http://jhardin.columbiastate.edu/newlyweds1.htm
This site has many explications. Check out Class 9 and others. This site hassome pretty good examples. There are many online but not all are well done which is the problem with the internet in general-it validates everything equally.
Study for the vocab quiz.
Read Act One of macbeth, scenes 1,2,and 3.
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Write an explication of the poem. Carefully read the material on the internet website below. There are many others available on line. Submit the essay to Turnitin.com. Bring a hard copy to class.
http://www3.dbu.edu/uwc/documents/PoetryExplication.pdf
Poem Explication Due Monday
The ultimate purpose of an explication is to provide insight into the meaning or experience of the poem by exploring the poet’s methods of conveying that experience. In short, you should show how the poem works, not just what the poem says. An explication is NOT a mere paraphrase of the poem but an explanation of the poet’s subject and skill. The thesis, therefore, should be a statement as to the main idea and an indication of how the analysis will be handled. Some possibilities for ordering your essay: meaning/structure/language; or stanza by stanza, first handling meaning, then language in each structural unit; or problem/solution.
The introduction should include the title, author and some basic information about the poem. Information such as the form and identification of speaker, person addressed and occasion might be included in the introduction or handled in the body of the essay.
Be careful to avoid a mere listing of figures of speech or a paraphrasing of each line. Most of all, make sure that you support your opinion with the words and phrases of the text and that you deal with the poem as a whole. The reader should not be left perplexed about difficult lines in the poem or wondering how you arrived at your conclusions about it.
Make sure your quotations are smoothly and accurately integrated into your sentence and that the sentence can stand by itself as a grammatical entity.
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When my love swears that she is made of truth
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love's best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told:
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
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For Tuesday:
Read Outside Reading
Prepare for Sonnet/Poetry Test on Wednesday
Discussion of Henry V speech and persuasive language
Vocabulary 5 due for Thursday
Turn in Comma Sheets from weekend+++++ Quiz maybe on coma???????
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1. Prep Vocab 4 quiz
Then read,
Do the exercises on the comma--exercises 1,2 and 3- on the following website. It's interactive. Print out your copies as proof! Turn them in on Monday.
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Read over the speech from Shakespeare's Henry V. Often called the most famous speech on leadership, Henry's words inspire even now. Analyze the persuasive qualities of Shakespeare's words. Takes notes. Your notes should cover both the content and the language of the speech. Work on memorization of the sonnet. This will start Friday. Be Ready. If you're called on you have to be ready to go--no delays or disclaimers! Vocab quiz on Monday. Resume poem presentations on Thursday. There will be a test on sonnets after the presentations so you should read them over.
http://www.chronique.com/Library/Knights/crispen.htm (LINK TO THE SPEECH)
1. Complete Vocab Unit 4
2. Start memorizing a sonnet that is either by Shakespeare (your choice of any on the website, whether we covered it in class or not)
or by another poet
whose sonnet is in Sound and Sense. This will happen when we finish presentations. Recite WITH FEELING, paying attention to punctuation in order to convey the sense of the poem and giving appropriate dramatic weight to important words and ideas.
3. Read your outside Reading book
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Old Hmk
Prepare your sonnet for class presentation. Sonnets were assigned from the following pages in Sound and Sense: pp. 77, 153,167,235,239,246, 252, 405.
Responsibilities:
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Read the poem twice
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Identify the speaker, the adressee, the situation or occasion, and the subject of the poem.
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Paraphrase the poem line for line
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Discuss significant uses of language (figurative language, rhetorical devices, sound devices)
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Answer questions
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Be prepared to share your sonnet. Please reprint it in 14-16 point font.
Read your outside reading novel. Check the "Outside Reading" category for deadlines and details about the assignment.
Read the Sonnet by Sidney in your packet.
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Vocab 3 quiz
Old Homework
1.Read over Shakespeare sonnets 29, 55 and 65several times. Determine the problem presented (first half) and the resolution or conclusion offered (second half )--- and write a short summary of problem and solution in your own words. Identify 3 language techniques (figures of speech or rhetorical devices) in each poem and explain what effect the technique creates (in other words, explain how the technique works).
If you didn't get the handout in class, find the above sonnets online at
2. Identify two themes that run through the Shakespeare sonnets you have studied so far: sonnets 18,29,55,65 and 71. Be prepared to support your answer.
3. In what way does the Billy Collins's poem "Sonnet " satirize the sonnet? Take notes. +++++ This poem is on pp. 155-156 in Sound and Sense.Bring book to class if you can't print a copy from a website.
4. Vocab quiz Wednesday##Show vocab 3 words to me if you were at Nat Helpers. Absent people: turn in quotation sheets and self-evaluations.
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Check out the website below which provides information about the structure of the sonnet.
Read over Shakespeare sonnets 18, 24, and 71several times. Determine the problem presented (first half) and the resolution or conclusion offered (second half )--- and write a short summary of problem and solution in your own words. Identify 3 language techniques (figures of speech or rhetorical devices) in each poem and explain what effect the technique creates (in other words, explain how the technique works). If you didn't get the handout in class, find the above sonnets online at
######Vocab quiz Wednesday##Show vocab 3 words to me if you were at Nat Helpers. Absent people: turn in quotation sheets and self-evaluations.
Start making index cards (4x6) for each work we read in class. Make a card for BNW, Summer Selections, and The Metamorphosis. Keep going as you add to the list of works read.You may use the model and layout below or put main elements such as author-title-background on one side and the others on the back . I don't partricularly care how you arrange the 8+ pieces of information, or even if you add a 9th or 10th component that might be valuable to track, just as long as the components are the same and in the same place on each card. These will keep help keep the works prominent in your mind. I will probably check that you have them close to AP Exam time. You should do the cards on completion of the work or within a reasonable period of time after finishing them.
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Language of Text
German
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Author Biography
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-speaking Czechloslovakian of Jewish origin; dominant father
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Setting
middle class apartment
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Major characters
Gregor
Grete
Father
Mother
Family (as unit)
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Plot
Gregor, a salesman , wakes up transformed into vermin. Family members change as a result. G becomes increasingly isolated, ultimately ignored-dies
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Ending
Gregor is neglected; dies quietly; family finds positions and unity
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Thematic Issues
Family dynamics;
Effects of Dependency,
Ugliness, Change
& isolation
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