Remember, every required dress-up, opener, and DEC is required in each paragraph.
3 paragraphs VARSITY:
ALL DRESS UPS
OPENERS 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
DEC 2 and a Met or SIM
1 paragraph JV:
ALL DRESS UPS
OPENERS 2, 3, 4, 6
DEC 2 (quote)
Your essay assignment is to craft an essay inspired by your poem. You have two choices.
Create a story:
What story does it inspire you to create?
OR
Interpret it: What did your poem mean to you? Was your poem happy or sad . . . why? What did you like about your poem? Did you, perhaps, read some commentary on your poem that you could KWO and re-write? What symbolism was in your poem?
If you decide to interpret it, Professor Ivan Marki of the English Department at Hamilton College encourages the four-stage approach. It should help you become comfortable working with a poem.
- GET TO KNOW THE POEM
- THINK ABOUT HOW THE POEM WORKS
- ASK YOURSELF, "SO WHAT?" . . . INTERPRET THE POEM
- CONSTRUCT YOUR PAPER
GET TO KNOW THE POEM
Before you begin to organize your essay, know your poem. Read it aloud many, many times. Note the poem's structure, meter, recurring images or themes, rhyme scheme-anything and everything which creates an effect.
THINK ABOUT HOW THE POEM WORKS
ANALYZE THE POEM Look beyond the surface meaning of the words and start to think about how the techniques used in the poem add depth to its meaning. How do the elements work together? Do they complement each other, do they create tension, or both?
ASK YOURSELF, "SO WHAT?" . . . INTERPRET THE POEM
INTERPRET THE POEM Simply answer the question, “So what is this poem all about?” In the interpretation, you bring together the elements in the poem and what they mean to the poem as a whole.
In the words of M. H. Abrams, editor of the Norton Anthology of Poetry,
CONSTRUCT YOUR PAPER In the words of M. H. Abrams, editor of the Norton Anthology of Poetry,
“There is no one, right interpretation of a poem - but there is one which is more right than any of the others.”
INTRODUCTION Your first paragraph should make your reader comfortable with the poem by identifying the poet, offering a brief, general description of the poem. Avoid sweeping, abstract statements or statements which you cannot concretely link to your thesis/main focus. The more quickly you get away from the general and focus on the specific, the sooner you will engage your reader.
PARAGRAPHS ENJOY THE POEM
Each paragraph should consist of a point which is credible and relevant to your thesis/main idea. At the beginning of each paragraph, tell your reader the focus of that paragraph by starting with a topic sentence. The rest of the paragraph should address the assertion with convincing evidence.
ENJOY THE POEM
Poems are artistic expressions that demand that you appreciate them before you begin to reduce them to something explainable. Often, the most brilliant elements in a poem are very subtle and will be felt before they are understood. Remember, you are not just explaining what a poem does, you are explaining what it does to you. You are going to make the poem come to life. Writing about poetry offers you a special opportunity to interact with a work of art.
Week 9 No New Concepts
This week you will have the opportunity to practice what you have already learned,which is quite a bit!
So far we have covered these concepts:
- ƒ When to indent
- ƒ Capitalization rules
- ƒ Parts of speech, subjects, and clauses
➤ subjects of clauses (S)
➤ verbs and helping verbs (vb)
➤ coordinating conjunctions (cc)
➤ adjectives (adj)
➤ prepositions (prep) with the phrases underlined
➤ main clauses (MC) with brackets around the MCs
➤ dependent clauses (DC) with parentheses around the dependent clauses
• who-which (S/w-w)
• clause starters or www.asia.b words (cl)ƒ
- End marks
- Punctuation
➤ Commas with items in a series.
➤ Commas with nouns of direct address (NDAs).
➤ Quotation marks around speech.
That is quite an accomplishment!
Week 9
other men had been forced out of there/their/they’re inheritance because there/their/they’re insatiable king wanted there/their/they’re lands
some had been despoiled by a great baron rich abbot or powerful squire
for one cause or another, all had come to sherwood forest, which was a vast, uncharted wood, where they might escape oppression
thus, in all that year, a band of strong and goodhearted yeomen gathered about robin hood and chose him to be there/their/they’re leader
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Week 10 Sentence Openers: #1 Subject, #2 Prepositional Phrase
The dress-ups are one part of IEW style. The five dress-ups are -ly adverb, who-which clause, strong verb, quality adjective, and www.asia words (clause starters). The dress- ups help you use stronger vocabulary and more complex sentence structure.
Now that you are familiar with all the dress-ups, you can learn some sentence openers. Since you have learned about clauses and phrases, these will be easy.
#1 Subject Opener
You have already learned that main clauses usually start with a subject or with an article (a, an, the) and/or adjectives plus subject. You also learned that sometimes the subject-verb will be switched.
Examples: [There gathered around him displaced countrymen]. [Up rose his Merry Men].
We call the sentences that start with this pattern subject openers.. When you see a sentence starting with a main clause, it is a subject opener.
#2 Prepositional
This is another kind of sentence opener. When a sentence begins with a prepositional phrase, mark it a #2 prep.
Be sure the #2 follows this pattern: preposition + noun/pronoun (no verb). These openers are not clauses; they are phrases. A clause must have a subject and a verb. Prepositional phrases have no verb.
Continue to underline all prepositional phrases, including #2 openers. Do not include #2 openers with the main clauses after them when adding brackets.
Example: In the tree [Robin safely hid].
Week 10
the yeomen vowed that they would in return rob there/their/they’re oppressors as they
themselves had been robbed
if possessions were plundered by even the most powerful baron abbot knight or squire,
the yeomen would recapture the goods and return them to the poor
to those in need, these brave and upright men would offer succor
besides this, they earnestly swore never to harm a child or to wrong a woman whether she was a maid wife or widow
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