Wordworth, Haudenosaunee Creation Story / How to work a Metaphor / Quiz

Grade 12

• Review the Yeats poem from yesterday.
• Read and annotate Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much With Us"
• Compare to the Yeats piece, connect to Jewkes "quest for our lost heritage."
• Distribute Creation Myth packet. Read, annotate and write a brief analysis of the Haudenosaunee Creation Story

Grade 10

• Review definition of metaphor.
• Discuss various types of metaphor. Example:
• Encapsulation: The enclosure of a "location".
  
  A blanket of snow fell through the night.
  
  The detective had wrapped up the mystery.
  
  He had become a shell of a man.
• How to work a metaphor: identify the metaphor--> associate literal qualities to the context --> choose figurative meaning.
• Read "Sadie." Try to determine what it is about:

There is a little hole in the house;

Here on the bed,
There on the chair.

There is a little hole in the house;
On the floor’s windowlight;
Before the winter fire.

There is a little hole in the house;
On the stair,
Soft foot thumping.

There is a little hole in the house;
Warm and rumbling,
Near my ear.

There is a little hole in the house;
Where the dogs worry,
And the children sigh.


Grade 9

• Read A Part of the Sky for five minutes.
• Finish quiz
• HW: Do vocabulary for "The Cask of Amontillado."