Archives for February 25, 2015

HW12G due 2/26: If We Must Die

February 25, 2015 By

1. Villanelle–Your typed copies are due tomorrow! Meet the base technical/structural requirements of the villanelle and you are golden!
2. Confessional Poem–Typed copy due on Friday!

Additionally, for both poems I would like to see you practice with some of the elements of poetry we have discussed in class: alliteration, assonance, consonance, caesura, end stop, enjambment. Further, poetry is a celebration of the “painterly” nature of writing using image and various tropes (i.e. metaphor, symbolism, etc). Let’s see that as well in your poetry…

Heading (upper left hand corner):
Sean Leon (of course you will use your name…)
Poetry Seminar (we do not have to use Leon 12G because I only have one poetry class)
2/26/15

3. Explication Practice–Using the set of explication questions, decide which ones are relevant to a discussion of McKay’s If We Must Die then answer them! You are not actually writing an explication yet!
4. Group Presentations–Tomorrow, each group is expected to list their top three schools! Tonight, ensure you are in a position tomorrow to make informed choices.

HW10 due 2/26: The Alchemist and Vocab Quiz

February 25, 2015 By

1. The Alchemist–Read up to p. 87 (“The boy couldn’t believe what he was seeing:”)
2. Vocab Quiz
3. The Alchemist Student-Led Discussion–Post your discussion question on the class forum. Remember, you are shaping the discussion of this novel. The questions should be rooted in the reading and should lead us to a probing discussion of the text. Consider possible points of discussion that we have not explored…Keep in mind that class literary analysis asks that we closely examine the devices/elements to make holistic sense of the novel. 
4. SH5/1984 Essay–First draft due Monday, Mar. 2nd!