Agenda 8-13

Activities
* Complete bellringer
* Continue working on songs / literary devices
* Listen to songs

Announcements
* HW: find a song and label 5 literary devices in the song; also bring the song list back tomorrow for a grade
* money and syllabus slip due Friday
* bring literature textbooks tomorrow

Agenda 8-12

Today's Objectives
* identify grammatical errors including capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
* identify literary devices in songs and poetry

Indiana Standards
10.3.3, 10.3.6, 10.3.7, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3

Activities
* Complete bellringer
* Discuss literary devices and "Raining in Baltimore"
* Discuss literary devices and "The River"

Announcements
* Homework: find and label 2 literary devices in one of the remaining songs (do not use repetition or stanza)
* Syllabus slip & book money due by Friday

lit devices: types of writing 1

allegory: a story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea or generalization about life; allegories often have a strong moral or lesson example: Allegory of the Cave by Plato

autobiography: an author's account or story of her or his own life example: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

biography: the story of a person's life written by another person example: Albert Einstein: a Biography

comedy: literature that deals with life in a humorous or satiric manner; in comedy, human errors or problems appear funny; comedies end on a happy note example: The Taming of the Shrew *

drama: the form of literature known as plays; but drama also refers to the type of serious play that is often concerned with the leading character's relationship to society example: 12 Angry Men

epic: a long narrative poem that tells of the deeds and adventures of a hero example: The Epic of Gilgamesh

epitaph: a short poem or verse written in memory of someone example: famous epitaphs

essay: a piece of prose that expresses an individual's point of view; usually, it is a series of closely related paragraphs that combine to make a complete piece of writing example: "Self-Reliance"

fantasy: a piece of prose that takes place in a nonexistent and unreal world, such as fairyland, or concerns incredible and unreal characters, or relies on scientific principles not yet discovered or contrary to present experience example: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

fiction: narrative writing drawn from the imagination rather than from history or fact example: Wicked

genre: refers to a category or type of literature based on its style, form, and content

gothic novel: a type of fiction that is usually characterized by gloomy castles, ghosts, and supernatural or sensational happenings -- creating a mysterious, chilling, and sometimes frightening story example: Frankenstein

legend: a narrative or tradition handed down from the past; distinguished from a myth by having more of a historical truth and perhaps less of the supernatural; legends often indicate the lore of a people and thus serve as at least partial expressions of a national spirit example: King Arthur

memoir: a form of autobiographical writing dealing usually with the recollections of one who has been a part of or has witnessed significant events; memoirs differ from autobiographies in that they are usually concerned with personalities and actions other than those of the writer, whereas autobiographies stress the inner and private lives of their subjects example: Out of Africa

lit devices: types of writing 2

myth: a traditional story that attempts to explain a natural phenomenon or justify a certain practice or belief of a society example: Icarus and Daedalus

narrative: an account of events; anything that is narrated

nonfiction: an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact credit

novel: a lengthy fictional story with a plot that is revealed by the speech, action, and thoughts of the characters example: Grendel

novella: a prose work longer than the standard short story, but shorter and less complex than a full-length novel example: Heart of Darkness

oral tradition: the transmission of material by word of mouth and memory; materials such as the folk epic, the ballad, folklore, proverbs, and many songs that originated among illiterate, semiliterate, or preliterate people were presented aloud to their audiences and transmitted by memory rather than in writing example: Beowulf

parable: a short, descriptive story that illustrates a particular belief or moral example: The Prodigal Son

parody: a form of literature intended to mock a particular literary work or its style; a comic effect is intended example: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

persuasion: one of the major types of composition whose purpose is to convince others of the wisdom of a certain line of action

poetry: an imaginative response to experience reflecting a keen awareness of language; there are many elements used in writing effective poetry example: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

prose: the term is applied to all forms of written or spoken expression not having a regular rhythmic pattern

satire: a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack example: A Modest Proposal

science fiction: a form of fantasy in which scientific facts, assumptions, or hypotheses form the basis, by logical extrapolation, of adventures in the future, on other planets, in other dimensions in time or space, or under new variants of scientific law example: 2001: a Space Odyssey

short story: a brief fictional work; it usually contains one major conflict and at least one main conflict example: The Most Dangerous Game

tragedy: a literary work in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw and by forces beyond his or her control example: Othello

What do you mean? The difference between figurative and literal language.

For the most part, everything we say falls under two linguistic categories: literal language and figurative language. In literal language, what we say is exactly what we mean. In figurative language (also known as "figures of speech"), what we say does not necessarily equal what we mean.

Let's start with a rather simple example: Paris Hilton turned this expression into a trite, overused cliché (which she also tried to patent): that's hot.

On the one hand, a person may take this expression and interpret it as displayed on the greeting card: something feels warm to the touch, or hot.

On the other hand, we can estimate 99.9% of the time Paris said that's hot, she didn't mean warm to the touch. She meant nifty or sexy. But even those words have double-meanings as well.

Picture source / Fox News Report: Paris Hilton Sues over Hallmark Card, September 7, 2007

So how do we know that what someone says is or isn't what he means? Sometimes we can take into account the person's tone of voice or the context. Often, poetry contains much figurative language. This makes stories or poetry more interesting to read. Here are some examples of different types of figurative language:

antithesis: an opposition, or contrast, of ideas example: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

euphemism: a device in which indirectness replaces directness of statement, usually in an effort to avoid offensiveness use of 'correctional facility' in place of 'prison'

hyperbole: a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect example: "People moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County." ~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

metaphor: a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles example: Emily Dickinson, "Fame is a Fickle Food"

extended metaphor: an extended metaphor, or conceit, sets up a principal subject with several subsidiary subjects or comparisons credit example: "All the world's a stage / and all the men and women merely players / they have their exits and entrances" ~ William Shakespeare, As YouLike It

metonymy: the substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself example: "The body that controlled the crown was, it is true, a narrow one." ~ T. F. Tout, The History of England

oxymoron: a combination of contradictory terms example: "I will complain, yet praise" ~ George Herbert, "Bitter-Sweet"

paradox: a statement that seems contrary to common sense yet may, in fact, be true example: Hamlet to his Uncle Cladius: "A little more than kin, and less than kind." (Hamlet's first words in the play show him playing with words in order to state a paradox: Claudius is twice related to him, as uncle and stepfather, but not really his kin or kind at all.) ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet

personification: a figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form; the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities, intelligence, and emotions example: Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland

simile: a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles example: "When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and winter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly" ~ Iliad of Homer

synecdoche: a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part; a good synecdoche out to be based on an important part of the whole, and, usually, the part standing for the whole ought to be directly associated with the subject under discussion example: " 'Johansen,' Wolf Larsen said briskly to the new mate, 'keep all hands on deck now they're here. Get in the topsails and outer jibs. We're in for a sou'easter. Reef the jib and the mainsail, too, while you're about it.' " (all hands on deck = all the help available) ~ Jack London, The Sea Wolf

understatement: stating an idea with restraint (holding back) to emphasize what is being talked about example: "we carried them home and put them in Aunt Patsy's work basket for a surprise; for she was prejudiced against snakes, and always when she took the basket in her lap and they began to climb out of it it disordered her mind" ~ from Mark Twain's autobiography

symbol: a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself example: the conch shell as a symbol of civilization and order in Lord of the Flies

verbal irony: occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else example: "Come," I said, are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is Luchresi --" ~ Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"

Indiana Academic Standard for English / Language Arts

10.1.2: Literal and figurative meanings

For more information, consult your literature textbook or visit Wikipedia's article on literal and figurative language here.

Stevie Wonder lyrics -- RJ soundtrack

"You are the Sunshine of My Life" by Stevie Wonder (paired with Act 2, scene 2)

You are the sunshine of my life
Thats why I'll always be around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever youll stay in my heart

I feel like this is the beginning,
Though I've loved you for a million years,
And if I thought our love was ending,
Id find myself drowning in my own tears.

You are the sunshine of my life,
Thats why I'll always stay around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you'll stay in my heart,

You must have known that I was lonely,
Because you came to my rescue,
And I know that this must be heaven,
How could so much love be inside of you?

You are the sunshine of my life, yeah,
Thats why Ill always stay around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever youll stay in my heart.

(background) love has joined us,
Love has joined us,
Lets think sweet love.

Him Lyrics -- RJ soundtrack

"Join Me In Death" by Him (paired with Romeo and Juliet Act 5, scenes 1-3)

Baby join me in death
Baby join me in death
Baby join me in death

We are so young
our lives have just begun
but already we're considering
escape from this world

and we've waited for so long
for this moment to come
we're so anxious to be together
together in death

Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
Won't you die
Baby join me in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death

This world is a cruel place
and we're here only to lose
so before life tears us apart let
death bless me with you

Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
Won't you die
Baby join me in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death

this life ain't worth living
this life ain't worth living
this life ain't worth living
this life ain't worth living

Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
Won't you die
Baby join me in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death

Baby join me in death

Michael Jackson Lyrics -- RJ Soundtrack

"Beat It" by Michael Jackson (paired with Romeo and Juliet Act 3, scene 1)

They Told Him Don't You Ever Come Around Here
Don't Wanna See Your Face, You Better Disappear
The Fire's In Their Eyes And Their Words Are Really Clear
So Beat It, Just Beat It

[2nd Verse]
You Better Run, You Better Do What You Can
Don't Wanna See No Blood,
Don't Be A Macho Man
You Wanna Be Tough, Better Do What You Can
So Beat It, But You Wanna Be Bad

[Chorus]
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right

Just Beat It, Beat It
Just Beat It, Beat It
Just Beat It, Beat It
Just Beat It, Beat It

[3rd Verse]
They're Out To Get You, Better Leave While You Can
Don't Wanna Be A Boy, You Wanna Be A Man
You Wanna Stay Alive, Better Do What You Can
So Beat It, Just Beat It

[4th Verse]
You Have To Show Them That You're Really Not Scared
You're Playin' With Your Life, This Ain't No Truth Or Dare
They'll Kick You, Then They Beat You,
Then They'll Tell You It's Fair
So Beat It, But You Wanna Be Bad

[Chorus]
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right

[Chorus]
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It

[Chorus]
Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right

Self Lyrics -- RJ Soundtrack

"Stay Home" by Self (paired with Romeo and Juliet Act 1, scene 1)

I believe in self-assertion
Destiny is like diversion
Now it seems I've got my head on straight

I'm a freak without provision
Seems I've made the right decision
Try to turn back now, it might be too late

And it's off to the morning and back again
Same old day, same situation
The happiness is back as if to say

I wanna stay home today
Don't wanna go out
If anyone comes to play
Gonna get thrown out
I wanna stay home today
Don't want no company
No way
Yeah , yeah, yeah

A simple life's my cup of tea
I don't need nobody but me
What I wouldn't give just to be left alone

I wanna be a millionaire someday
And know what it feels like to give it away
Watch me march to the beat of my own drum

And it's over and over and over again
Same old day, same situation
The happiness is back as if to say

I wanna stay home today
Don't wanna go out
If anyone comes my way
Gonna get thrown out
I wanna stay home today
Don't want no company
No way
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Rain, rain every day
Everyone would just stay away now
Come another day
Come another day

(Musical Break)

I wanna stay home today
I wanna stay home today,
I wanna stay home, stay home, stay home, stay h-

I wanna stay home today
Don't wanna go out
If anyone comes to play
Gonna get thrown out
I wanna stay home today
Don't want no company
No way
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I wanna stay home
Don't wanna go out
If anyone comes my way
Gonna get thrown out
I wanna stay home today
Don't want no company
No way
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Evanescence Lyrics -- RJ Soundtrack

"Missing" by Evanescence (pairs with Romeo and Juliet Act 4, scene 3)

Please, please forgive me,
But I won’t be home again.
Maybe someday you’ll have woke up,
And, barely conscious, you’ll say to no one:
"isn’t something missing? "

You won’t cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn’t something missing?
Isn’t someone missing me?

[chorus]

Even though I’d be sacrificed,
You won’t try for me, not now.
Though I’d die to know you love me,
I’m all alone.
Isn’t someone missing me?

Please, please forgive me,
But I won’t be home again.
I know what you do to yourself,
Shudder deep and cry out:
"isn’t something missing?
Isn’t someone missing me? "

[chorus]

And if I bleed, I’ll bleed,
Knowing you don’t care.
And if I sleep just to dream of you
And wake without you there,
Isn’t something missing? Isn’t something...

[chorus]

Daily Agenda 10/23

Today's Agenda ~

* Receive calendars
* Read / discuss the prologue listen to it * read it * study it
* Prologue is a sonnet
* Watch the prologue (Luhrman version)
* Announcements: vocabulary due today; new date for compare and contrast essays (typed) -- see calendars; outlines still must be turned in by Friday, 10/26 to receive any credit; Ms. Wayne will be available in Benjamin's on Wednesday, 10/24
* Read / discuss Act I, scene i listen to it * read it * study it
* Literary devices for Act I, scene i: pun, paradox, oxymoron
* Receive Prince Escalus letter assignment sheets and sample letter (due tomorrow; you will have work time tomorrow for letters, 20 minutes)

Daily Agenda 10/12

Today's Agenda ~

* Read / discuss "Columbus Dying" ; identify literary devices

* Chapter 6 review of Night

* Announcements: final draft of letter due Monday 10/15

* Read / discuss Chapter 7 of Night in class

Daily Agenda 10/3

Today's Agenda ~

* Read chapter 4 of Night
* Journal #2: "Quote" and (page number); paragraph 1: write about a time when you have misplaced your anger; paragraph 2: who were you really mad at? what would you do differently if you could go back to that situation? compare yourself to Elie.

* Announcements: video slip signed (if necessary); choose quote: (Thursday is the last day); reflection paper due Tuesday; free help from Miss Wayne

* "Columbus Dying" / "A Man," if time allows

Daily Agenda 9/27

Today's Agenda ~

* "Butterfly" poem

* Announcements: chapter 1 quiz Friday

* Finish chapter 1 in Night

* Grammar worksheet for HW (due tomorrow, Friday)

Daily Agenda 9/10

Today's Agenda ~

* Finish discussing "Conscientious Objector" -- literary device sheet out please

* Announcements: vocab #7-8 due tomorrow; last day to turn in vocab #5-6 is tomorrow; autobiography final copies due Wednesday 9/12, must be typed, 2 copies; email me for questions OR to print out your paper
*extra credit: logic puzzle OR parent at Open House on Wednesday (YOU do not have to attend); 15 points each
* OPEN BOOK Frederick Douglass quiz either Thursday or Friday over chapter 11, appendix, run-ons and fragments

Daily Agenda 9/7

Today's Agenda ~

* Begin reading chapter 11 of Frederick Douglass ; discuss themes (happiness, pros and cons of freedom)
* Announcements: next quiz will cover chapter 11, appendix, and fragments and run-ons; no textbooks on Monday, but bring FD books; final copies of autobiographies due Wednesday, 9/12, 2 copies, must be typed, with title page (discuss how-to title page)
* Read, write on, and begin discussion of poem "Conscientious Objector"
* Bring poems back on Monday to complete discussion

Daily Agenda 8/30

Today's Agenda ~

* Discuss chapter 7 of Frederick Douglass
* Pop quiz --> commonly confused words and basic literary devices
* Announcements: no textbooks tomorrow; bring Frederick Douglass books tomorrow; quiz over chapters 5-9 tomorrow; HW: read whatever we didn't finish in class of chapters 8-9; essays will NOT be returned tomorrow; essays will be returned Tuesday; new final copy due date: September 10; new return date for final copies: September 17
* Read / discuss chapters 8-9 in Frederick Douglass

* Standards met today: 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.6, 10.3.7, 10.3.12

Daily Agenda 8/29

Today's Agenda ~

* Regular seating
* Review grammar worksheets from yesterday:

1. passed / past --> I walked past Dr. Walker. I passed Dr. Walker in the hall.
2. moral / morale --> The cupcakes were an excellent boost for the team's morale. The moral of the story was to be careful who to trust.
3. stationary / stationery --> The teacher used pretty stationery to send home progress reports. A fire hydrant is stationary; it cannot be moved.
4. lead / led / lead --> The drum major will lead the band. The teacher led the class to the auditorium. The lead in my pencil broke.

* Discuss chapter 5 and chapter 6 of Frederick Douglass. NEED THE STUDY GUIDE? CLICK HERE!
* Poetry: "All" by Bei Dao -- connect to literary devices

• repetition / anaphora
• paradox / antithesis / hyperbole
• figurative language
• mood / tone
• speaker / unreliable narrator (?)
• couplet
• stanza
• free verse poetry
• connotation / denotation
• imagery

* Vocabulary review, lessons 3-4: emissary has to do with a person on a mission. herald is a messenger.
* Announcements: no textbooks tomorrow; bring Frederick Douglass books tomorrow; quiz over grammar concepts (commonly confused words) and chapters 5-9 on FRIDAY; rough drafts returned on Friday
* Progress reports need to be signed and returned by this Friday
* Read / start discussing chapter 7 in Frederick Douglass.

* Standards met today: 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.5, 10.3.6, 10.3.7, 10.3.12, 10.3.13,

Daily Agenda 8/17

Today's Agenda ~

* Regular seating chart today
* Turn in HW from yesterday in basket ("Style" and "Some Like Poetry")
* Fill out 1/2 index card: "something you learned in English 9H this week"
* Literature Text: How to Read Literature (poetry) p. 925
* Reader's Companion Workbook: "Making a Fist" p. 149-150
* Read and discuss poem / connect to literary devices
* Announcements: do not bring literature or language books on Monday; receive Frederick Douglass books today; bring FD books every day; vocabulary due Tuesday; 2 lessons per week (lessons 1 & 2 due Tuesday); bring binders every day
* Literature Text: How to Read Literature (nonfiction) p. 657

* Standards met today: 10.1.2, 10.3.4, 10.3.7, 10.3.9, 10.3.11, 10.3.13

Daily Agenda 8/16

Today's Agenda ~

* Begin class in "secondary seating chart"
* Finish literary devices in songs from yesterday with partners [15 minutes max]
* Turn in song sheets with both partner names in basket in the back (white for 6th period, pink for 7th period)
* Get "Reader's Companion" and tear out the following pages: 37-40, 149-150, 57-66, 145-148. KEEP this workbook IN YOUR LOCKER until December. Place the torn-outs pages in the "handouts" section of your binder.
* Return to the "regular seating chart"
* Read "Style" by Maya Angelou / answer questions (individually) [15 minutes] / discuss (as a class) [5-10 minutes]
* Announcements: bring your literature book TOMORROW, Friday, 8/17
* Read "Some Like Poetry" (handout, or page 947 in literature textbook) ; discuss and connect to literary devices
* HOMEWORK: Finish "Style" by Maya Angelou and write 2 more things on "Some Like Poetry" -- turn in at the beginning of the period Friday, 8/17

* Standards met today: 10.1.2, 10.2.4, 10.3.7, 10.6.3,