Monday, November 28

1. Monday, November 28 • Today’s Agenda: • 1. Pass out Stamp Sheet: HW Packet #10 – Week of 11/28 – 12/2 • 2. Bellringer: Copy Literary Terms • 3. Author’s Background: Walt Whitman • 4. Analyze Dickinson’s Poem using SoapsTONE • 5. Read “I Hear America Singing” • HW: 1) Notes: Author’s Background – Walt Whitman • 2) Identifying Parallel Structure

2. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Bellringer: Week of 11/28 – 12/2 • Monday (11/28): • 1. Catalog – a list of things, people, or events • 2. alliteration – the repetition of similar consonant sounds • 3. assonance – the repetition of similar vowel sounds • 4. onomatopoeia – the use of words whose sounds echo their meaning • 5. parallel structure – the repetition of phrases, clauses, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure.

3. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Walt Whitman” • 1.Catalog – a list of things, people, or events • Example: • Spring • Snow meltingAir warmingTrees coming to lifeFlowers budding • Birds singingBaseball season startingEverything turning greenMy favorite time of year

4. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Walt Whitman” • 2.alliteration – the repetition of similar consonant sounds • Example: • Dewdrops Dancing Down DaisiesBy Paul Mc CannDon't delay dawns disarming display . Dusk demands daylight . Dewdrops dwell delicatelydrawing dazzling delight .Dewdrops dilute daisies domain. Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivereddaylights distilled daisy dance .

5. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Walt Whitman” • 3.assonance – the repetition of similar vowel sounds • Example: • Edgar Allen Poe - The BellsHear the mellow wedding bells - Golden bells!What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!Through the balmy air of nightHow they ring out their delight!From the molten-golden notes,And all in tune,What a liquid ditty floatsTo the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloatsOn the moon!

6. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Walt Whitman” • 4.onomatopoeia – the use of words whose sounds echo their meaning • Example: • The Rusty SpigotThe rusty spigotsputters,uttersa splutter,spatters a smattering of drops,gashes wider;slashsplattersscattersspurtsfinally stops sputteringand plash!gushes rushes splashesclear water dashes. - Eve Merriam

7. Literary Terms: “Poetry- Walt Whitman” • 5.parallel structure – the repetition of phrases, clauses, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure. • Example: • My Noisy BrotherHe slurps when he eats cereal in the morning.He gargles milk.He burps after eating.He cracks his knuckles.He whistles.He snaps his fingers.He squawks when he's mad.He snores at night.

8. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Author’s Background: Walt Whitman • Turn to Pages 307-309 of your textbook and read about Walt Whitman. Then create a bubble map and fill in any interesting or insightful information that you’ve read. Walt Whitman

9. Take out a sheet of paper and title it:SoapStone: Analyzing Poetry • Speaker: Who is the speaker of the poem? What assumptions can you make about the speaker? (ex. age, gender, class, emotional state, etc.) • Occasion: What is the occasion? What promoted the author to write this piece? Is it a memory, a description, an observation, a valedictory, an argument, an elegy, a declaration, a critique, etc.? • Audience: Who is the audience? Which group of readers to whom is this piece directed? What assumptions can you make about the intended audience?

10. SoapStone: Analyzing Poetry • Purpose: What is the speaker’s purpose? In what ways does the poet convey this message? What is the message? How does the speaker try to spark a reaction in the audience? How is the poem supposed to make the audience feel? • Subject: What is the subject of the piece? The general topic, content, and ideas contained in the poem. How do you know this? • TONE: What is the author’s attitude toward the subject? What emotional sense do you take from this piece? How does the diction point to tone? Give a specific example.

11. Turn to the back side of your paper and title:Analyzing Dickinson using SoapsTONE • A door just opened on a street– • I, lost, was passing by– • An instant's width of warmth disclosed • And wealth, and company. • The door as sudden shut, and I, • I, lost, was passing by,-- • Lost doubly, but by contrast most, • Enlightening misery.

12. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Analyzing “I Hear America Singing” • Turn to Page 311 of your textbook and copy the poem • “I Hear America Singing” in its entirety!

13. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Analyzing “I Hear America Singing” • (1) I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, • (2) Those mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, • (3) The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, • (4) The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, • (5) The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,

14. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Analyzing “I Hear America Singing” • (6) The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, • (7) The wood-cutter’s song, the plowboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, • (8) The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, • (9) Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, • (10) The day belongs to the day—at the night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, • (11) Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

15. Turn to the backside and title:Identifying Parallel Structure