Bias, Persuasion, and the Sonnet

First period reviewed the notes from reading yesterday. Yesterday’s lesson was a two-fold lesson: first,…

November 11, 2010

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First period reviewed the notes from reading yesterday. Yesterday’s lesson was a two-fold lesson: first, they got information about bias; second, they worked on note-taking skills. Yet the second objective can foil the first, so we made sure everyone knew what innuendo, stereotype, proof surrogate, and other bias-related terms meant.

Second and sixth, after starters, applied their knowledge of persuasive devices to persuasive pieces. Looking at several articles, they identified the persuasive devices in action. We worked via Moodle in the computer lab.

Fourth period began the classic poetic form: the sonnet. We looked at Robert Frost’s “Once By the Pacific” to begin with. We quickly moved on to Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet, the eighteenth. We ended with one of my all-time favorite sonnets (though really almost a pseudo-sonnet), William Merideth’s “The Illiterate.” Tomorrow we’ll examine the poems closely in order to determine what exactly makes a sonnet a sonnet.

Homework
  • Second and sixth period: vocabulary quiz.
  • First and fourth period: none.

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