Learning Intention:
I can recognize and explain implicit messages in poetry.
We are part way there!
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Today, we continued our reading unit on poetry. We are getting pretty skilled at recognizing metaphors, comparisons, and personifications in French poetry, but it really is a bit tricky in a different language to understand the meaning of these devices. Today, we worked in groups to find and analyze literary devices in a particular poem. Below is a picture of Ayu's work on personification. Ideally, we want to be able to analyze a French poem and interpret the author's words. This might take us quite some time, but we will continue to try. The past few lessons have focussed on practicing the skills that will help us meet the learning intention below.
Learning Intention: I can recognize and explain implicit messages in poetry. We are part way there!
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This week in French Language Arts, we have been learning to recognize les figures de style (literary devices) in poetry. Some examples that we are focusing on are metaphor, comparison, onomatopoeia, and personification. It can be really difficult to recognize imagery in a new language, but Mme. Leconte is helping us learn to recognize, infer meaning, and soon create our own examples of les figures de style. Many of us were really excited to start a mini unit on poetry because we love having the chance to show our creativity. Others are really strong writers and enjoy the opportunity to paint pictures in our readers' minds using words. A few of us are unsure whether we like poetry or not, but we are keeping an open mind about our learning. To deepen our understanding of these literary devices, we listened to a new French song this week by Zaho called Tourner la page; it is full of examples of les figures de style which we tried to identify, categorize, and understand. You can watch the music video of this song below. We are also reading a variety of poems with different styles to get a better idea of how we might use these literacy devices in our own writing when we compose our poems. |
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