OB JECTIVE Students will determine common themes in assigned epitaphs Todays Agenda Lesson 7 Collect We Real Cool poems SAT Critical Reading practice test The Hill Read and annotate the poem ID: 685383
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Lesson 7 and 8 and 9 (darn 2-hour delays)
OB JECTIVE:
Students will determine common themes in assigned epitaphs.Slide2
Today’s Agenda – Lesson 7
Collect “We Real Cool” poems
SAT – Critical Reading practice test
“The Hill”
Read and annotate the poem
Complete questions
DUE NEXT CLASS Slide3
Today’s Agenda – Lesson 8
Check and discuss
“The Hill
”
Refrain
Tone
Epitaph
Defined
Assign individual
epitaphsSlide4
“The Hill”
What is the meaning of the poem?
No matter what success or failure one experiences during his lifetime, he will be equal to all in death.
What is the evidence?
“the boozer” is buried next to the “Major”Slide5
“The Hill”WHERE are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer,
the fighter?
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
One passed in a fever,
One was burned in a mine,
One was killed in a brawl,
One died in a jail,One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife-All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill. Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, thehappy one?—All, all are sleeping on the hill. One died in shameful child-birth,One of a thwarted love,One at the hands of a brute in a brothel,One of a broken pride, in the search for heart’s desire;One after life in far-away London and ParisWas brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag—All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Who are these people?
Who are these people?
Ordinary men
Unhappiness and discontent
Why NOT love????Slide6
Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily,And old
Towny
Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton,
And Major Walker who had talked
With venerable men of the revolution?—
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
They brought them dead sons from the war,
And daughters whom life had crushed,And their children fatherless, crying—All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill. Where is Old Fiddler JonesWho played with life all his ninety years,Braving the sleet with bared breast,Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven?Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove,Of what Abe Lincoln saidOne time at Springfield.Slide7
What is an epitaph?Slide8
Epitaph
Definition of
EPITAPH
1
:
an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there
2
:
a brief statement commemorating or epitomizing a deceased person or something past Slide9
Here are examples of some famous epitaphs
LOOKING INTO THE PORTALS OF ETERNITY TEACHES THAT
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN IS INSPIRED BY GOD'S WORD;
THEN ALL PREJUDICE OF RACE VANISHES AWAY.
- George WashingtonSlide10
THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
- Frank SinatraSlide11
THAT’S ALL FOLKS
Mel Blanc
(creator of “Looney
Toons
”)Slide12
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, I’M FREE AT LAST!
- Martin Luther King, Jr.Slide13
MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- Rosa ParksSlide14
EXCUSE MY DUST
Dorothy Parker
(my favorite poet)Slide15
Now, here are some unusual/funny/silly epitaphs…
"
I told you I was sick!"
In a Georgia cemetery
Slide16
He called
Bill Smith
A Liar
- Cripple Creek, COSlide17
Here lies the body
of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.
-Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemeterySlide18
Gone Underground For Good
- On a Coal-minerSlide19
Jedediah Goodwin
Auctioneer
Born 1828
Going!
Going!!
Gone!!!
1876Slide20
Today’s Agenda – Lesson 9
Check homework
Did you annotate your assigned epitaph?
Work with groups to come up with common themes.
Write your own epitaphsSlide21
Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River
is a book of epitaphs by Edgar Lee Masters.
Characters speak from the grave
Captured the essence of people’s personal lives in rural Illinois
Dramatic monologue
speaker addresses a silent listenerSlide22
“Amanda Barker”
Henry got
me with child,
Knowing
that I could not bring forth life
Without
losing my own.
In
my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust. Traveler, it is believed in the village where I lived That Henry loved me with a husband's love But I proclaim from the dust That he slew me to gratify his hatred.Slide23
Assignment
Take turns. Share your epitaphs with your groups.
While one student is presenting, the rest of you should be taking notes on your own packets.
Discuss literary devices used by Masters in
his epitaphs.Slide24
Write Your Own
Things to Consider
Name
(This would be the Title.)
Cause of Death (Usually, Masters makes his readers INFER cause of death. You should to.)
Notable characteristics or habits
People left
behind