Looking at Poetry

Hi all,

Today in class we looked at poetry in a few ways.

To start, we practiced identifying which poetic device was present in a bunch of examples.  Next, we read a poem together and tried to identify the title of the poem.  From there, we discussed what we thought the speaker of the poem was trying to convey to us as readers.

We ended class by writing an Autobio poem.  These are meant to get you thinking about descriptive language and tone.  Tone is the author's attitude towards the piece of writing, and there are many words that can help us convey tone.  Your poems are to be completed for homework (the writing of them), but I will not be collecting them Tuesday.  All poems are to be kept in the poetry section of your binder, and we will be working on editing and putting our poems into good copy later this unit.

Handouts:

Poetry ID: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4XSIYoQBjwhOHZwTWdOdHBjNXM/view?usp=sharing

Mirror: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19SigL0JKRGp56qONC-eOoaV-1jdQsUhoPGDGy_jYiM8/edit?usp=sharing

Tone Vocab: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4XSIYoQBjwhOVdCRkF1WFZ6MFk/view?usp=sharing

Autobio Poem: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dtjzSXClJE1T5dvgCGQUYBqndNkRoiA2nUW1X-Qy61c/edit?usp=sharing

Homework:

Finish your Autobio poem for Tuesday