First and fourth periods finished up the poetry mini-unit by looking at how to write a sonnet. There’s substantial planning involved, and we went through the steps as a class.

First period’s initial effort:

This poem can’t write itself so I despair.
My head is full of mindless, aimless thoughts

1. that leave my sheet of paper very bare.
2. The sheet can’t bare from all these tears
3. of all the useless thoughts I could have shared.

Fourth period’s first effort:

This stuff will kick the sense right from my head.
I can’t believe that it is due next week
When I wake up I feel like I am dead.

Second and seventh periods finished up evaluating web sites as the first step in our major project for the second quarter unit.

Homework

• English I Honors: begin working on the sonnet, which is due next Friday (15 November). Materials are available here.