Wednesday, 2/27/13: Outside Reading
* Open
- Sad News
- Pray for the families of Butch Baker and Elizabeth Butler
- Pray for the safety and blessing of local law enforcement: Manny Solano (Watsonville), Rudy Lopez (Watsonville), Carlos Guererro (Morgan Hill), Beau Nicholas (Monterey), Mr. Rickel, Jordan Brownlee (Santa Cruz), Mr. Kimura (Capitola), Trevor Kendall, Russ Skelton (Aptos), Mr. Gamez, Mr. Honda, Mr. Swing
- There is no window on this assignment (we are near quarter's end)
- 50% after block day
- You must submit this to turnitin.com through Focus
- Plagiarism earns 0%. Do not plagiarize. Avoid online reviews of your book.
Pray for Our Local Peace Officers
- Pray for the safety and blessing of local law enforcement: Manny Solano (Watsonville), Rudy Lopez (Watsonville), Carlos Guererro (Morgan Hill), Beau Nicholas (Monterey), Mr. Rickel, Jordan Brownlee (Santa Cruz), Mr. Kimura (Capitola), Trevor Kendall, Russ Skelton (Aptos), Mr. Gamez, Mr. Honda, Mr. Swing, Doug Moretto
- Pray for the families of Butch Baker and Elizabeth Butler (both officers killed in March 2013)
Rome, Tuscany, and the Riviera with the Schwagers!
* Informational Meeting Today (Tuesday, 2/26), 4:30 pm, B22 (Schwager's room)
* 2014 Tour: Rome, Tuscany, and the Riviera with the Schwagers!
* 2014 Tour: Rome, Tuscany, and the Riviera with the Schwagers!
- Website: www.eftours.com/1397124
- Dates: 2/15-2/23, 2014
Tuesday, 2/27/13: Midsummer
* Open
* Midsummer Video (Schwager)
* AMSND and CWP (Reno)
* Rome, Tuscany, and the Riviera: Meeting today after school at 4:30 pm!
HW: Outside Reading (or CWP)
* Midsummer Video (Schwager)
* AMSND and CWP (Reno)
* Rome, Tuscany, and the Riviera: Meeting today after school at 4:30 pm!
HW: Outside Reading (or CWP)
- (Reno)
- CWP (due block)
- AMSND questions for Act 1 (due Tues)
Monday, 2/25/13: Midsummer, etc.
* Open
* Midsummer Video (Schwager)
* AMSND and CWP (Reno)
HW: Outside Reading (or CWP)
- Pray
- Review
* Midsummer Video (Schwager)
* AMSND and CWP (Reno)
HW: Outside Reading (or CWP)
- (Reno)
- CWP (due block)
- AMSND questions for Act 1 (due Tues)
Monday, 2/18/13: Outside Reading Essay
* Open
* Travel Opportunity
* Travel Opportunity
- Come to the informational meeting
- Tuesday, Feb. 26, 4:30 pm, B22 (my classroom)
- Finish reading your outside reading book
- Write your essay
Block Day: Midsummer
* Quiz
- Turn in to folder (or tray)
- Read (outside reading)
* CWP
- Don't forget turnitin.com
- Last day to turn in: Feb. 26
* Note
- St. Valentine:
- Feastday: February 14
- Patron of Love, Young People, Happy Marriages
- Died: 269
HW: Outside Reading
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| "How now, spirit! whither wander you?" (Hey, is this Samantha Watts?) |
Wednesday 2/13/13: Midsummer
* Open
* Check envelope and poem.
* Work in class
* Check envelope and poem.
* Work in class
- CWP Turn in Window closes Tuesday, Feb. 26
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| The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep |
Tuesday, 2/12/13: CWP and Contest Work
* Contest Reminders--Due tomorrow:
- Physical Envelope, stamped and addressed
- Paper Poem to Peer Edit
- Link to contests (also under Writing Assignments now)
- Link to the Poetry Santa Cruz contest directly
- Example poem.
- New contest (for us): Jane Austen
- Essay (6-8 pages, MLA)
- $1,000 for first...
- Poster with prompt, etc.
- Contest details
- Winning examples
- If you go to iBooks, get the first one (it's free) when you search for "a midsummer night's dream."
- The one with line numbers had too many textual errors. You can just quote by act and scene OR page when the time comes.
HW: Physical Envelope (stamped, addressed) and Physical Poem (or other contests materials)
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| Helena and Hermia were as close as sisters since their youth. |
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| Now Helena frets as Demetrius pursues her friend. |
Limericks
- Limerick: "A fixed light-verse form of five generally anapestic lines rhyming AABBA. Edward Lear, who popularized the form, fused the third and fourth lines into a single line with internal rhyme" (Poetry Foundation).
- Examples
- Five Lines
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| Dylan Meconis: http://www.dylanmeconis.com/portfolio/illustration-limericks/ |
- Four Lines
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| Edward Lear (1812-1888) |
- Let's hunt a pest...an anapest.
Clerihew
- Clerihew (definition from wikipedia): A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring a famous person. The rhyme scheme is usually AABB, and the rhymes are often forced (Schwager translation: think of an awkward sounding limerick). The line length and meter are irregular (Schwager translation: do as you wish with line length; no anapests needed in your meter; easy). Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875--1956) invented the clerihew in school and then popularized it in books. One of his best known is this (1905):
It was a weakness of Voltaire’s
To forget to say his prayers,
And one which to his shame
He never overcame.
Noah’s
Boas
Kept his hares
In Pairs.
-- Sue Lampi (1994)
George Orwell
Answered the doorbell.
Big Brother’s Pizza at the door,
Two with pepperoni, $19.84.
Did Descartes
Depart
With the thought
"Therefore I'm not"?
Lovely old Queen Bess
Always in proper dress.
Can't leave her castle
Without so much hassle.
Jackson Pollock
facing possible painter's block
discovered that what matters
to the critics were his splatters.
The ignorant pronounce it Frood,
To cavil or applaud.
The Well-informed pronounce it Froyd,
But I pronounce it Fraud.
-- G. K. Chesterton (of course)
Journal: Light Verse: Please compose at least one clerihew and at least one limerick for tomorrow.
Triolet
- Triolet:
- Etymology--French: triolet: triplet (as the first line is repeated thrice)
- Definition: An eight-line stanza having just two rhymes and repeating the first line as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth (The Poetry Foundation).
Journal: Triolet:
G. K. Chesterton
Triolet
I wish I were a jelly fish
That cannot fall downstairs:
Of all the things I wish to wish,
I wish I were a jelly fish
That hasn't any cares,
And doesn't even have to wish
"I wish I were a jelly fish
That cannot fall downstairs."
- What is Chesterton's attitude toward you (the reader) in this poem (tone)?
- Is this tone consistent with the essay you have read by Chesterton ("A Piece of Chalk"). Explain.
Austin Dobson
A Kiss
Rose kissed me to-day.
Will she kiss me to-morrow?
Let it be as it may,
Rose kissed me to-day,
But the pleasure gives way
To a savour of sorrow;—
Rose kissed me to-day,—
Will she kiss me to-morrow?
- How does the refrain build or modify or enrich or reverse meaning in this poem?
Robert Bridges
When first we met, we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master;
Of more than common friendliness
When first we met we did not guess.
Who could foretell the sore distress,
This irretrievable disaster,
When first we met?—We did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.
- Who are "we" in the poem?
- What direction does meaning take as the refrain repeats in this piece? Explain.
Dana Gioia:
The Country Wife
Down to the lake to be alone.
Following their voices on the breeze,
She makes her way. Through the dark trees
The distant stars are all she sees.
They cannot light the way she's gone.
She makes her way through the dark trees
Down to the lake to be alone.
The night reflected on the lake,
The fire of stars changed into water.
She cannot see the winds that break
The night reflected on the lake
But knows they motion for her sake.
These are the choices they have brought her:
The night reflected on the lake,
The fire of stars changed into water.
- This poem appears ambiguous to interpret (Why is she here; what is she doing; what is going on?); however, what feelings from the mood can you identify after having read this a few times?
- Reread the opening two lines of each stanza a few times; what more do you think you know now? What kind of background might this country wife have?
Don Marquis
A Triolet
Your triolet should glimmer
Like a butterfly;
In golden light, or dimmer,
Your triolet should glimmer,
Tremble, turn, and shimmer,
Flash, and flutter by;
Your triolet should glimmer
Like a butterfly.
Do you agree with the speaker in this poem? Why or why not?
If the speaker in this poem is correct about this form, which of the poems above is a quintessential triolet?
Explain.
* Last journal question: Compose one triolet or villanelle of your own. You will read these in class.
Riddles
Today we consider riddles!
Definition: Riddle (from Old English roedel, from roedan meaning "to give council" or "to read"): A universal form of literature in which a puzzling question or a conundrum is presented to the reader. The reader is often challenged to solve this enigma, which requires ingenuity in discovering the hidden meaning. A riddle may involve puns, symbolism, synecdoche, personification (especially prosopopoeia), or unusual imagery (from Dr. Kip Wheeler).
* Judges 14:14
#2 From hand to hand
* Original Charades
* Next: Tolkien's "Riddles in the Dark"
* Journal: Riddle
Definition: Riddle (from Old English roedel, from roedan meaning "to give council" or "to read"): A universal form of literature in which a puzzling question or a conundrum is presented to the reader. The reader is often challenged to solve this enigma, which requires ingenuity in discovering the hidden meaning. A riddle may involve puns, symbolism, synecdoche, personification (especially prosopopoeia), or unusual imagery (from Dr. Kip Wheeler).
* Judges 14:14
- And he said to them, “Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the
strong came something sweet.” And in three days they could not solve
the riddle.
- "A thing there is whose voice is one;
Whose feet are four and two and three.
So mutable a thing is none
That moves in earth or sky or sea.
When on most feet this thing doth go,
Its strength is weakest and its pace most slow."
* Let's read them and note particulars together.
* Anglo-Saxon Riddles
* Anglo-Saxon Riddles
#1 Thousands lay up gold within this house,
but
no man made it.
Spears past counting guard this house,
but
no man wards it.
#2 From hand to hand
About the hall I go,
Much
do lords and ladies
Love to kiss me;
When
I hold myself high
And the whole throng
Bows
before me
Their blessedness
Shall
flourish skyward
Beneath my fostering shade.
* Original Charades
"My first, tho’ water, cures no thirst,
My next alone has soul,
And when he lives upon my first,
He then is called my whole."
"When my first is a task to a young girl of spirit,
And my second confines her to finish the piece,
How hard is her fate! but how great is her merit
If by taking my whole she
effects her release!"
* Next: Tolkien's "Riddles in the Dark"
Riddle: What has
roots as nobody sees,
Is
taller than trees,
Up,
up it goes
And
yet never grows?
Riddle:
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then
they stand still.
Riddle:
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
Riddle: An
eye in a blue face
Saw
an eye in a green face,
"That eye is like to this eye"
Said
the first eye,
"But in low place,
Not
in high place."
Riddle: It
cannot be seen, cannot be felt
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It
lies behind stars and under hills,
And
empty holes it fills.
It
comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Riddle: A box
without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet
golden treasure inside is hid.
Riddle: Alive
without breath,
As
cold as death;
Never
thirsty, ever drinking,
All
in mail, never clinking.
Riddle:
No-legs lay on one-leg,
Two-legs
sat near on three-legs,
four
legs got some.
Riddle: This
thing all things devours:
Birds, trees, beasts, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays
king, ruins town,
And
beats high mountain down.
* Journal: Riddle
- Compose a riddle to stump the class.
- Make it rationally possible.
- Provide rhyme.
- Have fun!
The Sonnet
- The Sonnet Defined
- Etymology
- Italian: sonnetto: little song
- Provençal: sonet: son: poem
- Latin: sonus: sound
- Examples
- Petrarch
- "Psalm 150 "
- Shakespeare
- John Milton: "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
- William Wordsworth
- Too Much Glory
Advanced Studies: Meter
Assignments
* Journal: Sonnet Analysis
- Find one Italian sonnet. Locate the line of the turn (volta) and copy that line down. Explain how the meaning of the poem shifts at that line.
- Find one English sonnet. Locate the line of the turn (volta) and copy that line down down. Explain how the meaning of the poem shifts at that line.
* Journal: Sonnet Imitation
- Find and hand copy one sonnet written before 1800 (this could be one above or another you find and like).
- Find and hand copy one sonnet written after 1800 (this could be one above or another you find and like).
- Now you will create your own sonnet using one of the poems you copied.
- Model your poem after one or the other that you copied.
- So, you need to have the same rhyme scheme (end-rhyme pattern).
- You also need to try to write it in a similar kind of meter, but you will not lose points if can't meet this requirement perfectly. This is challenging for many people to do.
- You could choose the same theme or a different theme as that shown in your model.
- Your turn or volta should occur in the same line that your model does, which means your meaning should shift in the same line as your model.
Villanelle
- Villanelle: A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. These two refrain lines form the final couplet in the quatrain (The Poetry Foundation). The form is not ancient and has mostly been employed in modern times.
- Etymology
- Italian: villanella: rustic song
- Italian: villano: peasant
- Latin: villanus: farmhand
- Yes, this word is related to villain; bru, ha,ha!
- Some Key Ideas to Consider with a Villanelle
- Any poem featuring a repetition or refrain has special qualities:
- How does each instance of the refrain add meaning to the poem? Perhaps it doesn't, but a great poem builds meaning. Refrains aren't simply included for the sake of form. Decide what the refrain means each time you see it.
- Does the refrain change at all? Even by one word? That is important; consider how the change nuances previously building meaning (synonymous, synthetic, or antithetic?).
- Journal: Villanelle
- Please read the poems, list the title, and answer the question(s) associated:
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
- "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
- Audio from Spotify
- Why does the speaker give this advice to his father?
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
- Ask yourself: What is the art? Is it hard to master? Has the speaker mastered it? How do you know?
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
- In one good sentence, describe the effect of the refraining lines.
- "Great Nature has another thing to do/ To you and me" (13-14). What is that "thing"? How do you know?
- Compose a theme for this poem in one sentence.
- Why does the speaker repeat himself if "There is nothing more to say"?
- Why is the villanelle form appropriate for this theme?
For Further Folly (not required):
W. H. Auden (1907–1973)
- "If I Could Tell You"
- Who is the speaker? Who is the speaker addressing?
Monday, 2/11/13: Midsummer Marvels
* Open
* Reminders for Schwager's class
* Reminders for Schwager's class
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| Titania and Oberon fight over a little boy |
- Contest entry due Wednesday
- Poetry Santa Cruz
- Just have the prepared envelope and one poem to peer edit. You can mail it later, once it's awesome. Let's get a few edits on this one.
- Updated link
- Flyer version
- Read a few poems from student anthologies in class.
- Memorization Quiz on Block Day
- CWP Due Block Day
- Monte Python on
- Nice edition:A Midsummer Night's Dream
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| Puck causes a good deal of trouble in the play |
Inside Reading (that's just a pun; this is not a course book)
As always, abebooks.com has the cheapest prices if prefer real paper. You'll find it from $3.50 (shipping included).
"If I Could Tell You" by W. H. Auden
Time will say nothing but I told you so;
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.
If we should weep when clowns put on their show,
If we should stumble when musicians play,
Time will say nothing but I told you so.
There are no fortunes to be sold, although,
Because I love you more than I can say,
If I could tell you I would let you know.
The winds must come from somewhere when they blow,
There must be reason why the leaves decay;
Time will say nothing but I told you so.
Perhaps the roses really want to grow,
The vision seriously intends to stay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.
Suppose the lions all get up and go,
And the brooks and soldiers run away;
Will Time say nothing but I told you so?
If I could tell you I would let you know.
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.
If we should weep when clowns put on their show,
If we should stumble when musicians play,
Time will say nothing but I told you so.
There are no fortunes to be sold, although,
Because I love you more than I can say,
If I could tell you I would let you know.
The winds must come from somewhere when they blow,
There must be reason why the leaves decay;
Time will say nothing but I told you so.
Perhaps the roses really want to grow,
The vision seriously intends to stay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.
Suppose the lions all get up and go,
And the brooks and soldiers run away;
Will Time say nothing but I told you so?
If I could tell you I would let you know.
Block Day, Week 25
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| It's pretty cold up here; I'd rather be writing a CWP. |
* Open
* Quiz take-n'-retake
* Contests
* Satire
- Dr. Wheeler's Definition: (this is a term to define in your binder notes)"An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards."
- The tone of a satire can be anywhere from playful and fun to dark and caustic.
- Monte Python on
- Satire employs art as a mirror to society.
- CWPishnessThe following love-themed examples are not satires, per se, but do feature one or more elements of satire (humorous inversion of a social expectation, etc.)
- Elizabeth Bishop - "One Art"
- Dorothy Parker - "Love Song"
- Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
- Thomas Peacock - "I Dug, Beneath the Cypress Shade"
* A Midsummer Night's Dream (for those finished who want to read ahead)
- Reno's Classes only
- We are going to try out an app called Subtext, the latest in interactive e-books. If you don't already have it, please get it. You must have the latest OS to do this, as I'm told. If you cannot, go to the ARC sometime over the next couple of days because I want to begin using it.
- Once you have the app, you'll need to log in using either your Facebook account or your gmail account, the one that the school gave you, I believe. If you don't know it, then look it up or go to Student Services.
- To join Reno's group, called English 200, you'll need the following code: MVXHJOAX.
- Now select Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from the English 400 bookshelf.
- (Reno)
- Finalize your Rough Draft (RD)
- Bring a hard copy Final Draft (FD) to class on Monday
- Submit an electronic copy of your essay to turnitin.com through Focus
- (see instructions above) Get Subtext app and download A Midsummer Night's Dream (the one with the flowers on the cover)
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| Attacked by Sweet (not Sweat) |
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