Journal 7: Narrative Poem

Write a narrative poem of 14 lines (min.) for Monday.

A narrative poem:
1. Tells a story (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion)
2. Includes dialogue
3. Has a set meter (count the number of syllables in each line of poetry and write the number next to each line.)

Beneath the narrative write three responses: three sentences about why you wrote the poem, three sentences about the poetic devices (include at least 4 in your poem), and three sentences about narrative form (or the form you chose to use/adapt if you did not follow the conventional structure).  Make sure to include three vocabulary words from Unit 10 or 11 either in your poem and/or in your responses.

Journal 6: Ode

Ode  - a celebratory poem pays homage to what the poet holds dear, another person, place, abstract idea etc.

Beneath the ode write three responses: three sentences about why you wrote the poem, three sentences about the poetic devices (include at least 4 in your poem), and three sentences about ode form (or the form you chose to use/adapt if you did not follow the conventional structure).  Make sure to include three vocabulary words from Unit 12 either in your poem and/or in your responses.

Journal 5: Due Friday

Your ballad should have a minimum of 14 lines and it should include the following three forms/rules:

1. Narrative (tells a story)      
2. Refrain/chorus (a part that repeats at least 2 times)        
3. song-like

Ballad- A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain

 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ballad

Beneath the ballad write three responses: three sentences about why you wrote the poem, three sentences about the poetic devices (include at least 4 in your poem), and three sentences about ballad form (or the form you chose to use/adapt if you did not follow the conventional structure).  Make sure to include three vocabulary words from Unit 10 either in your poem and/or in your responses.

Journal 4 Angela de Hoyos and Langston Hughes

Requirements:  1 page journal, 3 underlined vocabulary words, 3 quotes (with lines #, poem included).

Compare the speakers's declaration of his own beauty in Hughes's "I, Too" with the opening verses of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself."  How are the two speakers alike/different?  

Angela de Hoyo's speaker in "To Walt Whitman" offers a challenge to Whitman.  What would de Hoyos like to have added to or changed about Whitman's portrayal of America?  

I recommend organizing your journal with an INTRO, 2 body paragraphs (one for each question) and a conclusion.  

Unit 10 Vocabulary: #1-10 due Tuesday, February 18, #11-20 due Thursday, February 20 and Vocabulary Quiz is Tuesday February 25.

#1-10

Accrue, annotation, bedlam, covert, debonair, dun, efficacious, equanimity, fortuitous, gist. 

#11-20

gratuitous, imperious, invective, motley, munificent, procrastinate, provocative, recondite, reprobate, sedentary. 

Journal 3: From Song of Myself

Journal: 3 (1 page) FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS!

Make sure to include 3 words from Unit 9 vocabulary (underlined).

In section 1 of the poem, what is the speaker's conception of his relationship with nature?  How does he view the relationship between himself and other people? Support your answer with one quote from the poem.

What is the speakers attitude towards death in section 6 lines 6-14?  Support your answer with one quote from the poem.

Based upon the WHOLE poem, what is the attitude conveyed towards nature?  Support your answer with one quote from the poem.

(total of 3 quotes, include line and section #)

For Wednesday: I Hear America Singing

I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752

Write and analyze or explain 6 poetic devices from the poem.

Journal 2: Dickenson/Free Verse

Compose 1 (minimum 16 lines) or 2 (min 8 lines) free verse poems for Monday.  Beneath the free verse poems write three responses: three sentences about why you wrote the poem, three sentences about the poetic devices (include at least three in your poem), and three sentences about free form (or the form you chose to use/adapt if you did not follow the conventional structure).  Make sure to include three vocabulary words from Unit 9 either in your poem and/or in your responses.    he/adapt if you did not follow the conventional structure).  Make sure to include three vocabulary words from Unit 9 either in your poem and/or in your responses

Journal 1: Dickenson on Death/Pain

HW: In a 5 paragraph journal answer these questions:  Is pain redemptive?  What is the purpose of human suffering?  Do you agree that "life closes before its close"?  Explain your opinions by refuting or affirming three lines from Dickenson's poems, "My life closed twice before its close-" and "There's a certain Slant of light,".

Make sure to include (and underline) a minimum of three vocabulary words from Unit 9.

Vocabulary

Aberration (N):  synonym: deviation
                          antonym: conformity
                          definition: (1) a defect of focus such as a blurred image
                                          (2) a deviation from what is normal
sentence: The scientist looked at the aberration in the laboratory's test results after conducting the experiment.




List the word.  (Part of Speech):  Synonym:
                                                   Antonym:
                                                   Definition: (1) (2)
Sentence: