09.16 - Annotating Frost and Lost Sailor

At the beginning of class today, everyone reviewed their annotations to Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and then we resumed our discussion of the meaning of this poem and how people had annotated it. We then looked at the tones used in the power with an eye towards determining if the tones were serene and calm or more dark and sinister.

Next, we looked at the song "Lost Sailor" by The Grateful Dead. Everyone shared out annotations that they had made and then we looked at tone to determine whether this was a carefree, adventurous song or despairing, gloomy song (the song as played is included below).

Tomorrow, everyone will be working more specifically with diction in annotation by using the denotation and connotation of words to analyze The Giver.

Handouts:

Annotation information

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

Lost Sailor lyrics

Homework:

Look at the way Lowry uses language in The Giver to describe Jonas' world before and after he is the receiver (we'll focus on this more specifically in class tomorrow).

Prepare the set 1 roots and prefixes quiz in class on Friday. 

Roots and Prefixes Set 1 - root list

Roots and Prefixes Set 1 - practice