DATE:
BLOCK:
Thursday, March 12, 2015
1 (AP Lit & Comp)
WORK COLLECTED/CHECKED/DUE:
1. Look over Sonnet 18 (no need to answer the questions).
CLASSWORK:
1. Business
 Standardized Quiz #1 coming up soon!
 Progress reports are for your edification
 No notebook number
 No need to get them signed by a parent or guardian
 If it indicates that you’re missing part of a Question of the Day sheet or Daily
Edits sheet, turn it in
 Class Participation: last week’s was excused for all because we had only three
days of class. If you have another class participation that’s missing, it’s
because I’m either waiting on an excused note from you and/or the office or
because you were absent two or more days in that week
2. Question of the Day sheet for the week of March 9, 2015 (#44)
 In a complete sentence, how many lines are there in a sonnet?
3. Daily Edits Set #6, sentences #4 (#46)
 Numbers
 Fewer than 10, write out (“nine”)
 Ten and up, numerical (“10”)
 Write out at beginning of a sentence
 Dates stay numeric
 Decimals stay numeric (1.3)
 If two or more numbers in a sentence, go by rule of the first number
 I have eight students in a class, and I have twenty-five in another
 I have 25 students in a class, and I have 8 in another.
4. Elements of a Sonnet http://mrreiff.pbworks.com/Elements-of-a-Sonnet (#48)
 Why do we read Shakespeare? The themes of his plays are timeless.
 Romeo and Juliet: even though Prologue tells us everything that’s going to
happen, Shakespeare does an amazing job of drawing in the audience
(much like Titanic; I mean, the boat sinks. We know this. Why watch for
three hours?)
 Seminal (influential) people (suggestions from students)
 Reading poetry: stop at punctuation (not always at end of line)
 Rhymes
 Iambic pentameter:
 Rhyme scheme
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Shakespearean sonnet is always:
 ABAB CDCD
EFEF GG
Sight rhymes
 “Heat” and “sweat” do not rhyme, but they look like they might.
Slant rhymes
 “Girl” and “world” do not rhyme, but they sound as though they might, as
they share the “url” sound.
Before reading a poem, we need to label it:
 What is the rhyme scheme? Label it.
 Teacher reads poem. Students listen for pleasure while keeping eyes and ears
open for words with which they are not familiar.
Vocabulary
 Next, go through the poem and identify vocabulary words with which you are
not familiar
Who is the speaker of the poem?
 Not “the author”
 Describe the person. Is it a man or a woman (sex of the author)?
 To whom or what is the author speaking or referring?
 Explanation should be only one sentence
What is the topic of the poem?
 What the poem is LITERALLY about
 Do not interpret (at this point)
 You should have a one-sentence explanation for each of the three quatrains,
for a total of three sentences
What is the theme (or message) of the poem?
 Message can be found in the couplet (the last two lines)
 Explanation is one SHORT sentence: think BUMPER STICKER LENGTH
(Nike’s campaign is “Just Do It,” not “Just Do It Because You’ve Been Sitting
On The Couch Eating Twinkies For Way Too Long, Fatty!”)
 Breakfast with the [Burger] King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_5qoy4oaQ
 Message is usually something “big picture." In other words, when you
develop a theme for a poem, it should be one that is applicable to things
outside the poem. Examples:
 War is hell
 Only love can break your heart
5. Sonnet 18 (#49) [some previous answers below]
 Read the sonnet aloud to the class a few times, emphasizing the importance of
reading to punctuation
 Labeled quatrains and couplets
 Labeled rhyme scheme
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Vocabulary:
 Temperate: adjective; moderate
 Lease: noun; a contract for occupancy
 Complexion: noun; the skin of the face
 Eternal: adjective; lasting forever
 Brag: verb; to boast
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Who is the speaker of the poem?
 A man who is in love with a woman
 A man comparing his loved one to summer
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What is the topic of the poem?
 Quatrain one: the man is saying that his woman is better than summer, and he
points out the flaws of summer
HANDOUTS/NOTEBOOK UPDATE:
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Sample AP exam (#5)
Lord of the Flies Kohlberg notes (#27)
Question of the Day sheet for the week of March 9, 2015 (#44)
Daily Edits Set #6 (#46)
Method to the Madness of Metaphors (#47)
Elements of a Sonnet (#48)
Sonnet 18 (#49)
Sonnet I (#50)
ASSIGNMENTS/REMINDERS:
1. Monday, February 23, 2015 through Friday, March 6, 2015: Standardized Quiz
#1window
2. Monday, March 16, 2015: Have Act I of Macbeth completed and have all of Macbeth
Act I Starred Quotations completed
3. Wednesday, March 18, 2015: Have Act II of Macbeth completed and have all of
Macbeth Act II Starred Quotations completed
4. Friday, March 20, 2015: Have Act III of Macbeth completed and have all of Macbeth
Act III Starred Quotations completed
5. Tuesday, March 24, 2015: Have Act IV of Macbeth completed and have all of
Macbeth Act IV Starred Quotations completed
6. Thursday, March 26, 2015: Have Act V of Macbeth completed and have all of
Macbeth Act V Starred Quotations completed
7. Friday, March 27, 2015: multiple-choice portion of the Macbeth test, which will
count on Q3. The essay will be given upon our return from Spring Break, and it will
count on Q4.
8. Friday, March 27, 2015: End of Marking Period Three
9. Monday, March 23, 2015 through Friday, April 10, 2015: Standardized mid-term
window
10. Tuesday, April 7, 2015: First day back from spring break
11. Friday, April 10, 2015: Rockin’ the Schoolhouse show in HHS auditorium at 7:00
PM
12. Friday, May 1, 2015: Act 80 day (students out at 11:00 AM). Senior Prom night.
13. Monday, May 4, 2015: Surrrrrrrrrrre, you’ll be here.
14. Monday, May 4, 2015 through Friday, May 15, 2015: AP testing window
15. Wednesday, May 6, 2015: English Literature & Composition AP exam (morning
session)
16. Monday, May 11, 2015 through Friday, May 22, 2015: Standardized Quiz #2 window
17. Wednesday, May 13, 2015 through Wednesday, May 27, 2015: Keystone Testing
window
18. Tuesday, May 19, 2015: No school (in-service day for teachers)
19. Friday, May 22, 2015: Final deadline for SLO essay revisions (more details later)
20. Monday, May 25, 2015: No school (Memorial Day)
21. Wednesday, June 3, 2015: Senior Final Exams for blocks 1 & 2 (regular school day)
22. Thursday, June 4, 2015: Senior Final Exams for blocks 3 & 4 (regular school day)
23. Monday, June 8, 2015: Graduation at Villanova at 7:30 PM!