Figurative Language and Epic Poetry April 27- April 30

Objectives For The Week
Review 5 types of Figurative Language
Review the Poems : Those Winter Sundays, Lineage, and Siren Song.
Complete 3 Journal Entries
Compose a poem utilizing Alliteration and send it to my email on May 1, 2009



Essential QuestionsChoose 3 to Blog About
• What is a relationship?
• What obstacles stand in the way of enduring relationships?
• In times of adversity, do family bonds/ relationships help us survive?
• Does it take courage to sustain a relationship?
*How do relationships endure over time?



Figurative Language
Figurative language is a tool that an author employs (or uses) to help the reader visualize (or see) what is happening in a story or poem.
Types of Figurative Language
Some common types of figurative language are:
*simile,
*metaphor
*alliteration
*onomatopoeia
*idiom
Simile
A simile is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two dissimilar objects.
For example: His feet were as big as boats. We are comparing the size of feet to boats.
Using the poem on the next slide identify all of the similes. Decide which items are being compared.
Willow and GinkgoEve Merriam
The willow is like an etching,
Fine-lined against the sky.
The ginkgo is like a crude sketch,
Hardly worthy to be signed.
The willow’s music is like a soprano,
Delicate and thin.
The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorus
With everyone joining in.

The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf;
The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull.
The willow’s branches are like silken thread;
The ginkgo’s like stubby rough wool.

THE METAPHOR
A metaphor states that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use like or as to make the comparison.
For example: Her hair is silk. The sentence is comparing (or stating) that hair is silk.
Simile or Metaphor?
1. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves.
2. As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!"
3. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.
4. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day.
5. I feel like a limp dishrag.
6. Those girls are like two peas in a pod.
7. The fluorescent light was the sun during our test.
8. No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket.
9. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath.
10. Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs.

Home Work for Monday April 27, 2009

Read and Review

1. Good Night Willie Lee. I'll See You In The Morning
2. Sympathy
3. Lineage

** 200 word response to Sympathy by Paul Lawerence Dunbar. Count Your Words!**


Extra Credit for the Semester will be posted on the digital portfolio.

Epic Poetry Unit

For the next 2 Weeks we will discuss different forms of poetry as well as write some of our own. We will tie our most recent novel Tears of a Tiger in with this unit.

Your Unit test for Tears of a Tiger will take place this Wednesday. Please study so that you may be ready.

The Poems that will be used in this Unit can be found here an in my digital porfolio. If you do not have internet access at home IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to print these out while you are in school. Copies WILL NOT be provided for you.

Selected Texts for The Poetry Unit.

Poem 1
Good night, Willie Lee, I’ll see you in the morning by Alice Walker
http://sbacari.tripod.com/poetry/goodnight.htm

Journal Topic: Question: Consider the death in "Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning." Is any unfinished business here? Explain 150 words

Poem 2

Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar

http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/03-04/Paul_Laurence_Dunbar/Samplepoems(Paul_Laurence_Dunbar).htm

Poem 3

Lineage by Margaret Walker
http://www.geocities.com/soho/lofts/5596/poets/mwalker.htm

Poem 4
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/those-winter-sundays/

Poem 5

Siren Song by Margaret Atwood
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=98

Poem 6
Dance with my father again by Luther Vandross
http://www.lyrics007.com/Luther%2520Vandross%2520Lyrics/Dance%2520With%2520My%2520Father%2520Lyrics.html

Poem 7
Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/harry-chapin/cats-in-the-cradle.html



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Tears of a Tiger Tasks and their Due Dates

Tears of a Tiger Tasks and their Due Dates

Essential Question: What is my responsibility to society?

Monday April 6, 2009

- Read Pages 1-22

- Answer the set of questions for pages 1-22 (Due 4-7-2009)

- Begin working on the vocabulary worksheet on page 10 of your Packet.

- Compose a 200 word blog entry in reflection to the poem “Somebody should have told him” Due by midnight tonight.

- Begin searching for an article discussing teens and alcohol. ( Printed out and submitted Thursday) Make sure the article reflects U.S Teens within the past year.

Tuesday April 7, 2009

- Submit the vocabulary worksheet in class.

- Read Pages 22-34 and pages 35-49

- Answer the set of questions for pages 22-34 and 35-49

Wednesday April 8, 2009

- Begin working on the vocabulary sheet (page 11)

- Read pages 50-70

- Answer the set of questions for pages 50- 70

- Remember to print off your article about Teen Drinking. ( be prepared to share your article with the rest of the class)

Thursday April 9, 2009

- Presentations in class pertaining to the article you selected.

- Class discussion about the book.

- Expectations for the break.