RANKING RELATIONSHIPS

Relationship Ranking
Each of the following scenarios describes a relationship. Read each scenario and rank them from the scenario that describes the best love relationship (1) to the scenario that describes the worst love relationship (3). Make sure you can support your opinions. Write two sentences for
each explaining why you gave it the
ranking you did.

 

_____A

  Joseph always felt uneasy at parties, especially parties that included people from Forest View. Forest View was Elk Grove’s chief rival in every sport, and Joseph and his friends had been competing against kids from Forest View for as long as he could remember. And sometimes those competitions got pretty heated. So who could blame Joseph for saying his good-byes early? As he headed out the door, however, Joseph caught a glimpse of Sara. Even all decked out in Forest View’s colors, she was, Joseph thought, the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. Bolstering up his courage, Joseph went over to say hello. And it wasn’t long before he was involved in a friendly conversation with Sara and several of her friends. An hour flew by, and Joseph really did have to go home. But he felt changed. Monday at school he confided to his best friend that he was in love, and with someone from Forest View on top of it. The kidding he got was intense; he and his best friend almost got into a fight over it. But Joseph was sure. He couldn’t wait to see her again. He spent all week searching to find a party that she might attend.

___ B 

  Mary and Martin have been next-door neighbors since the fifth grade, and for seven years they’ve walked to school together. Since high school started, though, once they got to school, they went their separate ways—Mary was an athlete and Martin a musician. But on that mile walk they shared a lot of talk about everyday events, hopes, and heartbreaks. The senior prom was approaching and neither Mary nor Martin had a date. They decided to go together. It was funny: they broached the subject on the same day, and in fact, they couldn’t figure out who asked whom. The prom was great; they laughed and danced and kidded with their friends. They didn’t go on an after-prom trip, though. They had decided that it would make them seem too much like a couple, and they didn’t want any awkwardness to interfere with their friendship. That night both of them thought that the prom was one of the best dates they had ever had. It was too bad that their “real” dates never went so well.

 

___ C 

  What a whirlwind of a romance, thought Amy. Ever since she had met Tom, things had been, well, fantastic. Nightly phone calls. Dinners at expensive restaurants. Gifts. She didn’t mind that Tom insisted she spend all of her time with him. After all, her friends should understand, and if her grades slipped a bit, who cares? She’d always be able to get into some college. She had a bit of a twinge when he asked her not to go out for the musical, but the dozen long-stem roses made that twinge fade. What a romance!

Reading Check 2

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3rd Quarter Vocab

Roots:
ang: bend
belli: war
clar: clear
counter: against
gram: writing
luc: light
lum: light
tele: far
vor: eat

Vocab:
comply
heed
hypercritical
obscure
tangible
verbose

Poetry Essay

ANALYSIS OUTLINE AND PAPER: Once you fill out the TIPCASTT worksheet, you will write an analysis paper. You will use this to do a one-two page write up  (double spaced, size 12, Times New Roman) answering the following questions:

            What is the theme of the poem?

            How does the imagery support this theme?

            How does the word choice support this theme? (use connotation)

            How does the title prove this theme?

            Why is this theme important to humankind?




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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

 I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
          That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
          When all at once I saw a crowd,
          A host, of golden daffodils;
          Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
          Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

          Continuous as the stars that shine
          And twinkle on the milky way,
          They stretched in never-ending line
          Along the margin of a bay:                                  10
          Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
          Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

          The waves beside them danced; but they
          Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
          A poet could not but be gay,
          In such a jocund company:
          I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
          What wealth the show to me had brought:

          For oft, when on my couch I lie
          In vacant or in pensive mood,                               20
          They flash upon that inward eye
          Which is the bliss of solitude;
          And then my heart with pleasure fills,
          And dances with the daffodils.
                                                              1804

Poetry Portfolio Requirements

Sonnet 

Follows traditional pattern of sonnet in number of lines, stanza, rhyme scheme, and meter.

Comparing someone to something else. "Shall I compare thee to..."

2. Narrative Poem

     Tell a story in poem form (include characters, setting, plot, etc)

     It must be at least 20 lines

Rhyming (any rhyme scheme such as crossed, envelope, etc)

     Include one example of alliteration (Highlight and label it)

     Include either one example of consonance or assonance (Highlight and label it)

     Any meter

3. Personification Poem

·    15 lines

·    use personification

·    Choose a topic/thing/place to describe 

4. Concrete Poem
Write a poem in a shape about the topic.
No required meter or rhyme.

5. Free Verse
No rhyme scheme or meter
15 lines