A.P. LiteratureMr. Richard Norton

Western Wind

Western wind, when will thou blow?The small rain down can rain.Christ, if my love were in my arms,And I in my bed again!

Anonymous (c.1530)

Definitions of Poetry

• Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

• A poem is an artistic representation of what it feels like to experience emotional life as a human being. -Linda Sue Grimes

• Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. -Rita Dove

• If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. -Emily Dickinson

Poetry Hoard

• When Vikings raided England and Ireland they always brought along a skald (poet).

• The skald’s job was to observe the battles and write songs and poems to commemorate the heroic deeds of the warriors.

• The Vikings valued these wordhords as much, if not more, than the treasure they looted.

• You will have your own wordhord.• Save every poem you get in this class.• At the end of the year, you will place all these

poems into an anthology – creating your own Poetry Hoard.

Today - 9/2/2014

• Attendance – What would you like to be called?

• Book list – Period One Only.

• All Seniors check out books for all classes tomorrow.

• Let’s study a song and a poem!• “Furr” (pronounce it like Fur)• “The Song of Wandering Aengus” (Pronounce it like Angus)

• Ask Me Anything - Within the boundaries of good taste and school appropriateness.• What do you want to know about this class, senior year, the instructor, etc.

• HOMEWORK: Bring your ID’s in order to check out your books.

Furrby Blitzen Trapper

• Read the song lyrics at least twice.

• Don’t be afraid to write on the paper – making notes, comments, diagrams, etc. When I see a poem/song that is all marked up I tend to think you spent some valuable time with it!

• Let’s hear it performed: Furr by Blitzen Trapper

• In writing, answer the following two questions:• ONE: What do you think the song is about? Sometimes this is called the theme

or main idea or message…• TWO: What evidence from the song helped you come up with your answer to

question one? This is called textual evidence and it is crucial to studying literature.

• Take two minutes to discuss your answers with a classmate.

The Song of Wandering Aengus by W. B. Yeats

• Read the poem at least twice.

• Don’t be afraid to write on the poem – making notes, comments, diagrams, etc. When I see a poem that is all marked up I tend to think you spent some valuable time with it!

• Let’s hear the poem read: Reading of the poem by Tom O’Bedlam

• Let’s hear the poem put to music: The poem put to music by Donovan

• In writing, answer the following two questions:• THREE: What do you think the poem is about? Sometimes this is called the theme or

main idea or message…• FOUR: What evidence from the poem helped you come up with your answer to

question three? This is called textual evidence and it is crucial to studying literature.• Take two minutes to discuss your answers with a classmate.

Analysis of the Poem

• Watch as some beautiful people analyze the poem and make us all feel bad about ourselves – just like those people in the commercials that are always having a good time – laughing and hugging and sailing…Why do so many people in commercials sail? They’re always sailing! I hate them! I want to sail…Someone take me sailing…please…

• Analysis of the poem by the best students ever!

Song and Poem Together

• In a short written paragraph compare the song and the poem:• What do the speakers of both the song and the poem desire?• Do you see the poem and the song connected thematically?• Share with your classmate.

Tone

• Write this down in your notebooks:

• Tone: the writer's attitude toward the material. Tone may be playful, formal, intimate, angry, serious, ironic, outraged, baffled, tender, serene, depressed, etc. Just about any adjective (a describing word) can be a tone.

• If you don’t understand the tone of a piece of writing, it becomes difficult to understand what the author is trying to say.

The Big Bang Theory

• One of the characters on the show, Sheldon, doesn’t understand when people are being sarcastic toward him.

• Because he can’t understand the tone – he often misinterprets the message.

• Let’s take a look: Sheldon & Sarcasm

Mood

• Write this down in your notebooks.

• The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work, partly by a description of the objects or by the style of the descriptions. A work may contain a mood of horror, mystery, holiness, or childlike simplicity, to name a few, depending on the author's treatment of the work.

• Dracula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojgy7kyNp5g

• Young Frankenstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDyH97lImrr0Q&v=2p5AG0Tqh3A

Syllabus

• One Pager

• Full Syllabus: http://www.sandi.net/Domain/7606

Un-Written Written Rules

• Phones

• AC

• Food & Drink

• Carpet

Q & A Cards

A. Write your name on the card and ask me two to three questions that you must know the answers to. You might ask about this class, senior year, UC High, your instructor, or anything else you are dying to know.

B. Tell me what I need to know about you that will help me be an effective teacher?

C. I’m curious: Did I teach one or more of your siblings? Who were they?

Links for The Song of the Wandering Aengus & Furr

• Reading of the poem by Tom O’Bedlam

• The poem put to music by Donovan

• Analysis of the poem by the best students ever!

• “Furr” by Blitzen Trapper

Today – 9/5/2014

• Turn in signed Syllabus One-Pager. Put it in the box by the pencil sharpener.

• Tone Words List

• Tone vs. Mood: A Musical Interlude

• Homework: “My Papa’s Waltz”

Today – 9/8/2014

• Unwritten Rules

• Pass back papers

• “My Papa’s Waltz”• Respond to the group questions. (15 Minutes)• Your group must come to a consensus about the meaning of the

poem.• Share out. (10 Minutes)• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJfGTIT0Sqg

• “First Grade”

Un-Written Written Rules

• Phones• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c

• AC

• Food & Drink

• Carpet