or feeling in a piece of poetry • The way words come together • The pace of the poem Cadence

  24. Lit. Terms: Word Choice • The types of words authors choose to put in a piece • Vivid verbs • Loaded words

  25. Lit. Terms: Style • The method which a poet uses to convey meaning, tone, and emotion in his/her poem • Word choice • Sentence structure

  26. Emily Dickinson • Compare Dickinson to someone in our world today. • Discuss with a partner and then share with the class

  27. Homework • Research paper due Thurs. or Fri. • “Yes” test • Highlighting • Bolding, underlining, or highlighting thesis • All materials • Folder • Vocab. unit 5 HW due Thurs. • Vocab. unit 5 quiz Friday • Whitman/Dickinson test Thursday (open note)

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