Review/Poetry Introduction

Review/Poetry Introduction

Ms. Harmon's Announcements

• The Extra Credit Assignment is Due on December 4, 2020. After the Due date, the assignment will close.

• The Objective Summary is Due on December 3, 2020. For the individuals that need the audible version it will be posted after school today.

• This week we are focusing on Poetry. The main things we will focus on is breaking down the words in a poem.

• If you are an individual with an F, you need to start working on either the extra credit assignment or turn in the missing work in Google Classroom.

Review Time

You will answer a total of 20 questions about the information we've learned up until this point.

Multiple Choice

Why does Lily's mother believe that there is no honor in being a birth mother?

• It is not a glamorous job

• They are only a birth mother for 3 years

• You have to be in a lot of pain

• It is not an important job in the community

Multiple Choice

What job assignment was given to Jonas in Chapter 8?

• Receiver of Joy

• Assistant Director of Recreation

• Receiver of Memory

• Birth Mother

Multiple Choice

What is Jonas anticipating will take place at the Ceremony of Twelve?

• A bicycle

• A comfort object

• His assignment

• Graduation

Multiple Choice

What is the most important job in the community?

• Receiver

• Nurturer

• Doctor

• Instructor of sixes

Multiple Choice

How do you make an inference?

• Decide which kind of informational text it is.

• Read the title, headings, and look for key words.

• Apply what you know to what you read.

• Topic, Attitude, Because

Multiple Choice

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

Boom.

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Multiple Choice

A statement about something that is contradictory in nature. A contradiction is when one thing is canceled out by another.

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

She is as innocent as an angel.

• Metaphor

• Simile

Multiple Choice

I've told you to clean your room a million times.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

• Allusion

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What does FANBOYS stand for?

• For, And,Nor, But, Out, Yet, So

• For, And,Not, But, Or, Yet, So

• For, And,Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

• For, And,Nor, But, Or, Yet, Soon

Multiple Choice

Even when the house looks clean ____ there is usually a bunch of dirt swept under the rug.

• Semi-colon

• Comma

Multiple Choice

What is citing textual evidence?

• Rereading the text for a better understanding on the text.

• Look back into the text for evidence to support an idea, answer a question

• Make an inference about the information in the text.

• reducing a text to its main idea and necessary information.

Multiple Choice

What is a hook sentence?

• Another word for claim

• A topic sentence

• A sentence to grab your readers' attention

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true about Summarizing the text?

• reduce a text to its all ideas and opinionated information.

• Identify minor supporting details.

• Its looking back into the text for evidence to support an idea

• reduce a text to its main idea and necessary information.

Multiple Choice

Why was Jonas worried about his friend Asher?

• Because he is sick

• Because he is in trouble

• Because he loves to play all the time

• Because he wants to run away

Multiple Choice

What rule was almost always broken by the community and wasn't taken seriously?

• teaching younger siblings to cook meals

• teaching younger siblings to read

• teaching younger siblings to ride a bike

• teaching younger siblings about animals

Poetry

Main Lesson

How to interact with Poetry?

Step One: Show no fear. It is okay to not understand a poem the first time you read it. There is a lot of hidden messages within poetry. That is the beauty of poetry.

How to interact with Poetry?

Step Two: Start with the Title!

Read the title and think about what the poem will be able.

How to interact with Poetry?

Step Three: Read the poem all the way through the first time you read it. Do not stop. The important thing that you want to do the first time you read the poem is get a gist of the main idea.

Question to ask yourself: Do you kind of understand what the poem is about?

How to interact with Poetry?

Step Four: Annotate the poem. You want to highlight the following:

- Things you like

- Reminds you of something else

- Think it's interesting

- Find confusing

- Suspect might be important but you do not know why.

How to interact with Poetry?

Step Five: Look up any words that you do not know.

Poems have very precise and condense language. The writer choose the words in the poem for a purpose. If you do not know what a word means chances are you are missing some of the meaning of the poem.

How to interact with Poetry?

Step Six: Identify the narrator

Figure out who is the speaker of the poem. Ask yourself the following questions:

What do you know about the narrator?

What is the narrator's tone?

How to interact with Poetry?

Step Seven: Notice any shifts or changes in a poem.

If the narrator uses hinge words such as "but" or "however" the statement that follows is important because it will shift the meaning of the poem.

How to interact with Poetry?

Step Eight: Figure out the structure

What is interesting about the rhyme scheme of the poem?

What is the physical structure of the poem?

The line breaks in a poem tell readers when to pause.

What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up

      like a raisin in the sun?

      Or fester like a sore—

      And then run?

      Does it stink like rotten meat?

      Or crust and sugar over—

      like a syrupy sweet?

      Maybe it just sags

      like a heavy load.

      Or does it explode?