English: Thursday, February 20, 2014

1. English: Thursday, February 20, 2014 Handouts: * Diamante Poetry assignment Homework: * 1) Write a diamante poem, due Friday, beginning of class Need rough draft and finished poem written on handout 2) Type a copy of your diamante as a Word doc; save it to your flash drive Assignments due: * None

2. Lesson Goal: Learn the distinctive features of diamante poetry. Outcomes: Be able to . . . Learn the distinctive features of diamante poetry. Analyze published diamante poetry. Begin writing concrete poetry during class. Edit and proof your concrete poetry. Exchange rough drafts of concrete poetry for peer reviews. Eventually present your diamante poem to the class. Eventually publish your concrete poetry in our class’s online magazine.

3. Starter #1 How many of you are familiar with “diamante poetry”? A “diamante” is a seven-lined poem, shaped like a diamond. Can you think of a memory trick to help you recall that a diamante is diamond shaped? A diamante poem also uses specific guidelines in writing each line. The pattern works like this: Noun Adjective, Adjective Participle, Participle, Participle Noun, Noun, Noun, Noun [or phrases] Participle, Participle, Participle Adjective, Adjective Noun What’s a participle? It’s a “verbal” (based on a verb—shows action) used as an adjective. It ends in –ing (present participle) or –ed (past participle). What observations can you make about a diamante?

4. Starter #2 A diamante always uses the same formula, but there are two different types of diamante poems: • The first type is a Synonym Diamante, and it always describesone topic: • Monsters Creepy, sinister Hiding, lurking, stalking • Vampires, werewolves, mummies, zombies • Chasing, pouncing, eating, • Hungry, scary Creatures

5. Starter #3 Guess what the second type is? • The second is an Antonym Diamante. • It shows the difference between two opposite topics: • Day Bright, sunny Laughing, playing, doingUp in the east, down in the west Talking, resting, sleeping Quiet, dark Night

6. Starter #4 Now it’s your turn to create a diamante poem. You can do a synonym diamante or an antonym diamante. Have fun with it!  Begin by brainstorming on a sheet of notebook paper. Write your diamante on that same sheet and make necessary changes. When you are confident you have done your best, copy it (using dark colored ink) onto your handout. Make sure your work is authentic (not lifted/plagiarized) and that it’s your own creation. Enjoy showing off your work to your parents and listen to their feedback. But don’t cross the line by letting them do your work for you. Work that isn’t authentically your earns a zero. Likewise, plagiarism results in a zero . . . and an after-school writing assignment in my room, where you can prove that you are doing your own work.

7. Starter #5 With our remaining time in class, we need to “shift gears” and take a time-out from our English lesson. Pretend that you have just been transported to your Literature class. We’re going to have a lot of fun with the rest of our Poetry Unit, but to pull that off in a timely fashion, I need for you to take out a sheet of paper. To prepare you for some new forms of poetry (sub-genres) that we will read on Friday, let’s do Cornell Notes, Set #4 for our Poetry Unit.

8. Cornell Notes : Poetry, Part 4, Types of Poetry 1. What do we mean by the term “form” when referring to poetry? Define the following terms: • 1) Sonnet • 2) Elegy • 3) Ode • 4) Ballad • 5) Epic 1. Form is the overall pattern of a poem • 1) A 14-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme and a beat pattern called, “iambic pentameter.” It has an octet(8 lines) w/ an ABBA ABBApattern,then 6 lines w/ CDE CDE orCD CDCD • 2) A sad, thoughtful poem that laments the death of a person or a group. • 3) A lyrical poem, full of emotion, dedicated to a person, event, or thing. • 4) A narrative (story telling) poem meant to be put to music • 5) A long poem chronicling the journey of a hero , the dangers he faces, and the obstacles he must overcome.