Tuesday, January 21 literary terms test ELA practice

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YOUR REGENTS EXAM IS ON MONDAY, JANUARY 27 AT 12:15.  The physics exam is at the same time. Is there anyone taking the physics' exam?
If you were absent on Friday, you are responsible for completing part 3, question 26 of the practice exam.  The last day to turn this in is this Friday.
In class: literary elements quiz - this material was handed out on Monday, January 13. 

Tomorrow: I have put together 5 story organizers. We'll review these tomorrow in preparation to writing a critical lens essay on Thursday and Friday. This will be your last graded, writing assignment for this marking period. If you are absent, make sure it gets put in my mailbox, which is behind the main office. If you have a question, ask at the main desk.

I am handing back your practice tests from question 26 that you took last Friday. You will see a grade and sometimes notes on the front. Those who were most successful
1. followed the strategies: read the multiple choice questions AND the directions for question 26
 THEN read the two passages, underlining words / phrases that support the controlling idea.
THEN answered the multiple choice questions
THEN wrote the paragraph, using ideas from the multiple choice questions and the underlined, relevant information from the two passages.
So what were some of the difficulties?
1. Not following the suggested strategies. It is obvious by looking at the passages, who underlined or who derived information from the multiple choice questions.
2. Time management: immediately getting to work. These tests are timed. Your dallying caused you to take short cuts; hence the grade.
3. Proof reading. Read aloud in your head. Spelling.  If the word is used in the text, it should most definitely not be misspelled.
Not incorporating textual evidence. We have been doing that in every assignment since the first day. You MUST, MUST, MUST have textual evidence.
4. Reading carefully. This material cannot be skimmed. 

 TYPES of POETRY
Quite a few students has difficulty identifying the type of poem.  Here is a review of the types you might encounter.
Ballad- a typical ballad is a plot-driven song, with one or more characters hurriedly unfurling events leading to a dramatic conclusion.  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Haiku- a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
Lyric- a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a poet or narrator. Lyric poetry does not tell a story. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling, state of mine or perceptions.
Sonnet-a poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter. 

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29)

  by William Shakespeare

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee--and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.