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Annotation Guide

Homework

What is Irony?

"When the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning"

How does Spender use it?

Create an app or Facebook page which is based on either of these two ideas in the poem:

1. promotes unity among cultural classes

2. campaign against bullying

Annotation Guide

Identify examples of alliteration and simile in the poem

What is being described in each of the stanzas?

How is the thematic idea portrayed in each of the stanzas?

Discussion Questions

What words or phrases are used to portray the thematic ideas? (diction)

Who is the persona?

Poetry:

My Parents by Stephen Spender

What is the author's attitude (tone) towards the subject matter?

Group Activity

What type of language is used? How does this contribute to the meaning in the poem?

Group Activity

Group Two:

Write a poem using at least six words from the poem based on the thematic ideas explored

Include literary devices like irony and alliteration

What images are evoked when you read the poem?

Group 3

Group 4?

Create a movie trailer by simulating a situation in which cultural differences are resolved

You will be actors!

You will need a producer, right?

Someone to write the script?

Edit your video...

Any other suggestion for group project?

Group One:

Create a storyboard, picture collage or other visual representation to depict understanding of poem

Thematic idea should be clearly shown

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