8th+Grade+Reading-Collection+6

//"The best words in their best order."// -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
 * Collection 6: Poetry **

Eighth grade readers will be studying the elements of poetry, how to read a poem, and several specific forms of poetry. Throughout this unit, we will also be writing poetry in Language Arts and creating an autobiographical poem book project that utilizes some of the forms of poetry studied in Reading. Students will create a Poet’s Page on wikispaces that demonstrates their ability to analyze a poet’s work and read a poem with attention to the stylistic elements and drama.

// During this unit, students will learn to //
 * Identify the characteristics of various forms of poetry (i.e. lyric, narrative, epic, ballad, sonnet, elegy, ode
 * Write poetry using the various forms studied in this unit
 * Identify and apply elements of style (i.e. figures of speech, similes, metaphors, extended metaphor, personification, symbols)
 * Identify and apply poetic elements (i.e. rhythm, rhyme, end rhyme, couplet, internal rhyme, exact rhyme, approximate rhyme, free verse, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, meter)
 * Compare and contrast summaries to determine their effectiveness
 * Identify irony and narrator
 * Preview a text using effective strategies
 * Identify and write figures of speech
 * Use word knowledge strategies to determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words and synonyms
 * Analyze fallacious reasoning

//We will explore the answers to the following essential questions://
 * What strategies do readers use to analyze poetry?
 * What are the literary elements of poetry?
 * How do readers summarize?
 * How can a poem’s form help to determine its meaning?
 * What strategies do readers use to determine the meaning of multiple meaning words?
 * How do readers identify fallacious reasoning?
 * What are the characteristics of a lyric poem, narrative poem, epic, ballad, sonnet, elegy, and an ode?
 * How do readers identify meter in a poem?
 * What is a metaphor? How do poets use them to create effective writing?
 * What makes a good summary of a poem?
 * What is irony?
 * How can a reader determine the narrator of a passage?
 * What ways do readers use to preview a story?
 * What are examples of synonyms?
 * What meanings exist in different figures of speech?

Introduction to Poetry and Writer's Style __Elements of Style__ (p.530-532) //Writers use figures of speech to develop their own style, or the way a writer uses language.//

__ Poetry: Sound and Sense __ (p.616-618) // Writers use [|elements of poetry] to create their own "music" in their writing. //

__Assignment 1:__ After reading p.530-532 of your textbook, post a response on our Discussion Forum. Choose __one__ of the following topics:
 * Style
 * Figurative Language
 * Symbols

__Assignment 2:__ After reading p.616-618 of your textbook, view one of the videos below.

Required: Email Miss Belanger a detailed response to the following: In what ways does this video relate to what you read in class today?(i.e. what figures of speech are present? How can you identify this writer's style?) Use specific examples and text to back up your answer.

Optional: Email Miss Belanger a video/lyrics of a song or poem of your choice and explain how it relates to what you read in class today.

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Poet's Page Project


 * As we study different poets, you will be creating a Poet's Page!**

Your page should be posted here: 8thgradereadingpoetspages.wikispaces.com (Don't forget to request to join this wiki so you can edit your page!)

//Here are __some__ ideas for poets you might choose:// (1928 - present) ||  ||   ||  || **[|Ai]** (1) (1947 - 2010) ||  || (1917 - 2000) ||   ||   ||  || **[|Imamu Amiri Baraka]** (1) (1934 - present) ||  || (1902 - 1973) ||  ||   ||  || **[|Lucille Clifton]** (2) (1936 - 2010) ||  || (1903 - 1946) ||   ||   ||  || **[|Paul Laurence Dunbar]** (38) (1872 - 1906) ||  || (1952 - present) ||   ||   ||  || **[|Cornelius Eady]** (1) (1954 - present) ||  || (1921 - present) ||  ||   ||  || **[|Jessie Redmon Fauset]** (1) (1882 - 1961) ||  || (1943 - present) ||   ||   ||  || **[|Langston Hughes]** (29) (1902 - 1967) ||  || (1913 - 1980) ||   ||   ||  || **[|Forrest Hamer]** (4) (1956 - present) ||  || (1711 - 1806) ||  ||   ||  || **[|Yusef Komunyakaa]** (3) (1947 - present) ||  || (1931 - 1991) ||  ||   ||  || **[|Audre Lorde]** (8) (1934 - 1992) ||  || (1889 - 1948) ||   ||   ||  || **[|Wanda Phipps]** (8) (1960 - present) ||  || (1966 - present) ||  ||   ||  || **[|Quincy Troupe]** (3) (1939 - present) ||  || (1944 - present) ||  ||   ||  || **[|Phillis Wheatley]** (41) (1753 - 1784) ||  || (1871 - 1938) ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/maya_angelou.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Maya Angelou" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/maya_angelou"]] || **[|Maya Angelou]** (18)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/gwendolyn_brooks.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Gwendolyn Brooks" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/gwendolyn_brooks"]] || **[|Gwendolyn Brooks]** (13)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/arna_bontemps.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Arna Bontemps" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/arna_bontemps"]] || **[|Arna Bontemps]** (7)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/countee_cullen.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Countee Cullen" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/countee_cullen"]] || **[|Countee Cullen]** (15)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/rita_dove.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Rita Dove" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/rita_dove"]] || **[|Rita Dove]** (2)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/james_a__emanuel.gif width="50" height="50" caption="James A. Emanuel" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_a__emanuel"]] || **[|James A. Emanuel]** (21)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/nikki_giovanni.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Nikki Giovanni" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/nikki_giovanni"]] || **[|Nikki Giovanni]** (1)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/robert_hayden.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Robert Hayden" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_hayden"]] || **[|Robert Hayden]** (12)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/jupiter_hammon.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Jupiter Hammon" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/jupiter_hammon"]] || **[|Jupiter Hammon]** (1)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/etheridge_knight.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Etheridge Knight" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/etheridge_knight"]] || **[|Etheridge Knight]** (7)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/claude_mckay.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Claude McKay" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/claude_mckay"]] || **[|Claude McKay]** (76)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/natasha_trethewey.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Natasha Trethewey" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/natasha_trethewey"]] || **[|Natasha Trethewey]** (3)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/alice_walker.gif width="50" height="50" caption="Alice Walker" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/alice_walker"]] || **[|Alice Walker]** (1)
 * || [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/mini/james_weldon_johnson.gif width="50" height="50" caption="James Weldon Johnson" link="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/james_weldon_johnson"]] || **[|James Weldon Johnson]** (4)

[|Shel Silverstein] [|Pablo Neruda] [|Maya Angelou] [|Edgar Allan Poe] [|Robert Frost] [|Emily Dickinson] [|Elizabeth Barrett Browning] [|E. E. Cummings] [|Walt Whitman] [|William Wordsworth] [|Allen Ginsberg] [|Sylvia Plath] [|Jack Prelutsky] [|William Butler Yeats] [|Thomas Hardy] [|Robert Hayden] [|Amy Lowell] [|Oscar Wilde] [|Theodore Roethke] ||
 * **Popular Poets** ||
 * [[image:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/images/_spacer_g.gif width="140" height="1"]] ||
 * [|Langston Hughes]