Breaking Up a Poem: August 28, 2018

Focus: How can "chunking/sectioning the text" and asking great questions get us to great answers when we're reading tricky texts?

1. Warming up: Performing a physically close reading of lsong lyrics, one section/stanza at a time

2. Drawing some larger conclusions about the lyrics together

     a. Sectioning the text: In a word, this stanza is about...

     For example: In a word, this poem is about falling.

     b. Drawing conclusions: Looking at these words, form a full statement about each poem: On a           deeper level, this song or poem is about...

     For example: On a deeper level, this poem is about the world's indifference to tragedy.

3. Trying out the steps with poetry about Icarus

    What happens when the author's stanzas aren't helping? Or there aren't any stanzas? Section the     
    poem yourself by looking for SHIFTS!

    My tricks to finding shifts: 

• Circle your buts (and other words that indicate shift, such as "however," "on the other hand," etc...)
• Look for end punctuation, such as periods, semicolons, question marks, and exclamation points.

4. Revisiting your independent reading parameters and proposal

HW:
1. For TOMORROW: On the back side of your blue reading chart (the front side has your thoughts on "Musee des Beaux Arts"), analyze the William Carlos Williams' poem, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," using the three columns to tell me what you're thinking, which words/lines you're focusing on , and which reading strategies you're using.

2. For FRIDAY:

• IXL: Achieve a score of at least 85 on any two lessons from "Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons." The recommended level for English 10 is Level J, but move up or move down based on your skills.

• Independent reading PROPOSAL, SIGNATURES, AND BOOK due this Friday.