English

5-13-15 – Harris – Eng.1

1. Do Now:  Lit Book.  Pg. 669 – Practice A, 1 – 4.

2. On board:  Again, Exam review pages were listed.  

3. On board – Homework:  Study for your semester exam.   Prepare for your Poetry Slam.

4. Read aloud several different students doing the reading, “I Wander Lonely as a Cloud.”  Be sure you know what is being compared (in the similes) and know the rhyme scheme.

5. Pg. 626. What is the tone of the poem—in the first stanza?  Perhaps it’s relaxed or calm.  Look at the questions that surround that poem.  

6. Know the difference between connotation and denotation.  (go back to 608).  (connotation = what kind of emotions do the words evoke (create)).   Denotation is the literal meaning of the word.  (Fill in:  connotation = _______________________________________________.

7. 628.  Answer #1,2, & 3.  Go to pg. 621, the poem “A Dream”  Life is being compared to a broken wing bird and a bare field.  Don’t let go of your dreams because without them life can be too depressing.

8. How many questions does “A Dream Deferred “ ask?  6

9. The last question is that there is more finality to it, if a dream just “explodes.”

10. Look at the questions of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

11. Read pg. 643.  Fluency = reading smoothly but at the same time with rhythm.  Poem for fluency:  

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

 

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, who am I not to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?

 

You are a child of God.  Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

 

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.  It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” ----Marianne Williamson