Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming

Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming from tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse’s lineage coming, as men of old have sung.
It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter,
When half spent was the night.

Monday and Tuesday, 12/17-12/18: Review and Such

Monday and Tuesday

• Honors: Poet Laureate Visits MSPAR 10:30-11:30 (or perhaps a bit longer) am.  You may come if you do not have work to do in your class. 
• Ask him good questions.  Remember that he has been writing, publishing, and teaching for decades and can offer perspective on the writing process. 
• Last day (except for per.3 due to Swanger) to show me your contest entry or poetry reading.   
• Period 3, meet me in the MSPAR. 
• Period 4, go to my room.  If the door still have the MSPAR note on it, then go to the MSPAR. 
• Let's consider David Swanger
• Ask good questions of our poet. 
• Plan the after-test tea party.
• PSAT Results Returned.
• Review in groups of 2-3; review on your own. 
• Look over the class posters. 

Final Exam

• Multiple Choice Exam  
• Roughly 90-100 questions total
• Grammar: Bedford 19, 20, 21
• Sentence Fragments
• Run-on Sentences
• Subject-verb agreement
• Notes and Reading
• "Esther"  (circa 300 B.C.; possibly written by Mordecai)
• "Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers" (author unknown; tales probably dates to circa A.D. 1,000)
•  "A Piece of Chalk" by G.K. Chesterton (published 1905)
• "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle (published 1892)
• "The First Seven Years" by Bernard Malamud. 
• Honors Only: "The Mowing of a Field" by Hilaire Belloc 
• Poetry 
• Origins
• Forms 
• Standout Poets: Collins and Frost
• Binder notes
• Terms (and a few vocabulary questions slipped in there)
• See the right side of the blog and your notes
• Nothing Latin

• What will not be on the test?
• Mythology
• The Lost Tools of Writing

• When do I take my test?
• Per. 1 : Tue, 12/18
• Per. 2-3: Wed., 12/19
• Per. 4-5: Thu., 12/20
• Per. 6-7: Fri., 12/21

Fall 2012 Final Exam Schedule

Monday, December 17, 2012
Period
First	8:10         -         9:40			90 min
Break	9:40         -         9:55			15 min
Second	10:00         -         10:42			42 min
Third	10:47         -         11:29			42 min
Fourth	11:34         -         12:16			42 min
Lunch	12:16         -         12:59			43 min
Fifth	1:04         -         1:46			42 min
Sixth	1:51         -         2:33			42 min
Seventh	2:38         -         3:20			42 min
Buses leave at 3:30
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Period
First Period Final	8:10         -         9:40			90 min
Break	9:40         -         9:55			15 min
Second	10:00         -         10:42			42 min
Third	10:47         -         11:29			42 min
Fourth	11:34         -         12:16			42 min
Lunch	12:16         -         12:59			43 min
Fifth	1:04         -         1:46			42 min
Sixth	1:51         -         2:33			42 min
Seventh	2:38         -         3:20			42 min
Buses leave at 3:30
Wednesday-Friday, December 19-21, 2012
Period
Second/Fourth/Sixth	8:10         -         9:40			90 min
Break	9:40         -         10:10			30 min
Third/Fifth/Seventh	10:15         -         11:45			90 min
Buses leave at 11:55

The Tree (or Rod) of Jesse

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Em                           Am D Em

O come, O come, Emmanuel,

        G              C          Am D Em
And ransom captive Israel,

            Am                  G        D
That mourns in lonely exile here

  Em                   Am D   G
Until the Son of God appear.

     D          Bm

Rejoice! Rejoice!

  Am  D  Em            G             C        Am D Em
Emmanuel   shall come to thee, O Is-rael.

Em                              Am D Em

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free

             G             C        Am D Em
Thine own from Satan’s tyranny;

            Am                           G        D
From depths of hell Thy people save,

         Em                     Am D         G
And give them victory over the grave.

Em                                           Am    D

O come, Thou Day-spring, come and

  Em

Cheer

        G          C             Am D   Em
Our spirits by Thine advent here;

       Am                         G            D
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,

          Em                          Am D     G
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.

Em                              Am D    Em

O come, Thou Key of David, come,

         G          C           Am  D       Em
And open wide our heavenly home;

          Am                        G           D
Make safe the way that leads on high,

         Em                   Am D G
And close the path to misery.

Block Day: Essay, CWP, Binder

* Open

• Sing

* Practice and Review

• Common Grammar Errors
• Review commas
• Words to avoid ("I think,", "to me,", really, very, etc.) 
• Questions?

• Common Structural Errors
• Lack of good support from the poem
• Lacking quotes from the poem
• Quotes are too long
• Questions?

• Good Strategies
• Plan on the back of your page
• Plan for a few minutes before you begin writing
• Stick to key images, scenes, etc.

* Essay

• Follow the instructions
• MLA heading
• Write in pen
• Single space
• Write on one side of each page
• You may use your binder

* Binder and CWP

• Open to your notes
• Put your CWP on top of that 
• Face in to me when not using

HW: Review; come up with some good questions about writing for David Swanger.  Come to see him on Monday during 3rd period in MSPAR.

Wednesday, Dev. 12: Work on your Map

Our honors poet, Dante Alighieri (1265--1321), is painted in black above.  Interestingly, this was painted by another Dante, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--1882).  Rossetti was a master artist himself (both a painter and a poet) and had actually been named after Dante Alighieri.  Rossetti translated La Vita Nuova and painted this fine piece by inspiration: "Dante's Dream at the Time of Beatrice's Death." 

* Open

• "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

* Note

• Honors: On Monday the poet laureate visits during your 2nd and 3rd periods.  Get the slip from me.  Your teachers are also being emailed today.  If your teacher permits you to go, go to the MSPAR after you check in with your teacher.  Per. 2 starts in B22 and goes down.  Per. 3 meets me at the MSPAR. 

* Dante Check

• Work on your map and glory  
• Study: The Exam Plan 

* Extra Practice poem

• David Swanger
• Read "Wayne's College of Beauty"
• In your notes, write down key images 
• Write down a couple of questions for the poet (since you may meet him shortly)
• Below is the poem by W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) that provides Swanger's epigraph.  Can you find the line?  How does the allusion affect the connotation of Swanger's piece?  The poems' title is "To a Young Beauty." 

• DEAR fellow-artist, why so free
  With every sort of company,
  With every Jack and Jill?
  Choose your companions from the best;
  Who draws a bucket with the rest
  Soon topples down the hill.
  You may, that mirror for a school,
  Be passionate, not bountiful
  As common beauties may,
  Who were not born to keep in trim
  With old Ezekiel's cherubim
  But those of Beauvarlet.
  I know what wages beauty gives,
  How hard a life her servant lives,
  Yet praise the winters gone:
  There is not a fool can call me friend,
  And I may dine at journey's end
  With Landor and with Donne.

• Notes on the poem
•  The cherubim of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 10:14) refers to the living creatures we discussed earlier with Chesterton and Revelation.  Here in Ezekiel, they
• Beauvarlet was a famous engraver/artist who depicted great aristocrats.  The idea from Yeats then, is that some people's physical and spiritual "trim" is more fitting to the falsely painted world of aristocrats than the living splendor of God.  Yeats is admonishing the artist to take care in choosing friends.  
• Yeats may dine, he thinks, with Landor and Donne, two great poets who died before Yeats was born.  

HW: CWP and Contest (honors)


 

Bring Drawing Supplies Tomorrow (Wednesday)

You will be working on your maps!

Tuesday, Dec. 11: Essays and CWP

* Open

• "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

* The Exam Plan 

• Includes Essay Examples

* Work on CWP

* Honors: Dante and Contest

HW: Binder and Dante (Honors)

Monday, Dec. 10: Imagery

* Open

• "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

* The Exam Plan

* Imagery

"The Destruction of Sennacherib" by Byron (George Gordon)

"Loveliest of Trees" by A.E. Housman

"Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt"

• Read the next poem on your own.  List some of the images and explain how the image communicates both directly and more subtly (with connotation).  Do this in the notes section of your binder.

"Sea Fever" by John Masefield

*  Honors : Dante

* CWP

• Bring pens, pencils, and such to work on your maps and embellish your legends. 

HW: CWP, Study 


Media meditations for mapping:
 

Some say Tolkien's Rivendell is modeled after the Swiss Lauterbrunnen Valley.

The Plan to the Exam

Monday, 12/10

• Imagery
• Honors: Get your Contest Entry Done Soon

Tuesday, 12/11

• Final Exam Information and Review
• Honors: Contest and Dante

Wednesday, 12/12

• Binder Check
•  Honors: Dante Due

Block Day, 12/13

• CWP Beautiful Copy Due
• Final Exam Essay on Poetry
• Relate composition (form and/or imagery) to the key meaning (theme). 
• Examples:
• You will have 45 minutes.  Here are two poetry essay examples from a 25 min. sophomore ICE.
• Here are some 45 min. Hamlet examples from my AP class. 
• The Tempest: Dynamic Character .
• For Fun: Strong Bad "Englilsh [sic]" Paper. 

• Tea Party

Monday, 12/17

• Poet Laureate Visits MSPAR 10:30-11:30 (or perhaps a bit longer) am.  You may come if you do not have work to do in your class. 
• Last day to show me your contest entry or poetry reading.  

Final Exam

• Multiple Choice Exam  
• Short Stories and Poetry
• Roughly twenty questions per category
• Grammar
• Notes
• Reading 
• Terms (More than 20)
• Vocabulary (Fewer than 20)

• What will not be on the test?
• Mythology
• The Lost Tools of Writing

• When do I take my test?
• Per. 1 : Tue, 12/18
• Per. 2-3: Wed., 12/19
• Per. 4-5: Thu., 12/20
• Per. 6-7: Fri., 12/21

"O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" (original music date: ancient or medieval)

O come, O come, Emmanuel,

And ransom captive Israel,

That mourns in lonely exile here

Until the Son of God appear.

Refrain:

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel

shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free

Thine own from Satan's tyranny;

From depths of hell Thy people save,

And give them victory over the grave.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel

shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer

Our spirits by Thine advent here;

And drive away the shades of night

And pierce the clouds and bring us light!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel

shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Key of David, come,

And open wide our heavenly home;

Make safe the way that leads on high,

And close the path to misery.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel

shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, O come, Thou Lord of might,

Who to Thy tribes on Sinai's height

In ancient times once gave the law

In cloud, and majesty, and awe.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel

shall come to thee, O Israel.

Block Day: Imagery

 

* Open

• "Take Five":  Requiescat in pace Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)
• "Jazz is about freedom within discipline," Brubeck said in a 2005 interview with AP. "Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz. ... And that is really the idea of democracy — freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want" (Las Vegas News).
   

* Memorization Quiz

* Notes: Imagery

• An image is anything that evokes any of the fives senses:

Sight (visual=eye)
Sound (aural=ear)
Smell (Olfactory=Nose)
Taste (Gustatory=Tongue)
Touch (Tactile=Skin)

Imagery, in literature, is the word we use for the general discussion of images in a work, part of a work, or across multiple works. All writers employ imagery to cause an to idea live, move, and have its being in your mind.  Each image arrives with a host of denotations and connotations that fill the idea with color, emotion, interest, and nuance.  Let's consider some poems together. 

• Denotation: Literal; dictionary definition
• Connotation: The associations a word or image brings beyond the literal minimum.  For instance, a house and a home may seem the same, but the words bring subtly different connotations.  

More to Consider 

"A Second Childhood" by G.K.C.

"The Destruction of Sennacherib" by Byron (George Gordon)

"Loveliest of Trees" by A.E. Housman

"Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt"

• Read the next poem on your own.  List some of the images and explain how the image communicates both directly and more subtly (with connotation).  Do this in the notes section of your binder.

"Sea Fever" by John Masefield

*  Honors: Dante

HW: CWP Beauty and Dante (Honors); bring markers, pens, pencils and such next week for time when you can work on your map. 

Wednesday, Dec. 5: Quiz, Imagery

* Open

* Quiz

* Honors Q2 Extra Reading Assignment: Dante

* Work on your CWP

If Time Allows, Otherwise, for Block:

* Let's Read a Poem: "Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt"

* Now let's Consider Imagery

• An image is anything that evokes any of the fives senses:

Sight (visual=eye)
Sound (aural=ear)
Smell (Olfactory=Nose)
Taste (Gustatory=Tongue)
Touch (Tactile=Skin)

Imagery, in literature, is the word we use for the general discussion of images in a work, part of a work, or across multiple works. All writers employ imagery to cause an to idea live, move, and have its being in your mind.  Each image arrives with a host of denotations and connotations that fill the idea with color, emotion, interest, and nuance.  Let's consider some poems together. 


HW: CWP and (Schwager memorization)

Honors Dante Assignment: La Vita Nuova: The New Life

Our honors poet, Dante Alighieri (1265--1321), is painted in black above.  Interestingly, this was painted by another Dante, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--1882).  Rossetti was a master artist himself (both a painter and a poet) and had actually been named after Dante Alighieri.  Rossetti translated La Vita Nuova and painted this fine piece by inspiration: "Dante's Dream at the Time of Beatrice's Death."

• Excellent iPad-friendly Editions of our Text (the epub with images works well)
• Beautiful (but very large file) Edition
• The introduction cuts off, but that is fine; it covers what we need with what is provided. 

Notes

• Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)
• Florentine poet (Florence is in Tuscany, Italy)
• Beatrice is his inspiration or muse
• They met when he was nine years old and she eight.
• She "salutes" him (talks briefly, perhaps) when he is eighteen. 
• They do not marry (the families directed these affairs).  Dante's family promised him in marriage to Gemma Donati when he was twelve years old.
• Beatrice dies in 1290, when Dante is twenty-five.  He is heartbroken.  
• The years just before, during, and after Beatrice's death mark the season of writing for La Vita Nuova (1293). 
• It's possible that Beatrice was even a pseudonym for another person (such as Gemma). 

• Dante lived in turbulent times, where your political and religious affiliation greatly affected your fortune.  At first, his political group (who resented too much power coming from Rome) did well, but by 1301, was out of favor, and Dante was forced into perpetual exile from his native city (Florence).  
• It was about this time (1300ish) that he probably began his greatest work The Divine Comedy. 
• Form: There are twenty-five sonnets, one ballata, and four canzone (learn more on forms here).  An unfinished fifth canzone was abandoned at the news of Beatrice's death.

Reading Journal: Dante

• For Each Poem, Please Do the Following:
• Copy The First Line of the Poem (as a title)
• Note the Page #
• Provide three sentences of response to the poem.  Here are things you could note:
• What do you enjoy about the composition and meaning of this poem?
• What did you find difficult to understand in this piece?
• How do you see Dante's craft improving? 
• What idea or device could you employ from this piece in your poetry writing?

Assignment

• Read Dante's fist book, La Vita Nuova (through pg. 63 above).
• Answer the Beautiful, Good, and True questions for your selected reading. 
• Copy at least fourteen lines of poetry from Dante.  
• Compose your own poem using your selected poem for inspiration.
• This may be handwritten or typed. 

 

Schedule For this Thursday and Friday