Have You Ever Lost a Loved One? Have You Ever Lost a Friend? Do You Ever Imagine That

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POETRY ANALYSIS

Have you ever lost a loved one? Have you ever lost a friend? Do you ever imagine that person is still in your life? Name one movie you know in which a ghost of a loved one returns to visit the living. ClipArt______

Essential Question: What figurative language is primarily evident in the poem “The Wind tapped . . . “ by Emily Dickinson?

Text marking code: M = metaphor S=simile P=personification W=words I don’t know Name poetry device Example/quote from poem Tie to tone and/or theme?

Write at least two questions about the poem such as a vocabulary question or a meaning question. Sample question for this poem: Why is line 9 confusing to understand?

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In what way does the figurative language in this poem create the idea of the spiritual? ______

After reviewing the grading scale at the end of this handout, use a loose-leaf page with your name and period at top to write a paragraph answering the prompt: In a well-organized paragraph, analyze the author’s diction, figurative language, and/or imagery and explain how they contribute to the meaning of the poem.

©reated by Deborah Stefanides, 2013 What role does music play in your life? What impact does it have on you?

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Essential Question: What sound devices are primarily evident in the poem “Jazz Fantasia” by Carl Sandburg?

Text marking code: O = onomatopoeia A=alliteration W=words I don’t know

Name sound device Example/quote from poem Tie to tone and/or theme?

Write at least two questions about the poem such as a vocabulary question or a meaning question. Sample question for this poem: What does jazz music have to do with the fight at the end of stanza three?

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In what way are the sound devices in this poem and the emotional impact of music connected to the meaning of the poem? ______

After reviewing the grading scale at the end of this handout, use a loose-leaf page with your name and period at top to write a paragraph answering the prompt: In a well-organized paragraph, analyze how the sound devices contribute to the meaning of the poem.

©reated by Deborah Stefanides, 2013 Who is your advisor? Whose advice do you trust? What type of credibility must someone have for you to trust his or her advice? ______

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Essential Question: What kind of sentences and what pronouns are primarily evident in the poem “Old Song” by anonymous?

Text marking code: V = verbs P=pronouns W=words I don’t know

Describe speaker’s point of view Support from text How does it tie to tone & theme?

Write at least two questions about the poem such as a vocabulary question or a meaning question. Sample question for this poem: Why do lines seven and eight start with the same word, and why are the sentence types different from the previous five?

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Who is the speaker of the poem, and what is his/her situation? Is his/her advice worth heeding? ______

©reated by Deborah Stefanides, 2013 After reviewing the grading scale at the end of this handout, use a loose-leaf page with your name and period at top to write a paragraph answering the prompt: In a well-organized paragraph, analyze the speaker’s voice and its connection to the meaning of the poem.

Paragraph Grading Scale

4 3 2 1 Has a topic sentence Has a weakness in the Has weaknesses in two Has weaknesses in all directly answering the topic sentence, of the three categories: categories and serious question, apt textual evidence, or the topic sentence, multiple grammatical evidence supporting explanation. Has a evidence, or errors. answer, and evidence couple grammatical explanation. Has some is clearly explained errors. grammatical errors. tying the examples to the topic sentence. No grammatical errors.