Emily Dickinson

Yellow Book

Essential Questions-How is figurative language used to convey the meaning of a poem to the reader?
What qualities of human nature does a poet display through word choice?
Visit the following websites and collect information that you feel is valuable to understanding Emily Dickinson's poetry.

13 Questions to consider before reading Emily Dickinson
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickpoems.html

Emily Dickinson life/photos influence on poetry
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/04-1/lesson038.shtml
Emily Dickinson's biography

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm

Virtual tour of Amherst
http://www.shepherd.edu/transweb/amherst.htm

Reflections on a visit to her grave
Reflections on a Visit to Emily Dickinson's Grave

Agenda:

• Define the following literary terms: figurative language, simile, metaphor, personification, style, rhythm, quatrains, slant rhymes, and imagery. Give an example of each. 

• Read 746-762

Complete the following questions:

p. 751 1-3

p.752 1-3

p.753 1-3

P.754 1-3

P. 756 1-3

p. 757 1-3

p. 758 1-3

p. 759 1-3

Timeline

Synthesis: Examine the timeline and decide what were the most important changes during that time.

“Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: A New Literature”

Analysis: Explain how society viewed the role of women in the late 1800s.

Synthesis: Compare how people reacted to Dickinson’s poetry when it was first published with how it has been regarded in the last half century.

Evaluation: Justify the relevance of Sojourner Truth’s speech at the time as well as today.

Author Study

Analysis: In what ways did Dickinson’s life seem similar to that of other women of the time?

Synthesis: Formulate a theory as to why Dickinson lived the life she did.

Evaluation: What adjectives could appropriately be applied to Emily Dickinson and the life she led in adulthood?

Analysis:  What is Dickinson’s view of death as expressed in her poems?

Synthesis: After reading Dickinson’s poems, develop a list of what you think she was most interested in.

Evaluation: In “Because I could not stop for Death” evaluate the speaker’s comfort level with death.

With another classmate, choose one of the following special projects:

Create a Project Using Animoto
http://animoto.com/play/vqARiXFkpzZb5L4Rxzxtcg#

Create a Poem using Wordle.
http://www.wordle.net/

Create an interview with Emily Dickinson.
http://www.xtranormal.com/makemovies/

Explore what constitutes a tea party.  Plan a birthday tea party for Emily Dickinson for December 10.
Using these resources, how will you celebrate her life.
Create a celebration for her.

Do you need extra credit?

EXTRA CREDIT- Choose 5 of the 8 poems for your Poetry Book.
Now it is your turn. You are going to create a Poetry Book. This book will represent your knowledge about poetry and your ability to write poetry.

Each poem must be printed on poetry book paper and be accompanied by an illustration, hand drawn or computer generated. Your book must contain each of the following items:
•Cover (Illustrated and colored with title and author)
• Alliteration Poem
•Onomatopoeia Poem
• Tanka Poem
• Haiku Poem
•Acrostic Poem
• Concrete Poem
•Diamante Poem
• Your favorite poem by an author, and illustration

Each bullet item is worth 25 points. A total of 200 points.

Alliteration-Alliteration repeats a beginning, usually consonant, sound over and over.
Write an alliteration poem of at least 5 lines. For example:
Will you wait. . .
While wild waters
Wipe whole worlds
away?
And a hundred white winters
Have withered gray?

Onomatopoeia: An onomatopoeia word is a word that sounds exactly like the sound it's describing. Write at least a five line example.

Oh Poor me!
I feel on the ground
Ker-plunk!
And landed in a garbage
dump
Pee-ew!
So I dusted myself off
Swat! Swat!

Tanka: Tanka is a form of Japanese poetry that depends on the number of lines and syllables instead of rhyme. This is the pattern:
Line 1=5 syllables
Line 2=7 syllables
Line 3=5 syllables
Line 4=7 syllables
Line 5=7 syllables

For example:

Hot cheesy pizza
Sausage and pepperoni
Round, warm, and spicy
Inviting me to sample
A slice that's most delicious

Write a Tanka poem following the pattern.

Haiku- Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that depends on the number of lines and syllables instead of rhyme. This is the pattern:
Line 1=5 syllables
Line 2= 7 syllables
Line 3=5 syllables

Example:
Apples round and red
Hanging from full, green branches
Waiting to be picked.
Write a Haiku poem using the pattern.

Acrostic: An acrostic poem is one in which the name of a person, place, or thing is written in a vertical line. The poem is dev eloped from the beginning letter on each line>

Example:
Won't attack a human.
One wolf can't take down an animal.
Lives in packs.
Food is small birds or mice.

Write an acrostic poem.

Concrete- Concrete poetry is written in the shape of the topic of the poem.
Example:

I
am
a very
special
shape I have
three points and
three lines straight.
Look through my words
and you will see, the shape
that I am meant to be. I'm just
not words caught in a tangle. Look
close to see a small triangle. My angles
add to one hundred and eighty degrees, you
learn this at school with your abc's. Practice your
math and you will see, some other fine examples of me.

Write a Concrete Poem.

Write an ABC Darian Poem.

Diamante Poetry: A diamante is a seven line poem, shaped like a diamond.
Line 1=one word (subject/noun that is contrasting to line 7)
Line 2=two words (adjectives) that describe line 1
Line 3=three words (action verbs) that relate to line 1
Line 4=four words (nouns) first 2 words relate to line 1 last 2 words relate to line 7
Line 5=three words (action verbs) that relate to line 7
Line 6=two words (adjectives) that describe line 7
Line 7=one word ( subject/noun that is contrasting to line 1)
Example:

square
symmetrical, conventional
shaping, measuring, balancing
boxes, rooms, clocks, halos
encircling, circumnavigating, enclosing
round, continuous
circle

Write a Diamante Poem.