Overview Week 8 Oct. 2-6, 2017 Monday - Hand back rhetorical precis, exchange & compare to model, TWIST overview & Dulce et Decorum Est poem (annotate, revisit rhetorical strategies / lit terms / figurative language); give ELA lit terms handout Tuesday - Salvador formative assessment on figurative language / annotate poem & discuss Wednesday - Salvador project Thursday - ELA: Narrative Novel analysis with outside novel, PAP: (War Horse projects due), Children s book lesson Friday - Figurative language quiz & Philosophical Chairs HANDOUTS: TWIST, Dulce, Salvador, Narrative Novel Analysis, lit terms packet for ELA only
How we use TWIST to analyze poems QW: Pick up a handout (TWIST) from the Outbox. Tape it into the writing resources section. Read it and one person (based on seat number) explains in his/her own words what these terms mean: Seat 1: Tone Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 Seat 2: Word Choice Seat 3: Imagery Seat 4: Style & Theme Hand back rhetorical precis ( I am an American Soldier ). Discuss and compare at your tables. Highlight key ideas. Overview of TWIST
TWIST Tone and mood are similar! Tone is the author's attitude toward the writing (his characters, the situation) and the readers. A work of writing can have more than one tone. Types of tone: serious, humor, dark, conversational, excited Example of tone: The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal the redness and the horror of blood (Poe 171). {dark} Word Choice or Diction is the author's choice of words, taking into account correctness, clearness, and effectiveness. There are typically recognized to be four levels of diction: formal, informal, colloquial, and slang. Example of diction: It had loomed in my memory as a huge long spike dominating the riverbank, forbidding as an artillery piece, high as the beanstalk (Knowles 13). (look at specific diction choices above) Imagery is when an author writes visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. Example of imagery: A little fog hung over the river so that as I neared it I felt myself becoming isolated from everything except the river and the few trees beside it There were several trees bleakly reaching into the fog (Knowles 13).
TWIST Style in literature is the literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text. It can also be called the voice. Types of style: expository, argumentative, descriptive, persuasive, or narrative Examples of style: It was a raw, nondescript time of year, toward the end of November, the kind of wet, self-pitying November day when every speck of dirt stands out clearly (Knowles 10). {descriptive} Theme - an opinion about life or human nature or society that the writer shares with the reader It is usually not stated directly, but must be inferred. Examples of theme: The theme for 8 th grade English is Doing the Right Thing and is examined throughout the year by reading and analyzing several novels and texts and reflecting on personal decisions.
Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 ELA - Lit Terms overview ADD this word and definition to your packet: REPETITION the practice of using a word or phrase several times in a text in order to emphasize something Highlight these words on your Lit Terms handout: Alliteration Hyperbole Imagery Metaphor Personification Repetition Rhyme Simile Theme
Do you understand literary terms we have discussed? Any questions? Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 Copy of Dulce et Decorum Est poem by Wilfred Owen Listen as it is read aloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb4cdrgicb8 Find your annotation guide (in your Writer s Notebook Let s annotate this poem together first (on the screen) You finish annotating it (ELA, partner, PAP, solo) Class discussion / share out poem (literary terms, connections to Truce / WWI and other wars or battles)
Pick up a copy of Salvador Late or Early poem by Sandra Cisneros and read it Log in to a Chromebook to take a quiz over the poem to show your understanding of figurative language: DEAN QUIZ: Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 When you finish the quiz, find your annotation guide and annotate the poem While I read Salvador Late or Early to you, draw ideas, words, pictures Share out with your shoulder partner what you wrote and why. Try to retell the story from what they have down. Class share out about annotation with Salvador on the screen Tape into Writer s Notebook Salvador project overview (with any extra time)
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 Salvador Late or Early You will be creating a four square chart of this tomorrow: 1. Kitchen Utensil 2. Celebrity 3. Animal 4. Sport o Write, individually, based on your seat number, what type of kitchen utensil, celebrity, animal, and sport Salvador would be and why. You must use a quote (text evidence) to support your answer. Brainstorm this in your notebook. o List characteristics that helped you to identify Salvador as this thing (in your notebook). o Tables share out o In closing, what represents who you are?
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017 Salvador Late or Early - continue project from yesterday Each table gets a large piece of paper. Create a four square chart on large paper and put these items in each section: 1. Kitchen Utensil 2. Celebrity 3. Animal 4. Sport o Write, individually, based on your seat number, what type of kitchen utensil, celebrity, animal, and sport Salvador would be and why. You must use a quote (text evidence) to support your answer o In the middle list characteristics that helped you to identify Salvador as those 4 things o Tables share out o In closing, what represents who you are?
Explain why, use a quote 1. Kitchen Utensil 2. Celebrity 3. Animal Characteristics about Salvador 4. Sport o In closing, what represents who you are?
ELA: Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 ELA: Take out your outside novel (War Horse ) and the completed narrative analysis handout. Pick up a handout from the Outbox You have the entire class period to complete the narrative novel analysis for your book response. This is a test over your book so you may not talk or use a device at all! Bonus points! Give one or two examples of figurative language or other literary devices that you saw in your book AND explain the effect or comparison, etc. 2 pts. Each. Turn in your completed response and the analysis sheet you completed before today, stapled together, with your name on both pages.
Pre-AP Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 Is your website link submitted on the document in classroom?? Get your group s Salvador analysis poster and finish up anything that needs finished Share posters & discuss / wrap up Salvador Get little handout, Which type of figurative language? & tape into resources section. Review these tests to figure out which type it is. Review slides for figurative language/lit. terms Now look at these examples and discuss with your shoulder partner which it is Review formative assessment responses
Pre-AP Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 Make sure the sentence has 2 nouns (for it to be a metaphor): Not figurative language: Her hair was blonde. (adjective) Figurative language: Her hair was a golden waterfall. (noun) Did the passage include like or as? It might be a simile (not always though) Is a comparison being made using the like or as? Ex. The warrior fought like a lion. OR He was as quick as a fox. Is this a real thing? If it is, it could be a hyperbole (an exaggeration of a real action or idea, or object). Hyperbole is a specific kind of metaphor. (it is comparing something real to something very exaggerated) Ex. I almost died of boredom. If it s not real, it s probably a metaphor (metaphors are a comparison and often use is or was, but not always) Ex. Time is money. OR I was the wind as I raced down the hill.
Pre-AP Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 Are any words or phrases repeated for emphasis (not just sounds)? This is probably repetition. Ex. Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! Are any SOUNDS repeated for a purpose/effect? Are these at the beginning of the word? It could be alliteration. Ex. Busy with the business of the baby Are they consonant sounds within a series of words? This could be consonance. Ex. And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds Are human characteristics being given to something (an inanimate object or abstract idea)? This could be personification. Personification is a specific kind of metaphor. (something about the thing is being compared to something human) Ex. The wind cried in the dark. Ex. Time fell asleep in the afternoon sunshine.
Pre-AP Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 What is this quote an example of? I tried to climb into Jem s skin and walk around in it (57). Metaphor. She didn t literally try to climb into his skin. It is comparing how she was just trying to understand how he felt by trying to see things how he would see them to being in his skin, seeing out of his eyes. Why is this not hyperbole? Personification?
Pre-AP Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 What is this quote an example of? A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go. Hyperbole. There are actual places they can go, but because there is nowhere exciting to go, she says there is nowhere to go. Why is this not a metaphor? There are literal places. It is just exaggerated.
PrPre-AP: Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 QW What was your favorite children s book? Why? Look at the children s books on the shelf. Which ones have you NOT read? (don t need to write this down) Look at the shelf and decide as a table one book most of you haven t read - Read the story aloud together Analyze 5 narrative elements through children s stories. Divide a large piece of paper into the sections discussed. You will evaluate the text for the components and write them down. Example - #1 Setting, #2 Characters, #3 Plot, #4 Point of View Theme is in the center circle. Work together on theme. You are not presenting these, but they are due at the end of class today.
Pre-AP: Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 Narrative Elements: Each table receives a piece of paper Divide paper into 4 sections with a circle in the middle Label each section as follows: Plot (diagram) Characters (protagonist/antagonist) Point of View (1 st, 3 rd, quote) Setting (time, place, mood) Label the middle circle theme Write a theme statement in the middle that states the lesson learned from this short children s story.
ELA Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 Get your group s Salvador analysis poster and finish up anything that needs finished Share posters & discuss / wrap up Salvador Get little handout, Which type of figurative language? & tape into resources section. Review these tests to figure out which type it is. Review formative assessment responses Review slides for figurative language/lit. terms Now look at these examples and discuss with your shoulder partner which it is
ELA Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 What is this quote an example of? I tried to climb into Jem s skin and walk around in it (57). Metaphor. She didn t literally try to climb into his skin. It is comparing how she was just trying to understand how he felt by trying to see things how he would see them to being in his skin, seeing out of his eyes. Why is this not hyperbole? Personification?
ELA Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 What is this quote an example of? A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry for there was nowhere to go. Hyperbole. There are actual places they can go, but because there is nowhere exciting to go, she says there is nowhere to go. Why is this not a metaphor? It is literally. There are literal places. It is just exaggerated.