Tuesday, January 3, Sounds of POETRY

Objective: By t he end of class, students will learn new literary terms and how poets use them effectively (sounds of poetry).

DO NOW:


Define the following terms and write them into your notebooks. Use the purple section of holt text to find definitions.


Alliteration
Rhyme
Rhythm

1. Sounds of Poetry - slide show - take notes - couplets - rhythm and rhyme click here

2. Follow directions to write your own four stanza couplet poem. You may work in pairs. Go back and look at Big Yellow Taxi lyrics. Any couplets?

2. Alliteration - Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell lyrics and song

3. Identify all of the rhyme and alliteration you can find in Big Yellow Taxi. Are there any couplets?

5. Exit pass

Write three tongue twisters as an example of alliteration

HW - Find a poem with aliteration and rhyme and idenitfy throughout.. Then explain the poem in your own owrds in 3-5 sentences.