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                                                        8th Grade Language Arts

Unit 5. Poetry, Pronoun review, Verb use, Poem

 

Poetry: Language of Literature pp. 187-191

 

Selections:

   1. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Robert Frost (LIT 390; IR 162)

   2. "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Alfred, Lord Tennyson (LIT 197)                                            

   3. "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver." Edna St. Vincent Millay (LIT 647)                                            

   4. "Mother to Son." Langston Hughes (LIT 192)       

   5. "Speech to the Young." Gwendolyn Brooks (LIT 192)                  

   6. "Simile: Willow and Gingko." Eve Merriam (LIT 215)                    

   7. "A Loaf of Poetry." Naoshi Koriyama (LIT 215)               

   8. "Fear." Gabriela Mistral (LIT 367)

   9. "Identity." Julio Noboa (LIT 367)

 

Vocabulary:                                                                                         

alliteration			imagery		personification			sonnet
ballad			league		repetition			sound
epic			line		rhyme			speaker
figurative language			metaphor		rhyme scheme			stanza
form			meter		rhythm			symbol
free verse			ode		simile

 

Grammar:

pronoun review

verb use

 

Questions:

1.  What is rhyme scheme? Use a stanza from "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" to explain rhyme scheme.

2.  What is imagery? Use a poem we read in class to discuss how imagery affects the senses?   

3.  What is free verse? Use a poem we read in class to discuss the use of the free verse form.   

4.  What is figurative language? Use a poem we read in class to discuss the use of at least two kinds of figurative language.

5.  What is a symbol?  Use a poem we read in class to discuss the use of symbolism.

 

Writing: Write a poem. (see rubric)