Ms. Astore Work for Wednesday 3/16/16 ALL work must be completed in the Reader s Notebook. Task #1: (10 Minutes) Read your independent reading book SILENTLY. Task #2: (5 Minutes) Create a figurative language chart OR make an inference chart. Complete 2 rows. Task #3: (45 Minutes) Analyze the poems by answering the textdependent questions. See the poems sheets attached. These will help prepare you for the fish-bowl discussion on Thursday. Task #4: (15 minutes) Use the checklist attached to review your Extended Metaphor Poem (the project that we started on Friday) to make sure that you have all of the necessary components from the checklist. Then, have a partner check it over as well. If you are missing any of the components, work together to include them.
If I can stop one heart from breaking By Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, 1 I shall not live in vain ; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain. BEFORE FISHBOWL: TextDependent Questions 1. What do you think Emily Dickinson means by the first two lines? PARAPHRASE the lines and put them in your own words. If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain 2. The poet emphasizes her point by REPEATING one line. Underline the line that repeats. 3. The poet isn t really talking about helping one fainting robin. What might a fainting robin represent? 4. What do you think the theme is? Cite evidence and explain. 5. What connection can you make between this poem and Thank You, M am? 1 vain: producing no result; useless.
Dream Variations 2 By Langston Hughes To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening Beneath a tall tree While night comes on gently Dark like me That is my dream! To fling my arms wide In the face of the sun, Dance! Whirl! Whirl! Till the quick day is done. Rest at pale evening A tall, slim tree Night coming tenderly Black like me. BEFORE FISHBOWL: TextDependent Questions 1. The title of the poem is Dream Variations. Reread the first four lines and PARAPHRASE what you think his dream is. (Be sure to read the footnote! It s important.) To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. 2. What imagery do you notice? What does it make you see and feel? Cite evidence of imagery. 3. Examine Langston Hughes s word choice. Underline all of the words that refer to colors. Why do you think he included these words? What do they have to do with the theme? 4. Notice the structure of the poem. Two lines are indented. Which lines are they? Why do you think he indented these lines? 5. What is the theme? Cite evidence and explain. 6. Langston Hughes is also the author of Thank You, M am. What connections can you make between his two works? (This one is a tough one! Take a stab at it.) 2 Langston Hughes wrote during a time when African Americans were fighting for equality. His work echoes the past and resonates in the present. Keep this in mind as you read his works.
Mother to Son By Langston Hughes Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So, boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps. 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair. BEFORE FISHBOWL: TextDependent Questions 1. The title of the poem gives a clue as to who the SPEAKER is. We know the poet is Langston Hughes, but who is the SPEAKER? In other words, who is Langston Hughes pretending to speak as in the poem? What evidence from the poem supports your answer? 2. What IMAGERY do you notice in the poem? Be detailed in your response and cite evidence. 3. Explain WHY you think Langston Hughes included this imagery. 4. In two lines, the texts includes an image of a crystal stair. Underline those lines. 5. Crystal stair is short for a crystal staircase. What do you think the crystal staircase might represent? 6. Which other words in the poem refer to the staircase? Underline them. 7. What is the THEME of the poem? Cite evidence and explain. 8. Langston Hughes is the author of Thank You, M am. Explain the connection between the theme AND the techniques that Langston Hughes uses in both texts. (Yes, this is a tricky one, but give it a shot! It s important.)
My Poetry Checklist Directions: Use this checklist to make sure that you included all of the techniques noted in the instructions. Then, have a partner check it over and complete the checklist as well. If you re missing one of the components, be sure to revise it. Recall the criteria from the instructions: the metaphor continues throughout multiple stanzas you include at least one simile you include at least one example of personification you appeal to at least 2 senses using imagery your tone is clear you wrote at least 1015 lines SelfCheck (Read your poem and use this side to check off what you included.) I included a metaphor that continues throughout multiple stanzas. [TO BE SURE... underline words that relate to the metaphor] I included at least one simile. [TO BE SURE annotate the line(s) that include the simile(s)] I included at least one example of personification. [TO BE SURE annotate the line(s) that include the personification] I included at least two examples of imagery that appeal to two different senses [TO BE SURE annotate the line(s) that include the imagery] My tone is. I am clear in my tone because I use words like I wrote at least 1015 lines. I know because I counted and I have lines exactly. PeerCheck (Have a partner read your poem and use this side to check off what they notice.) My partner included a metaphor that continues throughout multiple stanzas. [TO BE SURE... underline words that relate to the metaphor] My partner included at least one simile. [TO BE SURE annotate the line(s) that include the simile(s)] My partner included at least one example of personification. [TO BE SURE annotate the line(s) that include the personification] My partner included at least two examples of imagery that appeal to two different senses [TO BE SURE annotate the line(s) that include the imagery] My partner s tone is. I am sure that is his/her tone because he/she uses words like My partner wrote at least 1015 lines. I know because I counted and he/she has lines exactly.