Monday, December 5

1. Monday, December5 • Today’s Agenda: • 1. Pass out Stamp Sheet: HW Packet #11 – Week of 12/5– 12/8 • 2. Bellringer: Copy Literary Terms • 3. Author’s Background: Emily Dickinson • 4. Read “The Soul selects her own Society” & annotate • 5. Read “If you were coming in the Fall” & annotate • HW: 1) Notes: Author’s Background – Emily Dickinson • 2) Annotation: “Soul selects…”/ Chart: Exact & Slant Rhyme • 3) Annotation: “If you were…”/ Chart: Figures of Speech

2. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Bellringer: Week of 12/5– 12/8 • Monday (12/5): • 1. Exact rhyme – when the accented syllables and all following syllables of two or more words share identical sounds • 2. Slant rhyme – is a close, but not exact rhyming sound. • 3. tone – is the attitude a writer takes toward a subject of a work, the character in it, or the audience • 4. pun – is a play on words based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things. • 5. irony – is a discrepancy between appearances and reality, between what seems suitable or appropriate and what actually happens. • 6. paradox – is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory but reveals is a kind of truth.

3. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Emily Dickinson” • 1.Exact rhyme – when the accented syllables and all following syllables of two or more words share identical sounds • Example: • pain/pane • time/thyme • rein/reign • bough/bow

4. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Emily Dickinson” • 2. Slant rhyme – is a close, but not exact rhyming sound. • Example: • how, row • lovely, funny

5. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Emily Dickinson” • 4. pun – is a play on words based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things. • Example: • Our social studies • teacher says that • her globe means the • world to her.

6. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Emily Dickinson” • 5. irony – is a discrepancy between appearances and reality, between what seems suitable or appropriate and what actually happens. • Example: • In 1912 the Titanic was touted as • "100% unsinkable", and • yet the ship sank on • its maiden voyage....

7. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Emily Dickinson” • 6. paradox – is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory but reveals is a kind of truth. • Example: • A rich man is no richer than a beggar. • I'm a liar. How do you know • if I'm telling the truth?

8. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Author’s Background: Emily Dickinson • Turn to Pages 335-336 of your textbook and read about Emily Dickinson. Then create a bubble map and fill in any interesting or insightful information that you’ve read. Emily Dickinson

9. Turn to the backside and title: More About the Writer: Emily Dickinson • When her editor and friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson asked Emily Dickinson for a picture, she replied, “I had not portrait, now, but am small, like the wren…” • Until 2000, only three images of Dickinson were known to exist, and only one of them was a photograph (shown at the right)

10. Turn to the backside and title: More About the Writer: Emily Dickinson • Then in May 2000, Dr. Philip Gura, a professor of literature, purchased a daguerrerotype believed to be an image of Dickinson. • Gura had the photography analyzed by a forensic anthropologist whose report seemed to confirm that the image is indeed that of Dickinson.

11. Turn to the backside and title: More About the Writer: Emily Dickinson • In a letter to literary critic and editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emily Dickinson described her standards for judging poetry: “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

12. Turn to the backside and title: More About the Writer: Emily Dickinson • The Dickinsons belonged to the Congregational Church and were devoutly religious. Although Emily Dickinson did not attend church as an adult, her poetry shows the influence of this religious background in both its form and its themes.

13. Turn to the backside and title: More About the Writer: Emily Dickinson • The majority of her poems are written in the four-line ballad or “common meter” stanza used for most Protest hymns in English : • the first and third lines of the stanza have four beats each and may or may not rhyme; • the second and fourth lines have three beats each and rhyme.

14. Turn to the backside and title: More About the Writer: Emily Dickinson • God, eternity, death, and the soul, all major themes in Dickinson’s poetry, of course figure prominently in traditional church hymns as well. • But for the conventional sentiments of the hymn Dickinson substitutes her own quirky meditations on these themes and her own personal sense of devoutness, unconnected to any kind of organized, public worship. • As she says in one poem: • Some keep the Sabbath going to Church--- • I keep it, staying at Home--- • With a Boblink for a Chorister— • And an Orchard, for a Dome--

15. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Annotation: “The Soul selects her own Society” • Turn to Page 337 and copy the entire poem. • Be sure to leave spaces for annotation.

16. On the bottom half of the paper, title:Chart: Exact and Slant Rhyme

17. Turn to the back side and title:Annotation: “If you were coming in the Fall” • Turn to page 338 and copy the entire poem. • Be sure to leave spaces for annotation.

18. On the bottom half of the paper, title:Chart: Figures of Speech