"...Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not..."

Have you [or someone you know] ever felt the way Shakespeare seems to feel about the woman in Sonnet 137? Which lines from the poem best describe that feeling? Explain.

Try a Tanka

Use your class notes from today to write a tanka of your own!

Today we began to build our poems by framing them around a situation, the emotions associated with it, and images to develop those emotions.

Write your tanka using the image that best conveys the emotions related to that situation. Write the situation at the beginning of your tanka.

Remember:
an image that expresses strong emotion
five lines
unrhymed
31 syllables [lines 1 and 3 are five syllables each; 2, 4 & 5 lines are seven syllables each]

Reminder: Progress reports will be given tomorrow, Jan. 21

Mind Over Matter

We have just read "since feeling is first" (p. 485). Please read Emily Dickinson's poem, "Heart! We Will Forget Him!" (p. 487), and in a paragraph, explain how you think e.e. cummings ("since feeling is first") would have responded to her. Use details from both poems to explain your answers!

Due Thursday, Jan. 20!!!

"Get out of here!"

Read the poem "Ex Basketball Player"  by John Updike, p. 519. Choose an idiom from the poem and create a poster that portrays  the figurative and literal meanings of that idiom. Be sure to include the line from the poem on your poster.

Posters should be no larger than 11" X 18"!

Be creative!

If you are going on the bowling trip, please make sure to leave your posters with me before you go!

Yesterday's class ("Ode to my Socks")

Today's class and homework

Make up work

Interim reports with work graded to-date were issued today. If you need to make up work, your assignments must be turned in by no later than Tuesday, Jan. 11!!

If you are missing..... you may....

• 1-2 assignments ..... complete (up to 2)
• 3 assignments..... complete 2
• 4 assignments.... complete 3
• 5 or more assignments.... complete 3

Titanic Projects will be graded within the next week and your score will appear on your next progress report!

The Poet in You, Part Two

Part Two:

Using your free write from last night, write a poem of 12 lines (minimum) about the setting you chose.

Your poem must include:

• an extended metaphor or extended simile
• any two sound devices: onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme

Turn in your poem with your free write tomorrow!

Poets among us

"The Poet in You" (p. 525)
Part One: Choose any setting (your block, the bus, the subway station, the lunchroom, etc.)
Free write as much as you can about everything you see, hear, feel, smell, etc. in that setting .

The more you write, the better! You will use this free write exercise for Part Two (your poem)!

Tuesday night's homework:
Bring in a copy of your favorite poem (or song lyrics). Explain in a paragraph the poem/song's theme. Give details from the song or poem that support your answer.

Remember that theme:

• Should not be stated in one word.
• Should be a statement, not a question.
• Should come from you, the reader.
• Should be different from the moral or lesson.
• Can be written in many different ways.

What did we say to each other.....

Reread "Simile" by N. Scott Momoday [p. 479]. Explain the author/speaker's purpose for using the extended simile in his poem. Give two examples from the poem to support your response.

Interims will be distributed with graded work on Friday, Jan. 7!