Tuesday, Nov. 21 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Discuss: Can high schoolers ever truly follow Transcendental ideas? Be specific on which ideas (think Emerson) or acts (think Thoreau) they can or can’t follow and why you think that.  Don’t think of adults, think of you and your peers…

*Walden/”Civil Disobedience” Discussion

*Find your poetry terms sheet, read through to remind yourself of all of the ideas we look for in poetry (we will be looking at poetry for a few days, so if you aren’t sure on definitions, check different resources as well): Also, poetry analysis/annotation handout.

*Emily Dickinson p546 (take notes on this info in your Realism Era notes)

*Read ‘author’s style’ pg 547 (add any definitions to poetry terms sheet, if necessary)

*Read through and do a quick annotation of all of the poems in the packet.  Once you’ve read and quickly annotated them all, pick four. For those four, make sure your annotations are very detailed and you have a solid understanding of different ideas within the poem.

Annotation Ideas:

*What does the author say? How does he/she say it?

*Read through one time

*Figure meanings of unknown words, think/write questions, comments, thoughts about the poem (what the author says)

*Read again

*What are some possible meanings? What happens in it? What parts of the poem make you think what you do about it?

*How can we see influence of Dickinson’s life in the poem? Is the author the same as the speaker?

*Read a third time

*Is there a rhyme scheme? What is it? Repetition? Figurative language? What poetic devices? (how the author says it)

*Find the 4 poems you wrote about and write your insights (just a few of your interpretations) on the documents as comments (DON’T write on the document itself) –due by MONDAY

*On each of the 4, write TWO comments (your IN DEPTH annotations)

*For 3 of the other poems, add one comment each (a maybe less in depth annotation)

*Discuss Emily Dickinson’s poetry (packet and individual) after Thanksgiving

*At any point when you find yourself done with the list here, READ or BLOG or COMMENT!!!!