Poetry – 4 weeks

How do poets use poetic devices to illuminate the human condition?

Assorted poems from Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Yeats, Plath, Eliot, Keats, Dove, Thomas, Herrick, Blake, Tennyson, and other student choice poets.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of rhyme scheme, blank verse, figurative language- simile, metaphor,  overstatement (hyperbole), understatement (litote), metonymy, synecdoche, apostrophe, onomatopoeia, oxymoron,  personification, ode, mood, tone, and syntax.

Students will read, annotate, analyze, and do in class writing activities including creating their own original poems using extended metaphors, writing comparative essays, revising essays in response to teacher feedback, complete a research project on a chosen poet, and take applied practice poetry quizzes.

Unit Essay: How do form & use of literary devices influence meaning in a chosen poet’s work?

Examining and analyzing a selection of poems from a poet of the student’s choosing (among offered selected poets) – explore what poetic devices and common poetic forms the poet is using consistently.  How do these devices shape meaning and purpose and how can  they be compared/contrasted across a variety of works.

Poetry Essay Review

Need a Quick Review? Spend a minute or two reading through … that’ll do.

• Review terms and techniques.
• Become familiar with types of poetry questions (prompts).
• Highlight the prompt to make certain you are aware of required tasks.
• Time your essay carefully.
• Read the poem a couple of times.
• Spend suffi cient time “working the poem” before writing.
• Mark up the poem.
• Create a strong opening paragraph, including prompt information.
• Refer often to the poem for concrete details and quotes to support your ideas.
• Always stay on topic.
• Avoid simply paraphrasing.
• Include transitions and echo words.
• Practice—vary the prompt and your response.
• Consult the models and rubrics for self-evaluation.
• Share ideas with others.

Day One	Introduction To PoetryInterpreting Poetry	Poetry-and-AP-Language almost_everything_you_need_to_know_about_poetry Poetry-Interpretation
Day Two	Learning to Interpret Poetry	Learning to Analyze Poetry
Day Three	Practice Interpretation with Donne’s sonnetsHW: Further Poetry Practice	Poetry Comparison Poetry Practice
Day Four	Poetry types ppt	Types of Poems Poem Types ppt poems
Day Five	TPCASTT and DIDLS – “Mirror” by Slyvia PlathPoetry Project	TPCASTT_Template A different TPCASTT template DIDLS PDF The DIDLS Method of Determining Tone
Day Six	Connotation and Denotation – textbook – 757″There is No Frigate Like A Book” – 758 “Cross” – 766 “The World is Too Much With Us” – 766 HW:  Pick a poem not used and answer questions for poem.
Day Seven	Imagery in Poetry – pg 712″The Widow’s Lament in Spring time” – 716 “Living in Sin” – 718 “After Apple Picking” – 720   HW: Pick a poem and use a TPCASST to analyze	DIDLS PDFTPCASTT_Template
Day Eight	“Spinster” – 1078 – Read – find unusual words that may have ?multiple meanings.  Find words that strike you.  Brainstorm and ?write 2 other words that might replace the words that you noted.  ?What effect did the words the poet chose have that was different ?from the ones you chose?Look at poem explication for project TPCASTT Discuss Explicating a Poem – Read “Hollow Men”  and complete ?explication form	Literary Response Journal hollow_men poem and_questions poetry_explication_sheet_fillable__saveable
Day Nine	Review Hollow MenApplied Practice as a class
Day 10	Archetypes and Symbols	ArchetypalSymbols _2_ ArchetypesandSymbols
Day 11	Analyze two poems – SonnetsUse analysis questions   HW: Create MC questions for one of the poems	Analyze Sonnets
Day 12	Exchange poetry questions, answer, and then discuss.
Day 13	Applied Practice for Poetry
Day 14	Go over Poetry Essay format Timed Poetry Essay	Learning to Analyze Poetry MS_Poetry_Frames Example Student Essays on Poetry AP Literature Poetry Essay Prompts
Day 15	Revise Timed Essay
Day 16	Library time for Poetry assignment
Day 17	Timed MC and EssayHW: Bring in 13 copies of personal poem and be prepared to discuss
Day 18	Turn in Poetry assignmentRound table discussion of poem choices   HW: Study Poetry terms for poetry test	AP Literature Poetry Terms
Day 19	Finish Poetry roundtable discussion
Day 20	Poetry Terms Test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Handouts:

Eng_Lit_SF_Reading_Poetry07

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Poetry Packet