Tues day , November 29

1. Tuesday, November 29 • Today’s Agenda: • 1. Bellringer: IdentifyLiterary Terms • 2. Review Parallel Structure in “I Hear America Singing” • 3. Model SOAPSTone using Dickinson’s Poem • 4. Pair Share: Analyze “I Hear America Singing” using SOAPSTone • 5. Introduce Requirements for Catalog Poem • HW: 1) Catalog Poem #1 due Wednesday (11/30) • 2) Print out slides 14-15

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. Bellringer: Week of 11/28– 12/2 • Tuesday (11/29): • 1. They twirl through the trek / tumbling towards the tide . _____________ • 2. Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. _________ • 3. Snow quickly melting / Air slowly warming / Life coming from the trees. ____________ alliteration assonance catalog

4. Identifying Parallel Structure

5. Take out your print outs of the slides: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?

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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,

9. 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.

10. Example of Catalog Poem:Fear By Raymond Carver • Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. • Fear of falling asleep at night. • Fear of not falling asleep. • Fear of the past rising up. • Fear of the present taking flight. • Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night. • Fear of electrical storms. • Fear of the cleaning woman who has a spot on her cheek! • Fear of dogs I’ve been told won’t bite. • Fear of anxiety! • Fear of having to identify the body of a dead friend. • Fear of running out of money. • Fear of having too much, though people will not believe this. • Fear of psychological profiles. • Fear of being late and fear of arriving before anyone else.

11. Example of Catalog Poem:Fear By Raymond Carver • Fear of my children’s handwriting on envelopes. • Fear they’ll die before I do, and I’ll feel guilty. • Fear of having to live with my mother in her old age, and mine. • Fear of confusion. • Fear this day will end on an unhappy note. • Fear of waking up to find you gone. • Fear of not loving and fear of not loving enough. • Fear that what I love will prove lethal to those I love. • Fear of death. • Fear of living too long. • Fear of death. • I’ve said that.

12. Take out a sheet of paper and title:Ideas for Catalog Poem List of Human Emotions List of Favorite Emotions 1. 6. 2. 7. 3. 8. 4. 9. 5. 10 sadness Confusion about growing up • 1. 6. • 2. 7. • 3. 8. • 4. 9. • 5. 10. frustration

13. Turn to the back side of your paper on Ideas for Catalog Poem and title: Catalog Poem #1 • This is where you will write your catalog poem. Good luck and be creative!

14. Requirements for Catalog Poem • Has 25 lines (no more no less; EXACTLY TWENTY-FIVE!) • Each line begins in the same way, until you reach the ending. • Each line is vivid and descriptive, presenting one clear image. • Each word is chosen carefully and means precisely what you intend it to mean. (DICTION!!!)

15. Requirements for Catalog Poem • The ending offers a sort of “twist” that expresses the ultimate essence of the poem. • There is an overall rhythm to the poem that allows it to flow when read aloud. • The title of the poem is the emotion which is its subject. • The final draft is carefully proofread with all errors in the spelling, grammar, and mechanics corrected.