4/11- ELA

4/11- ELA

By Joanna Baughman

Read the story and answer the following questions:

Multiple Choice

Read the sentences from the passage.

When we arrived at the classroom, an obnoxious student by the name of Ethan stood in the doorway. “Password?”“Tolman,” I said, glancing behind Ethan. Ethan turned, thinking our teacher had entered through the other door. This gave Philo and me enough room to slip past him. Ethan growled at being tricked and pursued us.What does the word obnoxious mean?

• careless

• industrious

• playful

• unpleasant

Multiple Choice

This question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer partB.

Part AWhich statement best states a theme of the passage?

• People are sometimes unaware that they are witnessing history.

• People without much in common can still be good friends.

• Some inventions are more fun than useful in everyday life

• Inventors usually fail many times before they succeed.

Multiple Choice

Part B

Which excerpt from the passage best supports the answer to part A?

• Since I’m the only girl in the class, Philo and I formed a friendship over being different from the others.

• “Let’s see. What did you turn electric this time? First there was the washing machine, then the sewing machine... you make an electrichorse?”

• “Every time I hear a radio, I keep thinking, wouldn’t it be phenomenal if we could see the people we arehearing?”

• Many years later, we all realized that we had been a part of something amazing that day: the birth of television, brought to life by an inventive Utah farm boy named Philo Farnsworth.

watch the viedo on rhyming poetry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnbIpy_6Yg8​

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​Rhyming poetry

See this poem:

Invictus

• By William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

Subject | Subject

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A

B​

A

B

​This poem follows the alternating rhyme scheme of ABAB

Open Ended

You try! Write 4 lines of poetry (about anything school appropriate) that follow the ABAB rhyme scheme:

Looking for a humorous rhyme scheme example, check out a limerick. Humorous by design, limericks have 5 lines that follow an AABBA rhyme scheme. They also have a set number of syllables to each line. Syllables should be 8-8-5-5-8.​

Limerick Poems

This link will show you more examples: https://examples.yourdictionary.com/limerick-examples.html​

There was a young lady of Lynn, (A)8

Who was so uncommonly thin (A)8

That when she essayed (B)5

To drink lemonade (B)5

She slipped through the straw and fell in. (A)8

Limerick qualities:

Rhyme: AABBA

Syllables: 8-8-5-5-8

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The topic should be goofy and ​are often times about crazy, outlandish characters that might also be found in folksongs.

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TO BEGIN--

Think of a goofy person or situation. This will be the focus of the poem. Tell a small introductory story about the antics of this character.​

Open Ended

Compose a Limerick poem.

Rhymes should be AABBA

Syllables should be 8-8-5-5-8

Where are Limericks from?

Edward Lear, a famous British poet, and writer of literary nonsense, is widely considered the father of the limerick. He didn't write the first limerick — the first limericks came about in the early 1700s and are often preserved in folk songs — but he popularized the form. More importantly, he wrote some of the best.

​His limericks often consisted of stories about an old man:

There was an Old Man with a beard

Who said, "It is just as I feared!

Two Owls and a Hen,

Four Larks and a Wren,

Have all built their nests in my beard!"

​Young ladies weren't safe from his humor:

There was a Young Lady of Dorking,

Who bought a large bonnet for walking;

But its colour and size,

So bedazzled her eyes,

That she very soon went back to Dorking.

​And finally, this Edward Lear limerick example describes an interesting character:

There was a Young Person of Crete,

Whose toilette was far from complete;

She dressed in a sack, Spickle-speckled with black,

That ombliferous person of Crete.

From Ancient Greek τρίπτυχος triptukhos, “consisting of three layers, threefold

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Your Limericks with be triptych in form. you have established a scene with a character. ​

Next, you will build on how silly or goofy that person is with an additional scene.

Finally, you will bring the story full circle somehow with a goofy ending

​triptych (trip-tike)

Example:Here follows a triptych of limericks,

Introduction:

There was a young lady of Nice,

Who insisted on bathing in grease.

She slid through the house

Tormenting her spouse

Til he hid in the oven for peace.

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Here our story continues to unfold:

That very same lady, I'm told

Had a pet most uncommonly bold

Not a cat, rat or woodchuck

But a self-driving tow truck

That dragged her young man down the road

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​And the last will bring us full circle:

But her husband cried aloud, "Cease!"

And with a toasting fork gained his release.

He popped every tire

Then said "I perspire,"

And joined his dear wife in the grease.

- Matt Salter

Open Ended

You have written one Limerick. Now, add to the idea of your last Limerick by composing another that builds on the topic or character of the first!

Open Ended

Finally, write your concluding stanza. This should bring your story or character around full circle to the first portion somehow. Let me know if you don't understand!

Pull out your songs from last week and label the rhyme scheme you can find!

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You will label this with progressing letters (ABCDEF...).​

So if your first line ends in 'happy', then any word in the entire song that rhymes with 'happy' will be labelled A.​

IF you get through the entire alphabet, you begin back at the beginning with double letters (AABBCCDDEEFF...)​

​In partners, help one another...