EU Big Ideas

Authors organize their writing and select words for a specific reason. Authors and Poets can achieve a great deal in terms of feeling, emotion, and description in a concise way. Repetition Rhyme simile metaphor personification

Prerequisite Knowledge

Focus Next Week Short Term Assessment Select an appropriate poem. Students will read and respond to the poem and the specific vocabulary focused on. During the presentation/mini-exhibition, the students will be required to discuss the following: Did you discuss and explain how you created the feelings/emotions present in the text? Cite the specific examples of figurative language that you used in your writing. What about the word choice made this more interesting to the reader? These specific examples will be developed in the leveled groups. You are able to explain the different forms of figurative language used in your writing. Mini-Exhibition Friday afternoon (12:45-1:45) February 24, 2012 Students will be in their own classroom to present their poem/song/ short story Criteria for the Figurative Writing will be developed by the leveled groups on Friday, Feb 17. Rubrics for grade level poetry curriculum, MAP data expectations, Presentations

Interdisciplinary Connections Intradisciplinary Connections Essential Questions These Figurative Language concepts will be applied to literature in the students regular classrooms. Can you understand a poem without understanding the poet?

Suggested Texts From C.C. Assessment for Brooks Group Colin Lucy Patrick Brooks Sarah B. Ian L. Madeline S. Josh S. Nahvia N. Taylor -Dickinson, Emily. Autumn. -Rossetti, Christina. Who Has Seen the Wind? -Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Afternoon on a Hill. -Frost, Robert. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. -Field, Rachel. Something Told the Wild Geese. -Hughes, Langston. Grandpas Stories. -Jarrell, Randall. A Bat Is Born. -Giovanni, Nikki. Knoxville, Tennessee. -Merriam, Eve. Weather. -Soto, Gary. Eating While Reading. 191-200 Use of Language Recognizes the author's use of rhyme as a technique to increase the interest of a literary text* Analyzes repetition used by an author to add emphasis in literary text* Analyzes description used by an author to introduce characters in literary text* Analyzes literary text to determine a particular feeling or mood (term not used) Identifies sentences that describe feelings* Analyzes literary text to determine a character's mood* Identifies the mood in a poem* Infers the meaning of figurative language in literary text* Infers the meaning of figurative language (synecdoche, term not used)*

Vocabulary: memoir

Warrenfeltz Caleb Erianna

Assessment for Warrenfeltz Group Terryk Joseline Alex Logan N Ian Brooks Alyssa C. Emily B. Adriana C. Ella H. Lily V. Assane D. Madysen W. (TACK) Keshawn Sam Taylor Ben Dylan Karly Emmalee Mike Jasmine Warrenfeltz Bella Ty Assessment for Vreeland group

-Blake, William. The Echoing Green. -Lazarus, Emma. The New Colossus. -Thayer, Ernest Lawrence. Casey at the Bat. -Dickinson, Emily. A Bird Came Down the Walk. -Sandburg, Carl. Fog. -Frost, Robert. Dust of Snow. -Dahl, Roald. Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. -Nichols, Grace. They Were My People. -Mora, Pat. Words Free As Confetti.

201-210 Use of Language Recognizes the author's use of rhyme as a technique to increase the interest of a literary text* Identifies rhyme as a literary device* Recognizes examples of alliteration* Analyzes the author's use of onomatopoeia (term not used) in literary text* Defines dialogue* Recognizes author's use of suspense to create interest in literary text Analyzes the meaning of images used in literary text* Analyzes the author's use of descriptive language in literary text* Analyzes literary text to determine which words describe a particular sensation (term not used) Infers the use of symbolism found in literary text* Identifies examples of literal statements in literary texts* Analyzes authors use of foreshadowing (term not used) in literary text* Analyzes literary text to determine the author's mood Analyzes tone used to create humor in literary text* Defines simile* Gives examples of similes in literary text Identifies extended metaphors (term not used) in poetry* Infers the meaning of metaphors (term not used) in literary text* Identifies idioms in literary texts* Vocabulary: -alliteration, autobiography, dialogue, idiom, literary device, personification, scene, simile, symbolism

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Paul Reveres Ride. -Whitman, Walt. O Captain! My Captain!

Caden Helena Owen Hannah Mikayla Westley Hunter (TACK) Audrey Crystal Kameron Brooks Patrick Warrenfeltz Andrea Pheona Jordyn McKenna Quinn Lauryn Fei Yan Santana Assessment for Tack group

-Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky. -Navajo tradition. Twelfth Song of Thunder. -Dickinson, Emily. The Railway Train. -Yeats, William Butler. The Song of Wandering Aengus. -Frost, Robert. The Road Not Taken. -Sandburg, Carl. Chicago. -Hughes, Langston. I, Too, Sing America. -Neruda, Pablo. The Book of Questions. -Soto, Gary. Oranges. -Giovanni, Nikki. A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.

211-220 Use of Language Analyzes the author's use of rhythm in literary text* Identifies alliteration in literary text Recognizes dialogue in literary text Analyzes the use of dialogue in advancing plot in literary text* Analyzes literary texts to determine how suspense is achieved* Recognizes the author's use of descriptive language as a technique to create interest in literary text* Analyzes the author's use of imagery in literary text* Recognizes the author's use of imagery as a technique to create interest in literary text* Analyzes descriptions used to begin a story* Analyzes literary text to determine a particular feeling or mood Recognizes the author's use of the present tense as a technique to create interest in literary text* Defines simile* Identifies similes in literary text Gives examples of similes in literary text Identifies metaphors in literary text Infers the meaning of metaphors in literary text Defines personification Recognizes figurative language used to describe setting* Identifies figurative language in literary text* Vocabulary: assonance, characterization, consonance, flashback, headlilne, homophone, imagery, irony, onomatopoeia, pun, word play irony - the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning

-Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 73. -Donne, John. Song.

Alexis Rachel Melanie Peggy

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Ozymandias. -Poe, Edgar Allan. The Raven. -Dickinson, Emily. We Grow Accustomed to the Dark..

(TACK)

221-230 Use of Language Identifies alliteration in literary text Recognizes examples of onomatopoeia in literary text* Analyzes the use of dialogue in advancing plot in literary text* Recognizes examples of imagery in literary text* Recognizes examples of imagery (term not used) in literary text* Analyzes the use of imagery in literary text Identifies examples of sensory language in literary texts Recognizes examples of irony in literary text Interprets the use of irony found in literary text*

Gabe Xavier Ariana Abbie Jean Emily Warrenfeltz Abigail Katie Josh Kyla Brooks Nova K.

-Houseman, A. E. Loveliest of Trees. Johnson, James Weldon. Lift Every Voice and Sing. Cullen, Countee. Yet Do I Marvel. Auden, Wystan Hugh. Muse des Beaux Arts. Walker, Alice. Women. Baca, Jimmy Santiago. I Am Offering This Poem to You..

Identifies connotations in text* Identifies foreshadowing in literary texts* Describes techniques and details used by an author to create mood in a literary text Describes tone in literary text as ironic* Identifies similes in literary text Defines metaphor Gives examples of metaphors in literary text Identifies metaphors in literary text Identifies personification in literary text Vocabulary: -Sonnet (Shakespeare)**Allusion**-direct reference to a famous person, place, thing

Assessment for Hartley group

Li Po. A Poem of Changgan. Donne, John. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.

Logan B Eliza Ryan Brooks Kaylee S. Warrenfeltz Sam

Wheatley, Phyllis. On Being Brought From Africa to America. Keats, John. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Whitman, Walt. Song of Myself. Dickinson, Emily. Because I Could Not Stop for Death. Tagore, Rabindranath. Song VII. Eliot, T. S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Pound, Ezra. The River Merchants Wife: A Letter. Frost, Robert. Mending Wall. Neruda, Pablo. Ode to My Suit. Bishop, Elizabeth. Sestina. Ortiz Cofer, Judith. The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.. Dove, Rita. Demeters Prayer to Hades. Collins, Billy. Man Listening to Disc.

231-240 Use of Language Recognizes examples of onomatopoeia in literary text* Identifies allusion in literary text* Analyzes the mood in a poem* Describes tone in literary texts as containing elevated language* Describes the tone of a literary text* Interprets the use of oxymoron in literary text* Evaluates literary text to determine the meaning of metaphors* Identifies when figurative language is not present in literary text* 241-250 Use of Language Describes poetic meter* Recognizes examples of paradox in literary texts 251 and above Use of Language Recognizes examples of antithesis in literary texts* Vocabulary: -Standard English, symbolize, iambic pentameter, metric feet, synecdoche, allusion - indirect reference to a famous person, place, or thing

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