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3 Read the Preview and the Setting a Purpose for Reading sections with your students. Tell them that this poem consists entirely of wordplay relating to money. Be sure they understand personification and synecdoche so they can annotate the poem.
4 FIRST READ: Based on the complexity of the passage and your knowledge of your students, you may choose to conduct the first reading in a variety of ways:
• independent reading • paired reading
• small-group reading • choral reading
• read aloud
5 As students are reading, monitor their progress. Be sure they are engaged with the text and annotating as directed. Evaluate whether the selected reading mode is effective.
6 Based on the observations you made during the first reading, you may want to adjust the reading mode. For example, you may decide to have several students read the poem as an oral interpretation using gestures and actions that seem appropriate.
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SCAFFOLDING THE TEXT-DEPENDENT QUESTIONS
1. Key Ideas and Details (RL.11–12.1) How does the poet feel about money? Cite evidence from the text to support your ideas. Does the poet have a positive or negative attitude toward money? Look for words in the poem that tell you.
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Money and the American Dream
Literary Terms
Personification is a figure of speech used to describe an object as having human qualities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
After 15 years in a business career, Dana Gioia became a full-time writer
in 1992. He is a literary and music critic, poet, and radio commentator who has also served as the chairman for the National Endowment of the Arts. His essay “Can Poetry Matter?” is considered one of the most influential literary criticisms in the last quarter century.
Poetry
Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or vice versa, for example, “all hands on deck,” meaning sailors (part to whole, as hands are part of a whole sailor), or “America will win the America’s Cup this year” (whole to part, where all of America is the whole and the team who competes in the America’s Cup is the part).
Preview
In this activity, you will read a poem and a scene from a seminal American play to analyze the relationship between money and the American Dream.
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• Highlight instances of personification.
• Underline instances of synecdoche.
• Take notes about the authors’ or characters’ attitude toward money.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
Money
by Dana Gioia
Money, the long green, cash, stash, rhino, jack or just plain dough.
Chock it up, fork it over, 5 shell it out. Watch it
burn holes through pockets.
To be made of it! To have it
to burn! Greenbacks, double eagles, megabucks and Ginnie Maes.
10 It greases the palm, feathers a nest, holds heads above water,
makes both ends meet.
Money breeds money.
Gathering interest, compounding daily.
My Notes
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