Monday, 2/17/15: Poetry Journal and Project Work

* Open

• Calendar
• Present on Block Day
• RD of AG Poem in Your Composition Book for Block Day

* Begin or Continue the In-Class Journal: Frost

• Read "Wind and Window Flower"

• This poem was originally subtitled "A Parable of Modern Love."  That subtitle was later taken out of many editions.  Knowing the poet's original subtitle, what can you make of the theme of this poem?  Do you see examples of this theme in the world today?  Explain.
• Read "Acquainted with the Night "
• This form is original, but weaves strands of other forms. From Dante, it hearkens to things you've read in La Vita Nuova (the tercet) that were later refined and perfected in The Divine Comedy (terza rima, Dante's new style). How does this knowledge (that Dante used this terza rima in Inferno, or the journey through hell ) help us interpret the poem?
• What other forms that you have learned does this echo?  Explain.

• Read "The Tuft of Flowers"
• Why is the rhyming couplet the perfect form for this poem? 

• I hope this helps you begin to see that forms can bring richer meaning to a poem and that you can employ or modify old forms to suit your subject and design.  

* Project Work

• Idea: Action Poetry (Billy Collins as our Example)
• More Poems from Billy Collins

Presentation Thoughts for You:

• Speech Reminders
• Compelling/creative grabber that connects with thesis/main ideas.
• Ideas are clear, fully developed, yet concise; they fill the time parameter.
• Ideas are well-organized, giving logical flow to the speech.
• Stories/metaphors/examples are correctly applied and impactful.
• Strong conclusion with a summary and/or call to action.

• Speaker appears prepared and rehearsed.
• Speaker connects with audience through consistent eye contact, ample volume and positive tone.
• Speaker’s mannerisms and speech patterns make the speech professional and not distracting.

•  Visual Reminders

• Hi-resolution images and just enough text in almost all visual communication. No clip art.
• All images strengthen the communication, helping the audience understand, remember, and/or engage the right idea(s)
•  No “classic bad placement,” and  images/text exist in same space for almost all communication.
• Contrast (size or value) exists in almost all visual communication.

HW: Project (present block day)

Faithfully Fight Fifty Shades of Folly Forearmed

• With Chesterton

     "One of the wise and awful truths which this brown-paper art reveals, is this, that white is a colour. It is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. When, so to speak, your pencil grows red-hot, it draws roses; when it grows white-hot, it draws stars. And one of the two or three defiant verities of the best religious morality, of real Christianity, for example, is exactly this same thing; the chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not seen.

      Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. In a word, God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

• With Valentine

Feastday: February 14
Patron of Love, Young People, Happy Marriages
Died: 269
"Valentinus was a Roman priest martyred during the reign of Claudius the Goth [Claudius II]. Since he was caught marrying Christian couples and aiding any Christians who were being persecuted under Emperor Claudius in Rome [when helping them was considered a crime], Valentinus was arrested and imprisoned. Claudius took a liking to this prisoner -- until Valentinus made a strategic error: he tried to convert the Emperor -- whereupon this priest was condemned to death. He was beaten with clubs and stoned; when that didn't do it, he was beheaded outside the Flaminian Gate [circa 269]" (Catholic.org/saints).
 

• With Paul 

2 Timothy 3:

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!  For such men are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, ¹⁵ and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.


All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.


I Thessalonians 4

 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

• Really, with Christ, of course. 

Block Day, 2/12/15: Quiz and Project

* Open

* Quiz

* Journal: Frost (some classes will skip)

• Read "Wind and Window Flower"

• This poem was originally subtitled "A Parable of Modern Love."  That subtitle was later taken out of many editions.  Knowing the poet's original subtitle, what can you make of the theme of this poem?  Do you see examples of this theme in the world today?  Explain.
• Read "Acquainted with the Night "
• This form is original, but weaves strands of other forms. From Dante, it hearkens to things you've read in La Vita Nuova (the tercet) that were later refined and perfected in The Divine Comedy (terza rima, Dante's new style). How does this knowledge (that Dante used this terza rima in Inferno, or the journey through hell ) help us interpret the poem?
• What other forms that you have learned does this echo?  Explain.

• Read "The Tuft of Flowers"
• Why is the rhyming couplet the perfect form for this poem? 

• I hope this helps you begin to see that forms can bring richer meaning to a poem and that you can employ or modify old forms to suit your subject and design.  

* Project Work

• Idea: Action Poetry (Billy Collins as our Example)
• More Poems from Billy Collins

HW: Project (present block day next week)

Wednesday, 2/11/15

* Open

• Recite
• Remember we have a quiz on block day
• Recitation (Schwager)
• Forms
• Quotation
• Roots
• matri--mother
• medi--half, halfway, middle, between
• mega--great
• mem--remember
• meter--measure
• micro - small
• migra - wander
• mit, miss - send
• mob, mot, mov -- move
• mon -- warn, remind
• mor, mort -- death
• morph -- form

* Read Poems

 * Group Work

HW: Study for your Quiz 

Tuesday, 2/10/15 ~ Clarihews

* Open

• Recite (Schwager)
• Turn in your assignment
• Please also submit to turnitin.com by Friday
• Review some of your poems

* The Clerihew
* Poetry Project

• Present on block day next week. 

HW:  Journal: Light Verse: Please compose at least one clerihew and at least one limerick for tomorrow.

To God be the Glory

“That was the craziest shot of my life,” Hill said. “I didn’t think it was going in, but it did, and I say thank you, God.”

Click here for the full article.

Monday, 2/9/15: Limerick

* Open

• Recite (Schwager)
• Review some of your poems

* The Limerick

* Poetry Project

• Present on block day next week. 

  HW: Dante (Beautiful, Good, and True Due Tomorrow)

 

Schwager Only: Poetry Project Groups

Poetry Presentation

Block Day: Poetry

* Open

• Read over the remaining sections, then copy and fix 11 examples sentences near the end. 
• The answers are just below the exercise, so don't look at the answers until you have fixed all the exercise sentences in your composition book. 
• 15-20 minutes (quiet work)

* Dante (Beautiful, Good, and True Due Tuesday)

•  30 minutes (quiet work)
• If you finish early, start considering what's below. 

* Begin Researching for Your Poetry Project

• The rest of the period (chatty, but not too loud, work)

HW: 

• Complete your own villanelle or triolet  for Monday (if you have not already written one). 
• Your Beautiful, Good, and True Dante Questions are due Tuesday.

Wednesday, 2/4/15: More Quotation

* Open

• Read over the sections on Indirect Quotations and the Extended Rules for Using Quotation Marks. Please answer the following questions in your notes:
• What is an indirect quotation?
• Do you need to cite an indirect quotation (Schwager 15)?
• How do you know when to quote directly and when to quote indirectly?
• How do you reduce the size of a quote? 
• (But do not use the ellipses to open and/or close a quotation.) 
• How do you insert something into a quote that wasn't originally there?
• What is another use for quotation marks besides directly quoting someone?

* Dante

* Poetry

HW: Dante

Tuesday, 2/3/15: Triolet

* Open

• Grammar: Punctuation: Quotation
• Summarize rules 1-5 of direct quotation in the grammar section of your composition book, please.  We will continue with this same page tomorrow.  
• Change rule 6 to this: In a short essay (less than five pages), keep quotations as short as possible (do not pad your essay).  In analysis (such as AP), you want frequent, brief quotations for support.  Perhaps 10-15% of your essay will be quotation, never more than 20%.  
• Rule 7: In essay analysis, after you quote, you must tie the quote back to the topic or thesis.  Do not end a paragraph with a quotation.   
• Rule 8: In general, do not let a quote stand by itself as an isolated sentence in an essay; it should be woven into you own sentence.  
• Good: Foolishly, Johnny told Jim to "Kick that skunk."
• Bad: Johnny told Jim to do a foolish thing.  "Kick that skunk."  

• Roots
• mor, mort -- death
• morph -- form

* New: The Triolet

• Work on your journal (due Wednesday)

HW: Beautiful, Good and True