Unit 4 – Medium and Message

English 208
Due 11/10/20

Directions: Complete your Unit 4: Medium and Message notes as you complete the lessons in unit
4. These will help you understand the material taught in this unit and do well on the unit test. 😊

Unit 4 Standards

 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.1b Use various types of phrases (noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial,
prepositional, absolute) and clauses (independent, dependent; noun, relative, adverbial) to convey specific
meanings and add variety and interest to writing or presentations.
 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5 Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order
events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as
mystery, tension, or surprise.
 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its
development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific
details; provide an objective summary of the text.
 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.10 By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories,
dramas, and poems, in the grades 9?10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the
high end of the range.
By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high
end of the grades 9?10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on
meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or
informal tone).

Lesson 4.01

Directions: As you complete lesson 4.01, use the chart below to record notes on the terms listed as well as answer
the questions. Summarize your key take-aways from the lesson at the end.

Term/Key Word/Question Definitions/Examples/Answers

Clause A group of words acting as one part of speech
Independent Clause A clause that can stand as a sentence
Dependent Clause A clause that can’t stand as a sentence
Noun Clause
When should a dependent clause be It should be separated at the beginning, but not
separated from the rest of the sentence by at the end.
commas? When should it not? Answer on the
right-side.

List five different ways a noun clause can function Subject, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition
in a sentence. Answer on the right-side.

Summarize your key take-aways from lesson 4.01: learn about clauses
 Lesson 4.02

Directions: As you complete lesson 4.02, write down a definition and example for each term below. Summarize
your key take-aways from the lesson at the end.

Term Definition and Example

Figurative language Making connections from a real world to other
things to describe or give a deeper view
Iambic pentameter Has 10 syllables per line
Free verse A poem with no rhyming scheme
Internal rhyme Rhyming within the middle of the poem
Meter The pattern of how the poem is stressed
Poetic structure How the poem is set up, how it flows
Refrain Words that are repeated
Sonnet An Iambic pentameter that alternates stresses
every other syllable
Summarize your key take-aways from lesson 4.02:

To identify parts of poems

Lesson 4.03

Directions: As you complete lesson 4.03, use the chart below and answer the two questions. Summarize your key
take-aways from the lesson at the end.

Questions
How are “Sonnet 55” and “Love Is Not All” similar
and different? Consider at least two literary
elements, such as form, imagery, language, or
theme.
What subjects, in your opinion, would be
particularly suitable for writing about in sonnet
form? What subjects would be least suitable?
Explain your view.
Notes/Answers
They are different, because the theme of “sonnet
55” is that art is beautiful, but doesn’t last
forever, and in “love is not all” it talks about how
love won’t make your life for you. They both have
descriptive language
I find that more descriptive and theological
language is suitable, and more fun and bubbly
language is not as suitible

Summarize your key take-aways from lesson 4.03:

The differences and simmilaritys of sonnet 55 and love is not all, and examine text.
 Lesson 4.04

Directions: As you complete lesson 4.04, use the chart below and answer the questions. Summarize your key take-
aways from the lesson at the end.

Questions
In your opinion, what are the strengths and
weaknesses of “She Walks in Beauty"? Support
your opinion with specific evidence from the text
of the poem.
Notes/Answers
The weakness is that it took me a while to figure
out how it would say “and o’er that brow”
Because of the O’er part. The poem has amazing
figurative language

In your opinion, what are the strengths and
weaknesses of “The River Merchant’s Wife: A
Letter"? Support your opinion with specific
evidence from the text of the poem.
Give two or more examples of memorable
imagery from each poem. Which poem’s imagery
is more powerful, and why?
Summarize your key take-aways from lesson 4.04: do examine and pick apart narrative non fictions
A art of the poem that made me not want to read
it was that it was free form, but it also told a
great, and sad story, about her missing her love
“and you have been gone for five months. The
monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead”
“Paired butterflies are already yellow with
august”
“which waves in every raven tress”
She walks in beauty” is a better example for
imagery, because it is so descriptive, it is
impossible to not envision the woman

Lesson 4.06

Directions: As you complete lesson 4.06,, use the chart below to record notes on the terms listed. Summarize your
key take-aways from the lesson at the end.

Term Definitions/Examples/Answers
Genre A category of literary work
Memoir A narrative composed from personal experiences
Narrative Arc The development for the sequence of events in a
story
Point of View The perspective of the narrator
Short Story A short fictional narrative
Theme The main message that the author wants to
convey
Summarize your key take-aways from lesson 4.06: to learn about different types of stories.
 Lesson 4.07

Directions: As you complete lesson 4.07, use the chart below and answer the questions. Summarize your key take-
aways from the lesson at the end.

Questions Notes/Answers
Why might an author choose to write a memoir Because then they can tell what happen exactly,
about his or her real experiences rather than and have it be from them, not a bade up
turning them into a fictional story? character

What experience would you write about if you I would write about the time I cut my lip/nose
were to write a memoir? Why would you choose open. It would teach a lesson to listen to your
that one? parents

What techniques does Judith Ortiz Cofer use to
bring her experiences to life for readers?
What key techniques are often used in fiction as well
as in memoirs?
She uses description, and you can hear into her
thoughts, even though she is an unreliable
narrator.
I believe that unreliable narrators are used in
memoirs and fiction.

Summarize your key take-aways from lesson 4.07: How memories are different and similar to narrative
nonfictions