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Explicating a Poem and Symbolism

Explicating a Poem and Symbolism

Writing About Poetry Summary: This section covers the basics of how to write about poetry. Including why it is done, what you should know, and what you can write about. Contributors:Purdue OWLLast Edited: 2010-04-21 08:27:54 Writing about poetry can be one of the most demanding tasks that many students face in a literature class. What's the Point? In order to write effectively about poetry, one needs a clear idea of what the point of writing about poetry is. So why would your teacher give you such an assignment? To help you learn to make a text-based argument. What Should I Know about Writing about Poetry? Most importantly, you should realize that a paper that you write about a poem or poems is an argument. What Can I Write About? Theme: One place to start when writing about poetry is to look at any significant themes that emerge in the poetry. Genre: What kind of poem are you looking at? Versification: Look closely at the poem's rhyme and meter. What style should I use?

Visible Thinking Routines for Blogging  Our school‘s fabulous PE teacher, Claire Arcenas, is bringing blogging to her PE classes. She is incorporating Visual Thinking Routines to help her students become reflective commenters. In a recent planning session, she reminded me of the book Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchard, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison, that I had download but not read yet. We then started diving into the core routines outlined on Visible Thinking from Harvard University. The core routines are a set of seven or so routines that target different types of thinking from across the modules. These routines are easy to get started with and are commonly found in Visible Thinking teachers’ toolkits. Each one of these routines seemed well suited to help guide students in quality blog post writing as well as commenting. Here is our first attempt: Blogging as Information/Research Research- What have you read that has informed your position? Blogging as Reflection Blogging as Documentation

Using Google Docs for Rubrics At last year’s annual MassCUE conference, I went to a session presented by Katrina Kennett (@katrinakennett). Her presentation focused on how to use Google Docs to create rubrics, and she outlines the process in this video: She further explains her process and goals in this blog post. I was energized by the presentation and immediately implemented Google Spreadsheets to create my own rubrics. You can create self-grading rubrics if you like, or you can create rubrics that tally the number of rubric points and convert it to a grade. I had a little trouble figuring out what formula to use to convert total rubric points to grade. What I can’t seem to do with my rubric is determine what formula to put in one of the cells that will convert, say, 25 points to a 90 on an essay. I am sharing a link to a Google rubric I have created combining Katrina’s method with the Greece Schools’ rubric. Feel free to ask questions (or help me out with my spreadsheet formula) in the comments. Related posts:

Grammar and the Common Core I hear the same two comments at English-language arts conferences all the time: 1. “I’ve heard that research has proven grammar, usage, mechanics, spelling, and vocabulary instruction doesn’t work.” 2. “I teach grammar and they seem to get it. So, should we bother teaching grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling? Irrespective of the research into the effectiveness of explicit grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling instruction, the writers of the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) certainly affirm the need for instruction in these skill and content areas. According to the CCSS writers, “Students must have a strong command of the grammar and usage of spoken and written standard English to succeed academically and professionally.” Experiment with different approaches until you find the ones that work the best for you and your students. But, back to the teacher comments at the English-language arts conferences. The CCSS writers acknowledge and validate this common experience. 1. 2. 3.

Scene-Creation Workshop — Writing Scenes that Move Your Story Forward As the atom is the smallest discrete unit of matter, so the scene is the smallest discrete unit in fiction; it is the smallest bit of fiction that contains the essential elements of story. You don’t build a story or a book of words and sentences and paragraphs — you build it of scenes, one piled on top of the next, each changing something that came before, all of them moving the story inexorably and relentlessly forward. You can, of course, break the scene up into its component pieces — words, sentences, and paragraphs — but only the scene contains the vital wholeness that makes it, like an atom of gold, a building block of your fiction. So what is this magical element that gives your scene its life and makes it the brick with which you build your fiction? Change. When is a scene a scene? We’re going to create some very short scenes here — I’ll do some demos, and then you’ll do some practice scenes. Let’s start with the most basic of basic scenes. Okay. Now it’s your turn. Okay. Back?

Alliteration, assonance, emotive language, colloquial, slang, jargon, neologism, cliché, rhetorical questions, Required skills and knowledge - language features and techniques, Skills by mode: reading and writing, English Skills Year 9, NSW | Online Educa Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the start of a word: Alliteration is used to link two or more words (and ideas) together. You will usually find examples of alliteration in poetry. Assonance Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound. Assonance is used to link two or more words (and ideas) together. Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Emotive language Emotive language is language (in particular adjectives or adverbs) that relate to or refer to emotions: Composers use emotive language to create empathy. See Animation Colloquial language Colloquial language is language that is informal. Slang Slang includes informal (or casual) words that are made up and used by cultural groups: G'day, Mate - Australian slang for good morning Wicked air, bro - Skateboarding slang for getting high in the air barbie - Australian slang for barbecue crook - Australian slang for being sick Jargon Neologism Cliché

Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY featuring: Phonetic pronunciation Cross references Broad range of definitions Numerous examples A wealth of poetic quotations Writers' guidelines Hyper-linked keywords & cross references plus Sidelights Informative glimpses beyond the definitions For the recommended Alphabetic Page Version, select a letter below If you prefer, you can go to the Entire Glossary Version. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. -- Samuel Johnson, in the preface to his Dictionary Last modified on March 14, 2016 Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY Copyright © 1996 - 2016, by Robert G. rgshubinski@poeticbyway.com Privacy Policy

Glossary of Poetic Terms Where a poem makes reference to another poem or text. For example, the 14th line of The Prelude by William Wordsworth 'The earth was all before me' alludes to one of the final lines of Paradise Lost by John Milton 'The world was all before them'. Paradise Lost, in turn, alludes to the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis. A poem containing multiple allusions is The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot which makes reference to lines written by Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Marvell, Dante, Webster, St. Augustine, Goldsmith, Ovid etc. Allusion should not be confused with plagiarism.See also intertextuality.

ED TECH COACHING: Fixing the Flipped Classroom: @EDpuzzle About a week and a half ago, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Quim (pronounced ‘kim’) Sabriá, one of the cofounders of EdPuzzle. His company is currently going through the startup accelerator ImagineK12, and he wanted to receive some additional feedback on his product. I was actually really impressed with their work, because I think it solves a lot of the problems that are inherent with using videos in the classroom. Flipped classrooms too often end up a digitized version of the lecture-driven classroom model, and information delivery becomes impersonal and passive. In fact, it was that frustration with flipped classrooms that drove Quim and his cofounders (Santi, Jordi and Xavi) to create EdPuzzle. #1 - EdPuzzle makes video lectures personal. Quim used to teach in Spain, and decided to flip his classroom for his students. Because of that, EdPuzzle gives you the ability to remix current YouTube videos with your own voice, or insert audio notes. Images from edpuzzle.com

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