Bell Ringer 1/7

1. Bell Ringer 1/7 • Please get out your “Acquainted with the Night” questions and your books. • Make sure you have answered all questions thoroughly.

2. Bell Ringer 1/7 • Please get out your “Stopping by Woods on an Snowy Evening” questions and your books. • Make sure you have answered all questions thoroughly.

3. English III • EQ: How can we use textual evidence to support analysis of what Frost says both explicitly and implicitly in his poems “Stopping by Woods” and “Acquainted with the Night”? • EQ: How can we use strong and thorough textual evidence to support what imagist poetry says both explicitly and implicitly? • Agenda • Bell Ringer: Answering “Acquainted with the Night” questions • Agenda/EQ Notes • “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” • “Acquainted with the Night” • Analysis Questions • Imagist Poetry – Video and Notes

4. The Innovators (Ezra Pound) • What historical events influenced the poetry the innovators wrote? • What made the writings of the innovators so different from poetry in the past? • What was Ezra Pound’s greatest contribution to American Poetry?

5. Imagism • Literary movement established in the early 1900s by Ezra Pound and other poets. • Concentrated on the direct presentation of images, or word pictures. • Poems expressed the essence of an object, person, or incident, without providing explanations. • Hoped to freeze a single moment in time and to capture the emotions of that moment.

6. Imagism • Used the language of everyday speech, carefully choosing each word. • Shied away from traditional poetic patterns, focusing on creating new, musical rhythms. • Strongly influenced by traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry (haiku and tanka). • Evoke an emotional response through the presentation of a single image or a pair of contrasting images.

7. Vocabulary • Complex:a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status. • Abstract: existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. • Concrete: existing in a material or physical form; real or solid • Verse: writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme • Prose: written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure, "a short story in prose" • Philosophic: relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.

8. Bell Ringer 1/7 • Please get back into your reading groups from yesterday and collect your materials (story, composition paper).

9. Creative Writing • EQ: How do authors use narrative techniques to convey a vivid picture of experiences, events, settings, and characters? • Agenda • Bell Ringer – Preparing Our Groups • Agenda/EQ • Story Sharing • Reading in Small Groups • Completing Group Reading Entries

10. Sharing our Stories • Get into pairs (1 group of 3) • For each story, make a new entry on a sheet of composition paper. • Record this information to complete each entry: • Title: • Author: • Summary: (two – three sentences) • Best piece of sensory description: • Best line of dialogue: • Overall rating of story: • Explanation of rating: • We will be reading 4-5 stories.