Poetry

Robert Frost
Fire and Ice
Dust of Snow
Bereft
The Road Not Taken

Song lyrics as poetry.
Imagery, word choice, rhythm/cadence, metaphor, alliteration and assonance, allusions, symbolism, etc

Homework: EVERYONE must print out lyrics to a song and bring them to class tomorrow. IF everyone does this, we will spend part of the period analyzing song lyrics.

Of Mice and Men
Robert Burns
To a Mouse

4th period's anthology of poetic song lyrics. Enter a link for your song, followed by your name.
4th period's anthology of poems (optional at this point)

FINAL EXAM INFO

FINAL EXAM

•  Huckleberry Finn test
•  Poem memorization due. Choose one of the following poems.  Dickinson    Whitman                                If you really can't bring yourself to memorize 75 words of one of these poems, you may memorize 75 words from Walden, Emerson (including his poems) or other poems by Whitman or Dickinson.

January 13

Bring  PSAT  booklet and score printout Wednesday

Discuss key passages in Huck Finn

Divide into groups to prepare for the Socratic Seminar, which will start half way through the period.

January 10

Discuss key passages in Huck Finn

Divide into groups to prepare for the Socratic Seminar, which will start half way through the period on Monday (you'll have 15 min. to finish preparing).

January 7, 2014

Archetypal Criticism

Walt Whitman's When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer