8 th Graders Welcome!

1. 8th GradersWelcome! Row Leaders: DO NOT grab your row’s folders from the folder box. Have a seat before the bell rings or you will be late. :O) Get out your materials and prepare to write your agenda. -Thank you!

2. A Quick Reminder: • Do not get out of your seat without permission. • If you are eating, put it away or throw it away. • Do NOT shoot trash into the trash can. • Be ready to work and stay on task.

3. 8th Grade Agenda Tuesday 4-5-11 • Write your agenda • Warm-up (A.L. #17)* • Read: “…Grasshopper…” & “O Captain…”* • Do wksht* Objective: On a worksheet, SWBAT identify poetic and literary devices as well as answer questions about two given poems. HW: Finish worksheet A.L.:17.) Poetic Dev. & Misused 4/5

4. Assignment Log #1717.) Poetic Dev. & Misused 4/5 * Copy down the following sentences using the word in the brackets that best completes each one. • [Why, How come] we can’t stay up late tonight? • “Todd taught two little brats that thought tattoos were tight” is an example of [rhyme, meter, alliteration]. • Please [bring, take] your barking dog with you when you go! • I try to make tamales, [like, as] my grandma taught me. • Those are my favorite [kind, kinds] of jellybeans. • “Don’t you fear, for I am here” is an example of [internal rhyme, end rhyme] • “pop, bam, wham, and toot” are examples of [assonance, onomatopoeia]

5. “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket,” by John Keats“O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt Whitman • Together we will read the above poems. • As we read, be ready to answer the questions on your worksheet. • This is another practice before your next poetry test. • What we don’t finish, you will need to finish as homework.

6. “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket,” by John Keats The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead In summer luxury,--he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought silence, from the stove there shrills The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. 5 10

7. “O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt Whitman I O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up--for you the flag is flung --for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
 This arm beneath your head!
 It is some dream that on the deck,
 You've fallen cold and dead. 5 II 10 15

8. “O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt Whitman cont… III My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. 20

9. Winding Down *Class is almost over, so it is time to: • Recap: Did you accomplish this objective? • Objective: On a worksheet, SWBAT identify poetic and literary devices as well as answer questions about two given poems. • Take out agenda to be checked. • When you are dismissed, row leaders please put the folders away.

10. Materials needed • Holt L&LA books • 160 copies of wksht

11. State Standards • 3.1 Determine and articulate the relationship between the purposes and characteristics of different forms of poetry (for example, ballad). • 3.6 Identify significant literary devices (e.g., metaphor, symbolism, dialect, irony) that define a writer's style and use those elements to interpret the work.