2. Today’s Objectives
I know:
The literary terms:
• Free Verse
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Imagery
• Alliteration
• Rhythm
• Diction
I can:
-identify these terms in a poem
-use these terms in my own poem
I will learn:
-a new term- theme
-I will review a new poem and practice what I know
3. Write today’s date- 2/1/12 and “SPONGE ACTIVITY”
Sit down and respond to the following
Choose an image you’d like to
describe
-Describe the image in 5 words.
-Create one simile
-Write one alliteration
4. Pair Share Activity
1. Take out your poem and handout you received
yesterday
2. Be ready to share with a partner
3. Activity
a. Read the poem
b. Look for terms that we studied
c. Write example on chart
d. Finish form
e. Handback
4. Be positive- no negative comments allowed
5. Speak quietly when working together
5. Pretty Eyes
by J.M.
Her eyes were like the
blue sky.
When I look in her
eyes. Which terms are used
I see pink and in this poem?
blue butterflies. What is the tone?
I tried and tried
to tell her Describe the diction.
How I felt What is the rhythmic
but every time pattern?
I tried
it was like she would
run and hide.
6. Untitled
- F.B.
Bang Bang
I lay my hand down
What
Bang Bang
And I hear that earth shattering sound
Bang Bang
terms to
An angel riddled sky
Bang Bang
Another Future lost
you see in
Bang bang, bang bang.
As that trigger hits the finger, this poem?
Bang Bang
The Funeral gets bigger.
Bang.
And then I am awake
7. Writer’s Workshop-Pair/Share
1. With a partner, exchange poems
2. Do not tell your partner where your similes,
metaphors, or personifications are located
3. Your partner needs to be able to find the
terms you used in the poem
4. Your partner needs to describe the tone,
diction, and rhythmic pattern
8. Robert Frost Handout
DO NOT WRITE ON THE HANDOUT
1. Quietly read the poem to yourself
2. Let’s listen to the poem and see images
3. Read the poem again
a. Let’s review our terms- what did we find?
4. Poetry Analysis
a. How do we analyze a poem?
b. What does this poem mean?
c. How do you know that’s what it means?
9. New Term to know- Theme
*3rd period 4th and 7th- has these notes
THEME: A central idea or statement that unifies and
controls an entire literary work.
• The theme can take the form of a brief and
meaningful insight or a comprehensive vision of life; it
may be a single idea such as "order and duty" (in
many early Roman works), "seize-the-day" (in many
late Roman works), or "jealousy" (in Shakespeare's
Othello).
• A theme is the author's way of communicating and
sharing ideas, perceptions, and feelings with readers,
and it may be directly stated in the book, or it may
only be implied.
10. TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
Questions
And looked down one as far as I could 1. Is this a free verse
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
poem?
Then took the other, as just as fair, 2. What terms do you see
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear; (that we learned) in
Though as for that the passing there this poem?
Had worn them really about the same,
3. What is the theme of
And both that morning equally lay this poem?
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day! *Hint: use only two or
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
three words
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
