Block Day: From Action Poetry Back to Ancient Poetry

* Open

• List all the parts of speech that you can.  
• Review the parts of speech at OWL for more info. if you wish.  
• I like OWL, but this list of eight is a bit different than the traditional breakdown.  Can you find out where?   
• Memorization (check your line 2)
• Story Corps

* Presentations

* Interpretive Terms

• Tropes (creative meaning)
• Focus on personification
• Schemes (creative structures)
• Focus on parallelism, chiasmus, and anadiplosis.
• In Hebrew poetry, parallelism is commonly synonymous, antithetical, or synthetic. 
• If you would like these terms with more examples, you can see the list used in AP English III:
• Rhetoric: 60 Terms (Website)
• Rhetoric: 60 Terms (.pdf)

* Ancient Poetry

• Psalm 8
• Psalm 19

 * J10 Assignment:

• Part 1: Read each Psalm.  In your notes, find at least five tropes and/or schemes for each Psalm.  Copy the verse or part of the verse and the trope or scheme that it illustrates.  
• (If Part 1 can be completed in class) Part 2: Now read a few Psalms on your own and do the same for any one Psalm (find at least five schemes and/or tropes in the Psalm).  

HW: Finish J10