The document provides notes and objectives for an English class. It introduces the literary term "theme" and defines it as the central idea or statement that unifies a literary work. Students are asked to describe the theme of Romeo and Juliet or a movie they have watched. The class will also review terms like metaphor, simile, imagery and identify them in a sample poem. Students will analyze a poem by Robert Frost and discuss what it means and how they know the theme.

1. Thursday, February 2 nd
English 9-Second Semester
Navejar, Dammanna, Huth

2. New Term to know- Theme
*3rd period 4th and 7th- has these notes- Review notes/do activity
THEME: A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an
entire literary work.
• The theme can take the form of a brief and meaningful insight or
a comprehensive vision of life; it may be a single idea such as
"order and duty" (in many early Roman works), "seize-the-day"
(in many late Roman works), or "jealousy" (in Shakespeare's
Othello).
• A theme is the author's way of communicating and sharing
ideas, perceptions, and feelings with readers, and it may be
directly stated in the book, or it may only be implied.
*Describe the theme of : *or think of a movie that you watched
-Romeo and Juliet
-Hangover
- A Boy Called It

3. Today’s Objectives
I know:
The literary terms:
• Free Verse
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Imagery
• Alliteration
• Rhythm
• Diction
I can:
-identify these terms in a poem
-use these terms in my own poem
I will learn:
-a new term- theme
-I will review a new poem and practice what I know

4. Pair Share Activity
Block 9 needs to finish the “Share/Review” part
1. Take out your poem and handout you received
yesterday
2. Be ready to share with a partner
3. Activity
a. Read the poem
b. Look for terms that we studied
c. Write example on chart
d. Finish form
e. Handback
4. Be positive- no negative comments allowed
5. Speak quietly when working together

5. Pretty Eyes
by J.M.
Her eyes were like the
blue sky.
When I look in her
eyes. Which terms are used
I see pink and in this poem?
blue butterflies. What is the tone?
I tried and tried
to tell her Describe the diction.
How I felt What is the rhythmic
but every time pattern?
I tried
it was like she would
run and hide.

6. Robert Frost Handout
DO NOT WRITE ON THE HANDOUT
1. Quietly read the poem to yourself
2. Let’s listen to the poem and see images
3. Read the poem again
a. Let’s review our terms- what did we find?
4. Poetry Analysis
a. How do we analyze a poem?
b. What does this poem mean?
c. How do you know that’s what it means?

7. TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
Questions
And looked down one as far as I could 1. Is this a free verse
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
poem?
Then took the other, as just as fair, 2. What terms do you see
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear; (that we learned) in
Though as for that the passing there this poem?
Had worn them really about the same,
3. What is the theme* of
And both that morning equally lay this poem?
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day! 4. Describe the diction of
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
this poem.
*Hint: use only two or
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
three words
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

8. Review Terms
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Repetition
Imagery
personification
Tone
Diction
Rhythm