Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Structure Poems

Goal: Students will analyze poetry Students will interpret and make conclusions about the meanings and structure of the poems
Students will be introduced to different structures/ formats of poetry: sonnet, haiku

Thursday, 1/3 -
I. Bell Ringer - Define sonnet

Friday, 1/4 - Define Haiku

II. Students will be briefly introduced to William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
-Actor, theater owner, playwright and poet
-wrote 38 plays over twenty years
-Wrote many of his sonnets and poems during a time when theaters were closed in London
-The sonnet was the most popular form of poetry during his time

III. Students will Read "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
(Page 6 packet; 868 in text)
(read once for meaning and once to hear Iambic Pentameter)
Terms: Metaphor; Rhyme Scheme of a SS Sonnet; Iambic Pentameter

1. As in a Shakespearean sonnet, The first 8 (Octet) lines present a problem or issue and the last 6 (Sestet) have a solution or outcome.
To what is the speaker comparing the subject of the poem?
2. What does the speaker say shall not fade?
3. What does the speaker say Death shall not do?
4. To whom is the poet speaking?
5. To what does "The eye of heaven" refer?
6. To what does the world THIS in the last line refer?
7. In comparison, does the beloved fare better or worse than a summer's day?  Give a detail to support your opinion.
8. What makes the beloved immortal?

9. Find a metaphor
10. What is the rhyme scheme


IV. The Haiku
Basho- Most famous of the Japanese haiku poets.
-Believed that a poet must express the essential nature of an object

Issa- Favorite haiku poet
-led a life of hardship and personal loss
-Lived in poverty
-All children died in infancy
-His young wives died during his lifetime
-Found strength in small creatures and insects (Creatures whose lives are fleeting and appear overwhelmed by the elements)

The Haiku
-Can be read from line 1-3 and line 3-1
-The Camillia Flower











- Sumida River








-Discuss structure
-Students will Read BASHO and ISSA
(page 6 in packet)

1. What simple/ natural elements do these poets describe?
2. A haiku can make us see two things at the same time.  What two things do we see in these works?

Monday, 1/ 7 Quiz on 2 poems

Introduction to Nonfiction

11.A.2.4.1 Identify main ideas and supporting details from the text
11.B.2.1.1 Interpret personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire imagery, foreshadowing and irony

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