Stream: 103, Unit: Poetry Traditions Agenda

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Stream 10-3, Unit Poetry Traditions Agenda

• Technical Difficulties
• Introduction to the Forum
• Emoticons vs. Tone, Mood, Style
• A History Lesson identifying the most
  important line
• Mini-lesson enjambment, end-stopped lines
• Homework

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Integrating emoticons

• Im cool, because I was the first person to post
  a topic.
• I thought it would be cool to be the first person
  to post a topic.
• I thought it would be cool to post the first
  topic.
• I decided to be the first student to post a
  topic. How cool is that!
• I was so cool by deciding to post up the first
  topic.

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Integrating emoticons

• Show, dont tell
• Repetition (FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST)
• Punctuation ellipses . . . might indicate
  that you are unsure ?! Etc.
• Sensory details
• Metaphor/simile that captures or gives a slant to
  what it means to be first
• Capital letters (use sparingly) Use italics,
  bold, underline

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Homework, due Thursday, October 5

• Register a username on our discussion board
• Post a question or a response to another
  students comment on our forum
• Wander through the 11th grade forum and copy down
  5 examples in which the respondent made use of
  emoticons to communicate his/her ideas. Do not
  use the same emoticons for the 5 examples.
  Rewrite the sentence in two ways, for a total of
  10 sentences
• First, include the word that the emoticon stands
  for in the sentence
• Second, using the methods described above on
  slide 2, try to communicate the tone or mood of
  the 11th graders comment WITHOUT using the
  word.
• Read Lehmans poem out loud and mark for what you
  feel are natural end-stopped lines
• Find one enjambment where you think Lehman is
  deliberately trying to make you think of two
  different, possibly opposing ideas without
  allowing you to definitively choose one over the
  other.
• Review vocabulary for a quiz carcinogenic,
  enjambment, succinct, peruse, succulent,
  prolific, pantheon, laureate

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Most significant lines in A History Lesson by
David Lehman

• The wonder about their heritage of Judaism that
  they are passing on to their children.
• And now they find out that they were Jews
  themselves.
• To escape persecution, they pretended to convert
  to Christianity.
• Around this time, somebody accuses him of not
  being Jewish enough