HINT FOR MUSIC QUIZ # 3 - Fri.Sept.28

GREAT work on your song explication presentations to the class everyone! I hope you all learned so much from having to teach the class a song with poetic devices, as well as keep them engaged and focused (not easy, I know!)

We will continue working through our poetry booklets tomorrow, and our paragraph on the 2 Hans Jewinski poems. IN the meantime, its Friday which means MUSIC QUIZ:)

Here is this week's hint:  Its a tough one to find a hint for so I'll tell you the artist is Amy Lee. GOOD LUCK and see you all tomorrow:)

HINT FOR MUSIC QUIZ #2

I am in the middle of marking everyone's mini poetry booklets now. Remember to get yours in if you are late handing it in...it is out of 25 marks!

For tomorrow, we will have our second Music Quiz and I feel confident that you are getting to know more and more devices each day with practice in class. However, its very important to know new devices so please go over your A-Z booklet of terms, and know both the rhetorical (Sound) devices as well as figurative devices:)

We will continue your "I am from..." poems after the quiz tomorrow, so bring your rough drafts that you did during today's class!

GOOD LUCK with the quiz tomorrow and the hint is below!

Mini poetry booklets!

I'm looking forward to seeing your completed poetry booklets tomorrow. From
What I have been reading in the last 2 classes there is some great poetry being composed!

If you are stuck during a composition please email me a draft or your ideas and I will help steer you in the right direction:)

Email is kambo_a@sd36.bc.ca

Remember that tomorrow is Meet the Teacher night for all parents starting at 5:00 pm on a drop in basis:) I look forward to meeting your parents and discussing what we are learning:)
Dismissal is at 1:55 tmrw.

See you all tomorrow!

HINT for the music quiz :)

All week, we have been practicing and becoming more proficient in finding devices in poems (explication)
and tomorrow we will have our first music quiz!  You will ELF the lyrics that are given to you at the start of class.

If you continue to study the devices in your booklet, you should do well tomorrow! As promised, here is the HINT that I am posting for you. Good luck:)

Poetry Terms Quiz!

Just a brief quiz on poetry terms, which should be mostly REVIEW from the last few years of poetry. To be up to date, I recommend going through your A-Z Literary devices booklet and making sure you know the terms:)

The quiz is all multiple choice and out of   /20 marks!

Here are some hints on what you should definitely know in addition to new terms from the booklet:

- pun
- allusion
- free verse, blank verse, internal rhyme, and rhyme (whats the difference btw all these?)
- symbol
- couplet
- assonance
- metaphor and simile (the difference between these? One uses like or as and one does NOT)
- Iambic Pentameter
- Trochaic
- Apostrophe
- Euphemism
- Cacophony (Harsh sounding words with consonants like K/T/C/R)
- Euphony  (Nice sounding smooth words with consonants like W/VOWELS)
- Oxymoron and Juxtaposition and Paradox (Difference btw these?)
- Hyperbole (big exaggeration to prove effect)

GOOD LUCK and see you all tomorrow! Email me/Tweet with any questions anytime:)

E.L.F the 5 poems for HomeWork!

Welcome to the English 11 blog! You'll be happy you visited, and you'll see why soon:)

Today we had 5 poems of various themes and ideas, to read together and discuss as a class, from our Inside Poetry Texts.  They were;
"Backwards Journey" (pg.4), "Fairy Tales" (pg.6), "Islands" (pg.7), "Child who Walks Backward" (pg.7), & "I've always lived across the Street" (pg.11).

Just to review, when we read or dissect a poem there are many steps to consider so that we understand the poem as fully as possible; see your notes from class.

I've created the acronym E.L.F a poem to help remember what to do with our poems studied.

E - Explicate  (means to find and label as many poetic devices as possible in the poem. 

       (Use YOUR A-Z dictionary of devices to help you!)

L - Literal (what is the surface meaning, literally?)

F - Figurative (what is the deeper meaning suggested by the author, or the theme?)

We did E.L.F the 5 poems partially as a class, but your assignment is to complete each one. As a bonus for visiting the blog today, I have posted the complete assignment answers below for the first poem "Backwards Journey" so that you will have a full example done for you plus one poem crossed off your list for h/w!  SEE! Pays to check the blog for these bonus hints and tips...saves you time too:)  The other 4 poems to be E.L.F'ed are due tmrw. and we will go over the answers in class together so be prepared!

"A Backwards Journey"

Explicate:  "say, seven, still, serious..." (lines 1 and 2)  ALLITERATION
                    "Dutch Cleanser"  (throughout poem)  ALLUSION to something famous, capitals
                    No periods or punctuation in this poem - POETIC LICENSE
                    "dutch cleanser can, woman, can, woman"  (lines 9-13) REPETITION
                    " The woman led me" (line 14) FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
                    " ...through the eye of the mind" (line 15) PERSONIFICATION
                     " ....my thought could hold on to" (line 16-17) PERSONIFICATION
                     "Until she was the smallest point...to" CONSONANCE with T sounds
                     "Broke...delicate" (line 19)  JUXTAPOSITION opposites in one line
                     "Smash" (line 21)  ONOMOTOPAIEA word that is spelled like the sound it makes

ANY Others I missed? Jot them down and lets share tomorrow in class:)

Literal:   The literal meaning of this poem when I read it for the first time, is basically a boy discussing how he pays serious attention to the Dutch Cleanser can pictures.

Figurative:  I feel the deeper meaning of this poem, is related to childhood imagination and how as children we can pay attention to things and go deeper into the layers but as we grow older we are impatient and less likely to take time to do this (ie: get to know someone rather than judge them based on looks or first impressions).  The author might be saying that ....If more people took time to delve deep rather than dismiss things, it might be a different world.

Literary/POETIC DEVICES due Thursday!

hello and welcome to the English 11 classroom blog!

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Good job coming up with your own examples today in class, for the Literary devices. Your assignment was to complete up to the word "Protagonist".

Try and think of movies, tv shows and stories that you have read when writing your own examples in the blanks. This A-Z dictionary is going to be your best friend in English 11 and 12, as you will refer to it often during Poetry and Short story sections for the next 2 years, so be sure to complete the booklet to the best of your ability! Share answers and ask others in the class if you are stuck.
Be prepared to share tomorrow, we are always looking for some fun and relevant examples to help each other out:)

See you all tomorrow, and there may be a quiz on these Literary devices coming up in the next week or so...details to come on this blog and twitter! Those of you who are following me on Twitter will get first hand hints for quizzes and tests/projects:) 

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