Sunday, December 11, 2016

Dec. 12 & 13

December 12 & 13, 2016

E.Q: Analyze a poem to identify major components.
Obj: I can analyze a poem to identify major components.

Starter:

Create a your own unique haiku.

5-7-5

Image result for funny haiku

Vocabulary:
Take out your flashcards from last week.

We will be conducting a 5 minute quiz, quiz, trade.

Activity:

1.  Review from Friday  
Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I.
The flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world’s delight? 
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.


II.
Virtue, how frail it is!
Friendship how rare!
Love, how it sells poor bliss 
For proud despair!
But we, though soon they fall,
Survive their joy, and all
Which ours we call.



III.
Whilst skies are blue and bright, 
Whilst flowers are gay,
Whilst eyes that change ere night
Make glad the day;
Whilst yet the calm hours creep,
Dream thou—and from thy sleep 
Then wake to weep. 



 2.  Poetry Practice
(You will have these on a handout.)

 INSTRUCTIONS:
  Annotate three of the five sonnets using TPCASTT.
Use this time to generate meaning.
Then, using textual evidence, respond to the following questions:

A.  What is the objective summary of the sonnet?

B.  Which line best captures the main idea and why?

C.  What is the speaker's attitude/tone?

D. What is the overall theme of the poem?  

E.  Identify at least two poetic devices used in the sonnet.

SONNET 29

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings. 

SONNET 106

When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And, for they look'd but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing:
   For we, which now behold these present days,
   Had eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. 

SONNET 94

They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed out-braves his dignity;
   For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
   Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. 

SONNET 46

Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie --
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes --
But the defendant doth that plea deny
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impanneled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part:
   As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part,
   And my heart's right thy inward love of heart. 

SONNET 60

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time, that gave, doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow.
   And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
   Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

Closure:
How confident do you feel using TPCASTT?
Use the learning target.

Class Reflection

Create a reflection on the class, overall, for this semester.
Consider what you are proud of and what you would want to differently.
What assignments did you enjoy and what did you dread?
Give yourself or myself a plus and delta.
Share your general comments and feelings.

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Dec. 9

December 9, 2016

E.Q: Understand and apply strategies used to determine meaning in poetry.
Obj: I can understand and apply strategies used to determine meaning in poetry.

Starter:

Black Out Poetry

Using a newspaper, magazine, or worksheet, create an example of black out poetry.

Image result for blackout poetry

Vocabulary:

Term: Stanza
Part of Speech: Noun
Dictionary Definition: a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme.
Your Definition:
Activity: Include an example of a stanza in your notes.

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Activity:

1.  The Sun Rising Review


Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late schoolboys, and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices,
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.


Thy beams, so reverend and strong
Why shouldst thou think?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long:
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
Look, and tomorrow late, tell me
Whether both the’Indias of spice and mine
Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me.
Ask for those kings whom thou saw’st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear: “All here in one bed lay.”


She’is all states, and all princes I,
Nothing else is.
Princes do but play us; compar’d to this,
All honour’s mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thou, sun, art half as happy’as we,
In that the world’s contracted thus;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.


 INSTRUCTIONS:
Annotate each stanza.
Use this time to generate meaning.Then, respond to the following questions:


A.  What is the objective summary of the poem?


B.  Which line best captures the main idea and why? 


C.  What is the speaker's attitude towards the sun?


D.  How does the speaker value love?


E.  What is meant by the hyperbole, "She is all states, and all princes I?"


F.  What is the overall theme of the poem?


Image result for sun rises

2.  Individual Poetry Practice

Use TPCASTT to annotate the poem

I
Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I.
The flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world’s delight? 
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.

II.
Virtue, how frail it is!
Friendship how rare!
Love, how it sells poor bliss 
For proud despair!
But we, though soon they fall,
Survive their joy, and all
Which ours we call.

III.
Whilst skies are blue and bright, 
Whilst flowers are gay,
Whilst eyes that change ere night
Make glad the day;
Whilst yet the calm hours creep,
Dream thou—and from thy sleep 
Then wake to weep. 

3.  USAtestprep

As a class, we will answer the five questions that deal with multiple interpretations.
This should help us understand how to make meaning in poems.

Closure:

Which area do you feel strongest in poetry?
Which area do you feel weakest?
Explain your rationale.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Dec. 8

December 8, 2016

E.Q: Understand and apply strategies used to determine meaning in poetry.
Obj: I can understand and apply strategies used to determine meaning in poetry.

Starter;

Create an I wish poem.
This should be about 8-10 lines, each starting with I wish.


Image result for i wish poem

Vocabulary: 

Term: Poetry
Part of Speech: Noun
Dictionary Definition: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
Your Definition:
Activity: Create a poem.

Activity:

1.  TPCASTT

Take Cornell notes on the document above.
This will help you on future poetry analysis.

2.  Poetry Practice

As a class, we will work together to analyze the poem below using TPCASTT.

Making Life Worthwhile by George Eliot

Every soul that touches yours -
Be it the slightest contact -
Get there from some good;
Some little grace; one kindly thought;
One aspiration yet unfelt;
One bit of courage
For the darkening sky;
One gleam of faith
To brave the thickening ills of life;
One glimpse of brighter skies - 
To make this life worthwhile
And heaven a surer heritage. 

Image result for making life worthwhile poem

3.  Individual Practice

The Sun Rising


Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late schoolboys, and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices,
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.


Thy beams, so reverend and strong
Why shouldst thou think?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long:
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
Look, and tomorrow late, tell me
Whether both the’Indias of spice and mine
Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me.
Ask for those kings whom thou saw’st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear: “All here in one bed lay.”


She’is all states, and all princes I,
Nothing else is.
Princes do but play us; compar’d to this,
All honour’s mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thou, sun, art half as happy’as we,
In that the world’s contracted thus;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.


 INSTRUCTIONS:
Annotate each stanza.
Use this time to generate meaning.Then, respond to the following questions:


A.  What is the objective summary of the poem?


B.  Which line best captures the main idea and why? 


C.  What is the speaker's attitude towards the sun?


D.  How does the speaker value love?


E.  What is meant by the hyperbole, "She is all states, and all princes I?"


F.  What is the overall theme of the poem?

Closure:

What is one area of poetry you feel weakest in?
Why