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Introduction to Literature:College Reading and Writing

Aim: (classwork section) How can we utilize Rilke’spoem, “The Panther” to help us establish our firstthematic writing exercise?

Do Now: (journal section) Make a list of words thatyou associate with “feeling trapped.” 

3 SectionsClasswork Journal Vocabulary/Literary Terms

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Stanza = paragraph in a poem

Verse = lines in a poem

Enjambment = when a line “spills” or runsover into the next line

Annotate = marking up your text

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Aim: How can we prewrite our first

essay assignment?

Do Now: Think about a time when you felt boxedin, trapped, alienated, isolated or lonely (doesn’thave to be all five…one is fine).

Brainstorm a list of ten images, thoughts, feelingsthat you associate with this memory.

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Brainstorm List

Model:

Do you see any patterns?

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Essay Assignment

Assignment #1: Alienation

Write a five paragraph personal essay that

explains a time when you felt boxed in,trapped, alienated, isolated or lonely.

Introduction

Body 1

Body2 Body3

Conclusion

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Introduction

Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem, “ThePanther,” depicts an image of isolation

and loneliness. Although thepoem is about a large black cat, itreminds me of a time when I, too,felt isolated and lonely.

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Model

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Second Big Lesson

“Those Winter Sundays”by Robert Hayden

Aim: How does Hayden’s use of tonecontribute to the theme of alienation inhis poem, “Those Winter Sundays”?

Journal: Describe a time when you took aperson for granted or failed to appreciatesomeone. Explain. Use vivid details.

Support what you write.

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Responses

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New Literary Term = Tone

The writer’s attitude toward thesubject he or she is writing about.

Is the tone sad? Angry? Hopeful?Wistful? Hostile? Joyous?Humorous? Etc.

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“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

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Talk to the Poem or Dialoging with the

Text.

I see this poem has…

Annotate the text.

 “Talk” to the text (write in themargins)

What happens in each stanza?

SOAPS (see link)