December 6, 2010 Peer Resource

1. December 6, 2010 Peer Resource • Write in journal-They need to be collected Friday, December 10 since grades are due: • Tomorrow morning we are going to provide breakfast for Mr. Daw’s Class. I need to bring ________________ (check with Felipe). If I am helping, I need to get a permission slip so my teacher(s) are aware. • Some of the class helped at the Ventura County Rescue Mission on Friday…I did/did not help (write one). I wish that…. • I should think about going to the PFSO meeting tonight. It starts at 6:30 and lasts about an hour. It is in the cafeteria. I know I need to attend at least one meeting. And I need to join…it is $5.00. This organization supports ME! • Sunday, Dec. 13, 2010 at 5:30 am Santa to the Sea! Scholarships available (next year) if I volunteer. $500.00!!! It will be fun and worth my time. • Movie: The Elephant Man-questions on TeacherWeb…

2. December 6, 2010 English Periods 1 and 4 • CA Standards:10RL3.10Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Identify and describe the function of dialogue, scene designs, soliloquies, asides, and character foils in dramatic literature • Language and Learning Objectives: Today I will share my answers to the drama quiz with my classmates. I will know the differences between an ACT and a Scene and dialogue and monologue. • Closure: I need to make flashcards of all the drama terms for homework-due Wednesday. There are 22 of them. (See next slide for examples) • Agenda: • SSR-Read background of play.. • Continue with drama pretest • Begin reading Crucible • Homework: Make the note cards • Extra Credit-go to the PFSO meeting tonight at 6:30-7:30 (Wolfe will be there)

3. When there is a problem between either: Person to person “I don’t like you” Person against society: “I can’t drive legally because I haven’t taken drivers’ training behind the wheel.” or “Skateboarding is not legal on school property.” Person against nature: “I can’t go snowboarding because there is no snow yet in the mountains Person to himself: “I can’t go swimming because I am afraid of the water and can’t swim” One side of the note card-just write the bold words

4. These are called CONFLICTS

5. Which conflicts are these: A.“I can’t go snowboarding because there is no snow yet in the mountains B.“I can’t go swimming because I am afraid of the water and can’t swim” C.“I don’t like you” D. “I can’t drive legally because I haven’t taken drivers’ training behind the wheel.” or “Skateboarding is not legal on school property.”

6. Which conflicts are these: A.“I can’t go snowboarding because there is no snow yet in the mountains Person vs. nature B.“I can’t go swimming because I am afraid of the water and can’t swim” Person vs Himself C.“I don’t like you” Person vs. Person D. “I can’t drive legally because I haven’t taken drivers’ training behind the wheel.” or “Skateboarding is not legal on school property.” Person vs Society

7. December 6, 2010 English Period 2 • CA Standard:11RL3.4 Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers’ emotions. • Language and Learning Objectives: Today I will learn about some new poems. I will be practicing my listening and speaking as well as my ability to analysis poetry. • Closure: Today, before leaving, I will be able to say 3 things about Emily Dickinson and I will know what an allusion is. • Agenda: • SSR- Catcher in the Rye • Write for 5 minutes about Emily Dickinson-you may look at your textbook book to remind you-but I would expect you could write at minimum a half a page about this award winning poet. • Continue with poetry sharing • Homework: Read about Robert Frost-be prepared to write about him • Extra Credit: Go to the PFSO meeting tonight. 6:30-7:30ish (Wolfe will be there)

8. December 6, 2010 English Period 3 • CA Standard:11RL3.4 Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers’ emotions. • Language and Learning Objectives: Today I will be learning about two poems and analysis them with annotation. • Closure: Today I will fill out a status sheet about my newsletter article. • Agenda: • Fill out status sheets- • Begin reading poetry-analyze • Create Venn-Diagram to compare contrast the two poems • Poetry test tomorrow on the poems from today

9. FORM - the appearance of the words on the page LINE - a group of words together on one line of the poem STANZA - a group of lines arranged together A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. POETRY FORM

10. Allusion Definition: • An allusion is a reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event. • An allusion serves as a kind of shorthand, drawing on this outside work to provide greater context or meaning to the situation being written about. • Readers who get the allusions gain a richer understanding of the work, but those who don't can still follow the story and be entertained or enlightened by it

11. A poem that tells a story. Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry b/c the poet needs to establish characters and a plot. Examples of Narrative Poems “The Raven” “The Highwayman” “Casey at the Bat” “The Walrus and the Carpenter” NARRATIVE POEMS

12. A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem. “Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore.’” REFRAIN

13. In concrete poems, the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem. Poetry Is like Flames, Which are Swift and elusive Dodging realization Sparks, like words on the Paper, leap and dance in the Flickering firelight. The fiery Tongues, formless and shifting Shapes, tease the imiagination. Yet for those who see, Through their mind’s Eye, they burn Up the page. CONCRETE POEMS

14. Allusion comes from the verb “allude” which means “to refer to” An allusion is a reference to something famous. A tunnel walled and overlaid With dazzling crystal: we had read Of rare Aladdin’s wondrous cave, And to our own his name we gave. From “Snowbound” John Greenleaf Whittier Allusion

15. ASSONANCE • Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry. • (Often creates near rhyme.) • Lake Fate Base Fade • (All share the long “a” sound.)

16. ASSONANCE cont. Examples of ASSONANCE: “Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.” • John Masefield “Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.” - William Shakespeare

17. ALLITERATION • Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words • If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

18. ONOMATOPOEIA • Words that imitate the sound they are naming • BUZZ • OR sounds that imitate another sound • “The silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of • each purple curtain . . .”

19. SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME • The Germ by Ogden Nash • A mighty creature is the germ, • Though smaller than the pachyderm. • His customary dwelling place • Is deep within the human race. • His childish pride he often pleases • By giving people strange diseases. • Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? • You probably contain a germ. a a b b c c a a

20. a.k.a imperfect rhyme, close rhyme The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH ROSE LOSE Different vowel sounds (long “o” and “oo” sound) Share the same consonant sound NEAR RHYME

21. INTERNAL RHYME • A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line. • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. • From “The Raven” • by Edgar Allan Poe

22. END RHYME • A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line • Hector the Collector • Collected bits of string. • Collected dolls with broken heads • And rusty bells that would not ring.

23. Unlike metered poetry, free verse poetry does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. Does NOT have rhyme. Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you. A more modern type of poetry. FREE VERSE POETRY

24. RHYTHM • The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem • Rhythm can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain.