Blackberry - Picking Homework

Remember, Imagery is the combination of Diction + Details to create figurative language that connects to the reader’s experience. It is through this combination that poets organize ideas and find meaningful poetic structures for their works.

Task:  

1.  Look for Physically intense words. Remember, you're seeking to determine the speaker's deeper understanding of the whole experience.

2. Diction - What words, upon closer inspection, truly stand out? How? (Make a list of words and their denotation and connotations - use a tri column t chart on back of paper THANKS FOR THE PERFECT CHART ANASTASIA!) Why these words as opposed to others? (answer the question)

On Separate Paper: compose responses to the following:

3. Details: What details stand out to the shape the speaker's perspective? What facts do they tell us? Are there signs? 

4. Now go back and Annotate the poem for imagery (AVTKGO). What kinds of imagery does Heaney use? Do one or two types of imagery dominate? How (Diction + Details)?  What is their effect/impact? Find tone words that characterize the imagery. What does the imagery communicate to the reader? (this is the delivery of both tone and mood)

5. Repetition, Patterns, Comparisons - What impact do these elements have on the poem? On the reader? Is there an Extended Metaphor?If so, what is the EXTENDED comparison?)

Once you've completed the steps on paper (please be thorough)  attempt to answer the original question: what is the speaker's deeper understanding of the whole experience of picking blackberries (yes, here you will need tone words for your statement).

Please take a photo of your annotations. Bring the Responses to class.

 

 

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Digging - Homework and happy holiday!

Homework 5th Period - Compose connected universal theme statements for "Digging" that reflect the ideas you uncovered in your close reading.

Homework 6th, 7th, and 8th - Please finish answering the questions from class:
After you have made all of your annotations:
Diction - What words, upon closer inspection, truly stand out? How? (make a list of words and their connotations: ex. Gun = Weapon, Tool, Self Defense) Why these words as opposed to others?

Details: What details stand out the shape the speaker's perspective? What facts do they tell us? Are there signs?

Imagery: Annotate the poem for imagery (AVTKGO). What images does Heaney use? Do one or two types of imagery dominate? What is their effect/impact? Find tone words that characterize the imagery. What does the imagery communicate to the reader?

Repetition, Patterns, Comparisons - What impact do these elements have on the poem? on the reader?
Extended Metaphor? Conceit? 

Structure - Think of this like fiction; what is the narrative pattern of the whole the poem. What do you think he is trying to show us with this structure. Please find a verb or two to describe how this operates for the speaker in the poem.

Now put it together to communicate how the poem means thematically -

With a _______ tone in  "Digging" Heaney ___(verb about writing)__   (subject of the poem) with ________, ________  imagery connected to _________ to __________ that humans _________universal idea here_____.

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Active vs Passive Voice Assignment

Please read the following explanation of Active vs Passive Voice - Then Take the INTERACTIVE QUIZ

8th Period Shakespeare

Thesis - Compose an introduction (one introductory sentence that addresses the prompt in some way) with a complete thesis statement.

Assertions - Compose 2 assertions that would begin Body Paragraphs 1 and 2.

Body Paragraph - Compose 1st Body Paragraph with the following structure:

Assertion, evidence from the poem connected to figurative language and or poetic device, commentary on how this supports the assertion, evidence from the poem connected to figurative language and or poetic device, commentary on how this supports the assertion, analysis of how these things support the thematic purpose of the poem (two complex sentences).

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