Today, again, classes all did slightly different versions of the same thing. Here's a summary of each hour.
- Hour 2: We started off with reading Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop For Death," and followed up with Lord Byron's story of breakup and broken hearts "When We Two Parted." Students looked at both the poetic elements in the text as well as the greater meaning presented through the poetry.
- Hour 5: We began by analyzing "Nothing Gold Can Stay." We found metaphor, personification, alliteration, and allusion within Robert Frost's short 8 lined poem. We then moved onto "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson.
- Hour 6: We started off taking a clicker quiz (MCA style) over Shel Silverstein's poem "Forgotten Language." Then we slowing worked our way through Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death."
- Hours 7, 8: Today we tackled the somewhat tricky and baffling subject of foot and meter. Foot and meter is the way we name the specific type of rhythmic patterns used in poetry. Through an interactive activity of ta's and TUM's, we built, deciphered, and named the patterns in certain poems. The trick for students now is to be able to hear, label, and name the patterns on their own. They will get more practice with that over the weekend.
ASSIGNMENT:
vocab quiz 12 tomorrow
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