Unit 9: Detailed Annotation
Unit 9: Detailed Annotation
Essential Questions and Skills:
How does annotating a text aid in close reading, analyzing literature, and writing about literature? How can you speed up your ability to write timed AP assays? What are some annotation acronyms, and which do you prefer for analysis?
Materials:
“Reading Strategies Scaffolding Students’ Interactions with Texts”
(http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela)
Handout: Annotation Acronyms
“The Journey” Mary Oliver
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” Anne Bradstreet
“Evening Hawk” Robert Penn Warren
“The Eagle” Tennyson
Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone by Nancy Dean
Assignment: Annotate the following poem using SIFTS. Then write an introduction to address the following prompt: How does Bradstreet express the emotions she feels towards her husband in the following poem? You may consider her use of figurative devices, imagery, tone, and structure in your response.
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet (1678)
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompetence.
Thy love is such I can no way repay.
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persever
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
Unit 9 Compare/Contrast Poetry Prompt
Those who missed class on Friday, please respond to the Henry VIII prompt.
This is the poetry assignment for February 4: Annotate the following poem using TPCASTT. Then write an introduction to address the following prompt: How does Oliver express the journey relayed in the following poem? You may consider her use of figurative devices, imagery, tone, and syntax in your response.
The Journey
by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew 1
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice-
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!" 10
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night, 20
and the road full of fallen branches and stones.
but little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper 30
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do
determined to save
the only life you could save.
The Journey
by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew 1
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice-
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!" 10
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night, 20
and the road full of fallen branches and stones.
but little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper 30
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do
determined to save
the only life you could save.