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Day 14 Tuesday 2/11

Day 14 Tuesday 2/11. Warm-up (symbolism Review) Annotations “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath Comprehension Questions Writing from an object’s perspective. Warm-up.

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Day 14 Tuesday 2/11

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  1. Day 14 Tuesday 2/11 • Warm-up (symbolism Review) • Annotations “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath • Comprehension Questions • Writing from an object’s perspective

  2. Warm-up Copy down the following sentence as is and make the needed corrections. Label the subjects and verbs. Underline the independent clauses.

  3. Symbolism • Any character, object, animal, place, etc. that represents something other than itself. • Example:

  4. How to Identify Symbolism: • Read the passage once for understanding. • Read a second time, looking for an image that stands out or is repeated. • Circle that imageeach time it appears in the passage. This is your symbol. • Determine your feelings towards the image or word– are they positive or negative? • Connect the word to the context (what is literally going on in the poem as well as what you may know about the author and time period). • Draw a conclusion from your work in steps 2-5 and determine what you think the symbol means

  5. “We Wear the Mask”by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1 WE wear the mask that grins and lies,     It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—     This debt we pay to human guile;    With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,     5 And mouth with myriad subtleties.     Why should the world be over-wise,     In counting all our tears and sighs?     Nay, let them only see us, while             We wear the mask.    10 We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries     To thee from tortured souls arise.     We sing, but oh the clay is vile     Beneath our feet, and long the mile;     But let the world dream otherwise,             15 We wear the mask!

  6. “We Wear the Mask”by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1 WE wear the mask that grins and lies,     It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—     This debt we pay to human guile;    With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,     5 And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise,     In counting all our tears and sighs?     Nay, let them only see us, while             We wear the mask.    10 We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries     To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile     Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise,             15 We wear the mask!

  7. Poetry Review • figurative language – a tool that the author uses to help the reader visualize what is happening in a story or poem • Common types of figurative language are: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, and imagery.

  8. Types of Figurative Language • simile– comparison between two unlike things using like or as • metaphor – comparison between two unlike things not using like or as • personification – giving humanlike qualities to something that’s not human (an idea, an animal, a thing, etc.) • alliteration – the repetition of a sound in the beginning of a word or phrase • hyperbole– extreme exaggeration

  9. “Mirror” same poem different moods

  10. Mirror by Sylvia Plath I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful— the eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

  11. Checking Your Reading 1. The speaker is not cruel, only what?2. What does the speaker do immediately to whatever she sees?3. What does the speaker meditate on most of the time?4. Who bends over the speaker?5. What is compared to a terrible fish?

  12. Recall: Gathering Facts 6. What adjectives describe the speaker in stanza 1? 7. What does the speaker in stanza 1 do with whatever it sees? Upon what does the speaker mediate? 8. Whom has the woman drowned? Who rises toward her “day after day”?

  13. Interpret: Finding Meaning 9. What is the speaker in stanza 1? 10. What is the speaker’s attitude what it sees? Why might it be ironic that the speaker mediates on such an insignificant thing? 11. Who are the young girl and the old woman? Why is the old woman “like a terrible fish”?

  14. Analyze: Taking Things Apart 12. What qualities do the mirror and the lake share? 13. How does the lake make woman feel? How can you tell?

  15. Evaluate: Making Judgments 14. Why do you think the speaker calls the moon and candles “liars”?

  16. Developing empathy through literary analysis • Even though the story is being written from the perspective of an inanimate object, students should gain some competence in and appreciation for empathizing with another individual’s experiences and feelings. • Students that learn to recognize the point of view are more likely to demonstrate compassion for others in the real world.

  17. For Tomorrow • Have your Pre-work and first draft ready !!!!!! • I will be checking to see if you have both and completing them will be apart of your final grade.

  18. Symbolism Exit ticket Identify one piece of symbolism in the poem. 2. In a COMPLETE SENTENCE explain what that symbol stands for and what evidence in the text makes you think that. “The Road Not Taken”- Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

  19. Writing Analysis • In “Mirror,” Sylvia Plath shows us dark and unique perspective of an everyday object. She uses this object as a extended metaphor for growing old, the pressure of the public eye, and loss of home. • Write a story from the perspective of an inanimate object such as a candy wrapper, laptop or  water bottle. The story should encompass the various things the object sees, how it is being interacted with and of course a personality most suitable to the object.

  20. Details • Besides the title, you are not allowed to use the name of your object in your piece • You will have time to brainstorm and draft today and some editing time tomorrow. • Your final essay is due on Monday (at the beginning of class) • I recommend that you write in prose not poetry. You may want to give your piece a plot or action (see my example). • FOLLOW THE RUBRIC!

  21. She sighed quietly, so quietly that no one heard. She was always careful to make sure no one heard her. It wasn't that she minded doing her job, she understood that someone had to do it. She was just tired. She'd been at her post for a long time and she wanted to be done. She didn't just want a break, she wanted it to be over. The few breaks she was given were sometimes worse than remaining on duty. The best were only a chance to get herself washed up before going back to her post. The worst ended in beatings or being tied out in the sun or rain for days at a time. Being on post was more of the same, being kicked at or stepped on was a daily occurrence. She knew any beauty she once possessed had long faded. She felt worn, tired, and thin, like her existence was slowly wearing away the very fiber of her being. She knew she wasn't doing her job as well as she once did. Last week, when she'd tried to stop herself from being pulled from her post during a particularly bad encounter, she'd felt something tear in her; she wasn't sure how much longer she could last. Each new day she felt there was a little less of her left, but there was nothing she could do to stop it. So she sighed quietly as she was once more kicked and knocked from her place. She waited to be shoved back where she belonged, but the words she heard when she felt a hand touch her made her sigh with relief."Hey, Honey, I think it's time to get a new rug. This one is pretty worn out. Look, it has a hole in it.""Yeah, I think I tore it last week when I tripped on it. We can look for one when we go shopping tomorrow."

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