3rd Marking Period Make up Assignments
Due by December 15th… no excuses
1. (test grade)One definition of Community is a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of
sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. Cell phones, email, chat rooms, social
networking sites, blogs and other electronic communication have made our world smaller
and increased the pace at which we live life. Write a two page report in which you explain
whether these online interactions are true online “communities.” Have these inventions
given us a new sense of community or opened up communities that would otherwise be
closed to us? Or have we lowered our standards of what community means?
2. (test grade) Poetry analysis “Evening Hawk”…see second page and answer the questions on
your own paper.
3. Create one month of a calendar in which you highlight important dates in your life and
make up holidays associated with what you find important. Must be colorful and unique to
be considered.
4. Interview your science teacher. Come up with at least 5 creative questions to ask your
science teacher about science or technology. Record your data and compare and contrast in
one paragraph one of those perspectives with your own ideas on that subject.
Evening Hawk by Robert Penn Warren
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds,
Out of the peak’s black angularity of shadow, riding
The last tumultuous avalanche of
Light above pines and the guttural gorge,
The hawk comes.
His wing
Scythes down another day, his motion
Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear
The crashless fall of stalks of Time.
The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error.
Look! Look! he is climbing the last light
Who knows neither Time nor error, and under
Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings
Into shadow.
Long now,
The last thrush is still, the last bat
Now cruises in his sharp hieroglyphics. His wisdom
Is ancient, too, and immense. The star
Is steady, like Plato, over the mountain.
If there were no wind we might, we think, hear
The earth grind on its axis, or history
Drip in darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.
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What is taking place, literally, in the poem?
Who is the speaker in the poem? (Or, at least, what do we know about him/her)
To whom is he or she speaking? Who is the audience of the poem?
Where is the setting of the poem? Where is the speaker? When does this take place?
What is the possible theme of the poem?
Write one line from the poem that you think tells the theme or main conflict of the poem.
What kinds of patterns are there in the poem? Does the poem rhyme? Does it have a
particular rhythm or beat? Does it have a visual pattern when you look at it?
8. How does the poet use language? Is it elevated or fancier language? Is it more vernacular,
colloquial, or casual? Does the poet use a particular dialect or accent?
9. What do you think is the most important line of the poem? Why?
10. What is the tone of the poem at the beginning, at the end, and overall?