Monday, November 2
Do Now:
SSR – 15 min
Objective:
• I will use paraphrasing skills to
annotate “The Raven”
• I will learn about and apply
strategies to join clauses to
form sentences.
Today you will need:
• Independent Reading Novel
• Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook
• Pen or Pencil
Homework:
✓ Vocabulary Word
Study (Quiz on
November 13th)
Motivational Monday
Managing Impulsivity: Take time to consider
options; Think before speaking or acting; Remain calm
when stressed or challenged; Thoughtful and
considerate of others; Be self-aware!
Grammar
Keepers
Gretchen Bernabei
Part I:
Common Errors
1: They’re
Proof:
they’re = they are
Example:
(they are)
They’re leaving.
Writing Response
In your writer’s notebook, respond to the following
question with at least one paragraph. You MUST use
“they’re” three times in your response.
What would your response be to someone incessantly tap,
tap, tapping at your door?
Unit 6 Vocabulary
Quiz on November 13th
Study for 5-10 minutes EVERY night!
Quizlet and activities on my class site!
Vocabulary Test Review
Get out your review packet
You have 10 minutes!
Ready, Set, GO!
Round 2
Stanza by Stanza
Paraphrasing- Do not read into the poem! Only
read on surface level!
Complete your paraphrasing on a separate sheet
of paper!
Stanza 1
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."
The speaker is reading about dozing at midnight
when there comes a knock on the door.
Stanza 2
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore;
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore,
Nameless here forevermore.
He is reading to get his mind off of his lost love
Lenore.
Stanza 3
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me---filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
" 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door,
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
This it is, and nothing more."
The speaker is frightened by the rustling of the
curtains and reassures himself that it is just a visitor.
Stanza 4
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is, I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you." Here I opened wide the door;--Darkness there, and nothing more.
He finally gets the courage to open the door only
to discover no one is there.
Stanza 5
Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word,
“Lenore?”This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word,
"Lenore!"Merely this, and nothing more.
He begins to be frightened again and fears it
might be the ghost of Lenore. He calls her name.
Stanza 6
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping, something louder than before,
"Surely," said I, "surely, that is something at my window lattice.
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore.
Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore.
" 'Tis the wind, and nothing more."
He thinks the rapping is now coming from the
window and goes to check it out.
Stanza 7
Pallas- goddess of wisdom
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven, of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door.
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
He opens the window. In comes the raven and it perches
upon the bust of Pallas above the chamber door.
Stanza 8
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly, grim, and ancient raven, wandering from the nightly shore.
Tell me what the lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore."
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
The raven charmed him into smiling with his stern
expression and the speaker asks his name. The bird
replied, “Nevermore.”
Stanza 9
Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door,
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as "Nevermore."
He was surprised to hear the bird speak so
clearly and imagines no one else has ever
experienced this.
Stanza 10
But the raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered; not a feather then he fluttered;
Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before;
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before."
Then the bird said, "Nevermore."
He welcomes the bird and is afraid he will be
gone in the morning.
Stanza 11
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster, till his songs one burden bore,--Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never---nevermore."
The man knows the bird doesn’t speak from
wisdom but has been taught by some
unhappy master.
Stanza 12
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking "Nevermore."
The man smiles and pulls up a chair
wondering what the bird meant by
“Nevermore”.
Stanza 13
Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
He sits in Lenore’s chair and is reminded of her.
Stanza 14
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee -- by these angels he hath
Sent thee respite---respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!"
He thinks God has sent the raven to help
him forget Lenore.
Stanza 15
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted-On this home by horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore:
Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me I implore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
He asks if there is relief from his pain and
suffering.
Stanza 16
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil--prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that heaven that bends above us--by that God we both adore-Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels name Lenore--Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore?
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
Speaker asks the raven if he will be able to
hold Lenore after his death.
Stanza 17
"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting-"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! -- quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
Speaker tells raven to leave and leave no trace
that he has been there.
Stanza 18
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming.
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted---nevermore!
The raven stays, his shadow shows on the
floor. The raven will leave him “Nevermore!”
Devices:
Round 3
Figurative Language: Independent
Sound Devices- Think rhyme scheme, assonance,
repetition, alliteration.
Structure- rhyme scheme
Diction- Author’s Word Choice (Connotation vs.
Denotation)
Round 4
Attitude: Author’s TONE
Shifts: Look for shifts in tone
Key words (but, yet, nevertheless, however, although)
Punctuation
Stanza Divisions
Sharp contrast in word choice
Title: After reading the poem, what is the significance of the title?
Theme: The message
Simple, Compound, and
Complex Sentences
Let’s Review...
• Independent Clause- has a subject and a
predicate…CAN stand on its own as a sentence
(complete thought)
• Dependent Clause- has a subject and a
predicate…CANNOT stand on its own as a
sentence (not a complete thought)
Simple Sentence
◼ Contains one independent clause
• Independent Clause- has a subject and a
predicate…CAN stand on its own as a sentence
(complete thought)
◼ Examples:
o Garfield likes to eat lasagna.
o Garfield is a funny character
o Garfield’s favorite things to do are eating and
sleeping.
o Garfield loves lasagna and beats up Odie.
Simple Sentence
◼ Write your own example of two simple
sentences on your puzzle pieces. (must be
related in topic)
Compound Sentences
Contains two or more simple sentences joined with a
comma and a coordinating conjunction (FANBOY)
OR a semicolon
▪ For
▪ And
▪ Nor
▪
▪
▪
▪
But
Or
Yet
So
Examples
o Shawn tutors, and he helps students learn math.
o Some children have no books, and volunteers can
hold book drives for them.
o Some children have no books, and volunteers can
hold book drives for them.
o Some children have no books; volunteers can hold
book drives for them.
Compound Sentences
◼Use
your two simple sentences and
join them together to make a
compound sentence
1. FANBOY
2. ;
Complex Sentences
Let’s Review
• Independent Clause- has a subject and a predicate…CAN
stand on its own as a sentence (complete thought)
• Dependent Clause- has a subject and a
predicate…CANNOT stand on its own as a sentence (not
a complete thought)
• Simple Sentence- ONE independent clause
• Compound Sentence- TWO independent clauses
Complex Sentences
•Uses a subordinate conjunction to join the dependent
clause to the independent clause.
• Contains one independent clause and one or more
dependent clauses
• The dependent clause can appear within the
independent clause or before or after it
• A Dependent clause is an Incomplete thought that
cannot stand alone.
Independent
Clause
Dependent
Clause
Subordinate Conjunctions
After
Although
As long as
As much as
Before
Even if
Even though
If
Since
That
Though
Unless
Until
When
Whenever
Where
Wherever
While
Which
Whether
Examples
• When we heard how much the repairs would cost, we decided to buy
a new car.
• We didn’t think that we could afford a new car until we saw the cost
of repairs.
• The girl who is driving is my sister.
• Independent Clause
• Dependent Clause
• Now, you write three complex sentences…
1. Before
2. After
3. Middle
Tuesday, November 3
Do Now:
SSR
Objective:
• I will analyze and compare and
contrast The Monkey’s Paw to The
Raven.
• I will use my knowledge of simple
and compound sentences to form
my own..
Today you will need:
• Independent Reading Novel
• Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook
• Pen or Pencil
Homework:
✓ Vocabulary Word Study
(Quiz on October 29th)
Tricky Tuesday
Monkey’s Paw –
When there is a knocking at the door, what is building more
and more?
The Raven –
What’s that noise at the door? Could it be my love _____.
2: There
Proof:
there = here
Example:
(here)
There they are.
Writing Response
In your writer’s notebook, respond to the following
question with at least one paragraph. You MUST use
“there” three times in your response.
Describe the setting of “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The
Raven” and how it influences the mood of each story.
Devices:
Round 3
Figurative Language: Independent
Sound Devices- Think rhyme scheme, assonance,
repetition, alliteration.
Structure- rhyme scheme
Diction- Author’s Word Choice (Connotation vs.
Denotation)
Round 4
Attitude: Author’s TONE
Shifts: Look for shifts in tone
Key words (but, yet, nevertheless, however, although)
Punctuation
Stanza Divisions
Sharp contrast in word choice
Title: After reading the poem, what is the significance of the title?
Theme: The message
Compare and Contrast
“The Monkey’s Paw”
Literary Devices
similar???
Characterization
Setting
Theme
Plot and Conflict
Mood and Tone:
Suspense,Flashback, and
Foreshadowing
Point of View
“The Raven”
Simple, Compound, and Complex
Sentences Recap
• Independent Clause- has a subject and a predicate…CAN
stand on its own as a sentence (complete thought)
• Dependent Clause- has a subject and a predicate…CANNOT
stand on its own as a sentence (not a complete thought)
• Simple Sentence- ONE independent clause
• Compound Sentence- TWO independent clauses
• Complex Sentence- one independent clause and one or
more dependent clauses
Wednesday, November 4
Do Now:
SSR
Objective:
• I will learn about and apply
knowledge of extended metaphors to
analyze songs.
• I will use my knowledge of vocabulary
from Monkey’s Paw and The Raven to
take my Test.
Homework:
✓ Vocabulary Word Study
(Quiz on October 30th)
Today you will need:
• Independent Reading Novel
• Reader’s AND Writer’s Noteboo
• Pen or Pencil
Wicked Word Wednesday
Unit 6 Vocabulary Cards:
Word
Definition
Create an Analogy
3: Their
Proof:
their = our
Example:
(our)
Their friends
moved to California.
Writing Response
In your writer’s notebook, respond to the following
question with at least one paragraph. You MUST use
“their” three times in your response.
Explain the difference between there, they’re, and their.
Justify your response with examples.
VOCABULARY TEST
Extended Metaphors
Metaphor
● Metaphor - A comparison between two
objects with the intent of giving clearer
meaning to one of them. Often forms of
the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or
"was” to make the comparison.
Extended Metaphor
● An extended metaphor is one where there is a
single main subject to which additional subjects
and metaphors are applied.
● The extended metaphor may act as a central
theme!
● Look for repetition!!! (repeated words or
phrases)
Theme Example
All the world's a stage, and all the men and
women merely players.
Theme
● The power of an extended metaphor is in the
hammer blows that it applies, demonstrating
the passion and commitment of the author.
● Done well, an extended metaphor drives the
point home. Done badly, it either confuses
people! Be careful not to include too many
metaphors!
Notes
● Set up three columns in your reader’s
notebook:
● Abstract noun
Title
Example
Life
Example 1
● Object
Example 2
● Action
Red
Abstract
Noun
Object
Action
My LIFE is like a river
Sometimes flowing lightly and gently
Moving along with ease
My life is like a river
Sometimes rough and rapid
Longing for some release
Trying to calm the storm
Waiting for the sun to shine overhead
Looking for the rainbow in the sky
My life is like a river
I like the gentle bends
I like the smooth waters
They bring me peace and joy
I do not like the rocks and currents
They are struggles in my life
I enjoy the nice peaceful waters
My life is like a river
Having ups and downs
Twists and turns
Extended Metaphor Poetry
More Examples
● Example #1
● LOVE is a 10 speed bike that is colorful,
powerful and sleek. It can sweep you along at
a dizzying pace or change gears to climb a
difficult hill. If you don’t take care of it, it can
rust from misuse or the brakes can seize, but
with regular maintenance, it can be the best
way to glide through the many phases of life.
More Examples
● Example #2
● Truth is a rainstorm that lights up the sky,
crashes through the atmosphere and washes
us clean. No matter how strong the shelters
we create, truth can charge through our
defenses and leave us exposed to the
elements.
Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street
Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly
Loving him is like trying to change your mind once you're already
flying through the free fall
Like the colors in autumn, so bright just before they lose it all
Losing him was blue like I'd never known
Missing him was dark grey all alone
Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met
But loving him was red
Loving him was red
I thought that I'd been hurt before
But no one's ever left me quite this sore
Your words cut deeper than a knife
Now I need someone to breathe me back to life
Got a feeling that I'm going under
But I know that I'll make it out alive
If I quit calling you my lover
Move on
You watch me bleed until I can't breathe
Shaking, falling onto my knees
And now that I'm without your kisses
I'll be needing stitches
Tripping over myself
Aching, begging you to come help
And now that I'm without your kisses
I'll be needing stitches
We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts are never broken
Times forever frozen still
So you can keep me
Inside the pocket
Of your ripped jeans
Holdin' me closer
'Til our eyes meet
You won't ever be alone
Wait for me to come home
Assignment
● Choose an abstract noun- topic
● Objects- something that has movement
● Examples:
● Cloud
● Lightening
● River
● Rain
● Add action
● Now, create a TEN line extended metaphor poem!
Thursday, November 5
Today you will need:
Do Now:
SSR
Objective:
• I will use my knowledge of
extended metaphors to create
my own following a formula
• Independent Reading Novel
• Reader’s AND Writer’s
Notebook
• Pen or Pencil
Homework:
✓ Vocabulary Word Study
(Quiz on October 30th)
Yes, they’re
ALL SSRing!
Tipster Thursday
Write THREE tips and tricks for
spotting and creating extended
metaphors!
4: Too
Proof:
too = so, also
Example:
We were too frightened! (so)
We were happy, too! (also)
Writing Response
In your writer’s notebook, respond to the following
question with at least one paragraph. You MUST use
“too” three times in your response.
Write about a time you overindulged. (Make sure to use
context clues to define “overindulge.”)
Assignment
● Choose an abstract noun- topic
● Objects- something that has movement
● Examples:
● Cloud
● Lightening
● River
● Rain
● Add action
● Now, create a TEN line extended metaphor poem!
Friday, November 6
Today you will need:
Do Now:
SSR
Objective:
• I will use my knowledge of the
content of Monkey’s Paw and
The Raven to complete my quiz.
• I will use constructive criticism
to comment and analyze peer’s
extended metaphors.
• Independent Reading Novel
• Reader’s AND Writer’s
Notebook
• Pen or Pencil
Homework:
✓ Vocabulary Word Study
(Quiz on October 30th)
Fantastic Flashback Friday
Weekly Reflection
5: Two
Proof:
two = three
Example:
(three)
Two people were singing.
Writing Response
In your writer’s notebook, respond to the following
question with at least one paragraph. You MUST use
“two” three times in your response.
Today is a FREE RESPONSE! You may freewrite!
Content Quiz
Sharing Extended Metaphor
1. Post in Google.com/classroom on “Assignment”
2. Post link to Extended Metaphor in Discussion. Then, view
and comment on the effectiveness and interest of at least 2
classmates’ extended metaphor pieces. Your comments
must be thoughtful, specific, and two sentences long.