Thursday Friday February 8/ 9 "Spoon River Anthology"

Learning Targets: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.

I can demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foundational works of American literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics.

I can write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

Coming up: Wednesday, February 14 vocabulary quiz (handout / another copy below)
In class: Character analysis of 5 poems of your choice. Note that you will turn in 5 sheets, one for each character. (class handout / copy below)

Name_______________________________________

Choose five of the poems that appeal to you and complete a CHARACTER ANALYSIS worksheet for each.

Character Analysis for Spoon River Anthology

You will need to complete five character analysis forms.  Keep in mind that these people lived close to one hundred and fifty years ago. Remember to justify all your answers with text.

Character’s name_______________________________ page number________________

Once you read poem, list any words with which you are unfamiliar and define.

Unfamiliar words:

1. ___________________________  2. ____________________   3._______________________________4._____________________________

5. ______________________________6.__________________________

                       

1.       In a minimum of thirty words, summarize the life of the character on the epitaph. From the text include any physical descriptors, relationships and other themes, such as revenge, injustice or justice, religion and jealousy.  Were they disillusioned, disappointed? Were their secrets taken to the grave?

2.       In a couple of well-written sentences reflect on how this individual is reflective on someone from a small town at the beginning of the 20^th century? (Draw on your own knowledge: historical, social (gender, economics and political.)

There are lots of poems, so skip around and browse. I know how everyone likes to work with a neighbor, but in this case, you may not have any of the same ones as the person sitting next to you.  Note that language conventions- capitalization, punctuation and spelling count. No “I think”, no “wanna / gonna”. Weave in bits of text; just put them in quotations.

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Vocabulary Figurative Language Terms.Quiz on Wednesday, February 14 Class handout / copy below

.Note: the first part of the quiz will be matching, as usual, whilst the the second part will require that you identify the type of figurative language device being used.

1   1. A simile is a figure of speech where two inherently different things are compared to one another using expressions like 'like' or 'as'

     2. A palindrome can be defined as a word or a phrase, which begins and finishes with the same letter.

3.  3. metaphors are linguistic symbols that convey a particular image. It is a figure of speech wherein an idea is given to provide clarity by comparing or associating it to another totally different idea.

4.   4. oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two contradictory or inappropriate terms are either put together or appear side by side.

5.    5. litotes is defined as 'an ironical understatement in which affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite'. In this figure of speech, the usages are intentional, ironical and provide emphasis to the words. This is mainly done through double negatives. To put it in simple terms, in litotes, instead of saying that something is attractive, you say that it is not unattractive.

6.       6.  A synecdoche is a  figure of speech where part of a sentence describes the entirety.

7.      7.  imagery  is vivid descriptions and comparisons with the help of sound words, helps recreate images and emotions. This device which needs to be aided with other figures of speech like similes, metaphors and personification etc. to effectively crop a picture within the minds eyes. Always remember, the key to good imagery is evoking all the senses. There are seven different kinds of imagery; visual (seeing),  auditory (hearing)  kinesthetic (muscle movement / body position), tactile (touching),  organic (personal experiences of a character's body, including emotion and the senses of hunger, thirst, fatigue, and pain), olfactory (smelling) and gustatory (tasting). 

8.       8.  An allusion is a brief reference, explicit or indirect to a person, place or event or to another literary work or passage.

9.       9. apostrophes are words spoken to a person or object which is inherently imaginary object or is an abstract idea.

1        10. personification is  when we associate a human quality or trait with a non-living object.