Thursday, September 28, 2006
English 20-1 blocks one and three
Today you are to hand in "Did I Miss Anything?" questions and then I am going to give you and go over your major poetry unit assignment. I have placed it below for those who were not here:
ORAL PRESENTATION ON AN IMPORTANT/GREAT POET
Each of the following English, American, and Canadian poets has left behind a significant body of work and been praised for the integrity of his/her work..
Getting started
Find a poem of up to two pages that you like by one of the poets presented on the following page and then “claim” that poet (first-come, first-serve; one student per poet), or pick your poet first and then find a poem that you like.
Do some research on the life of the poet, and see if there is any critical information about the poem.
Using poster paper (you supply) create a visual in which you include and tie together the dominant images in the poem and the following (and also identify); The poet, the poem, literary devices used, rhyme scheme. This will be a strong visual project with simple tie-ins to information and definitions. You can think of this as a web, a mind map, or a concept map.
Give me your poem for transparency-making purposes.
Go over what you will say about the poem and poet as per presentation instructions below.
The Actual Presentation
Introduce your poet. Tell about him or her.
Introduce the poem – background, allusions, vocabulary, ideas to watch for.
Read the poem to the class.
The reading must assist the listener in understanding the poem. In other words, the reading must help interpret the poem for the listener.
Comment on and / or analyze the poem.
What is it about?
What does it say, at a literal, surface level? What is the ‘dramatic situation that takes place?
What does it mean? What idea is it dealing with at a deeper, figurative (or metaphorical) level?
How does it convey its meaning? Explore the details of its diction, its imagery and metaphors, and the pattern of organization, the movement, the poem follows from its beginning to its end
What are its best features?
Does it work? Is it successful?
Why do you like the poem?
Question / response period: involving teacher and class.
DUE DATE: _______________________________________
English Poets American Poets Canadian Poets
Matthew Arnold Elizabeth Bishop Margaret Atwood
W.H. Auden Gwendolyn Brooks Earle Birney
William Blake E.E. Cummings George Bowering
Elizabeth Barrett Browning James Dickey Elizabeth Brewster
Robert Browning Emily Dickinson Leonard Cohen
Lord Byron Lawrence Ferlinghetti Archibald Lampman
Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Frost Irving Layton
S.T. Coleridge Allen Ginsberg Alden Nowlen
John Donne Langston Hughes P.K. Page
T.S. Eliot Randall Jarrell E.J. Pratt
Thom Gunn Denise Levertov Al Purdy
Thomas Hardy Edna St. Vincent Millay Miriam Waddington
Gerald Manley Hopkins Marianne Moore Tom Wayman
A.E. Housman Howard Nemerov
Ted Hughes Sharon Olds
John Keats Dorothy Parker
D.H. Lawrence Edgar Allan Poe
John Milton Ezra Pound
Wilfred Owen Adrienne Rich
Sylvia Plath Anne Sexton
William Shakespeare Wallace Stevens
Percy Bysshe Shelley May Swenson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Walt Whitman
Dylan Thomas William Carlos Williams
William Wordsworth
W.B. Yeats
English 30-1 block three
Today we are going to explore the meanings behind ritual and tradition and then read the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. I want you to paraphrase what the story is about and what you think of it.
Social Studies 33 block four
Today we are going to look at the Decline of Dictatorship (Soviety Union, Gorbachev). I will emphasize Glasnost and Perestroika. We will read pages 68 to 70 in the text , Watch CBC news in review "Democracy in Russia" Nov. 93, and read reading 11 (Political and economic change in Russia) and Update One: Democracy in Russia. If all goes well, you won't have actual homework tonight, though I will also give you a list of terms you need to understand for this unit and cue cards to help you study.
English 20-1 blocks one and three
Today you are to hand in "Did I Miss Anything?" questions and then I am going to give you and go over your major poetry unit assignment. I have placed it below for those who were not here:
ORAL PRESENTATION ON AN IMPORTANT/GREAT POET
Each of the following English, American, and Canadian poets has left behind a significant body of work and been praised for the integrity of his/her work..
Getting started
Find a poem of up to two pages that you like by one of the poets presented on the following page and then “claim” that poet (first-come, first-serve; one student per poet), or pick your poet first and then find a poem that you like.
Do some research on the life of the poet, and see if there is any critical information about the poem.
Using poster paper (you supply) create a visual in which you include and tie together the dominant images in the poem and the following (and also identify); The poet, the poem, literary devices used, rhyme scheme. This will be a strong visual project with simple tie-ins to information and definitions. You can think of this as a web, a mind map, or a concept map.
Give me your poem for transparency-making purposes.
Go over what you will say about the poem and poet as per presentation instructions below.
The Actual Presentation
Introduce your poet. Tell about him or her.
Introduce the poem – background, allusions, vocabulary, ideas to watch for.
Read the poem to the class.
The reading must assist the listener in understanding the poem. In other words, the reading must help interpret the poem for the listener.
Comment on and / or analyze the poem.
What is it about?
What does it say, at a literal, surface level? What is the ‘dramatic situation that takes place?
What does it mean? What idea is it dealing with at a deeper, figurative (or metaphorical) level?
How does it convey its meaning? Explore the details of its diction, its imagery and metaphors, and the pattern of organization, the movement, the poem follows from its beginning to its end
What are its best features?
Does it work? Is it successful?
Why do you like the poem?
Question / response period: involving teacher and class.
DUE DATE: _______________________________________
English Poets American Poets Canadian Poets
Matthew Arnold Elizabeth Bishop Margaret Atwood
W.H. Auden Gwendolyn Brooks Earle Birney
William Blake E.E. Cummings George Bowering
Elizabeth Barrett Browning James Dickey Elizabeth Brewster
Robert Browning Emily Dickinson Leonard Cohen
Lord Byron Lawrence Ferlinghetti Archibald Lampman
Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Frost Irving Layton
S.T. Coleridge Allen Ginsberg Alden Nowlen
John Donne Langston Hughes P.K. Page
T.S. Eliot Randall Jarrell E.J. Pratt
Thom Gunn Denise Levertov Al Purdy
Thomas Hardy Edna St. Vincent Millay Miriam Waddington
Gerald Manley Hopkins Marianne Moore Tom Wayman
A.E. Housman Howard Nemerov
Ted Hughes Sharon Olds
John Keats Dorothy Parker
D.H. Lawrence Edgar Allan Poe
John Milton Ezra Pound
Wilfred Owen Adrienne Rich
Sylvia Plath Anne Sexton
William Shakespeare Wallace Stevens
Percy Bysshe Shelley May Swenson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Walt Whitman
Dylan Thomas William Carlos Williams
William Wordsworth
W.B. Yeats
English 30-1 block three
Today we are going to explore the meanings behind ritual and tradition and then read the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. I want you to paraphrase what the story is about and what you think of it.
Social Studies 33 block four
Today we are going to look at the Decline of Dictatorship (Soviety Union, Gorbachev). I will emphasize Glasnost and Perestroika. We will read pages 68 to 70 in the text , Watch CBC news in review "Democracy in Russia" Nov. 93, and read reading 11 (Political and economic change in Russia) and Update One: Democracy in Russia. If all goes well, you won't have actual homework tonight, though I will also give you a list of terms you need to understand for this unit and cue cards to help you study.
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