1st Google: The Simpsons The Raven
2nd watch any version of this short five minute clip, (and I would recommend watching it numerous times as you work through this assignment) because this assignment is not easy?
3rd. Google: The Raven text
4th Copy and paste the original version into word document
5th Delete the stanzas 8-16 (paragraph within a poem)….keeping only stanzas 1-8 and 17-18.
6th The vocabulary is complicated so you are going to have look up a lot of words because....
7th You are going to translate the stanzas from Edgar Allen Poe into modern English so that a 3rd grader would be able to understand them....( I will do the first one here for an example) The rest is up to you. This assignment is due Friday.
The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
One dull midnight, I was thinking, weak and tired
over many interesting books of knights
While I was almost asleep there was a knocking
as like it was someone gently knocking on my room door
I said, "it is just a vistor, knocking at my room door."
On this
The translation doesn't have to be word for word but it does need to be somewhat detailed so I get a general idea of the meaning of each stanza.
New Vocab....define as usual
Stanza
Internal Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Raven
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