English: Friday, March 1, 2014

1. English: Friday, March 1, 2014 Handouts: * None Homework: * “Write Your Own Poem” is due Monday, March 3 (see rubric):1) Create poem using a rough draft 2) Copy poem onto handout (print), dark ink 3) Type poem and save it to your flash drive 4) Save poem to “S” drive folder during your computer class Save as: LastName_FirstName_MyPoem_Eng6-__* Lit Test over Poetry Unit next Wed., Feb. 6, during English class: Check out Cornell Notes, Sets 1 – 6 [Set #6 is a supplement, the Poetry Booklet] Assignments due: * None

2. Lesson Goal: Learn about ballads, another type of narrative poetry. Outcomes: Be able to . . . Define the term ballad. Analyze a ballad and identify its poetic devices. Summarize the plot in a ballad. Evaluate a ballad that has been put to music.

3. Starter #1 This week we have looked at narrative poetry, and there are a number of different types of narrative poems. Yesterday we read an epic poem. What do you recall about an “epic”? An epic is a long poem that chronicles (tells in chronological order) the story of a hero who must overcome life-threatening obstacles as he makes a long journey. What famous epic poem is our earliest form of literature in the Western world? The Iliad and its sequel, The Odyssey, are two famous epic poems from Greek mythology. Both are book-length stories written entirely in poetic verse, dating back to the 8th century B.C.

4. Starter #2 Yesterday we read an epic poem was written in the 1800s by a famous American poet. What did we read, and who wrote it? We read a portion of “Song of Hiawatha,” which featured the hero during his childhood. The person who wrote it was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

5. Starter #3 Today we’re going to read a ballad that was written in the 1960s. It became popular on the radio when the author put music in the background as he recited the ballad. The man who wrote this was a popular TV actor named Lorne Greene. Your grandparents would recognize his name. They were probably kids when this ballad was played on the radio. Have any of you ever watched an old Western on the re-run channels called, Bonanza?  This ballad has nothing to do with the TV show Bonanza, but the person who wrote happened to be star actor in Bonanza, “Ben Cartwright.” But Lorne Greene was a real “artist,” someone who loved not only acting, but also writing and singing.

6. Starter #3 Let’s turn in our Poetry Booklets to the very last page. Read this ballad silently, on your own. See if you can figure out who the main characters are and what happened in the story. What’s happening in this ballad? What’s the story about? Is the narrator inside the story or outside of it? So is this ballad written first person or third person? Have any of you guys ever wished you could have been a cowboy? We need a reader who can bring this ballad to life as a narrator. Who volunteers? [Read ballad a second time, while the 45 RPM is played: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxfBYPKSLvo]