March 23, 2012

Proverbs; discuss



Last chapter discussed.



Mark, perform, and hand in:

Passionate Shepherd (295) or

Nymph’s Reply (298)

Some students will take their tests today.




Reminders:

Monday, 4-2, packet for Things Fall Apart is due.

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages)

Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Discuss when the test will be taken. Remind students that the marked glossary terms will be on the test. Some students want to take the test Friday. I will allow that. The rest take it Monday. For everyone, the packet is due on Monday. 
We discussed that there are certain words in the glossary in the back of the book that will  be on a matching test. We reviewed them.


Things Fall Apart:  Read 22,23,24, and read 25 on your own. This is the last chapter of the book. The last paragraph is extremely important. Don't skip it.





Since today was shortened, we will work Friday with the two poems. Passionate Shepherd (295) or Nymph’s Reply (298)



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Reminders:

Monday, 4-2, packet for Things Fall Apart is due.

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages)

Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Lit terms conflict, inner and external



Passionate Shepherd (295)  Guys write your one page on this poem.

Nymph’s Reply (298) Girls write your one page on this poem.
.The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of th purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love,
    -- Christopher Marlowe






The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.

Time drives the flocks from field to fold
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb;
The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields;
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall,

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten--
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral claps and somber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.

But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.
    -- Sir Walter Raleigh

Paragraph one should be a short summary. It should be three sentences or less. No need to prove your points in this summary. Be specific but be brief.

Paragraph 2 should be about theme. Theme is a statement about life.
Paragraph 3 should be about author's skills. How does he get his theme across?
If you need Paragraph 4 to fill the page, you may use connections.





Warnings: Do not use the words "I think" or "It seems to me".
This is the format for a paragraph.
1. Make a point. This could also be called thesis or topic sentence.
2. Give evidence.
3. Explain and/ or
4. Explore the evidence.

Judging from this, typical paragraphs can be about 4-7 sentences.



Review 19, read 20 and 21 from Things Fall Apart. We will finish the book tomorrow.


Reminders:

Monday, 4-2, packet from Things Fall Apart is due.
Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages) Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Tuesday, March 21, 2012

Lit terms:  cliché, comic relief, coming of age

Discuss and hand in "at Peace"

Things Fall Apart:  Review chapter 16,

Read 17 and 18 in class out loud. Read 19 on their own.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Lit terms: chronological order, flashback


Time to work on packets



Outside reading;



Review 13, read 14 and 15, assign 16

At Peace- Nervo
Read the poem. Write one page on this poem and it will be worth 20 points. Start with a paragraph of summary. One sentence might do it for this summary  Start a new paragraph for theme. You may go in other directions if you would like and if you need more writing Connections with other poems or with your own life would be great topics of discussion. As always writing about author's skills is a good topic. Remember: New paragraphs depict new ideas

            At Peace- Amado Nervo

Very near my setting sun, I bless you, Life

because you  gave me neither unfilled hope

nor unfair work, nor undeserved pain

Because I see at the end of my rough way

that I was the architect of my own destiny

and if I extracted the sweetness or the bitterness of things

it was because I put the sweetness or the bitterness in them

when I planted rose bushes I always harvested roses

. . . Certainly, winter is going to follow my youth

But you didn’t tell me that May was eternal

I found without a doubt long my nights of pain

But you didn’t promise me only good nights

And in exchange I had some peaceful ones

I loved, I was loved, the sun caressed my face

Life, you owe me nothing, Life, we are at peace!

            Artifex vitae artifex sui   Amado Nervo

Muy cerca de mi ocaso, yo te bendigo, Vida,

porque nunca me diste ni esperanza fallida,

ni trabajos injustos, ni pena inmerecida;

Porque veo al final de mi rudo camino

que yo fui el arquitecto de mi propio destino;

que si extraje la mieles o la hiel de las cosas,

fue porque en ellas puse hiel o mieles sabrosas:

cuando planté rosales coseché siempre rosas.

. . . Cierto, a mis lozanías va a seguir el invierno:

¡mas tú no me dijiste que mayo fuese eterno!

Hallé sin duda largas las noches de mis penas;

mas no me prometiste tan sólo noches buenas;

y en cambio tuve algunas santamente serenas...

Amé, fui amado, el sol acarició mi faz.

¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages) Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Tuesday and Wednesday, March 13 & 14

Mr.. Dessert was not here these two days. We continued reading chapters from Things Fall Apart.  We have read chapters 10,11,12, and 13.  We have continued to fill out answers in the packet over the book. Remember that answers need to be written using complete sentences.

Monday, March 12, 2012

new Seating chart

Time to work on packets



Outside reading;



Things Fall Apart:  Read 8th ch. In class. 9th on your own.



Reminders:

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages) Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Friday, March 9, 2012

Achebe video.
We watched from the 15:00 minute mark for about ten minutes. If anyone wants to watch more of it and take notes on it, that would be an example of curiosity.


Things Fall Apart:  . Review Chapter 4
Read 5 and 6 in class,
read chapter 7 at home.  Start filling out your packets.



Outside reading;



Reminders:

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages)

Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Things Fall Apart.  Read chapter 3 in class, 4 at home



TFA packets. Answers go in the end of the packet. Except for keeping up with the family tree at the end, there is little to write in the packet now.



We read in class the first two pages of the packet and discussed what we learned about the culture of the time. There will be many similarities with what happens in our book.



Reminders:

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages)

Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Pick up Things Fall Apart from IMC. We read Chapter One in class. Read Chapter Two at home. It shouldn't take you more than ten minutes.



Outside reading check. Outside reading time for those who are finished with the test.


Canterbury Tales test finish for those who were not done yesterday.



Finish watching Knight’s Tale. Start at 1:53





Reminders:

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages) Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Tuesday, March 6. 2012

Finish watching Knight’s Tale. Start at 1:19but we got to  1:53

Pick up Things Fall Apart from IMC.



Pass in your papers over “To an Athlete Dying Young”

Outside reading check.



Lit term: flat and round character Flat character has few character traits; Round character is fully developed character with many sides to his character.



Canterbury Tales test




Reminders:

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages)

Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Monday, March 5, 2012

Outside reading check.



“To a louse” due today.



Any extra credit of “To a Louse”?  Kendra learned fifteen lines! Wow!



“To an Athlete Dying Young” page 927
To an Athlete Dying Young    A.E. Housman
            THE TIME you won your town the race
            We chaired you through the market-place;
            Man and boy stood cheering by,
            And home we brought you shoulder-high.

            To-day, the road all runners come,         5
            Shoulder-high we bring you home,
            And set you at your threshold down,
            Townsman of a stiller town.

            Smart lad, to slip betimes away
            From fields where glory does not stay         10
            And early though the laurel grows
            It withers quicker than the rose.

            Eyes the shady night has shut
            Cannot see the record cut,
            And silence sounds no worse than cheers         15
            After earth has stopped the ears:

            Now you will not swell the rout
            Of lads that wore their honours out,
            Runners whom renown outran
            And the name died before the man.         20

            So set, before its echoes fade,
            The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
            And hold to the low lintel up
            The still-defended challenge-cup.

            And round that early-laurelled head         25
            Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
            And find unwithered on its curls
            The garland briefer than a girl's.

Bring ID tomorrow.


Lit terms  blank verse, characters static and dynamic.



Reminders:

Tuesday, 3-6, Canterbury Tale Final

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages) Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)

Friday, March 2, 2012

Final group presented poem

"To a Louse" due on Monday. Make sure it is one page long. Start with a summary. The central focus of the paper could be the famous lines from the poem. Discover them or research them. Explain them. Explore them. Fill the page out with connections, author's skills, and theme.

Any lines memorized in the original form of "To a Louse" will receive one point per line up to 15.
Due Monday.

Watch Knight's Tale. We made it in class up to 1:19.

Mr. McCarty was our guest speaker today.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

foreshadowing, metaphor, simile


On Thursday,  Nettaly, Brandon,  and Kendra's groups present poems.

On Friday, Mayte's group presents their poem.



To a louse. I handed out this poem. For Monday, write a full page. One short paragraph summary. The heading on the paper helps you with that. Make sure you reread the heading. Particularly find the famous lines from the poem. One could write an entire page on that. If you need more ideas, write connections, author's skills, or theme.

An extra credit point for every line of the original poem that you memorize and perform in class on Monday.

To A Louse.  (P 844 of the green textbok.)

On seeing one on a lady's bonnet at church.

The following Burns' poem again has one line that is often quoted, though I doubt that most readers would have sny  idea where it comes from, or what the subject of the line refers to. It never ceases to amaze me in reading his poems, the depth of his understanding of human nature and his interpretation of it to the animal kingdom. It was one Sunday while sitting behind a young 'lady' in the church, that he noticed a head louse roaming over its domain in the bows and ribbons of her hat, and I assume her hair. Poor woman, little did she know that she would, with her head companion, be the subject of one of Burns' poems, on how we see ourselves, and how we think other people see us.

Extra credit? An extra credit point for each line of the original you learn by Monday to be recited in class. Maximum 15. 

 To a Louse:

Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie? 


Your impudence protects you sairly, 


I canna say but ye strut rarely 


Owre gauze and lace, 


Tho' faith! I fear ye dine but sparely 


On sic a place.



Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner, 


Detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner, 


How daur ye set your fit upon her -- 


Sae fine a lady! 


Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner


On some poor body.



Swith! in some beggar's hauffet squattle: 


There you may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle

Wi' ither kindred, jumping cattle, 


In shoals and nations; 


Whare horn nor bane ne'er dare unsettle 


Your thick plantations.



Now haud you there! ye're out o' sight, 


Below the fatt'rils, snug an' tight; 


Na, faith ye yet! ye'll no be right, 


Till ye've got on it --- 


The vera tapmost, tow'ring height 


O' miss's bonnet.



My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out,


As plump an' grey as onie grozet: 


O for some rank, mercurial rozet, 


Or fell, red smeddum, 


I'd gie ye sic a hearty dose o't, 


Wad dress your droddum!



I wad na been surpris'd to spy 


You on an auld wife's flainen toy: 


Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, 


On's wyliecoat; 


But Miss's fine Lunardi! fye! 


How daur ye do't.



O Jenny, dinna toss your head, 


An' set your beauties a' abread!

You little ken what cursed speed 


The blastie's makin! 


Thae winks an' finger-ends, I dread, 


Are notice takin'!



O wad some Power the giftie gie us 


To see oursels as ithers see us! 


It wad frae monie a blunder free us, 


An' foolish notion: 


What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, 


An' ev'n devotion!

Translation of the poem to more modern English:

 

Ha! Where are you going, you crawling wonder?


Your impudence protects you sorely,

I can not say but you swagger rarely


Over gauze and lace,


Though faith! I fear you dine but sparingly


On such a place



You ugly, creeping, blasted wonder,


Detested, shunned by saint and sinner,


How dare you set your foot upon her –

Such fine a lady!


Go somewhere else and seek your dinner
On some poor body



Off! in some beggar's temples squat:


There you may creep, and sprawl, and scramble,


With other kindred, jumping cattle,


In shoals and nations;


Where horn nor bone never dare unsettle


Your thick plantations



Now hold you there! you are out of sight,


Below the falderals, snug and tight;


No, faith you yet! you will not be right,


Until you have got on it ---


The very topmost, towering height


Of misses bonnet.



My sooth! right bold you set your nose out,


As plump and gray as any gooseberry:


O for some rank, mercurial resin,


Or deadly, red powder,


I would give you such a hearty dose of it,


Would dress your breech!



I would not have been surprised to spy


You on an old wife's flannel cap:


Or maybe some small ragged boy,


On his undervest;


But Miss's fine balloon bonnet! fye!


How dare you do it.



O Jenny do not toss your head,


And set your beauties all abroad!


You little know what cursed speed


The blastie's making!


Those winks and finger-ends, I dread,


Are notice takiing!



O would some Power the gift to give us


To see ourselves as others see us!


It would from many a blunder free us,


And foolish notion:


What airs in dress and gait would leave us,


And even devotion!

Bring outside reading tomorrow.



Reminders:

Wednesday, 2-29, Reflective essay due

Wednesday, 2-29, Graduation diploma info sheets due to classroom.

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages)

Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)