Monday, April 24th:The last due date to turn in your mythology research paper is Tuesday, April 25th at midnight!!!!
The final date to turn in your final AR test and reading log is Friday, May 12th!!!!!!!
AR stands for Accelerated Reader!!!! How can you tell if a book is an AR book?
It has a yellow and white sticker that reads "AR"!
How to do the reading log?
You have to put the name and the author of the book at the top.
You need to put the page numbers (Pages 1 - 25)
Then you need to write a brief summary of about half a page.
Then you need to write a comment about what you just read.
And then you need to write a prediction about what you think is going to happen.
To get a "C" or better, you need to write at least five entries!
You need to finish the book!!!!!!!
If you don't finish the book, the highest grade you could possible get is a "D"!!!!!!!
Ted Talk: Akala - "Is It Hip-Hop or Is It Shakespeare?"
Tuesday, April 25th:
Silent Sustained Reading
The last AR book is due Friday, May 12th!
“Hip-Hop and Shakespeare”
How many lines are there in a sonnet?
Ashanti – fourteen lines
How are the last two lines different from the rest of the
lines?
Do the last two lines rhyme?
Yes! That means they are a couple (they are dating) – a
couplet!!!!
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day -
a
Thou art more lovely and more temperate – b
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May – a
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date – b
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines – c
And often is his gold complexion dimmed – d
And every fair from fair sometimes declined – c
So the rhyme scheme for an Elizabethan sonnet is:
Ababcdcdefefgg
Quatrain = four lines
Thursday, April 27th:
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Thursday, April 27th:
Ashanti – read the first quatrain of “Shall I Compare Thee
to a Summer’s Day”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date”
Carolina – read the second quatrain of Sonnet 18
“Sometime too hot the eye of summer shines
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;”
O’er =over
Iamb is two syllables of unstressed/stressed
Penta is five
Iambic pentameter means there are five iambs per line
Or
Ten syllables per line
(Shall I) (compare) (thee to) (a sum) (mer’s day)
The first syllable of each iamb is unstressed
Handouts:
Are the following quotations Hip-Hop or Shakespeare?
Sonnet 18 from Shakespeare
What is a sonnet?
Ten Basic Poetry and Literary Elements
Group Work - Identify as many literary elements as you can on the following Langston Hughes' poem.
Remember! Your A.R. test and reading log are due on Friday,
May 12th.
Please make sure you have your “Ted Talk Akala: Hip-Hop
& Shakespeare”
Pair up!
“Ten Basic Poetry and Literary Elements”
Working in pairs, identify as many literary elements as you
can in the following quotations:
Eminem “Open Mike”
Mos Def “Thieves in the Night”
Benefit “Exact”
Notorious B.I.G. “Sky is the Limit”
Kimberly:
Simile: I am like a fast dolphin.
Metaphor: In the water, I am a dolphin
Personification: The wind knocked on the door.
Gina: The wind howled through the night.
Hyperbole: exaggeration
Gina: My stomach is so full, it could explode!!!!!
Onyx: I am so bored I could read a book!
Alliteration: the beginning of each word begins with the
same letter.
Ashanti: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers…..
Pair up and look at the four examples of lyrics from hip-hop
artists.
Find examples of metaphor, simile, personification,
hyperbole, alliteration
Hellen:
End rhyme:
1. Eminem:
physicians - traditions
Ashanti:
Alliteration: magicians with
mystical mic / Wicked wizardry
Ashanti:
Simile: Like magicians/ like a
sorcerer
Sandy:
End rhyme:
#2: style/smile
Hellen/Gina:
Hyperbole:
A lot of jokers out running in
place, chasing the style
Be a lot going on beneath the empty
smile
Onyx:
#3:
Simile:
I’m just like the word kill only
minus the “k”
Hellen:
Many end rhymes
Ashanti:
Mercedes:
#4:
Assonance:
If the game shakes me or breaks me.
Kimberly:
Alliteration:
Put money in my mom’s hand
Ashanti read the prologue to Romeo and Juliet
Pro = before
Logue = dialogue
