Learning Tasks for Monday, March 3
1. Writing into the Day
Set a SMART goal for Week Eight. How will achieving this goal benefit you? What resources or support do you need in order to reach your goal?
2. Poetry
We will finish reading "next to of course god america i" by ee cummings and review our readings from Friday.
3. Language and Poetry Quiz
4. Discussion Board Assignment
Theodore Roethke's poem "My Papa's Waltz" can be read in different ways. What is your reading of this poem? What do you think is actually happening here? Why? Be specific in your answer. Include actual words or lines from the poem to support your thinking.Your answer should be at least 200 words in length and should be posted to the discussion forum.
Learning Tasks for Tuesday, March 4
2. Poetry
We will finish reading "next to of course god america i" by ee cummings and review our readings from Friday.
We will finish reading "next to of course god america i" by ee cummings and review our readings from Friday.
3. Language and Poetry Quiz
4. Discussion Board Assignment
Theodore Roethke's poem "My Papa's Waltz" can be read in different ways. What is your reading of this poem? What do you think is actually happening here? Why? Be specific in your answer. Include actual words or lines from the poem to support your thinking.Your answer should be at least 200 words in length and should be posted to the discussion forum.
GOOD LUCK ON THE ACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD LUCK ON THE ACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Learning Tasks for Wednesday, March 5
1. Readings
We will read and discuss "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop and "Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare.
2. Imagery Quiz
3. Assignment
The Italian poet, Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) was responsible for establishing certain ideas about love-relationships. He wrote more than 300 sonnets addressed to an idealized lady named Laura, with whom he had never even had a conversation. These sonnets were enormously popular, and poets in Shakespeare's day were still using Petrarch's sonnets as models. One key Petrarchan notion is that the lover's love for a beautiful woman is not returned and he suffers as if from a bad flu (freezes and burns).
In thinking about popular songs today, this ideas still seems to be around. The lady-on-a-pedestal idea is alive and kicking. There's a lot more that could be said about Petrarch, but I will only add that he and others often expressed love in terms of religion, and that this convention was still around too. For example: "You're my angel, I worship you, you're my soul mate, I'm in heaven when I'm with you" and so on.
1. How does Shakespeare in Sonnet 130 respond to these ideas? What do you think is more romantic: the idealized love or love between two real people? Respond in at least 50 words on the discussion board.
2. Write at least a four line poem (it really doesn't have to be good) expressing your love for another person (or animal :). This does not have to be romantic love--for instance, you might write about a child or parent. ***Include at least one image in your poem.***
2. Imagery Quiz
3. Assignment
The Italian poet, Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) was responsible for establishing certain ideas about love-relationships. He wrote more than 300 sonnets addressed to an idealized lady named Laura, with whom he had never even had a conversation. These sonnets were enormously popular, and poets in Shakespeare's day were still using Petrarch's sonnets as models. One key Petrarchan notion is that the lover's love for a beautiful woman is not returned and he suffers as if from a bad flu (freezes and burns).In thinking about popular songs today, this ideas still seems to be around. The lady-on-a-pedestal idea is alive and kicking. There's a lot more that could be said about Petrarch, but I will only add that he and others often expressed love in terms of religion, and that this convention was still around too. For example: "You're my angel, I worship you, you're my soul mate, I'm in heaven when I'm with you" and so on.
1. How does Shakespeare in Sonnet 130 respond to these ideas? What do you think is more romantic: the idealized love or love between two real people? Respond in at least 50 words on the discussion board.
2. Write at least a four line poem (it really doesn't have to be good) expressing your love for another person (or animal :). This does not have to be romantic love--for instance, you might write about a child or parent. ***Include at least one image in your poem.***
Learning Tasks for Thursday, March 6
1. Writing into the Day
1. Writing into the Day
"Adults always say, 'You're too young to understand.' Well, if you don't tell us, how are we supposed to understand?"
Has anyone ever told you that you can't understand? How did that make you feel and how did you respond?
2. Readings
We will read and discuss "Harlem" by Langston Hughes and "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath.
3. Poetry II Quiz
Learning Tasks for Friday, March 7
1. Writing into the Day
2. "Metaphors be with You" Assignment
Part 1: Identify and explain one metaphor AND one simile from any of the poems you have read so far for class. Post your metaphor and simile and your explanation of each to the discussion board. Be thorough in your explanation of each.
Be sure that you've identified a simile and metaphor that no one else in your group has already identified. In other words, read through your classmates' posts to see what other metaphors and similes have been identified.
Part 2: Write a metaphor or simile comparing yourself to an inanimate object or animal.
2. "Metaphors be with You" Assignment
Part 1: Identify and explain one metaphor AND one simile from any of the poems you have read so far for class. Post your metaphor and simile and your explanation of each to the discussion board. Be thorough in your explanation of each.
Be sure that you've identified a simile and metaphor that no one else in your group has already identified. In other words, read through your classmates' posts to see what other metaphors and similes have been identified.
Part 2: Write a metaphor or simile comparing yourself to an inanimate object or animal.
Be sure that you've identified a simile and metaphor that no one else in your group has already identified. In other words, read through your classmates' posts to see what other metaphors and similes have been identified.
Part 2: Write a metaphor or simile comparing yourself to an inanimate object or animal.
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