Week 5: The Giver/Poetry

Week 5: The Giver/Poetry

Ms. Harmon's Announcements

• If you did not turn in the Violence Poem please make sure you do! There are a lot of you that I know have started the poem but did not turn it in.

• Next Week you will take FSQ 3. Make sure you are in class on time to ensure that you received all of the information.

• If you have a D/F it's time for you to put in more work and be consistent in this class.

Multiple Choice

“Now March,” said she, “there is one more thing you can do to help. You must start the work for Baby April.” Then March, with the South Wind to help him, awoke the seeds, whispered to the trees to begin to bud, started the brooks singing, and called the robins back from the South. The phrase awoke the seeds means which of the following?

• planted the seeds

• fertilized the seeds

• crushed the seeds flat

• made the seeds sprout

Poetry

Mini Lesson #1

Elegy

A poem of serious reflection, typically for the dead.Traditionally, it contains themes of mourning, loss, and reflection.

Example: O Captain, My Captain!"-Whitman

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

 Sonnet

Is a fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme.

epic

An epic is a long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person or a group of persons. Elements that typically distinguish epics include superhuman deeds, fabulous adventures, highly stylized language, and a blending of lyrical and dramatic traditions.

Chronological narrative

When the author tells a story in chronological order. This structure can include flashbacks, but the majority of the narrative is told in the order that it occurs. Most books tend to fall under this narrative structure.

What is a Stanza?

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

Stanza

Connotation

Mini Lesson #2

Connotation

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning

Stricken 

Seriously affected by an undesirable condition or unpleasant feeling

Multiple Choice

Does stricken have a positive or negative connotation?

• Positive

• Negative

 Thrives

To grow, prosper; flourish.

Multiple Choice

Does thrives have a positive or negative connotation?

• Positive

• Negative

 Sustenance

Food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment.

Example: Without sustenance, the animals will soon die.

Multiple Choice

Does sustenance have a positive or negative connotation?

• Positive

• Negative

Multiple Choice

From the earth’s loosened mould

The sapling draws its sustenance, and thrives;

Though stricken to the heart with winter’s cold,

The drooping tree revives.

Which word from the stanza creates a negative impression of the impact of winter?

• loosened

• sustenance

• thrives

• stricken

The Giver Vocabulary