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Lesson 4.1

LEARNING TARGETS (P.248)

Today in class, I will…

Preview the main ideas and vocabulary for Unit 4.

Identify something you know, something you are unsure about, and something you don’t know.

Identify and discuss types of poetry.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Use the Think-Pair-Share strategy to

answer the essential questions.

How do writers and speakers use language for effect?

How do performers communicate to and audience?

UNPACKING UNIT Individually, skim and scan Unit 4 on

pages 245-332. What topics do you already know about, unsure about, and don’t know anything about in Unit 4?

Each student will receive three post-

its. Title the post-its: Know, Unsure, Don’t Know and place them on the correct spot on the poster.

WORD WALL VOCAB. Under vocabulary tab in your

binder place your word wall handout, and write the following definition.

Persona: the voice or character speaking or narrating a story.

Example: Ponyboy Curtis (The Outsiders)

ELEMENTS OF POETRY Why should we bother to read

poetry?

Poetry has the power to alter the way we see the world. It can have a powerful effect on your emotions and inspire or motivate you. Poetry sharpens your awareness of life and deepens your response to it.

ELEMENTS OF POETRY Why should we bother to write

poetry?

Poetry allows us to express our thoughts and feelings. It can allow you to tell a story, raise awareness for an important issue or cause, and encourage you to use your imagination.

ELEMENTS OF POETRY

MUSIC OF POETRY The origins of poetry are deeply

entwined with music. Poetry alone can have a musical effect by using:

Rhythm/MeterRhymeAlliterationAssonance/ConsonanceOnomatopoeia

POETRY STRUCTURES Poetry structures refer to the types

of poems.

LimerickSonnetNarrative PoemFree Verse

POETRY STRUCTURES Limerick: a humorous verse of

three long and two short lines rhyming aa bb a.

Example:There was an old man with a beard.Who said, “It’s just how I feared! Two owls and a hen Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard.”

POETRY STRUCTURES Sonnet: a poem of 14 lines usually

written in iambic pentameter.

Iambic Pentameter: Ten syllables in each line with five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables.

Rhythm: ba-BUM/ba-BUM/ba-BUM/ ba-BUM/ba-BUM

POETRY STRUCTURES Sonnet: a poem of 14 lines usually

written in iambic pentameter.

Example: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

POETRY STRUCTURES Narrative Poem: a poem that tells a

story and/or has a plot.

Example: 'Tis eight o'clock,—a clear March night,

The moon is up,—the sky is blue,

The owlet, in the moonlight air,

Shouts from nobody knows where;

He lengthens out his lonely shout,

Halloo! halloo! a long halloo!

POETRY STRUCTURES Free Verse: poetry that has no

regular rhythm or rhyme scheme.

Example: The fog comes on little cat feet.

It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

POETRY FORMS Forms of poetry are the building

blocks that make up a poem.

StanzaSimile/MetaphorPersonification ImageryRhyme Scheme

POETRY FORMS A stanza, also known as a verse is a

group of lines forming the basic meter in a poem. It is like a paragraph in poetry.

Literary devices, such as similes, metaphors, personification, and imagery are specific techniques authors use to express ideas.

Rhyme scheme refers to the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem.

“I AM” POEM Follow the directions on the

provided worksheet to create a “I Am” Poem.

Think about your hope, dreams, worries, as well as how you use your senses everyday to complete the sentence starters given for each line.