First and fifth period continued working on inferring. We practiced making inferences with various photos, inferring what came before and after, what motivated the actors, etc. For each inference, students then had to provide evidence from the photos and evaluate each others’ evidence.

Second and fourth periods continued working with sonnets. We looked one more of Shakespeare’s sonnets, “Sonnet 130,”

before broadening our scope to include Frost’s  “Once By the Pacific.”

The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the Light was spoken.

Additionally, we examined William Merrideth’s “The Illiterate,” certainly one of the most original sonnets ever written.

Homework

• First period: complete Shaffer planning in which you take the three pieces of evidence from the graphic organizer from class and consolidate them into two CDs (concrete details).
• Second and fourth:
  • research sonnets and determine what are the names of the two types of sonnets;
  • take notes on the characteristics of the two sonnet types; and
  • classify the five sonnets according to the types of sonnets from research (see above).
• Fifth period: none.