Week of February 23rd 2015

Project Based Group Work

*Goals -- Enhancing Reading Comprehension on a Simple and Complex level.

Stations Included Activities to improve the following skills

-Visualization-- seeing s picture in your mind while you read

-Questioning-- Asking a variety of questions while you read (in the text, in your mind, in another source) -- clarifying answers in a variety of sources

-Challenging Complex Vocabularies--using context clues, morphomes, and/or text sources like dictionaries - thesaurus

-Discovering Literary Devices--identifying devices and interpreting text, while equally thinking about    
how the author used such devices.

-author's purpose--identifying reasons why author wrote and what purpose--to inform or to persuade and/or to entertain.


-Summarizing -- using your own words -- no plagiarism. -- only 3 sentences.

Friday -- test on poem -- poster -- presentation

Iambic pentameter

Shakespearean Sonnet Basics: Iambic Pentameter and the English Sonnet Style

Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. An example of an iamb would be good BYE. A line of iambic pentameter flows like this: 

baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM / baBOOM. 

Here are some examples from the sonnets:

When I / do COUNT / the CLOCK / that TELLS / the TIME (Sonnet 12)

When IN / dis GRACE / with FOR / tune AND / men’s EYES
I ALL / a LONE / be WEEP / my OUT/ cast STATE (Sonnet 29)

Shall I / com PARE/ thee TO / a SUM / mer's DAY? 
Thou ART / more LOVE / ly AND / more TEM / per ATE (Sonnet 18)

Shakespeare's plays are also written primarily in iambic pentameter, but the lines are unrhymed and not grouped into stanzas. Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called blank verse. It should be noted that there are also many prose passages in Shakespeare’s plays and some lines of trochaic tetrameter, such as the Witches' speeches in Macbeth. 

Links for Autonomous Learning in Revisiting Grammar Structures for Writing Issues

1.  "How to write a sentence"  Go to:  www.wikihow.com

2.  For capitalization issues go to:  www.talkenglish.com

3.  For punctuation issues go to:  www.grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/marks/marks.htm

4.  For run-on sentence issues go to:  www.myenglishteacher.net

Important Notes and Links for poetry

Poetic Notes -- Week of 


*Syllables are beats of sound within a word

*rhyming words are words that have the same ending sound

*These are not rhyming words -- they are not synonyms -- they are homophones-- words that sound exactly the same, but have a different spelling and meaning. Example:  there, they're, and their

*meter in poetry is a measured pattern of beats and sounds

noun
1. The definition of a rhyme scheme is a specific pattern used in a poem that determines which lines rhyme.
2. An example of a rhyme scheme is an AA BB scheme, which means the first line rhymes with the second line, and the third line rhymes with the fourth line.

1. Iambic pentameter refers to a certain kind of line of poetry, and has to do with the number of syllables in the line and the emphasis placed on those syllables. Many of Shakespeare's works are often used as great examples of iambic pentameter.

EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF POETRY:

Haiku poems date from 9th century Japan to the present day. Haiku is more than a type of poem; it is a way of looking at the physical world and seeing something deeper, like the very nature of existence. 9th, 2015

1. Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional Japanese poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Since early days, there has been confusion between the three related terms Haiku, Hokku and Haikai

Examples of Free Verse Poems

Free verse poems will have no set meter, which is the rhythm of the words, no rhyme scheme, or any particular structure. Some poets would find this liberating, being able to whimsically change your mind, while others feel like they could not do a good job in that manner. Robert Frost commented that writing free verse was like "playing tennis without a net."

1. A ballad /ˈbæləd/ is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dancing songs".

son·net

ˈsänət/

noun

1.  a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

 ab ab, cdcd, efef, gg - English 

1. A blank verse is a poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter. This means it consists of lines of five feet, each foot being iambic, meaning two syllables long, one stressed followed by an unstressed.

ESL 6 REGENTS PREP -- SPRING 2015

For those students who would like more practice listening on your own, scroll down to where you see a post that reads:

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013.  There you will find links to practice keen listening.

Welcome to ESL 6 Spring 2015

Students -- Reminder

1)  We practice the ELA Regents every Friday.  Make up work can be picked up on the following Monday; however, it will count as late credit.

2)  You will need to pick up your homework pack every Monday.  If you are absent on Monday, you already have minus one point; still, you are required to earn 10 credits per week -- to be handed in on the following Monday as a package for full credit for that week's homework assignments.

3)  This week we are working on finding commonalities between text -- two poems, and then support our findings through evidence.

**Note:  To those students who are working at a high level pace already -- and it's only the second week -- THANK YOU and keep up the great work.  You are on the right track.