1.  Match Game – Match the event and the results that occurred.

  1. Bad grades 1. Bobby was jealous
  2. Car wreck 2. Diet
  3. Christmas 3. Failed
  4. Drought 4. Grounded
  5. Excessive rain 5. Irrigation
  6. Free time 6. Lost a friend
  7. Lied 7. Lost crops
  8. New Baby 8. Read a book
  9. Overweight 9. Trip to Gatlinburg
  10. Summer 10. Trip to Grandma’s house

2.  Definitions

  1. Despair
  1. Drake
  1. Heron
  1. Forethought
  1. Tax

3.  Author Info:

  1. Wendell Berry is a ______without a ______and a ______without a ______.
  2. ______and the ______are central to his writing and his work.
  3. His first novel was ______.
  4. His nature writing is compared to ______and ______.
  5. Berry promotes the message that ______and ______for ______are ______to human life.

4.  “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

5.  Cause and effect –

  1. What are the initial feelings that cause the speaker to take action?
  1. What action does the speaker take as a result of these feelings, and what is the effect of his action?
  1. What effect might the sunrise have on the speaker?

6.  Graphic Organizer (attached)

7.  Comma Exercise – Place commas in the correct places in the sentences below.

  1. After I finished doing the dishes I helped my dad mow the lawn.
  2. Because the sweaters were on sale Stuart bought three.
  3. While it was snowing outside Simon was daydreaming about sunny beaches.
  4. Whenever I go to that restaurant I run into a friend.
  5. Because she couldn’t find an opener Sandy didn’t open the can.
  6. Although I had never seen my aunt before I recognized her instantly.
  7. Wherever we went we put up flyers announcing the play.
  8. If we understood the rules we would be able to play the game.
  9. Though he was in no immediate danger we were still concerned.
  10. After Sabine went back to France we promised to write letters every week.

8.  Choose the sentence that is written correctly.

a.  After they left the theater John and Kim went out to dinner.

  1. Whenever I get a cold I feel miserable.
  2. While we were on the plane to Hawaii I had a wonderful dream.
  3. Because he is a fine athlete, Terry will compete for a scholarship.

9.  Choose the sentence that is written incorrectly.

  1. Whenever we ice-skate, we put on our mittens.
  2. As long as it doesn’t rain the charity event will be a success.
  3. Unless you apologize, he will go away.
  4. So that she could better serve God,,Sister Teresa promised to remain in poverty, to take no pay for her work, and to own only a few things.

10.  Choose the sentence that does not have an error in it.

  1. If you have never heard the name of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu,you’re not alone.
  2. Although Agnes may be the most famous person in the world,,few know her original name.
  3. Although both Orthodox churches and Muslim mosques were plentiful in Agnes’s town,,her family was Catholic.
  4. After her father died,young, Agnes became increasingly involved in the church.

11.  Journal: Berry worries about how his life and his children’s lives will turn out. What do you worry about? Use at least one introductory adverb clause.


Poetry Analysis

Poem Title ______My Name: ______

Author’s Purpose / ___Persuade
___Inform
___Describe
___Entertain
___Express an opinion
Audience (Who is the author writing for)
Setting (Time and place)
Point of View / ___First person (I)
___Second Person (you)
___Third Person Limited (he, she, it, they)
(We know only what the narrator is telling.)
___Third Person Omniscient (he, she, it, they)
(We know everything.)
Unfamiliar Words & Definitions
Imagery/Descriptive Words (descriptive language that appeals to sight, hearing, touch, taste, and/or smell)
Figurative Language (figures of speech that are not literally true, but express a truth beyond the literal level) / ____Simile (comparison using the words like or as)
____Metaphor (comparison implying an underlining
similarity between two things)
____Hyperbole (exaggeration)
____Oxymoron (opposite ideas are combined)
____Personification (an animal, object, force of
nature, or an idea is given human
characteristics)
Symbolism (an object, person, place, animal, event that literally exists in the work, but also has a figurative meaning)
Tone (an author’s attitude toward his/her subject matter)
Mood (emotional quality of a literary work – what you feel when you read the work)
Sound Devices (techniques used to emphasize particular sounds in writing) / ____Alliteration (repetition of consonant sounds,
generally at the beginning of words)
____Assonance (repetition of same or similar vowel
sounds within non-rhyming words)
____Consonance (repetition of consonant sounds
within or at the end of words that do not have
the same vowel sounds)
____Onomatopoeia (word imitates or suggests the
sound of what it describes)
____Rhyme (repetition of the same stressed vowel
sounds in two or more words)
____Rhythm (pattern of beats created by the
arrangement of stressed and unstressed
syllables)
Theme (main idea, message, moral, thesis)
Unusual Elements / ____Allusion (a reference to a well-known character,
situation, or place)
____Apostrophe (speaker addresses an inanimate
object, an idea, or an absent person)
____Catalog (listing of images, details, people, or
events)
____Enjambment (The continuation of a sentence
from one line of poetry to the next)
____Epiphany (A sudden understanding of the
meaning of something)
____Irony (a contrast between appearance and
reality)

1.  Copy the following on the board for the students to copy in their reading notebooks.

  1. Cause and effect relationships explain why something happens. Another way of explaining cause and effect is that it shows action and reaction.
  2. Cause is why the event happens; event is what happens.
  3. Ask yourself the following questions: Why did this happen (cause)? What’s the result of this (effect)?
  4. Some examples of words that are clue words or signal words for cause and effect are the following: In order to; when; because; so that; if; as a result of; that way; so; consequently; therefore; for this reason; since; due to

2.  Copy the following on the board for the students to copy in their language notebooks.

  1. An adverb clause is a subordinate clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.
  2. It is used to tell when, where, why, how, to what extent, or under what conditions.
  3. An adverb clause is usually introduced by a subordinating conjunction. After; as long as; if; than; whenever; although; as soon as; in order that; though; where; as; as though; since; unless; whereas; as far as; because; so; until; wherever; as if; before; so that; when; while
  4. Use commas to set off all introductory adverb clauses.
  5. Use commas to set off internal adverb clauses that interrupt the flow of the sentence.

3.  Match Game – Match the event and the results that occurred.

  1. Bad grades -- 3 1. Bobby was jealous
  2. Car wreck -- 4 2. Diet
  3. Christmas -- 10 3. Failed
  4. Drought -- 5 4. Grounded
  5. Excessive rain -- 7 5. Irrigation
  6. Free time -- 8 6. Lost a friend
  7. Lied -- 6 7. Lost crops
  8. New Baby -- 1 8. Read a book
  9. Overweight -- 2 9. Trip to Gatlinburg
  10. Summer -- 9 10. Trip to Grandma’s house

4.  Definitions

a.  Despair – loss of hope

b.  Drake -- a male duck – Germanic in origin – part of a compound word andrake, which meant “duck drake”

c.  Heron -- any of numerous long-legged, long-necked, usually long-billed birds of the family Ardeidae, including the true herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns

  1. Forethought -- a thinking of something beforehand
  2. Tax – to place a heavy burden on

5.  Author Info:

  1. Wendell Berry is a farmer without a tractor and a writer without a computer.
  2. Nature and the environment are central to his writing and his work.
  3. His first novel was Nathan Coulter.
  4. His nature writing is compared to William Wordsworth and Henry David Thoreau.
  5. Berry promotes the message that respect and appreciation for nature are essential to human life.

6.  “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

7.  Cause and effect –

  1. What are the initial feelings that cause the speaker to take action? – Despair and fear for his and his children’s future.
  2. What action does the speaker take as a result of these feelings, and what is the effect of his action? – He lies down near water. He gains peace of mind from nature.
  3. What effect might the sunrise have on the speaker? -- His anxieties return.

8.  Graphic Organizer

Poetry Analysis

Poem Title “The Peace of Wild Things” My Name: ______

Author’s Purpose / ___Persuade
___Inform
___Describe
___Entertain
___Express an opinion
Audience (Who is the author writing for) / Anyone
Setting (Time and place) / “still water” (lake, pond, wetland where waterfowl feed or nest)
Point of View / ___First person (I)
___Second Person (you)
___Third Person Limited (he, she, it, they)
(We know only what the narrator is telling.)
___Third Person Omniscient (he, she, it, they)
(We know everything.)
Unfamiliar Words & Definitions / See definitions are beginning
Imagery/Descriptive Words (descriptive language that appeals to sight, hearing, touch, taste, and/or smell) / Sound, Lie down, rests, beauty, lie down, still water, day-blind stars
Figurative Language (figures of speech that are not literally true, but express a truth beyond the literal level) / ____Simile (comparison using the words like or as)
____Metaphor (comparison implying an underlining
similarity between two things)
____Hyperbole (exaggeration)
____Oxymoron (opposite ideas are combined)
____Personification (an animal, object, force of
nature, or an idea is given human
characteristics)
Symbolism (an object, person, place, animal, event that literally exists in the work, but also has a figurative meaning) / Still water symbolizes peace.
Night symbolizes worry.
Birds symbolize peace.
Tone (an author’s attitude toward his/her subject matter) / Distress, then peace
Mood (emotional quality of a literary work – what you feel when you read the work) / Serenity, hope
Sound Devices (techniques used to emphasize particular sounds in writing) / ____Alliteration (repetition of consonant sounds,
generally at the beginning of words)
____Assonance (repetition of same or similar vowel
sounds within non-rhyming words)
____Consonance (repetition of consonant sounds
within or at the end of words that do not have
the same vowel sounds)
____Onomatopoeia (word imitates or suggests the
sound of what it describes)
____Rhyme (repetition of the same stressed vowel
sounds in two or more words)
____Rhythm (pattern of beats created by the
arrangement of stressed and unstressed
syllables)
Theme (main idea, message, moral, thesis) / Live in the present; do not worry about the future.
Unusual Elements
Free verse / ____Allusion (a reference to a well-known character,
situation, or place)
____Apostrophe (speaker addresses an inanimate
object, an idea, or an absent person)
____Catalog (listing of images, details, people, or
events)
____Enjambment (The continuation of a sentence
from one line of poetry to the next)
____Epiphany (A sudden understanding of the
meaning of something)
____Irony (a contrast between appearance and
reality) That wild animals provide peace.

9.  Comma Exercise – Place commas in the correct places in the sentences below.

  1. After I finished doing the dishes, I helped my dad mow the lawn.
  2. Because the sweaters were on sale, Stuart bought three.
  3. While it was snowing outside, Simon was daydreaming about sunny beaches.
  4. Whenever I go to that restaurant, I run into a friend.
  5. Because she couldn’t find an opener, Sandy didn’t open the can.
  6. Although I had never seen my aunt before, I recognized her instantly.
  7. Wherever we went, we put up flyers announcing the play.
  8. If we understood the rules, we would be able to play the game.
  9. Though he was in no immediate danger, we were still concerned.
  10. After Sabine went back to France, we promised to write letters every week.

10.  Choose the sentence that is written correctly.

a.  After they left the theater John and Kim went out to dinner.

  1. Whenever I get a cold I feel miserable.
  2. While we were on the plane to Hawaii I had a wonderful dream.
  3. Because he is a fine athlete, Terry will compete for a scholarship.

11.  Choose the sentence that is written incorrectly.

  1. Whenever we ice-skate, we put on our mittens.
  2. As long as it doesn’t rain the charity event will be a success.
  3. Unless you apologize, he will go away.
  4. So that she could better serve God,,Sister Teresa promised to remain in poverty, to take no pay for her work, and to own only a few things.

12.  Choose the sentence that does not have an error in it.

  1. If you have never heard the name of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu,you’re not alone.
  2. Although Agnes may be the most famous person in the world,few know her original name.
  3. Although both Orthodox churches and Muslim mosques were plentiful in Agnes’s town,,her family was Catholic.
  4. After her father died,young Agnes became increasingly involved in the church.

13.  Journal: Berry worries about how his life and his children’s lives will turn out. What do you worry about?

Although I try not to worry because God says he will take care of me, I worry most about my family. I am concerned for their safety and their health. I also worry about financial responsibilities for myself and my family. As if that isn’t enough to worry about, I worry about my students’ futures and whether they will pass the grad exam.

14.  Reading comprehension worksheets: Cause and effect