Mrs. Staab
English 134
Lesson Plans
Week of 12/06/2010 - 12/10/2010
Standards:
Explain how authors use literary elements and techniques to achieve the intended
effect. (2A)
Interpret and compare a variety of texts for purpose, structure, content, detail, and effect
(2B)
Analyze the structure and function of words in context. (1A)
Compose informational writing that supports a topic or thesis statement with well
articulated evidence. (3C)
Objectives:
Student will:
1) Determine the effects of common literary devices on the style and tone of a text.
2) Analyze how meaning is conveyed in poetry through diction, figurative language,
repetition, and rhyme
3) Compare types of poetry
4) write to communicate their ideas and understanding
Monday, December 6, 2010
1) Bellringer- Copy agenda
2) Grammar set 12 #1
3) Poetry continued- irony, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, rhyme schemes
4) Find examples of poetic devices using the poetry section of textbook pgs.452-467
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
1) Bellringer- Copy agenda
2) Grammar set 12 #2
3) Poetry continued; analyze lyrics
4) Homework- write down favorite song lyric ( school appropriate) and analyze for
figurative language
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
1) Bellringer- Copy agenda
2) Grammar set 12 # 3
3) Poetry continued; analyze lyrics
Thursday, December 9, 2010
1) Bellringer- Copy agenda
2) Grammar set 12 # 4/ collect
3) District writing assessment
Friday, December 10, 2010
1) Bellringer- Copy agenda
2) Semester Grammar exam
3) Independent reading
Resources (Materials/ Texts/ Visuals/ Technology:
Computer LCD
Projector Literature
textbook Handouts
Assessment:
Student participation
Essential vocabulary
Handouts
What It's Worth: Buffalo Springfield
Find: True Rhyme, Alliteration, & Personification
There's something happening here
Mostly say, hooray for our side
What it is ain't exactly clear
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
There's a man with a gun over there
Everybody look what's going down
Telling me I got to beware
Paranoia strikes deep
I think it's time we stop, children, what's
Into your life it will creep
that sound
It starts when you're always afraid
Everybody look what's going down
You step out of line, the man come and
There's battle lines being drawn
take you away
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Young people speaking their minds
Everybody look what's going down
Getting so much resistance from behind
Stop, hey, what's that sound
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that
Everybody look what's going down
sound
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
Stop, children, what's that sound
A thousand people in the street
Everybody look what's going down
Singing songs and carrying signs
Cowboy Casanova: Carrie Underwood
Find: Simile, Hyperbole, Metaphor, and True Rhyme
You better take it from me, that boy is
like a disease
You’re running, you’re trying, you’re
trying to hide
And you’re wondering why you can’t get
free
He’s like a curse, he’s like a drug
You get addicted to his love
You wanna get out but he’s holding you
down
‘Cause you can’t live without one more touch
He’s a good time cowboy Casanova
Leaning up against the record machine
Looks like a cool drink of water
But he’s candy-coated misery
He’s the devil in disguise
A snake with blue eyes
And he only comes out at night
Gives you feelings that you don’t want to
fight
You better run for your life
He’s a good time cowboy Casanova
Leaning up against the record machine
Run run away Don’t let him mess with your
Looks like a cool drink of water
mind
But he’s candy-coated misery
He’ll tell you anything you want to hear
He’ll break your heart
He’s the devil in disguise
A snake with blue eyes
It’s just a matter of time
But just remember
And he only comes out at night
Gives you feelings that you don’t want to
He’s a good time cowboy Casanova
fight
Leaning up against the record machine
You better run for your life
Looks like a cool drink of water
But he’s candy-coated misery
I see that look on your face
You ain’t hearing what I say
So I’ll say it again ‘Cause I know where you
been
And I know how it ends
You can’t get away
Don’t even look in his eyes
He’ll tell you nothing but lies
He’s the devil in disguise
A snake with blue eyes
And he only comes out at night
Gives you feelings that you don’t want to
fight
You better run for your life
And you wanna believe
But you won’t be deceived
If you listen to me
And take my advice
Oh you better run for your life
Oh you better run for your life
Boston: Augusta
Find: Internal Rhyme, Personification, & Alliteration
In the light of the sun
Where no one knows my name
Is there anyone? Oh, it has begun
Oh dear, you look so lost
I'll get out of California
Your eyes are red, the tears are shed
I'm tired of the weather
This world you must have crossed, you
I think I'll get a lover
said
And fly 'em out to Spain
You don't know me
Oh yeah and I think I'll go to Boston
And you don't even care, oh yeah
I think that I was tired
And you said, you don't know me
I think I need a new town
And you don't wear my chains, oh yeah
To leave this all behind
Essential yet appealed
I think I need a sunrise
You carry all your thoughts across an
I'm tired of Sunset
open field
I hear it's nice in the summer
Where flowers gaze at you
Some snow would be nice, oh yeah
They're not the only ones who cry when
they see you
You don't know me
And you don't even care, oh yeah
You said you don't know me
And you don't even care, oh yeah
Boston, where no one knows my name
Well you said you don't know me
Where no one knows my name
And you don't wear my chains, oh yeah
Where no one knows my name, yeah
She said I think I'll go to Boston
Boston, where no one knows my name
I think I'll start a new life
I think I'll start it over
As you listen to the song find examples of the following poetic techniques:
Alliteration
repetition of an initial sound in two or more
words of a phrase (e.g., Billy builds big houses
with beige bricks.)
Example from the song
Assonance
partial rhyme created by a shared vowel sound
(e.g., The napping cat had many bad habits.)
Example from the song
Metaphor
a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken
of as if it were another (e.g., Your sister is a
pig! That’s her fourth hamburger!)
Example from the song
Rhyme
correspondence in the sounds of two or more
lines (especially final sounds) (e.g., Sitting by
the sea I thought about you and me.)
Example from the song
Simile
comparison of one thing with another, using as
or like (e.g., She’ll probably win tomorrow’s race.
She runs like a gazelle.)
Example from the song
Onomatopoeia
use of words whose sound suggests the sense
(e.g., buzz or hiss)
Example from the song
Personification
Giving humanistic thoughts and feeling to
inanimate objects.
Example from the song
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds of neighboring
words (e.g. talking and walking hours on end)
Example from the song
Hyperbole
A deliberate exaggeration ( e.g. He could eat a
horse)
Example from the song
Irony
Saying the opposite of what is actually meant
(e.g. The directions were clear as mud)
Example from the song