The document summarizes notes from an English class covering several topics: 1. The teacher reviewed poetry terms like denotation and connotation and had students take notes on the differences. 2. Students read and analyzed the poem "Blackberry Eating," identifying literary devices and answering questions. 3. The class discussed vocabulary from the poem and terms like imagery, metaphor, and rhythm.

1. Friday, February 10
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English 9- Second Semester
Navejar, Dammanna, Huth

2. Review
1. How do you start a new paragraph?
2. Do you put spaces in between paragraphs?
Yes or No
3. What are the three parts of an essay?
4. What are the three parts of a paragraph?

3. Write down the following notes
Denotation and Connotation
• DENOTATION: The common, strict definition of a word
as found in a dictionary; usually easily understood
• CONNOTATION: The extra layer of meaning each word
carries beyond the minimal, strict definition found in a
dictionary
• Much of poetry involves the poet using connotative
diction that suggests meanings beyond what the
words simply say
• Example: The word "snake" simply denotes a
reptile. But it has the connotation of someone who
can not be trusted, someone sneaky, or dishonest

4. Denotation Connotation
Snake Snake (shifty guy)
Hollywood Hollywood (glamorous life)

5. What we accomplished
• Period two- We took a quiz on essay/paragraph structure. We
took notes to prepare for Blackberry Eating poem. We
prepared our notebooks for notebook check.
• Period three- We took a quiz on essay/paragraph structure. We
took notes to prepare for Blackberry Eating poem. We
prepared our notebooks for notebook check.
• Period 4/5- We took a quiz on essay/paragraph structure. We
took notes to prepare for Blackberry Eating poem. We
prepared our notebooks for notebook check.
• Period 7/8- We took a quiz on essay/paragraph structure. We
took notes to prepare for Blackberry Eating poem. We
prepared our notebooks for notebook check.
• Period 9- We took a quiz on essay/paragraph structure. We
took notes to prepare for Blackberry Eating poem. We
prepared our notebooks for notebook check.

6. Notebook check Today
*You have 5 min to fix your notebook
• We will check your notebook on Friday
• If you do not have a notebook, you must have one by Friday
– Daily notes
– Essay notes- five paragraphs
– Poetry terms
– Frost CABS (we have this)
– Blackberry Eating Notes
– Verb Problem Handout
• We will enter in your 5 paragraph poetry analysis
– Complete/incomplete grade
• Participation grade

7. Lesson objective
• Today we will:
1. Review poetry terms we learned
2. Discuss denotation/connotation
3. Learn a new reading strategy
4. Read Blackberry Eating
a. Review terms we learned
b. Work on analytical questions
5. Literary term test

8. Blackberry Eating
Connect
Think of an everyday event that made you reflect/think. Example- sitting on
the porch.
Background: The blackberry is an aggregate fruit that is composed of many smaller
fruits called drupes.
Literary Analysis
Imagery: the descriptive language that paints pictures in readers’ minds.
Appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, taste, smell or touch
Reading strategy
Form a mental picture of each image: imagine experiencing what the speaker
experiences at that moment, or relate the image in the poem to
something that you yourself have experienced.
Vocabulary Development
Write down the vocabulary words you see on page 913 and the definitions.

9. Blackberry Eating
• Turn to page 914---- Whole Group
• Read poem 3 times
• Identify literary devices that are being used in the
poem
– Terms we already know (look at list)
– Terms we just learned
• Answer questions on page 914---Individual
work/notebook check
– 1
– 2 (a, b, and c)
– 3
– 4

10. Terms and Definitions
Free Verse: Verse without formal meter or rhyme patterns. Free verse relies
upon the natural rhythms of everyday speech. Modern and contemporary
poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries often employ free verse.
Figurative Language: A form of language use in which writers and speakers
convey something other than the literal meaning of their words in order to
show an imaginative relationship between different things. Simile, metaphor,
and personification are examples of figurative language.
Simile: A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using
the words like or as. An example is "My love is like a red, red rose.“
Metaphor: A comparison between essentially unlike things without
comparative words such as like or as. An example is "My love is a red, red
rose."
Personification: A type of figurative language in which inanimate objects or
abstract ideas are given human characteristics. Personification is a form of
metaphor.
Imagery: The creation of images using words. Poets usually achieve this by
invoking comparisons by means of metaphor or simile or other figures of

11. Terms and Definitions 2
• Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of
words. Brenda’s got a baby, but Brenda’s barely got a brain.
• Rhythm
The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. In the following
lines from "Same in Blues" by Langston Hughes, the accented words
and syllables are underlined:
I said to my baby, (6)
Baby take it slow.... (5)
Lulu said to Leonard (6)
I want a diamond ring (6)
• Diction
The selection of words in a literary work. A work's diction forms one
of its centrally important literary elements, as writers use words to
convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify
themes, and suggest values.

12. Squinched
Tense up the muscles of
(one's eyes or face):
"Gina squinched her face
Blackberry Eating up".
By- Galway Kinnell
I love to go out in late September
among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries
to eat blackberries for breakfast,
the stalks very prickly, a penalty strength
they earn for knowing the black art
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them What
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries literary
fall almost unbidden to my tongue, devices
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words are
like strengths or squinched, being
used?
many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps,
which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well
in the silent, startled, icy, black language
of blackberry -- eating in late September.

13. TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could Nothing Gold Can Stay
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, Nature's first green is gold,
And having perhaps the better claim, Her hardest hue to hold.
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Her early leaf's a flower;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
And both that morning equally lay
So Eden sank to grief,
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day! So dawn goes down to day.
Yet knowing how way leads on to way, Nothing gold can stay.
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.