First and fifth period finished the Diary of Anne Frank. We also began wrapping up the Anne first/later impressions work by examining the actual final diary entry (as opposed to the invented entry from the play).

First period’s overview

Fifth period’s overview

Second and fourth periods began working on their sonnets. We began with a whimsical sonnet by Billy Collins:

Poem annotations

We wrote one quatrain together as a class today in order to work out some of the kinks of the process and acclimate students to the challenges of writing in iambic pentameter.

Initial efforts and notes about the process

As a side note, the test scheduled for next Wednesday with first and fifth periods has been postponed to January 3, the day after our return from winter break.

Homework

• First and fifth periods: none.
• Second and fourth periods: continue working on poetry anthology project.