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Starters 4A

Starters 4A. Mrs. Greenlee Language Arts Team 7-2. Starter for Monday, January 4, 2010. Read “Winter Poem” by Nikki Giovanni on page 387 in your literature book. What is the point of view in this poem? Give an example of personification from the poem.

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Starters 4A

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  1. Starters 4A Mrs. Greenlee Language Arts Team 7-2

  2. Starter for Monday, January 4, 2010 Read “Winter Poem” by Nikki Giovanni on page 387 in your literature book. • What is the point of view in this poem? • Give an example of personification from the poem. • What other figurative language or sound devices do you notice in this poem? Hint: Think about repetition, simile, metaphor, and hyperbole

  3. Winter Poemby Nikki Giovanni once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of snow engulfed me then i reached to love them all and i squeezed them and they became a spring rain and i stood perfectly still and was a flower

  4. Monday’s Agenda • Starter / Copy weekly assignments. 2. Discuss goals and objectives for spring semester 3. Class: Group review of poetic devices and prepositions

  5. The Preposition Song! Prepositions : It’s all about the relationship! beforebehindbelowbeneathbesidebetweenbeyondby about aboveafteragainstalongamong aroundat downduringforfrominintolikenear ofoffonover throughtotowardunderuntilwithwithinwithout

  6. Starter for Tuesday, January 5, 2010 Read “The Bat” by Theodore Roethke on p. 392. • Write a list of words in the poem that rhyme. • Answer the two questions at the bottom of page 392.

  7. The Batby Theodore Roethke By day the bat is cousin to the mouse He likes the attic of an aging house. His fingers make a hat about his head. His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead. He loops in crazy figures half the night. Among the trees that face the corner light. But when he brushes up against a screen, We are afraid of what our eyes have seen: For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face.

  8. Tuesday’s Agenda • Starter- Rhyme scheme • Copy preposition notes. Choose a study technique. A. Song / Rap B. Drawing / Illustration C. Gestures D. Write a study sentence 3. Preposition Packets

  9. Starter for Wednesday, January 6, 2010 • Read “If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking” by Emily Dickinson on p. 33. • Make a list of the rhyming words. • Write the rhyme scheme for the poem. Hint: start with the letter “A”.

  10. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breakingby Emily Dickinson If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in Vain.

  11. Wednesday’s Agenda • Starter • Distribute and discuss new book project • Library to return / check out books. • Independent Practice: Preposition Packets

  12. Starter for Thursday, January 7, 2010 Wacky Web Tale: Snow Games! http://www.eduplace.com/tales/content/wwt_076.html

  13. Thursday’s Agenda • Starter- Wacky Web Tale • Preposition Packets- due Friday! • Analyze “The Elephant” by Rudyard Kipling, p. 741. • imagery • rhyme scheme • personification • stanzas

  14. Assignment: Copy the poem below on a clean sheet of paper. Then, pick one line and illustrate that line below the poem. The Elephant by Rudyard Kipling I will remember what I was. I am sick of rope and chain– I will remember my old strength and all my forest-affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar-cane. I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break, Out to the winds’ untainted kiss, the waters’ clean caress. I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket-stake. I will revisit my lost loves, and playmates masterless!

  15. Friday, January 8, 2010 SNOW DAY!

  16. Starter for Monday, January 11, 2010 Copy and complete the following sentence: The reader knows that “The Elephant” by Rudyard Kipling is written in the _____ person point of view because the elephant speaks using the pronoun “I”.

  17. Monday’s Agenda • Starter • Copy weekly assignments • Check preposition packet

  18. Starter for Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Into the darkness ran the tall, slim stranger. • Copy the sentence above. • Label the parts of speech. • Rewrite the sentence, using the same parts of speech but different words.

  19. Tuesday’s Agenda • Starter • Complete corrections to Preposition Packet • Compose Preposition Poem Homework tonight: • Final draft of Preposition Poem • Study for tomorrow’s Preposition Quiz!

  20. Starter for Wednesday, January 13, 2010 By the light of a small candle, the innkeeper meticulously wrote the name of his newest guest. Copy the sentence above. • Label the parts of speech. • Rewrite the sentence, using the same parts of speech but different words.

  21. Wednesday’s Agenda • Starter / Turn in final draft of poem • Preposition List Quiz • Poetry Scavenger Hunt • Homework tonight: • Analysis of “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes.

  22. Starter for Thursday, January 14, 2010 Compare / contrast a rough draft to a final draft. How are they similar? How are they different? Rough Draft Final Draft

  23. Thursday’s Agenda • Starter • Collect Scavenger Hunt homework. • Return graded quizzes and graded poems. • TCAP Practice Activity Homework for Tonight: • Work on poetry notebook • Study for poetry test Wed. Jan. 20 • One option for review is www.quizlet.com

  24. Starter for Friday, January 15, 2010 Put the following into two categories. • To school • To study • To find • To Shoney’s • To drive • To class • To college • To Knoxville

  25. Friday’s Agenda • Starter- infinitives • Onomatopoeia with “The Bells” by Edgar Allen Poe • Riddle Poems

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