1. Welcome!
Language Arts
Ms. Marek
Wednesday, February22, 2012

2. Independent Reading
Retrieve your library book
READ READ READ READ
READ READ READ

3. Schedule
Wednesday Sound Elements
Thursday Setting and Mood
Friday Tone and Word Choice
• ALL WEEK: Meetings during reading
• FRIDAY: CELEBRATIONS

4. OBJECTIVE
SWBATanalyze sound
elements of poetry that
contribute to meaning

5. Objective 3.A.4.c: Analyze sound
elements of poetry that contribute
to meaning
 Mastery Scores on unit test:
 Team Yale: 58.5%
 Team Princeton: 61.4%
 Team Harvard: 46.2%

6. Poetry Rapid Review
 Take 3 minutes to write down
everything you remember about
poetry
 Do these words jog your memory?
– Rhyme scheme
– Sonnet
– Onomatopoeia

7. Poetry Rapid Review
 Take 3 minutes to compare your list
with your neighbor
 Create a venn diagram to compare
and contrast your lists!

8. Sound Features
 Alliteration
– Repetition of the same or similar sounds at the
beginning of words
She sells sea shells by the sea shore
Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers.
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

9. Sound Features
 Consonance
– the repetition of consonants that sound the same
Dark deep dread
Lady lounges lazily

10. Sound Features
 Assonance
– the repetition or a pattern of similar vowel
sounds
From The Bells, Edgar Allan Poe
Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats

11. Sound Features
 Onomatopoeia
– words are used to imitate sounds
Tick tock! Tick tock! The clock is ticking!
The bees are buzzing in the garden.

12. Sound Features
 Repetition
– Words and / or phrases are used multiple times in
a poem
– Stresses important words / phrases
Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has
weather'devery 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,

13. Sound Features and Meaning
 It’s great that we can identify sound features
 The next level is thinking about how poets
use these sound features to create meaning

14. Harlem Hopscotch by Maya Angelou
One foot down, then hop! It’s hot.
Good things for the ones that’s got.
Another jump, now to the left.
Everybody for hisself.
In the air, now both feet down.
Since you black, don’t stick around.
Food is gone, the rent is due,
Curse and cry and then jump two.
All the people out of work,
Hold for three, then twist and jerk.
Cross the line, they count you out.
That’s what hopping’s all about.
Both feet flat, the game is done.
They think I lost. I think I won.

15. My Grandmother Is Waiting for Me to Come Home by Gwendolyn Brooks
My Grandmother is waiting for me to come home.
We live with walnuts and apples
in a one-room kitchenette above The
Some Day Liquor Gardens.
My Grandmother sits in a red rocking chair
waiting for me
to open the door with my key.
She is Black and glossy like coal.
We eat walnuts and apples,
drink root beer in cups that are broken,
above The
Some Day Liquor Gardens.
I love my Grandmother.
She is wonderful to behold
with the glossy of her coal-colored skin.
She is warm wide and long.
She laughs and she Lingers.

16. BCR
 Explain how the author uses sound
features in “Harlem Hopscotch” to
emphasize the main idea of the poem?

17. BCR
 Explain how the author uses sound
features in “My Grandmother Is Waiting
for Me to Come Home” to emphasize
the main idea of the poem?

18. REMINDERS
READ READ READ!
Start thinking about a book you
want to read.
READ READ READ!