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Webercise

The document provides reading assignments and analysis questions for two poems: "The Caterpillar" by Anna Letitia Barbauld and "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth. Students are asked to identify the speaker and audience in each poem, note any allusions, analyze diction and tone, and locate other literary devices. Students will then create flashcards on Quizlet about the diction in one poem and take a related quiz on Quia.

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Webercise

The document provides reading assignments and analysis questions for two poems: "The Caterpillar" by Anna Letitia Barbauld and "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth. Students are asked to identify the speaker and audience in each poem, note any allusions, analyze diction and tone, and locate other literary devices. Students will then create flashcards on Quizlet about the diction in one poem and take a related quiz on Quia.

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Deciphering Meaning through Text

Webercise: A Lesson on “The Caterpillar” and “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”

CCSS.ELA:
RL.11-12.2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text,
including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
RL.11-12.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative
meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or
language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.) (See grade 11–12
Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA
W.11-12.10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a
single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

SLO:
After evaluating two more pieces of literature by different authors, students will be able to interpret either author’s purpose in
a coherent, written paragraph.

Visit YouTube to listen to a reading of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s “The Caterpillar.” Visit YouTube again to follow along to this
reading of William Wordsworth’s “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.”

Identify what is going on in Barbauld’s poem. Who is the Identify what is going on in Wordsworth’s poem. Who
speaker, and to whom is he/she speaking? is the speaker, and to whom is he/she speaking?

Are there any allusions in her poem? Check the shift that What kinds of imagery are present here? List two
occurs in line 30. examples.

How does diction lend to tone here? Choose five words How does diction lend to tone here? Is the tone static
that accurately support your argument. or dynamic? Choose five to ten words to aid in
supporting your claim(s).

Locate at least one other literary device utilized in her Locate at least one other literary device utilized in his
poem. poem.

Create an account on Quizlet to create a minimum of five flashcards based off of the diction in one of the poems. Additional
flashcards will receive extra credit. Recreate your cards in the space below.
Visit Quia and take this Quiz. It is worth five points and grammar (capitalization, punctuation, etc.) matters. Be specific and be
sure to cite examples.

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