Transcript Music is the SOUND of poetry - Teaching English Language Arts

Poetry Lessons to Meet
Common Core ELA Standards
Anna J. Small Roseboro
National Board Certified Teacher
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Music is the SOUND of poetry
I’m Nobody
by Emily Dickinson
RHYME
MUSIC
I’m nobody. Who are you? A
Are you nobody too? A
Then there’s the pair of us.
Don’t tell. They’ll banish us you
know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog B
To tell one’s name the livelong
June
To an admiring bog. B
I’m Nobody
by Emily Dickinson
RHYTHM
MUSIC
I’m nobody. Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there’s the pair of us.
Don’t tell. They’ll banish us you
know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell one’s name the livelong
June
To an admiring bog.
I’m Nobody
by Emily Dickinson
RHYTHM
MUSIC
I’m nobody. Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there’s the pair of us.
Don’t tell. They’ll banish us you
know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell one’s name the livelong
June
To an admiring bog.
I’m Nobody
by Emily Dickinson
RHYTHM
MUSIC
I’m nobody. Who are you? 4
Are you nobody too? 3
Then there’s the pair of us. 4
Don’t tell. They’ll banish us you
know.
4
How dreary to be somebody! 4
How public, like a frog 3
To tell one’s name the livelong
4
June
To an admiring bog. 3
Teaching the I.T.A.D.s
 I = iambic u/ (unstressed – stressed)
 T = trochaic /u (stressed – unstressed)
 A = anapestic uu/ (2 unstressed - stressed)
 D = dactylic /uu (stressed – 2 unstressed)
FOOT OF POETRY
FOOT = set w/one stressed syllable
I’m Nobody
Positive or Negative Connotation?
by Emily Dickinson
RHYME
RHYTHM
SOUND
MUSIC
I’m nobody. Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there’s the pair of us.
Don’t tell. They’ll banish us
you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell one’s name the livelong
June
To an admiring bog.