Tuesday, April 15, Keystone Prep and Poetry

Objective:By the end of class, students will practice Keystone skills and vocabulary and analyze prose poetry in order to communicate visually using imagery.

DO NOW

WRITE into notebooks -

vice

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noun

1.

an immoral or evil habit or practice. Synonyms: fault, failing, foible, weakness.

vir·tue

 

1.

moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.

VICE AND VIRTUE ARE ANTONYMS - YOU WILL SEE THESE WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH ALLEGORY. Sometimes, an allegorical story represents more than a historical event - it uses fictitious characters or things to symbolize virtues and vices such as goodness, excellence, weakness and/or evil.

Direct Instruction

Handout - Keystone terms

Read introduction to Storm in the Mountains -pages 219-220 soft holt reader 

Guided

Read Storm in the Mountains and identify words and phrases that create imagery (sight, sound, smell, taste, feel).

Independent

Answer questions in soft holt reader at end of Storm in the Mountains. Pages 221-222 - rip out and turn in.

Closure

Review answers.

Exit Pass

Remember a prose poem contains a lot of imagery and little action, but what does a prose poem and a story have in common?