Monday, Sept 30

Autumn Poems
Thursday you will write out one of these poems from memory. Don't worry about line breaks or punctuation.
E.C. for people who recite Tuesday.

TODAY:
Read parts in The Crucible to "We danced, and that is all . . . I shall bring a pointy reckoning to you"
HOMEWORK: Memorize poem
Bring annotated poems and be prepared to write a commentary on 'your' poem

TUESDAY:
E.C. for reciting your poem to James Dean (poster)
Write/type Commentary on your poem
Read Act 1 of The Crucible

Crucible, Act 1 Vocabulary--terms
Crucible, Act 2 Vocabulary--terms
Crucible, Act 3 Vocabulary--11 terms
Crucible, Act 4 Vocabulary--terms

Crucible, Act 1 Reading Comprehension flash cards
Crucible, Act 2 Reading Comprehension flash cards
Crucible, Act 3 Reading Comprehension flash cards
Crucible, Act 4 Reading Comprehension flash cards

Memorize one of the poems on this handout:
 Autumn Poems
Next Thursday you will write it out from memory. Don't worry about line breaks or punctuation.
E.C. for people who  recite it on Monday or Tuesday.

Tuesday, September 24

HOMEWORK:

Pick one of the following four poems to memorize over the next two weeks:

Autumn Poems

Where had I heard this wind before

Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
Summer was past and the day was past.
Somber clouds in the west were massed.
Out on the porch's sagging floor,
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly struck at my knee and missed.
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.

Monday, Sept 23

Groups 7, 8 present oral commentary. Everyone else take notes. Remind me--10 pts for notes

Poem of the day:

Bereft, by Robert Frost

Where had I heard this wind before

Where had I heardthis wind before

Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
Summer was past and the day was past.
Sombre clouds in the west were massed.
Out on the porch's sagging floor,
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly struck at my knee and missed.
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.

Thursday, September 19

HOMEWORK:

Pick one of the following four poems to memorize over the next two weeks:

Autumn Poems

Spring and Fall 

BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

to a young child

Márgarét, áre you gríeving

Over Goldengrove unleaving?

Leáves like the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

Ah! ás the heart grows older

It will come to such sights colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;

And yet you wíll weep and know why.

Now no matter, child, the name:

Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed

What heart heard of, ghost guessed:

It ís the blight man was born for,

It is Margaret you mourn for.

4. Quiz Thursday

Literary terms--Quizlet  Memorize for quiz Thursday

First three lines of Song of the Open Road memorized by Thursday.
All names for Thursday
Young Goodman Brown quiz Thursday (not easy unless you really pay attention)