Your TP-CASTT worksheets are due tomorrow at the beginning of class. If you choose to do a poem or piece not listed in the handout you must email me before midnight tonight so I can okay it.

The dates on page three of the Illuminated Poetry handout are off. The Rough Draft is due Tuesday 25th and the Final Copy and Presentation will be Wednesday 26th. Sorry about the misprint.

If you did not turn in an essay today, please email it to me by 4pm today to avoid a late penalty.

Tomorrow (Tuesday, August 21), we will begin a discussion on the poetry analysis paper. The final project for this unit will consist of a short (2 page) paper comparing and contrasting two poems, and a creative piece (a complete song, a set of haiku, a sonnet, two songs without music, three free-verse poems). We will discuss the assignment more thoroughly in class, but the entire project will be five pages long. A rough draft will be due Friday (essay outline and solid ideas for each poem), and the final product will be due on Monday. We will begin About a Boy at that time.

Here is the list of basic poetic devices from the board today. We will begin writing on our poetry soon, so please look over the list for any terms you do not already know.

• Simile- comparing two things using “like” or “as”
• Metaphor- comparing two things without using “like” or “as”
• Personification- a type of metaphor, in which a non-human thing is given human characteristics
• Analogy- an extended comparison
• Assonance- rhyming or repetition amongst vowel sounds
• Alliteration- rhyming or repetition amongst consonant sounds
• Onomatopoeia- words that sound like the sound being described
• Poetic Meter
• Iambic- unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
• Trochaic- stressed followed by unstressed
• Anapestic- two unstressed followed by one stressed
• Dactylic- stressed followed by two unstressed

[This post was WinsomeWiki’d on 5 Jul. 2009]