Monday, April 20, 2015

Monday, April 20 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: WN: 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…
*Thoreau continued
*“Civil Disobedience” 390, read some together
*Questions on same sheet as Walden
*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)
*Emily Dickinson p546 (READ THIS IF YOU FINISH THOREAU BEFORE WE MOVE ON)
*Read ‘author’s style’ pg 547 (add any definitions to poetry terms sheet, if necessary)
*HOMEWORK: Read through all of her poems.  Once you’ve read them all, pick three from the packet and one from the sheet on its own. For all four, write your interpretation and analysis of them in your notes

*Analyzing Poetry
*Read through one time
*Figure meanings of unknown words, think/write questions, comments, thoughts about the poem
*Read again
*Is there a rhyme scheme? What is it? Repetition? Figurative language? What poetic devices?
*How can we see influence of Dickinson’s life in the poem? Is the author the same as the speaker?
*Read a third time
*What are some possible meanings? What happens in it? What parts of the poem make you think what you do about it?

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