Thursday, September 26th

1. Considering all 4 Joy Harjo annotated poems, you will respond to the following prompt:

How does Joy Harjo use figurative language to enhance her poems meanings? (Figurative language devices: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Symbolism, Irony, Imagery) You will need to provide examples from each poem.

However... you are going to be working as a group to write your response. You will be writing your OWN response on your own paper, but you will work as a group to review HOW to construct the response.

• How do we start the response to this answer? What will our topic sentence look like? How do we RESTATE the question and then answer it? 
• Are we explaining to our audience (Mrs. Cole) why figurative language in poetry is important/effective/necessary? 
• Do we each have 4 examples of figurative language found? One from each poem? 
• How do we introduce a quote? You must lead into the quote.. not just drop it in your writing. Something like... Joy Harjo utilizes personification when she states in "Grace," ". . . ... . "
• How do you do an in-text citation for these poems? End the quote. ("Everybody").   The period goes after the parentheses. 
• After you have provided an example, how do you need to explain it back to your topic sentence/your answer? Explain the figurative language usage and how it enhances the meaning of the poem. 
• Are you using some transition words to indicate you are bringing in another example? 
• Are you introducing, citing, explaining (ICE) each quote that you bring in? 
• Along with the evidence you are presenting, are you proficiently addressing the main part of the question (the "how does it enhance the meaning of the poem" part)
• After you have finished bringing in your evidence to your answer AND explained it thoroughly BACK to your prompt, how can you effectively end your response?  

When you are done... you will need to staple your writing to the 4 annotated poems.
You will need it for class on Friday. 

Here is an example of what the bringing in of evidence and discussing the evidence back to the main argument will look like. (There is not citations in this example, fyi).

Poetry Analysis EXAMPLE

Here is an example of how a student writes about one single line of poetry. Notice the mention of the literary device and how it is explained to the meaning of the poem. How specific words are drawn out and explained to the meaning and purpose of the argument:




Reminders:
1. Make up quiz for those absent on Monday- Titan Time today (Thursday).
2. Literary terms quiz A-M on Friday.