College Prep Poetry #4

College Prep Poetry #4 “Summer” pg. 927  Complete questions # 4 and 5 4. A: In lines 1-2 Myers describes summer as hot days where you sweat, and bugs buzz around the yard (especially sweat bees!), and juices dripping. B: The kind of juices dripping might be the person’s sweat, or even the juices of a melted Popsicle. 5. A: Birds peep and chirp in the summer, more specifically in the morning. B: It contrasts because the birds are lively and cool and are happy to be awake, while the old men are old, tired, and sweaty from the summer heat.  List at least 3 poetic devices found in poem (Name the literary device and list the example from the poem.) EX: Simile – “And the river flows like a stream of glass” - Line 4 (from “Sympathy”) 1. Rhyme scheme- AABCCA- First stanza 2. Consonance- “Running and ripping”- Line 5 3. Assonance- “I like hot days, hot days/ Sweat is what you got days”- Lines 1 & 2  Rate the poem on the following scale accompanied by a 1-3 sentence specific explanation for the rating. I like Summer by Walter Dean Myers because it tells of the beautiful and not so beautiful things of summer. Myers uses good diction and sensory detail to describe the “Juices dripping/ Running and ripping”. I also enjoyed the author’s use of repetition with the word day to describe a season that is favored by all.

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Label this page: Season poem HW Activity: Using the following format, write about a season, month, or weather force. Title: Season, month, or force of nature chosen Line #1: Title + (how it arrives or begins as the animal would arrive) Line #2: Tell what it does Line #3: And how it does it Line #4: And where it is Line #5: Tell how it leaves (as the animal would leave) Student Examples: Thunder comes in loud Like the majestic roar of a lion. It answers the call Of lightening By striking fear into people. Away, somewhere in the sky, Somewhere in the unknown, An unknown voice, And then leaves without a trace Of its existence Except in peoples' stories. ---Elia Miller (Grade 9) JULY trudges right in with a bang. It crawls around on the hot ground, leaps around spreading warmth, then glides right out of the way. ---Tierra Jones (Grade 10)

NOVEMBER slides in on clouds of snow and rain. It blows away the warmth, and sneaks in the cold, then drags away. ---Liz Webster (Grade 9) MOTION WORDS march wobble creep steal stagger sneak stumble bound skip zoom trot bounce prance tramp totter dart float dance strut lope tiptoe shuffle skate trudge gallop scurry slide plod hop spring leap advance limp glide slink drag hobble flutter skulk slip canter lurch crawl saunter

January

January comes with the fresh winter snow To lay on the ground a plenty With a gust and a clash And a typhoon like smash It will snow until thirty-two twenty From Montana to Sylvania And all in between, ya The cold rain last through the season With a whirl and a twirl And a pearl like hurl It leaves for the rain in treason