V4 entl6 & 7 lessons 1 and 2 week 47_poetry The Lesson; a silly poem; Hair today; Martian

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

Food for thought

Rights vs Obligations

1) What do you think of Trump's right to a recount of the votes vs the obligation to serve democracy and the curbing of the pandemic?

2) What do you think of students' rights to learn vs the obligation to make learning possible?

3) What will happen if we only claim our rights and never stick to our obligations?

Today's objectives

• Poetry -  Quick Review (The Lesson (note); Hair Today, No Her tomorrow; A Silly Poem) 

      New: A Martian Sends a Postcard home & explanation of literary device Metaphors

• Unit 2 - lesson 1 - hand in writing ex. 15

•  Grammar overview Unit 2 & Vocab practice lesson 1
  

• HW Friday: 

Unit 2 - lesson 2 - reading & questions 1-13

Study vocabulary lessons 1 & 2

 

Poetry test period III

Know:

• Literary devices in the back of Poetry booklet
  

(what is alliteration, a metaphor, rhyme schemes etc.)

• Fully explain poems & titles in booklet
  

• Use literary devices to explain poems
  

• Be able to point out/give examples of literary devices in poems
  

Poetry

 a piece of writing that has a highly developed artistic form (condensed artistic writing)

& uses heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject

heightened language and rhythm:

• has the nature of both speech and song 
• has metaphors, symbols and other literary devices
• has meter, rhythm, rhyme, and stanzas

Meter

Meter:
The basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem. A specific number of syllables and emphasis adds musicality to each line

daDUM daDUM daDUM; DUMda DUMda DUMda; 

• English poetry:  metrical feet generally= usually two or three syllables. 
• specific combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. 

The most common examples of metrical feet:

Trochee: stressed syllable followed by unstressed syllable, as in “custom” (DUMda)

Iamb: unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable, as in “describe” (daDUM)

Spondee: equal stress for both syllables, as in “cupcake”

Dactyl: stressed syllable, followed by two unstressed syllables, as in “bicycle”

Anapest: two unstressed syllables, followed by a stressed syllable, as in “understand”

The Lesson - Nooligan

"Nooligan"

 a boy who thinks he is really powerful and harsh, but is actually an uneducated boy trying to be a real hooligan. 

Hair today, no her tomorrow - p. 10 - 11

Read the poem together.

1) The poem does not have a rhyme scheme. In what form has the poem been written?

2) Why do you think the poet chose this form?

3) What is the play on words in the title? Explain.

4) When does she confess her adultery to her partner? 

5) What exactly did she do? 

6) Who does the hair belong to?Why does he advise her to leave? 

Hair today, no her tomorrow - p. 10 - 11

Read the poem together and answer the questions below in pairs - 15 min.

1) The poem does not have a rhyme scheme. In what form has the poem been written?

2) Why do you think the poet chose this form?

3) What is the play on words in the title? Explain.

4) When does she confess her adultery to her partner? 

5) What exactly did she do? 

6) Who does the hair belong to?Why does he advise her to leave? 

Hair today, no her tomorrow - KEY

Read the poem together.

1) The poem does not have a rhyme scheme. In what form has the poem been written? - dialogue

2) Why do you think the poet chose this form? - I said/she said is repeated on and on to create awkwardness in their conversation when they both confess their affairs to each other

3) What is the play on words in the title? Explain. - Hair - play on words for "her", She discovers a long black hair and when he doesn't deny cheating, she confesses and he eventually fully confesses cheating, meaning she is gone tomorrow/the relationship has ended

6) Who does the hair belong to?Why does he advise her to leave? 

Hair today, no her tomorrow - p. 10 - 11

4) When does she confess her adultery to her partner? When he doesn't deny the cheating ("I'll explain"; "A pity, I said")

5) What exactly did she do? She slept with several of his friends.

6) Who does the hair belong to? Why does he advise her to leave?  The hair does belong to a woman, because the cat is white and so he actually did cheat on her as well

A Silly Poem - Spike Milligan

A Silly Poem - p. 6

What is the pun/play on words in this poem?

To what famous play does the poem refer to?

Explain in full - name of play/characters/author

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

• Poem describes human behaviour and objects as if they are being seen for the first time by a visiting Martian. 

• Tone = detached, objective, but also quizzical. 

• Seventeen unrhymed couplets (couplet = a pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length) 

• Series of riddles inviting  the reader to decipher them

• Original, evocative language / humorous (evocative = bringing strong images/memories/feelings to mind)

• Use of many metaphors to describe what a Martian would see if he came to earth.
  

Metaphor

 a figure of speech/literary device that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but makes a comparison without "as" or "like".

Here are the basics:

• States that one thing is another thing
• Equates those two things not because they actually are the same, but for the sake of comparison or symbolism
• If you take a metaphor literally, it will probably sound very strange (are there actually any sheep, black or otherwise, in your family?)
• Adds some color to their language

Examples: 

He is a crow among the nightingales; 

He's the black sheep in the family; 

The white blanket that covered the city on the winter's morning ........

What does the Martian refer to?

• Stanza 1:
  

 Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings

• Stanza 2 & 3:  
  

they cause the eyes to melt ... body to shriek without pain / I have never seen one fly, ....they perch on the hand

• Stanza 4 & 5: 
  

Which 2 metaphors are used to explain fog/mist?

• Stanza 6: 
  

Which metaphor is used for rain?

What does the Martian refer to?

• Stanza 7 & 8: 
  

What is meant by a model T? 

What is the "lock inside"?

What does the Martian mean with " a key is turned to free the world for movement, so quick there is a film to watch..."?

• Stanza 9: 
  

What is time tied to the wrist and kept in a box (2 things)?

• Stanzas 10/11/12: 
  

What is the haunted apparatus that snores and is soothed to sleep or woken up "by tickling with a finger"?

What does the Martian refer to?

• Stanzas 13/14/15: 

What does the Martian mean by "Only the young are allowed to suffer openly"? 

What does "Adults go to the punishment room" mean?

What does " They lock the door ...everyone's pain has a different smell" mean?

• Stanzas 16/17:
  

"At night when all colours die, they hide in pairs" =

"and read about themselves - in colour, with their eyelids shut" = 

If you were a Martian, 

How would you describe a refrigerator?

How would you describe "taking a shower"?

How would you describe "falling in love"?

Come up with one "Martian" description of human behaviour 

or a "thing" on earth. 

Unit 2 - lesson 1 - LOL

Listening/watching Lesson 1

Listen & watch Ex. 1-2 - Unit 2 - lesson 1 (15 min.)

Answer the questions on the board/on your phone (Of Course online unit 2.1 - ex. 1 & 2)

in your book

Grammar / Vocab review - Unit 1

Irregular verbs

Present Simple

Present Continuous

Past Simple

Present Perfect

Asking questions/making sentences negative

Grammar / Vocab review - Unit 2

Unit 1 + part of Unit 2 test:

Irregular verbs / Present Simple / Present Continuous / Past Simple /Present Perfect

Asking questions/making sentences negative

Unit 2:

• Past Continuous vs Past Simple (I was cooking supper when the bell rang)
• Present Perfect vs Past Simple (Unit 1 - again a big part of the test) (I have never been so angry like I was yesterday.)
• Past Perfect (He had never heard of the Simpsons before he saw them on TV yesterday.)
• Past Perfect vs Past Simple (I went to the dentist after I had brushed my teeth.)
• Asking questions and making sentences negative (with the new tenses)
• Adjectives/Adverbs (A red car. A really red car. She sorely misses her parents. He moves slowly. Carefully, he .....)
• Comparisons (This car is bigger than ...; It is more beautiful than ....; just as beautiful as....; To drive more slowly than ....)

Vocabulary Unit 2 - lesson 1 - N-E

1. Aantekeningen maken
2. Aanvankelijk
3. Oppervlakkig
4. Tussen twee haakjes; trouwens
5. Verbinden
6. Verwijzen naar
7. Voorlopig
8. Waaronder
9. Ondanks
10. Geavanceerd; hoogontwikkeld
11. Op school zitten
12. Beledigend
13. Meedelen
14. Benadrukken

Hand in ex. 15 - Unit 2 - lesson 1

Unit 2 - lesson 2

Read text together -

The fascinating life of comedians

Do ex. 1- 13 (reading comprehensions)

Extra

• Form Groups of 6
• Find information on Thanksgiving in America
• Choose one topic & prepare a few slides + a short videoclip
• Present

• Topics: 1)the first English settlers in Plymouth 2)celebrations 3)food 4)the origin of Thanksgiving