Unit 1:

Anglo-
American
Literature:
Enhancing the
Self
Speech Choir
-is a performance group that
recite speeches in unison;
-with choreography and
costuming
 2 Types of
Speech Choir
 • Conventional Speech Choir or Traditional
Speech Choir

-it does not require to

use costumes, props,
nor choreography
2. Dynamic Speech Choir or Theatrical Cho

-it require to use

costumes, props, and
choreography
 Elements of
Speech Choir

• Members
- typically the same size of a singing choir (has 12-
100);
-most schools and competitions features 25 to 40
members.
 Categories of members:
Categories:
• Light group- females with high
voices
• Medium group- female with
deeper voices and young males
• Dark group- males with deep
voices
 2. Piece/s
-typically poems or poetic passages,
such as Greek dramas or
Shakespeare's plays.
 3. Choreography
-adds flavor to the performance.
 4. Costume
-can be simple as in uniform outfits
or as sophisticated as those used in
theatre.
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Distinguishing Notable
Anglo-American Lyric
Poetry
-short poem
-has songlike quality
-it expresses the speaker’s personal
emotion and feelings.
 • Types of Lyric Poetry

1. Sonnets
-is a poem usually made up of
14 lines in section that follows a
strict rhyme scheme.
2. Villanelle
-is a highly structured poem
made up of five tercets
followed by a quatrain with
two repeating rhymes and
two refrains.
3. Rondeau
-French form of poetry
composed of 15 lines;
5. Elegy
-a serious or sorrowful poem
for dead
4. Pantoum
-composed of four-line
stanzas
6. Ode
-a lyric poem that celebrates
a person, thing, or idea.
 Italian word
Sonnet “sonetto,”
which itself
derives from
“suono”
(meaning “a
sound”)
Villanelle Italian
"villano"
means
peasant
 French word for
Rondeau "round," began as a
lyric form in
thirteenth-century
France, popular
among medieval
court poets and
musicians.
Petrarchan named after the
sonnet Italian poet
Francesco
Petrarch, a lyrical
poet of
fourteenth-
century Italy.
 Shakespeare's
relationship to
Shakespearea the English
sonnet is
n sonnet analogous to
Petrarch's
relationship to
the Italian
sonnet.
 named for the poet
Spenserian Edmund Spenser;

sonnet comprises three

interlocked quatrains
and a final couplet,
with the rhyme
scheme ABAB
BCBC CDCD EE
Spenserian named for
sonnet the ancient
Greek poet
Pindar
 Named after
Horatian ode Roman poet
Horace
 GRADE 9 ENGLISH

Normal and
Inverted Word
Order
What makes a
sentence make
sense?
 Normal or
Standard Word
Order
-WHEN THE SUBJECT Example:
COMES BEFORE THE • Jamie loves to listen to
VERB. bedtime stories.
• I owe you one.
 Inverted Word
Order
-WHEN THE SUBJECT
COMES AFTER THE Examples:
VERB, IN-BETWEEN VERB • Turn off the light.
PARTS, OR IS NOT
INCLLUDED AT ALL.
• Are you asking me to
stay?
Creative
Writing
Creative -writing with
Writing the creativity
of mind.
Features of
Informative
Writing - a factual writing that
conveys information about
something or someone.
Jazz Chant
Jazz Chant -is a rhythmic
expression of
natural
language.
-is a rhythmic
expression of natural
language.