First and fourth periods broke into groups and worked on paraphrasing Sonnet 130, and then went over it. Students also practiced writing iambic pentameter in preparation for our sonnet writing...
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Sonnets and Close Reading
First and fourth periods finished up their in-depth analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29. After analyzing the sonnet, we moved on to Sonnet 18 to start piecing together the elements of a sonnet....
Analyzing and Comparing
First and Fourth periods continued working on their projects by analyzing and dividing, Shakespeare's Sonnet 29. We'll take a bit more time tomorrow to finish this up Second and seventh periods...
Slips of Understanding and Play Prep
First and fourth periods looked at Shakespeare's Sonnet number twenty-nine. When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless...
Parsing Long Sentences and the CRAP Test
First and fourth period students had a relatively relaxing day, playing with incredibly long sentences that we took apart or created, all in anticipation of parsing some of Shakespeare's long...
Meter and More Acting/Reading
First and fourth periods looked at meter in anticipation of tackling Romeo and Juliet. We'll be finishing up the poetry unit by looking at sonnets before heading off to R&J. (Notes for both...
Villanelles and Comparisons
Today in first and fourth periods we explored the poetic form known as the villanelle. We evaluated the patterns in poems such as "The Waking" and "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" to...
Tone Continued and Comparing Media
Today in first and fourth periods we looked at tone again and evaluated some more of Billy Collins' poems. We mostly looked at "The Lanyard" because of the tone change. The Lanyard The other day I...
Tone and Drama
Today in first and fourth periods we evaluated "My Papa's Waltz" and started on "Forgetfulness". We also talked about and learned to identify tone and mood in a poem. Second and fourth periods began...
Rhythm and Projects
First and fourth periods looked at rhyming and rhythm. We looked at the poem called "Papa's Waltz" and "The Gift." We looked at the pattern of stressed and unstressed words. Second and seventh...
Winter Sundays and Diaries
First and fourth Periods finished looking at the poem by Denise Levertov, and looked at it's meaning. Intrusion After I had cut off my hands and grown new ones something my former hands had longed...
Because You Asked and Anticipation
Today in first and fourth periods we broke down and analyzed two poems, "Because you asked about the line between Prose and Poetry" and "Introduction to Poetry". See below for a video of the first...
