The Raven pg. 466
Assignment #22
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Assignment #22: Poe-- The Raven pg. 466
Essential question: how do language and sound devices
contribute to the theme of a poem? (CCSS R.1, R.4, L.4)
Assignment will include:
• Context clues (handout)
• 2nd read summary
• Sound devices
• DOK questions
Summary (answers the essential question)
Context clues
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Context clues: using the language, punctuation, and
ideas in a sentence or story to help figure out unknown
words.
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See handout….
2nd read summaries
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The purpose of fiction is often to tell a story. The
purpose of poetry is often to tell a story and convey
emotions.
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You will write a 1 sentence summary for every 2
stanzas(9 total). The summary should include an
emotion word. How does the speaker feel at this point
in the text?
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You need to back up your summary/ your interpretation
of the speakers emotion by including a quote from the
text.
Summary
Evidence
The speaker is tired and then “weak and weary” (line 1)
hears someone knocking at his “nearly napping” (line 3)
door.
The speaker is sad about the
lose of Lenore, so he is
reading to try and forget her.
“surcease of sorrow” (line 10)
Sound Devices
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Notes
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Repetition
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Rhyme
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Internal
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End
Alliteration
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Assonance
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Consonance
Rhyme scheme…End Rhyme
Repetition…
Write the end of each line and
label the pattern
What words are repeated- how
many times?
What words are repeated in
the passage before and after
your stanza?
Rhyme scheme… internal
rhyme
Include a quote that uses
internal rhyme.
Alliteration…
Write a sentence containing
alliteration. Underline the
alliteration.
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See handout-- Poe sound devices.
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Have them mark up the quote individually… then get in groups to
fill out a chart with their quote.
Sound devices
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Model stanza 1 and 2-- discuss tone and effect of
alliteration
Sound devices
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On your assignment…. Explain how Poe uses sound devices. Be
sure to discuss them all.
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Model using stanza 1… class write stanza 2… practice.. .write
stanza X.
Rhyme scheme…End Rhyme
Repetition…
Write the end of each line and
label the pattern
What words are repeated- how
many times?
What words are repeated in
the passage before and after
your stanza?
Rhyme scheme… internal
rhyme
Include a quote that uses
internal rhyme.
Alliteration…
Write a sentence containing
alliteration. Underline the
alliteration.
DOK 2 Questions
1.
Explain how the Raven’s affect on the speaker changes over
the course of the text.
2.
Contrast the Raven’s dialogue with the speaker’s dialogue.
Explain the effect of dialogue on the poem.
3.
Identify two of Poe’s allusions. Clarify what these allusions
reference.
4.
Distinguish between the stanzas those that are essential for
developing the plot and those that are non-essential.
5.
The speaker is clearly a nervous person. Select all of the
following which prove he is nervous and explain why the quote
suggests nerves.
a)
“Over many a quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore-while I nodded, nearly napping…”
b)
“and the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
thrilled me”
c)
“So that now, to still the beating of my heart”
d)
“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…”
DOK 3 and 4 questions
6.
Interpret the symbol of the bust of Pallas and
the effect it has on the theme of knowledge.
7.
Evaluate Poe’s poem “The Raven” justifying
whether or not teachers should continue to
teach students this poem.
8.
Journal about Individualism. Is it helpful or
harmful for people to isolate themselves? Use
evidence from the poem to support your
opinion. (this one should be harmful).
9.
Repeat: Journal about Individualism. Is it
helpful or harmful for people to isolate
themselves? Use evidence from the poem to
support your opinion. (this one should be
helpful).