01.31.2011 EXILE POETRY

1. 01.31.2011EXILE POETRY English IV H | Mr. Smith

2. Warm-up: “Exile” • Exile is defined as the expulsion, banishment, or separation of a person from his/her home, country, family, or other group. • Describe a time when you were exiled or took part in exiling someone. (Bear in mind that exile can happen in ways large and small.) Explain what you thought and felt during the experience.

3. Vocab List 01

4. Vocab procedure • Monday • New list given and posted online • Homework: meaningful sentences • Tuesday – homework: visual vocab • Thursday • Vocab review • Homework: study (optional: make flashcards) • Friday – QUIZ

5. Vocab List 01 • manifest – visible; evident • George’s pain from the papercut was manifest due to his loud scream. • conventional – common; customary • It is conventional to eat turkey, watch football, and take long naps on Thanksgiving Day. • partisan – one who supports a particular person, cause, or idea • Mr. Smith is a partisan for the UNC Tar Heels.

6. Vocab List 01 • contentious – argumentative; quarrelsome • The teen driver became contentious with the police officer after being ticketed for driving while texting. • lament – to mourn • Funerals are held so that families can lament the passing of a loved one. • allusion – an indirect reference to something else (especially in literature) • Mr. Smith’s students are usually too young to understand the allusions he makes to TV shows and movies from his youth.

7. Vocab List 01 • arbiter – one who decides; a judge • Mr. Smith is the final arbiter of your English grade. • inherent – part of the essential nature of something • Writing is an inherent part of any English course. • paradox – a seemingly sound statement that actually contradicts itself • One problem with the theory of time travel is the paradox of travelling before one’s own date of birth.

8. Vocab List 01 • cynic – one who deeply distrusts human nature; one who believes people are motivated only by selfishness • The cynic found it hard to believe that anyone would help him solely out of kindness. • exposition – comprehensive description of an idea or theory • Karl Marx is famous for his exposition on Communism. • consensus – unanimity (or near unanimity) • Congress is unable to come to a consensus on health care reform.

9. Vocab List 01 • comprehensive – covering or including everything • Erin and Boris stayed up all night studying for their comprehensive Physics final. • sagacious – possessing wisdom gained from experience or learning • In movies, kung-fu masters are often portrayed as old, sagacious men. • precipitate – to cause to happen abruptly or suddenly • Hubert’s outburst of profanity in the middle of the lecture precipitated his immediate removal from class.

10. Unit 1 Historical Background

11. Presentations • Each group member should take part in presenting • Audience members should take brief notes on each section other than their own (at least three items per section) • Presenters should take any questions at the end

12. 7 Habits of Effective Readers

13. What are the 7 habits? • Visualizing • Questioning • Making connections • Predicting • Inferring • Determining importance • Synthesizing

14. Visualizing • Form a mental image or other picture • Sample statements: • “I can see…” • “I imagine…” • “That gives me a picture of…”

15. Questioning • Ask questions about what you don’t understand or aren’t sure of – what happened, why characters did certain things etc. • Sample statements: • “I wonder…” • “What if…” • “Why…” • “I don’t get…”

16. Making connections • Think about how the text relates to other texts (text-to-text), to you (text-to-self), and to the world (text-to-world) • How do these connections help you better understand the text or its characters? • Sample statements: • “This reminds me of…” • “This part/character is like…” • “I have a connection to…”

17. Predicting • Based on your reading, think about what will happen next. • As you continue to read, see if your predictions were correct or not. • Sample statements: • “I predict that…” • “Since this happened, I think that…” • “I bet…”

18. Inferring • Draw conclusions about the text based on what you read (“reading between the lines”) • Details from the text should support your inferences • Sample statements: • “Because of this, I know…” • “I can tell that...because…” • “This detail shows me that…”

19. Determining importance • Decide which characters, events, or other ideas are most important to the text • Knowing what’s important allows you to effectively summarize • Sample statements: • “This is important because…” • “This part is key because…”

20. Synthesizing • Synthesizing means creating new knowledge • Effective synthesis shows you truly understand the text • Sample statements: • “The point of this is…” • “The theme of this text is…” • “The central idea of this text is…”

21. Anglo-Saxon Poetry

22. Key poetic features • Lines with regular rhythm, usually four strong beats • Caesura – rhythmic breaks in the middle of each line, where the reciter could pause for breath • Kennings – two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things (e.g. “whale’s home” = ocean) • Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds in unrhymed, stressed syllables (e.g. “batter these ramparts”) • Alliteration – repetition of initial consonant sounds in stressed syllables

23. “The Seafarer”

24. Procedure • Popcorn reading of the poem • Complete reading questions on your own • Share responses with your neighbor • Discuss questions with the class

25. Homework

26. For tonight: • Vocab List 01 meaningful sentences • Micro-research write-ups due tomorrow