Assignment: Rat Ode

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 9-A (H)
2022-11-21T17:07:13Z

Due: Jan 4, 2023 by 11:59pm

I have missed you! I will be back tomorrow and can't wait to hear about your breaks. :) Today, you're going to start thinking about poetry.

Today we are reading an ode. What is an ode? ( WATCH THAT LITTLE INFO VIDEO)

Then, Listen and watch this spoken word performance by Elizabeth Acevedo, the author of the book we're going to be reading next week. Her take on the Ode is really cool. While you listen, focus on the sensory details she uses to create a picture in your mind.

Feel free to listen to the poem performance several times.

Rat Ode

Then, answer the following:

1. What is one example of alliteration in Acevedo's poem?

2. Acevedo's poem is full of imagery. Imagery uses sensory details to show a picture. Pick one piece of imagery used in the poem and identify the sense it is using. (ex. I smell pancakes just beginning to take shape on the grill. This is using the sense of smell.) How does the description make you think about the item/animal/event?

3. What message do you think Acedevo was trying to convey with this poem?

4. Here are two different examples of an Ode poem. Read them: The first one is Homage to my Hips.

The second one is the one Acevedo mentioned in her chat before the poem, Ode to a Nightingale

They are very different from one another, but both pay respect to and elevate something: hips and birds.

After reading these, WRITE YOUR OWN!

Don't get too worried about it- have fun. It can be serious or silly. You can write an ode to the bathroom pass, matching socks, Nintendo Switch, love, sisters, etc. Try to use some alliteration and imagery and write (at least) 5 lines.

I have missed you! I will be back tomorrow and can't wait to hear about your breaks. :) Today, you're going to start thinking about poetry.

Today we are reading an ode. What is an ode? ( WATCH THAT LITTLE INFO VIDEO)

Then, Listen and watch this spoken word performance by Elizabeth Acevedo, the author of the book we're going to be reading next week. Her take on the Ode is really cool. While you listen, focus on the sensory details she uses to create a picture in your mind.

Feel free to listen to the poem performance several times.

Rat Ode

Then, answer the following:

1. What is one example of alliteration in Acevedo's poem?

2. Acevedo's poem is full of imagery. Imagery uses sensory details to show a picture. Pick one piece of imagery used in the poem and identify the sense it is using. (ex. I smell pancakes just beginning to take shape on the grill. This is using the sense of smell.) How does the description make you think about the item/animal/event?

3. What message do you think Acedevo was trying to convey with this poem?

4. Here are two different examples of an Ode poem. Read them: The first one is Homage to my Hips.

The second one is the one Acevedo mentioned in her chat before the poem, Ode to a Nightingale

They are very different from one another, but both pay respect to and elevate something: hips and birds.

After reading these, WRITE YOUR OWN!

Don't get too worried about it- have fun. It can be serious or silly. You can write an ode to the bathroom pass, matching socks, Nintendo Switch, love, sisters, etc. Try to use some alliteration and imagery and write (at least) 5 lines.