Analysis of Baseball and Alone at the Nets: Lesson Plan
What can sports teach us?
Many people consider sports an important part of their lives, whether they play sports or just watch athletes enjoy being part of a team and competing with their peers. Fans enjoy watching games to see the skill and endurance of the athletes. Think about sports that are a part of your life. With a group, pick one sport and come up with a list of what the sport teaches you about life. Compare your list with the lists of other groups.
One of the first things that you will notice about poems is that they are made up of lines. A line of poetry can be a complete sentence, part of a sentence, or even a single word. Short lines give a poem a fast, choppy rhythm, or beat. Long lines give it a smoother, slower rhythm. Poets use line breaks, or the places where lines of poetry end, to add emphasis to certain words or phrases. Some poets use other stylistic elements for effect--unusual punctuation, unusual word breaks, and unusual spacing.
Usually poetry is meant to be heard as well as read. Many poems have rhyming words, or repeated sounds at the ends of words, that are easier to notice when the poem is rad aloud. The emphasis on certain words or phrases is also easier to notice when you use the poet's punctuation and line breaks to pace your reading and choose your intonation or pitch. Poets also include onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they mean, such as "bang" or "thump." In addition to being able to hear sounds, these elements can emphasize a poem's meaning.
Read "Analysis of Baseball" and "Alone in the Nets" aloud.
In your notes, record places in the poems where you notice rhyming words or repeated words and phrases. Record any examples of onomatopoeia.
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