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Poetry Introduction. One minute sustained talk:. What attitudes about poetry are you bringing to our study? What are your pre-conceptions and possible misconceptions of poetry? Prior knowledge? Do you enjoy reading and/or studying poetry? Why? What makes poetry good?.
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One minute sustained talk: • What attitudes about poetry are you bringing to our study? • What are your pre-conceptions and possible misconceptions of poetry? Prior knowledge? • Do you enjoy reading and/or studying poetry? Why? • What makes poetry good?
“Introduction to Poetry” vs. “ArsPoetica” • Which do you prefer? Why? • Which is a better description of how to approach poetry? Why? • How are the two poems similar/different? • What is the THEME of each poem?
Metacognition • What is it? • What are you thinking about as you read a poem? What is going on in your head? • How can annotating help understand poetry?
“On Reading Poems To A Senior Class At South High” (pg. 5) • What stands out in this poem? • Poetic devices? • Structure? • What is significant in discussing the meaning of this poem? • How does it compare to the other poems about poetry?
Chapter Two Reading (page 679, you don’t need to read the poems – except homework, just the text) • What are key strategies for approaching/understanding poetry? • To aid in understanding a poem, what questions should we ask? • Read “Hawk Roosting” and paraphrase it, use TP-CASTT as well
“Hawk Roosting” • With a neighbor, share your paraphrases • Note differences or omissions • How is paraphrasing helpful to understanding poetry? • Do you agree that it is “no more equivalent to the poem than a corpse is to a person”?
Homework: Read, paraphrase and annotate more poems about poetry • “Constantly Risking Absurdity” pg. 9 • “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” pg. 7 • “Singapore” pg. 2 • Remember vocabulary quizzes may be at any time during our poetry unit • Choose ONE of the three and make a case for why it is the best description of what poetry is or what poetry should be/accomplish
Read, Annotate and for ONE, try TPCASTT • “Africa” pg. 4 • “The Golden Years” pg. 3 • “My Papa’s Waltz” pg. 7 • Pay attention to denotation and connotation
Writing starters: • “The Golden Years” – write a few sentences about the speaker, the tone and the title and how they contribute to the overall meaning of the poem.
Writing starters: • “Africa” – write a few sentences about the imagery and diction and how they connect to the theme of the poem.
Writing starters: • “My Papa’s Waltz” – write a few sentences on the importance of rhyme and rhythm, connotation and sensory imagery in this poem.
SHIFT • Rarely does a poem begin and end its experience in the same place • SHIFTS will occur – a change in • Emotion • Chronology • Plot • Setting • Voice • Mood • Look for CLUES such as stanza breaks, punctuation, changes in line or stanza length, rhyme change, etc.
SHIFT • Finding the shift in a poem can help you understand its meaning and break it into chunks to analyze. • Use your TPCASTT handout for guidance • It’s a good strategy when writing about poetry. • For the homework poems, be sure to note the shift in each.
The Planned Child, The Victims, Ethics • Answer and be prepared to share with the class: • What is the subject/dramatic situation of the poem? Simply, what is happening? • Who is the speaker? What do we know about him/her? How does knowing about the speaker help understand the message of the poem? • Where is the shift(s)? How did you know? What kind of shift was it? How did it affect your understanding of the poem? • What is the theme? • What poetry terms would you write about?
“A Study of Reading Habits”, “The Whipping”, “Those Winter Sundays” • Who is the speaker? What do we know about him/her? How does knowing about the speaker help understand the message of the poem? • Where is the shift(s)? How did you know? What kind of shift was it? How did it affect your understanding of the poem? • What is the theme? • What poetry terms would you write about?
“When in Rome” (page 1)and “One Art” (page 15) • Homework: read and annotate • Focus on structure, voice, speaker for “When in Rome” • Focus on repetition, tone for “One Art” • These are only hints and starting points . . . • Be prepared to discuss and think about how you might write about these poems
“What the Living Do” • Who is the speaker? What do we know about her? • Who is “you” • Why is the speaker “speechless” • Why is the poem arranged in couplets? • What is the importance of the image of the woman in the last stanza? • What is the significance of the title? • Choose important diction – why and what does it add to the MOTWAW?