Quiz: A. B. C. I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. (William Carlos Williams) (The “Big Guy”) The people upstairs all practice ballet Their living room is a bowling alley Their bedroom is full of conducted tours. Their radio is louder than yours, They celebrate week-­‐ends all the week. When they take a shower, your ceilings leak. They try to get their parties to mix By supplying their guests with Pogo sticks, And when their fun at last abates, They go to the bathroom on roller skates. I might love the people upstairs more If only they lived on another floor. (Ogden Nash) Part One: 1. Identify the form of verse used in A, B, and C: A: B: C: 2. Compare and contrast the characteristics of blank verse, free verse and rhymed verse: Part Two: Please write one or paragraph answering each of the following prompts: What is the underlying theme of “To A Poor Old Woman”? What specific lines of the poem support your explanation and why? Describe the use of imagery in “To A Poor Old Woman”. Be sure to provide specific examples from the poem. In what time period did William Carlos Williams write “To A Poor Old Woman?” How is this period reflected in the poem? Early Readiness Quiz: Part One: 1. Circle the type of verse used in poem A: Acrostic, Blank, Free, Rhymed, Epic, Prose 2. Circle the type of verse used in poem B: Acrostic, Blank, Free, Rhymed, Epic, Prose 4: What does free verse have in common with blank verse? 5. What characteristics make free verse different from blank verse? Part Two: Why would William Carlos Williams call his poem “To A Poor Old Woman” instead of To A Woman? _________________________________________________ Why does William Carlos Williams repeat the phrase they taste good to her? _______________________________________ Provide two examples of imagery in “To A Poor Old Woman” ___________________________________________________ What happened to people during the Great Depression? _______________________________________ How is that referred to in “To A Poor Old Woman”?______________________________________________ References: Anderson, L. W., Krathwohl, D. R., Airasian, P. W. Cruikshank, K. A., Mayer, R. E., Pintrich, P. R., Raths, J., & Wittrock, M. C. (2001) A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing. Boston: Addison Wesley Longman Inc. Dalton, J. & Smith, D. (1986) “Extending Children’s Special Abilities – Strategies for primary classrooms” pp36-­‐7 Retrieved on October 16, 2011 from: http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm Wormeli, R. (2006) Fair isn’t always equal. Portland, ME: Stenhouse “Using Words to Create Mental Images Project” (Note: Begins as Guided Practice, followed by student evaluation. Feedback is provided and final draft is due later in the week). Write a minimum of eight lines (Note: early readiness four) of free verse OR a minimum of two paragraphs (Note: early readiness one) of prose based on the image that you chose. The subject of the piece should be about the object of your chosen image. Please use the five (Note: early readiness three of the five) descriptive words you chose last night and during class yesterday in writing your poem or essay. In writing your piece, consider the following questions about the object in your image. You should not answer these questions directly, they are meant to help you think about your piece: Why did you choose your image? What is important about it to you? What are the circumstances surrounding this image? What happened immediately before and what is about to happen? How does this image make you feel? What feelings surrounding this image are the strongest? Rubric created at http://rubistar.4teachers.org