Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Journal 7: Couplet

A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. The poem should be at least 14 lines long and establish a clear end rhyme scheme.

Beneath the poem write three sentences about why you wrote the poem, three sentences about the poetic devices (include at least three poetic devices in your poem), and three sentences about the specific form you chose and how the form does or does not follow all of the "rules" of the form.  Incorporate at least 4 literary devices (i.e. simile, metaphor, imagery, symbolism) and three vocabulary words from Unit 10.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Journal 6: Ballad

Your ballad should have a minimum of 14 lines and it should include the following three forms/rules:

1. Narrative (tells a story)    
2. Refrain/chorus (a part that repeats at least 2 times)        
3. song-like

Ballad- A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain

 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ballad

Beneath the ballad write three responses: three sentences about why you wrote the poem, three sentences about the poetic devices (include at least 4 in your poem), and three sentences about ballad form (or the form you chose to use/adapt if you did not follow the conventional structure).  Make sure to include three vocabulary words from Unit 10 either in your poem and/or in your responses.

REMEMBER IF YOU SING YOUR BALLAD (and set it to music) YOU GET A FREE JOURNAL!

Speech

Personal Object speech due on Wednesday (for everyone)!

Include HARD COPY ONLY... make sure your name is on EVERYTHING.
1. Brainstorm
2. Outline

  • complete introduction
  • 6 facts/ideas of support
  • complete conclusion
3. Final draft (complete) 

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Speech

Life at Guantanamo Bay Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4T3ZvPuW9M

Please watch the full video and assert the claim, support (a minimum of 8 details of support) and warrant. Write it down in your speech notebooks.  I will be grading your notes on the MLK Jr. I Have a Dream speech, the Reza Aslan interview, the Guantanamo Bay Article (#1, first in the packet) and the Life at Guantanamo video.  Turn in your speech notebooks on Thursday. DO NOT FORGET TO MEMORIZE YOUR LINES FOR THIS MONDAY (Feb. 24th). I will be grading your memorization in class.




Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Journal 5: Elegy

In literature, an elegy (from the Greek word for "lament") is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy‎)

Compose an Elegy for Friday (14 lines).  Beneath the elegy write three responses: three sentences about why you wrote the poem, three sentences about the poetic devices (include at least 4 in your poem two of which need to be masculine and feminine rhyme), and three sentences about the form for an elegy.  Make sure to include three vocabulary words from Unit 10 either in your poem and/or in your responses.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Filming

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDpFYL23cxW_nwga6R2233oOo43sw2LrovWpI5Y0tbw/edit

Scene 1 pt 1 Matias, Lydia, Richard, Alison (Line quiz on Thursday in class)  Completed Feb 13
Scene 1 pt 2 Fabrizio, Matias, Lydia, Richard, Alison Completed Feb 13
Scene 4 pt 3 Matias, Lydia, Amanda Completed Feb 13
Scene 6 pt 1 Sara, Willy, Rebecca, Syndiana DURING SPEECH ON THURSDAY!
Scene 8        Sara and Rebecca IMMEDIATELY AFTER SCHOOL ON THURSDAY!

Lines are due Feb. 6 (Thursday of next week)
Filming is FINISHED by Feb. 20 (Thursday)

Scene 1 pt 3: Rebecca, Amanda, Tony, Tito
Scene 2: Lydia, Richard, Matias, Random girls (Luz, So Ra), Fabrizio, Rebecca, Scott (No John), Amanda, Tony
Scene 5: Matias, Lydia, Richard, Fabrizio, Rebecca, Tito
Scene 6 pt 2: Richard, Fabrizio, Lydia, Rebecca, Sophia,

Lines are due Feb. 24 (Monday)
Filming is FINISHED by March 10 (Monday)

Friday, February 14, 2014

Journal 4: Song of Songs Chapter 5

Research the Song of Songs using the following website.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/

I found this article helpful.......

http://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/solomon-s-song-of-love.html

Provide a different perspective, judgment or idea about the ideas or themes within the poem. Then interpret chapter 5 in relation to the research you have done.  How does the love between the Man and the Woman represent God's love for Israel or Christ's love for the church?

Requirements: 3/4 page journal, 3 underlined vocabulary words, 3 quotes from Chapter 5 (with lines #, poem included).

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Unit 10 Vocabulary: #1-10 due Tuesday, February 18, #11-20 due Thursday, February 20 and Vocabulary Quiz is Tuesday February 25.

#1-10
Askance, attenuate, benign, cavil, charlatan, decimate, foible, forgo, fraught, inure.

#11-20
luminous, obsequious, obtuse, oscillate, penitent, peremptory, rebuff, reconnoiter, shambles, sporadic.

Journal 3: The Bride

Journal: Make sure to include 3 words from Chapter 9 vocabulary (underlined). 3/4 page.

FROM SONG OF SONGS CHAPTER 2 & 4.
What is the woman's (Bride's) charge to the daughters of Jerusalem?  Is this validated by the Bride's own actions?  Give three quotes that demonstrate the Bride's love for her Lover and His love for Her.  One should deal with sensory imagery.  One should deal with pastoral imagery.   One should deal with natural imagery.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Filming

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDpFYL23cxW_nwga6R2233oOo43sw2LrovWpI5Y0tbw/edit

Scene 1 pt 1 Matias, Lydia, Richard, Alison (Line quiz on Thursday in class)  (Thursday IMMEDIATELY AFTER SCHOOL)
Scene 1 pt 2 Fabrizio, Matias, Lydia, Richard, Alison (Thursday IMMEDIATELY AFTER SCHOOL)
Scene 4 pt 3 Matias, Lydia, Amanda (Thursday IMMEDIATELY AFTER SCHOOL)
Scene 6 pt 1 Sara, Willy, Rebecca, Syndiana
Scene 8        Sara and Rebecca

Lines are due Feb. 6 (Thursday of next week)
Filming is FINISHED by Feb. 20 (Thursday)

Scene 1 pt 3: Rebeca, Amanda, Tony, Tito
Scene 2: Lydia, Richard, Matias, Random girls (Luz, So Ra), Fabrizio, Rebecca, Scott (No John), Amanda, Tony
Scene 5: Matias, Lydia, Richard, Fabrizio, Rebecca, Tito
Scene 6 pt 2: Richard, Fabrizio, Lydia, Rebeca, Sophia,

Lines are due Feb. 20 (Thursday)
Filming is FINISHED by March 6 (Thursday)

For Wednesday: Song of Solomon

Write and analyze 3 pastoral, natural, and sensory symbols/images.

Friday, February 7, 2014

Journal 2: Love Sonnet

Compose a love sonnet for MONDAY (14 lines).  Beneath the sonnet write three responses: three sentences about why you wrote the poem, three sentences about the poetic devices (include at least 3 in your poem), and three sentences about sonnet form (or the form you chose to use/adapt if you did not follow the conventional structure).  Make sure to include three vocabulary words from Unit 9 either in your poem and/or in your responses

Sonnet
(sonn-IT): a sonnet is a distinctive poetic style that uses system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines, arranged in a set rhyme scheme or pattern. There are two main styles of sonnet, the Italian sonnet and the English sonnet. The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, named after Petrarch (1304-1374) a fourteenth century writer and the best known poet to use this form, was developed by the Italian poet Guittone of Arezzo (1230-1294) in the thirteenth century. Usually written in iambic pentameter, it consists first of an octave, or eight lines, which asks a question or states a problem or proposition and follows the rhyme scheme a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a. The sestet, or last six lines, offers an answer, or a resolution to the proposed problem, and follows the rhyme scheme c-d-e-c-d-e.

When I consider how my light is spent                                                  a
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,                                      b
And that one talent which is death to hide                                           b
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent                            a

To serve therewith my Maker, and present                                           a
My true account, lest he returning chide;                                              b
"Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?"                                            b
I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent                                                      a

That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need                                   c
Either man's work or his own gifts; who best                                       d
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state                               e
Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed                                              c
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:                                           d
They also serve who only stand and wait."                                           e

John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"


The sonnet was first brought to England by Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, in the sixteenth century, where the second sonnet form arose. The English or Shakespearean sonnet was named after William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who most believed to the best writer to use the form. Adapting the Italian form to the English, the octave and sestet were replaced by three quatrains, each having its own independent rhyme scheme typically rhyming every other line, and ending with a rhyme couplet. Instead of the Italianic break between the octave and the sestet, the break comes between the twelfth and thirteenth lines. The ending couplet is often the main thought change of the poem, and has an epigrammatic ending. It follows the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?                                             a
  Thou art more lovely and more temperate:                                        b
  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,                                                 a
  And summer’s lease hath all to short a date:                                     b

  Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,                                      c
  And often is his gold complexion dimm’d:                                          d
  And every fair from fair sometime declines,                                       c
  By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d.                          d

  By thy eternal summer shall not fade                                                                 e
  Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;                                       f
  Nor shall Death brag thou wandered in his shade,                             e
  When in eternal lines to time thou growest:                                      f

  So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,                                     g
  So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.                                      g


Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII. See Benet’s Readers Encyclopedia, Handbook to Literature, Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Michael Prevatte, Student, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Speech 1: Personal Experience (link to PPT)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByORQRNqGS0sMndPQmIzeUMySkk/edit?usp=sharing

Speech needs to be 3-5 MINUTES LONG.

ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 10 (presentations begin Monday and Finish on Wednesday):  You will turn in.  1. Your handout with the brainstorm (I will grade you based upon the rubric) 2. Your outline- with your full introduction, 5 details of support and your full conclusion. 3. Your final written (typed) speech.

Speech needs to be 3-5 MINUTES LONG.

Journal 1: Love and Beauty

HW: In a 5 paragraph journal answer this question:  Do people put too much emphasis on physical beauty? What does She Walks in Beauty seem to argue? Support your argument with one outside source (cite it) and THREE quotes from either The Bible or She Walks in Beauty.