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 Theme - getting the little stuff right, so that
we don't have to continually deal with
those problems further in the year.

Issues:
1. know who's on your team
2. know your role on your team
3. know your goal
4. know what you have to
reach your goal

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Issues:
1. know who's on your team - *when you finish
your shoulder partner and your the worksheet -
tablemates
Review turn it in to the red
2. know your role on your team - drop box.
to complete your assignment,
and to check your teammates Sponge:
work #1 - grab the half sheet
3. know your goal - complete the of paper off of the front
worksheet with correct answers table, view "Scratch and
Reflect Dent Dreams" on the
4. know what you have to reach
your goal - follow the instructions class shared folder, and
on the worksheet respond

#2 - you may play any

*when you finish games on the Fun Links
the worksheet - Correct area of the Room 146
turn it in to the website - NO MATH
GAMES!
red drop box.
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 "Brand New Colony"
performed by The Postal Service
written by Ben Gibbard
I'll be the grapes fermented, bottled and served with the table set in my finest suit like a perfect
gentleman.
I'll be the fire escape that's bolted to the ancient brick where you will sit and contemplate your
day.

I'll be the waterwings that save you if you start drowning in an open tab when your judgment's on
the brink.
I'll be the phonograph that plays your favorite albums back as you're lying there, drifting off to
sleep. . . drifting off to sleep . . .
I'll be the platform shoes, undo what heredity's done to you; you won't have to strain to look into
my eyes.
I'll be your winter coat, buttoned and zipped straight to the throat, with the collar up so you won't
catch a cold.

I want to take you far from the cynics in this town and kiss you on the mouth.
We'll cut our bodies free from the tethers of this scene, start a brand new colony where
everything will change. identify one metaphor (quote it
We'll give ourselves new names. and explain what two items are
Identities erased.
being
The sun will heat the grounds, under our bare feet in this brandcompared),
new colony. and then
This brand new colony. sketch one image from the poem
Everything will change.
[repeated several times]

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Tuesdays
Second Quarter Reading Requirement
*read two collections of
poetry

*write one book review for a poetry

collection

*memorization and interpretation

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Literary
Elements:
Theme
Mood
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Imagery
Alliteration
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Soft, what yonder everything else away in
shadows fill the one minute!
back of my room?

Oh, tis students, as

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Refresher Course
Theme - the main idea or underlying
meaning of a literary text. A theme
may be directly stated, but more
often it is implied.

* While the subject of a text is the

topic on which an author has chosen
to write, the theme makes some
statement or expresses an opinion
about that
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Refresher Course
Mood - the climate of feeling in a
literary work. The author's choice of
setting, details, and images all
contribute in creating a specific
Symbolism - a person, place, or
mood.
object which has meaning in itself
but suggests other meanings as
well. Anything that suggests a
meaning beyond the obvious.
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Refresher Course
Metaphor - the comparison of two unlike
things, without using like or as, usually
using a form of the verb to be (is, are, was,
etc.)

Examples: Morning is
a new sheet of paper
for you to write on.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a

lonely hill.
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Refresher Course
Simile - the comparison of two unlike
things while using the words like or as

Examples: Through clenched teeth,

her eyes, Bright as a dog‘s cornered in
the light.

The southern sky was as white and

burning as a desert; there was one
cloud, and it drifted like a traveling
oasis.
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Personification - when a nonhuman or
(maybe)
inanimate object/thing is described using
human traits or qualities

Examples: The piano argued

As the trumpet sighed
And the music grumbled on.

The wind is yelling outside.

The old car groaned into third gear.

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 personification

h o
si a p
m e t
ile m
 h o Perso
Meta p nifica
Simile n t io
r
Her face was as
pale as the moon.

Simile
 t a p ho Perso
M e Simile n nifica
t io
r Hey diddle, Diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the
spoon.

Personificatio
n
 t a p h o Perso
Me Simile n n ificat
io
r
The summer night
is a dark blue hammock
slung between the white pillars of
day.

Metapho
r
Extended
"Vermin" The mouse of Thought infests

Metaphor
by E. B.
White
my head.
He knows my cupboard and
the crumb.
*What two Vermin! I despise vermin.
things are
compared in I have no trap, no skill with
this poem? traps,
No bait, no hope, no cheese,
no bread-
I fumble with the task to no
avail.
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I've seen him several times
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lately.
#1
He is too quick for me,
I see only his tail.
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Reminders! book and Learning

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Binders! minute!

Finders
keepers,
Losers
Reading
*in your
ResponseLearning Log
Put yourself in the story or
poem that you are reading.
Imagine how the narrator or
speaker might describe
you. Imagine how you
might respond to the
conflict or situation.
*Explain
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Poetic
Onomatopoeia - words that imitate the sounds

Elements
they are describing

Examples: crash hiss

purr
buzz neigh
whirr
screech jingle
boom

Alliteration - the repetition of initial consonant

sounds
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long
lost love
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Peter Parker
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bells
Poetic
Jargon - the specialized language of a trade,
Elements
profession, or group

Examples:
*in the medical field: stat derives from
the Latin statinum meaning
immediately; GSW means gun shot wound
*in the plumbing field: riser is the
vertical water pipe carrying the
main water supply
*in skateboarding: goofy is a reference
to those whoto skate with their left foot on
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Poetic
Elements
Slang - vocabulary not generally
acceptable in formal usage; often
incorporates elements of jargons; may
originate in a foreign language or from
regional usage

Examples:
git 'r dun stoked
LOL
peeps hacked
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NovemberTTYL
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Poetic
Elements
Dialect - a form of language that is spoken in
a particular place or by a particular group of
people. Dialects may feature unique
pronunciations, vocabulary, and grammar.

Examples:
Boudreaux and Thibodeaux joke
"Mother to Son" page 616

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Dialect
Boudreaux and
Thibodeaux joke - Buying
a bull
Comfortable
"Come for de
bull"
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 Well, son, I'll tell you:

Dialect Life for me ain't been no crystal

stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on
the floor --
Bare. "Mother to Son"
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
by Langston
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
Hughes
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder
hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
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And life for me ain't been no

November 13,
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Story
Time

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 His thoughts tumbled in his head,
making and breaking alliances like
underpants in a dryer without Cling
Free.
She grew on him like she was a
colony of E. coli, and he was room-
temperature Canadian beef.
She had a deep, throaty, genuine
laugh, like that sound a dog makes
just before it throws up.
Her vocabulary was as bad as,
like, whatever.
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting
the pavement like a Hefty bag
filled with vegetable soup.
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November 13, Similes
 11.From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene
had an
eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in
another city
and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a
sneeze.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers

raced across
the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains,
one having
left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other
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2008
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Story
Time

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Round Table *simultaneo

Review
*each box corresponds with
us
the student sitting in that
spot at the table
Step 1 - write something knew you
learned
Step 2this week
- pass to
your left
Step 3 - read what was
previously written
Step 4 - write something new in
your box

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 "Scratch and Dent
Dreams"
*Slamby Eric Darby
Poetry
- written for performance at
competitions
- 3 minute max per round (penalty
for going over)
- judged by random members of the
crowd
- 10 point scale
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 - tunes on

Tuesda
Monday
Tuesday
- Haroun
- Library check-out
- review-reflect-
- 2nd quarter
correct-reflect
reading
Wednesda
requirement
y
- Haroun - poetry notes and practice
evaluation
Thursday

- reading check and response in

Learning Log
- poetry notes and story time
evaluation Friday
- Haroun
- choosing poems
to memorize and
interpret
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