88thth Graders GradersWelcome!Welcome!

1. Row Leaders: DO NOT grab your row’s folders from the folder box.

2. Have a seat before the bell rings or you will be late. :O)

3. Get out your materials and prepare to write your agenda.

-Thank you!

A Quick Reminder:A Quick Reminder:

•Do not get out of your seat without permission.

•If you are eating, put it away or throw it away.

•Do NOT shoot trash into the trash can.

•Be ready to work and stay on task.

1. Write your agenda2. Warm-up (A.L. #17)*3. Read: “…Grasshopper…” & “O Captain…”*4. Do wksht*

Objective: On a worksheet, SWBAT identify poetic and literary devices as well as answer questions about two given poems.

HW: Finish worksheetA.L.: 17.) Poetic Dev. & Misused 4/517.) Poetic Dev. & Misused 4/5

8th Grade AgendaTuesday4-5-11

* Copy down the following sentences using the word in the brackets that best completes each one.

1. [Why, How come] we can’t stay up late tonight?

2. “Todd taught two little brats that thought tattoos were tight” is an example of [rhyme, meter, alliteration].

3. Please [bring, take] your barking dog with you when you go!

4. I try to make tamales, [like, as] my grandma taught me.

5. Those are my favorite [kind, kinds] of jellybeans.

6. “Don’t you fear, for I am here” is an example of [internal rhyme, end rhyme]

7. “pop, bam, wham, and toot” are examples of [assonance, onomatopoeia]

Assignment Log #17Assignment Log #1717.) Poetic Dev. & Misused 4/517.) Poetic Dev. & Misused 4/5

““On the Grasshopper and the On the Grasshopper and the Cricket,” by John KeatsCricket,” by John Keats

“O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt “O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt WhitmanWhitman

Together we will read the above poems.

As we read, be ready to answer the questions on your worksheet.

This is another practice before your next poetry test.

What we don’t finish, you will need to finish as homework.

““On the Grasshopper and the On the Grasshopper and the Cricket,” Cricket,”

by John Keatsby John KeatsThe poetry of earth is never dead:

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run

From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead In summer luxury,--he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with funHe rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought silence, from the stove there

shrillsThe Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

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““O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt WhitmanWhitman

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is

won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;Rise up--for you the flag is flung --for you the bugle trills,For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths--for you the shores a-

crowding,For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces

turning;Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.

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My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and

done;From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;

Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I, with mournful tread,

Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

““O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt O Captain! My Captain!,” by Walt Whitman cont…Whitman cont…

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Winding DownWinding Down*Class is almost over, so it is time to:1. Recap: Did you accomplish this

objective?

Objective: On a worksheet, SWBAT identify poetic and literary devices as well as answer questions about two given poems.

2. Take out agenda to be checked.3. When you are dismissed, row

leaders please put the folders away.

Materials neededMaterials needed

1. Holt L&LA books2. 160 copies of wksht

State StandardsState Standards3.1 Determine and articulate the

relationship between the purposes and characteristics of different forms of poetry (for example, ballad).

3.6 Identify significant literary devices (e.g., metaphor, symbolism, dialect, irony) that define a writer's style and use those elements to interpret the work.