BRING GREEN LIT BOOK ALL WEEK
Monday:
Assign Poetry Presentation Project. This is a 6-10 minute partner presentation on a major poet who is represented in our green anthology. We will be begin presentations on Monday and work through them all before the AP exam.
Assign short short story assignment.
Homework: Work on projects and novel project. Remember you have had very little homework over the past couple weeks so that you could complete the novel project; if you didn't work on it that was a choice.
Block: In class we will go over diction, syntax and tone in poetry and prose. Poems to consider, include:
Henry IV soliloquy on insomnia.
Williams "Red Wheelbarrow"
First stanza of Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Homework: Read and take notes on Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
This is a is very difficult poem. It requires multiple readings. Questions you should be able to answer are here. You don't need to write them out or take on every one but go through them after you've read the poem a couple times with an eye to answering some to improve your understanding.
Read also Whitman's "I hear America Singing" in anthology. We will briefly discuss persona and the art of the long line on Thursday before turning to Eliot.
UPDATE: ON Block we look passages in the book Voice Lessons you can see a PDF here. Read and do the exercises on page 5 (Yeats), 7 (Heaney), 9 (Brown), 81 (steinbeck). We read Red Wheel barrow and Sailing to Byzantium. Thursday we read "To His Coy Mistress" We spent a lot of time on Henry IV's sleepless soliloquy. THe soliloquy and AP prompt and sample essays are here. Here also are the sample essays. If you missed class. Read it. Re-read it. Read commentary on it. You are responsible for all the poems we go over in class.
FOR FRIDAY: READ The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. It is in your anthology and on line. Questions to consider are linked above. Write one or two very thorough and thoughtful notes on the poem. Having these notes and your book or print out of the poem will count as a reading quiz. Please check back here for next week's assignments.
Monday:
Assign Poetry Presentation Project. This is a 6-10 minute partner presentation on a major poet who is represented in our green anthology. We will be begin presentations on Monday and work through them all before the AP exam.
Assign short short story assignment.
Homework: Work on projects and novel project. Remember you have had very little homework over the past couple weeks so that you could complete the novel project; if you didn't work on it that was a choice.
Block: In class we will go over diction, syntax and tone in poetry and prose. Poems to consider, include:
Henry IV soliloquy on insomnia.
Williams "Red Wheelbarrow"
First stanza of Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Homework: Read and take notes on Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
This is a is very difficult poem. It requires multiple readings. Questions you should be able to answer are here. You don't need to write them out or take on every one but go through them after you've read the poem a couple times with an eye to answering some to improve your understanding.
Read also Whitman's "I hear America Singing" in anthology. We will briefly discuss persona and the art of the long line on Thursday before turning to Eliot.
UPDATE: ON Block we look passages in the book Voice Lessons you can see a PDF here. Read and do the exercises on page 5 (Yeats), 7 (Heaney), 9 (Brown), 81 (steinbeck). We read Red Wheel barrow and Sailing to Byzantium. Thursday we read "To His Coy Mistress" We spent a lot of time on Henry IV's sleepless soliloquy. THe soliloquy and AP prompt and sample essays are here. Here also are the sample essays. If you missed class. Read it. Re-read it. Read commentary on it. You are responsible for all the poems we go over in class.
FOR FRIDAY: READ The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. It is in your anthology and on line. Questions to consider are linked above. Write one or two very thorough and thoughtful notes on the poem. Having these notes and your book or print out of the poem will count as a reading quiz. Please check back here for next week's assignments.