HW

Don't forget to complete your 2 HW assignments over break.

Enjoy the holidays.

HW over break

Students received copies of The Importance of Being Earnest. Students are to read the play over break and return with their favorite aphorism. Also, don't forget the voice thread assignment.

Voice Thread

Students received the following assignment to complete over the holiday break.

Go to http://voicethread.com/#home
I have a link on my blog.

Click on Register

Follow the instructions

Click About
5 Ways To Comment and view the tutorials

Go to my VoiceThread at https://voicethread.com/?#u299072.b1602475.i8469770
I have a link on my blog.

Listen to my instructions and complete the assignment by January 3.

*let me know if you have any trouble viewing my assignment

Assignment requirements:
• Must record the assignment in one take
• Must use the drawing feature
• You are not to speak an essay-this assignment should reflect your initial thoughts upon reading a poem and prompt. They need not be perfectly organized. Reason through things out loud.

Here are the answers to the multiple choice sections students completed today. Those who were not in class can check their own work. Make note of which question types posed a problem for you and which section you did better on. Also, calculate your score. There would be 3 more sections, so you can guess what your overall score might be on the full exam.

Poetry Essay

Students completed the following assignment in class today:

2002B Poem “If I Could Tell You” (W. H. Auden)
Prompt: The following poem is a villanelle, a form having strict rules of rhyme, meter, and repetition. Read the poem carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the formal elements of the poem contribute to its meaning.


If I Could Tell You W.H. Auden


Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.

If we should weep when clowns put on their show,
If we should stumble when musicians play,
Time will say nothing but I told you so.

There are no fortunes to be told, although,
Because I love you more than I can say,
If I could tell you I would let you know.

The winds must come from somewhere when they blow,
There must be reasons why the leaves decay;
Time will say nothing but I told you so.

Perhaps the roses really want to grow,
The vision seriously intends to stay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.

Suppose all the lions get up and go,
And all the brooks and soldiers run away;
Will Time say nothing but I told you so?
If I could tell you I would let you know.

Literary Terms

Today students took notes from the poster projects that they created. Students took the following quiz home:

Quiz-write the literary term below the example/definition
1. He had to use a fire distinguisher. Dad says the monster is just a pigment of my imagination.
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2. "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on the end. We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost shall be."

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3. "Oh, Death, be not proud."

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4. "It's just a flesh wound."
(Black Knight, after having both of his arms cut off, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
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5. The hero, the outcast, the scapegoat, the quest

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6. Pre-owned for used or second-hand; enhanced interrogation for torture; wind for belch or fart; convenience fee for surcharge

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7. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.

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8. "Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
(Samuel Johnson)

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9. Definition-: the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes

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10. A dream or illusion had haunted Lincoln at times through the winter. On the evening of his election he had thrown himself on one of the haircloth sofas at home, just after the first telegrams of November 6 had told him he was elected President, and looking into a bureau mirror across the room he saw himself full length, but with two faces. It bothered him; he got up; the illusion vanished; but when he lay down again there in the glass again were two faces, one paler than the other. He got up again, mixed in the election excitement, forgot about it; but it came back, and haunted him. He told his wife about it; she worried too. A few days later he tried it once more and the illusion of the two faces again registered to his eyes. But that was the last; the ghost since then wouldn't come back, he told his wife, who said it was a sign he would be elected to a second term, and the death pallor of one face meant he wouldn't live through his second term.

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11. Definition-the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning.

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12. smiling or dancing flowers, angry or cruel winds, brooding mountains, moping owls, or happy larks

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13. a secondary character who contrasts with a major character and, in so doing, highlights various facets of the main character's personality.

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14. "I look at this as being in the form of a house...and the students are the foundation, and the teachers are the walls, and the roof itself is the school. And we know that if you have a weak foundation, the walls and the roof can't be supported. Therefore, it crumbles."
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15. Definition-A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side, often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or ...

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16. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
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17. The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings
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Forms

Students have done a nice job teaching/explaining the English sonnet, Italian sonnet, and the Villanelle. Students were given the following project, which is due Tuesday 12/14:

You will be given a literary term to teach to the rest of the class. You will NOT, however, be presenting this term. You must create some type of poster/collage that contains the following:

Definition
Example
Reason for use-what could an author accomplish by using this device
Images representative of the device



Analogy
Anaphora
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Archetype
Cacophony
Caesura
Chiasmus
Connotation
Denotation
Doppelganger
Euphemism
Euphony
Foil
Juxtaposition
Malapropism
Metonymy
Paradox
Pathetic Fallacy
Portmanteau
Spoonerism
Synecdoche
Understatement

Have a nice weekend. We will begin studying the English sonnet on Monday.