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Poetry Fishbowl Project

On Days 2 and 3, you will be part of a fishbowl discussion. This is similar to our previous fishbowl discussion, except your group will be much smaller. That means you have to contribute more! You will need to be able to discuss the theme of your poem and point out how the poetic devices help support the theme. POEMS: Dulce et Decorum Est (pg. 651) The Colonel (pg 961) Aunt Jennifers Tigers (pg. 878) Mending Wall (pg 963) The Whipping (pg. 656) Richard Cory (pg 996)

In your notes today and for homework, you must: 1. Paraphrase the poem in 2-3 sentences. 2. Answer: What is your initial thought about the poems theme? 3. Answer: What can we tell about the speaker of the poem? How does this relate to the poems theme? 4. Answer: What figurative language can you find in the poem? (metaphors/similes/descriptive language/ allusions) How are the images related to each other? How do they relate to the poems theme? 5. Answer: What sound devices can you find in the poem? (alliteration/assonance or onomatopoeia/rhyme) How do they relate to the poems theme? 6. Answer: What other words or images strike you? Which images do you like? Look up the meanings of words you dont know. 7. Answer: What connections can you make between your poem and the stories we have read? 8. Answer: What do you think the real theme of the poem is? Poem: "Richard Cory" E.A. Robinson p. 996 1. Who is the speaker? How do you know? (What HAPPENS in this poem?) 2. In what ways is the speaker different from Richard Cory? 3. What do the words "crown" and "imperially" suggest about the speaker's impression of Richard? 4. Why would the poem be less forceful if the speaker used "I" instead of "we?" 5. Why was Richard envied by the townspeople? 6. What makes the final line surprising?

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Poetry Fishbowl Project

On Days 2 and 3, you will be part of a fishbowl discussion. This is similar to our previous fishbowl discussion, except your group will be much smaller. That means you have to contribute more! You will need to be able to discuss the theme of your poem and point out how the poetic devices help support the theme. POEMS: Dulce et Decorum Est (pg. 651) The Colonel (pg 961) Aunt Jennifers Tigers (pg. 878) Mending Wall (pg 963) The Whipping (pg. 656) Richard Cory (pg 996)

In your notes today and for homework, you must: 1. Paraphrase the poem in 2-3 sentences. 2. Answer: What is your initial thought about the poems theme? 3. Answer: What can we tell about the speaker of the poem? How does this relate to the poems theme? 4. Answer: What figurative language can you find in the poem? (metaphors/similes/descriptive language/ allusions) How are the images related to each other? How do they relate to the poems theme? 5. Answer: What sound devices can you find in the poem? (alliteration/assonance or onomatopoeia/rhyme) How do they relate to the poems theme? 6. Answer: What other words or images strike you? Which images do you like? Look up the meanings of words you dont know. 7. Answer: What connections can you make between your poem and the stories we have read? 8. Answer: What do you think the real theme of the poem is? Poem: "The Whipping" -- Robert Hayden p. 656 1. Who is the speaker in this poem? How do you know? (What HAPPENS in the poem?) 2. What parallel does the speaker draw between the young boy and himself? 3. What images does the speaker use to convey his feelings about the old woman? The boy? 4. How does the speaker segue from the boy across the way to himself? Why is this effective? 5. Discuss the effect of the contrast between the setting and the action. 6. Can you could argue against the line "Well, it's over now, it is over" (19)?

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Poetry Fishbowl Project

On Days 2 and 3, you will be part of a fishbowl discussion. This is similar to our previous fishbowl discussion, except your group will be much smaller. That means you have to contribute more! You will need to be able to discuss the theme of your poem and point out how the poetic devices help support the theme. POEMS: Dulce et Decorum Est (pg. 651) The Colonel (pg 961) Aunt Jennifers Tigers (pg. 878) Mending Wall (pg 963) The Whipping (pg. 656) Richard Cory (pg 996)

In your notes today and for homework, you must: 1. Paraphrase the poem in 2-3 sentences. 2. Answer: What is your initial thought about the poems theme? 3. Answer: What can we tell about the speaker of the poem? How does this relate to the poems theme? 4. Answer: What figurative language can you find in the poem? (metaphors/similes/descriptive language/ allusions) How are the images related to each other? How do they relate to the poems theme? 5. Answer: What sound devices can you find in the poem? (alliteration/assonance or onomatopoeia/rhyme) How do they relate to the poems theme? 6. Answer: What other words or images strike you? Which images do you like? Look up the meanings of words you dont know. 7. Answer: What connections can you make between your poem and the stories we have read? 8. Answer: What do you think the real theme of the poem is? Poem: "Dulce et Decorum Est" -- Wilfred Owen p. 651 1. Who is the speaker of the poem? How do you know? To whom is he/she speaking? 2. What actually happens in the poem? No more than 2 sentences here. 3. Explain the images in the first stanza. 4. What does "Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!" mean. Think in terms of narrative. 5. Choose 3 words/phrases that are used in an unusual way and explain. (This is called diction.)

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Poetry Fishbowl Project

On Days 2 and 3, you will be part of a fishbowl discussion. This is similar to our previous fishbowl discussion, except your group will be much smaller. That means you have to contribute more! You will need to be able to discuss the theme of your poem and point out how the poetic devices help support the theme. POEMS: Dulce et Decorum Est (pg. 651) The Colonel (pg 961) Aunt Jennifers Tigers (pg. 878) Mending Wall (pg 963) The Whipping (pg. 656) Richard Cory (pg 996)

In your notes today and for homework, you must: 1. Paraphrase the poem in 2-3 sentences. 2. Answer: What is your initial thought about the poems theme? 3. Answer: What can we tell about the speaker of the poem? How does this relate to the poems theme? 4. Answer: What figurative language can you find in the poem? (metaphors/similes/descriptive language/ allusions) How are the images related to each other? How do they relate to the poems theme? 5. Answer: What sound devices can you find in the poem? (alliteration/assonance or onomatopoeia/rhyme) How do they relate to the poems theme? 6. Answer: What other words or images strike you? Which images do you like? Look up the meanings of words you dont know. 7. Answer: What connections can you make between your poem and the stories we have read? 8. Answer: What do you think the real theme of the poem is? Poem: Mending Wall Robert Frost p. 963 1. Who is the speaker? How do you know? (What HAPPENS in the poem?) 2. Who is the other person in the poem? What do you know about him? 3. What difference of opinion exists? 4. How does each justify his opinion? 5. Describe, in detail, what action goes on in the poem. 6. What does the narrator mean when he says, He moves in darkness...

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Poetry Fishbowl Project

On Days 2 and 3, you will be part of a fishbowl discussion. This is similar to our previous fishbowl discussion, except your group will be much smaller. That means you have to contribute more! You will need to be able to discuss the theme of your poem and point out how the poetic devices help support the theme. POEMS: Dulce et Decorum Est (pg. 651) The Colonel (pg 961) Aunt Jennifers Tigers (pg. 878) Mending Wall (pg 963) The Whipping (pg. 656) Richard Cory (pg 996)

In your notes today and for homework, you must: 1. Paraphrase the poem in 2-3 sentences. 2. Answer: What is your initial thought about the poems theme? 3. Answer: What can we tell about the speaker of the poem? How does this relate to the poems theme? 4. Answer: What figurative language can you find in the poem? (metaphors/similes/descriptive language/ allusions) How are the images related to each other? How do they relate to the poems theme? 5. Answer: What sound devices can you find in the poem? (alliteration/assonance or onomatopoeia/rhyme) How do they relate to the poems theme? 6. Answer: What other words or images strike you? Which images do you like? Look up the meanings of words you dont know. 7. Answer: What connections can you make between your poem and the stories we have read? 8. Answer: What do you think the real theme of the poem is? Poem: The Colonel (pg 961) 1. Consider the statement from the poem, There is no other way to say this. How does the speaker of the poem feel about the events and setting she is witnessing? In other words, what is her attitude toward the colonel and her experience of being in his house? How can you tell? 2. One of the reasons Carolyn Forch is able to make the colonels house seem like such a frightening place is because she places, or juxtaposes, violent images directly beside innocuous, ordinary ones. What juxtapositions can you find? a. _______ is placed beside _________; _________ is placed beside ______ 3. Look up the background of this poemhow did it come about? That will be greatly helpful in identifying its theme.

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Poetry Fishbowl Project

On Days 2 and 3, you will be part of a fishbowl discussion. This is similar to our previous fishbowl discussion, except your group will be much smaller. That means you have to contribute more! You will need to be able to discuss the theme of your poem and point out how the poetic devices help support the theme. POEMS: Dulce et Decorum Est (pg. 651) The Colonel (pg 961) Aunt Jennifers Tigers (pg. 878) Mending Wall (pg 963) The Whipping (pg. 656) Richard Cory (pg 996)

In your notes today and for homework, you must: 1. Paraphrase the poem in 2-3 sentences. 2. Answer: What is your initial thought about the poems theme? 3. Answer: What can we tell about the speaker of the poem? How does this relate to the poems theme? 4. Answer: What figurative language can you find in the poem? (metaphors/similes/descriptive language/ allusions) How are the images related to each other? How do they relate to the poems theme? 5. Answer: What sound devices can you find in the poem? (alliteration/assonance or onomatopoeia/rhyme) How do they relate to the poems theme? 6. Answer: What other words or images strike you? Which images do you like? Look up the meanings of words you dont know. 7. Answer: What connections can you make between your poem and the stories we have read? 8. Answer: What do you think the real theme of the poem is? Poem: Aunt Jennifers Tigers (pg. 878) 1. How would you describe the relationship between Aunt Jennifer and the tigers? Between Aunt Jennifer and Uncle? 2. What are the two most important symbols in the poem? What is the relationship between themdo they operate similarly, or differently? 3. What is the cause of Aunt Jennifers struggles? How can you justify this through details in the poem?

Poetry Fishbowl Groups Zusak: Aunt Jennifers Tigers: Alex C., Brianna, Chris, Grant The Colonel: Sarah, Stephanie, Justin, David Mending Wall: Lawrence, Brian, Maggie, Tre, Jack "Dulce et Decorum Est": Kevin, Travis, Rob, Colin, Jackson "Richard Cory": Aaron, Quinn, Chloe, Alex G., Ashleen "The Whipping": Nick D., Mary Catherine, Anthony, Nick S.

Shakespeare: Aunt Jennifers Tigers: Joy, Georgia, Giacinto, Nico The Colonel: Rachel, Ari, Kelly, Gavin Mending Wall: Andre, Katie, Bizz, Henry "Dulce et Decorum Est": Eric, Eddie, Jennifer, Jackie "Richard Cory": Dom, Camille, Barbara, Sam, Elise "The Whipping": Morgan, Ben, Monica, Mark, Hailey