Topic: State Fair

Week 6

Topic: State Fair

Read the State Fair poem. Use this graphic organizer to collect sensory language that helps the reader create imagery.

See	Hear	Smell
Taste	Feel	Feelings

State Fair

The energy—

thousands of people swarming about Moms pushing strollers

couples holding hands

teenagers bored with excitement kids running

back and forth, around in circles

laughing Eyes wide open—

screaming, Big Tex smiles and waves

hot and sweaty. “Howdy Folks!”

cotton candy, corn dogs each ride sings its own music Ferris Wheel

stops at the top

“Hurry! Hurry! Step right up!” sticky and sunburned.

Everything at once—

auto show

carmel apples, nachos farm animals

extreme rides squeal in delight

“Announcing! The beginning of a show!” ice cream cone, funnel cake

BMX bike show pig races

spin the wheel

toss the rings Long day ending—

shoot the ball one more ride

“I won! I won!” on the carousel,

stuff the Snoopy under my arm enough of

chili and cheese fries the fried food

Texas Skyway the sweet cakes,

thirsty, the voices and laughter

dusty and dirty. of a thousand people

fading away, slowing down, dragging feet, dragging Snoopy, hot and sweaty, sticky,

sunburned, dusty, dirty,

“Where’s the car?”

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  Repetition: occurs when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem
  
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  Internal Rhyme: occurs when poets use rhyming words within the same line
  
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  Rhyme Scheme the pattern of rhyme that the poet uses
  
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  Alliteration the repetition of the first consonant sound in words, as in the nursery rhyme “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
  
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  Onomatopoeia words that represent the actual sound of something are words of onomatopoeia. Thunder “booms,” rain “drips,” and the clock “ticks.”Appeals to the sense of sound.
  

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  Simile compares two things using the words “like” or “as.”
  

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  Metaphors compare two things without using the words “like” or “as.”
  
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  Personification gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human – like animals or objects.
  

The pickety fence

Give it a lick it's

The pickety fence

Give it a lick it's

A clickety fence

When the night begins to fall

And the sky begins to glow

You look up and see the tall

City of lights begin to grow –

Sound Effects:

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  Repetition
  

A buttery, buttery, pancake.

Someone tossed a pancake

And flipped it up so high,

That now I see the pancake,

The buttery, buttery pancake,

Now I see that pancake

Stuck against the sky.

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  Internal Rhyme
  

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  Rhyme Scheme
  
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  Alliteration
  

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  Simile
  
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  Metaphors
  
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  Personification
  

***The highlighted Sensory Details are the examples you can use for modeling during your Minilesson.

The author’s use of figurative language in paragraph 12 emphasizes that –

Read these lines from the poem. “____”

The poet uses the figurative expression “___” to emphasize that the speaker –

The poet uses figurative language in line __ to highlight the speaker’s –

5.8A

The poet uses line 11 to signal that the speaker changes from –

In line 3, why does the poet repeat and italicize the words from line 2?

5.4/Fig.19D

This poem is mostly about a speaker who –