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Name: ________________________________________
English112: Weekly 4
February 18th-22th, 2013
Task
Notes
Work on Reading (WoR): Read the poems on pages 2-4. I want to see
evidence of close reading (annotate!) For each poem, write 3-5 sentences
explaining what the poem is about and what the poet suggests about the topic.
Work on Writing (WoW): Choose any one of your Writer’s Notebook entries.
Use STAR revision to polish it into a piece worthy of a summative mark.
Mini-lesson
Tuesday about
STAR
Writer’s Notebook (WN):
Pick a poem for the Snapshot Poetry assignment. List images that you might
use for the assignment and explain how they connect to your poem.
*As always, your WN should be at least 1 ½ pages double-spaced which would
demonstrate at least 30-40 minutes of writing.
Read to Self (RS): You need to bring your novel for independent reading to
class every day. Remember to record your reading in the chart. Complete the
One-Pager.
*Make sure you keep all of these entries because they will be compiled and
submitted as a portfolio for your next independent novel study.
*Days absent this week: ______________________________________________________________________
*All Weekly 4 tasks are due by the end of class on Friday.*
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The Bride – D.H. Lawrence
My love looks like a girl to-night,
But she is old.
The plaits that lie along her pillow
Are not gold,
But threaded with filigree silver,
And uncanny cold.
She looks like a young maiden, since her brow
Is smooth and fair,
Her cheeks are very smooth, her eyes are closed.
She sleeps a rare
Still winsome sleep, so still, and so composed.
Nay, but she sleeps like a bride, and dreams her dreams
Of perfect things.
She lies at last, the darling, in the shape of her dream,
And her dead mouth sings
By its shape, like the thrushes in clear evenings.
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Through All His Days His Jokes – Joy Kogawa
Through all his days his untimely jokes
were a stream of consciousness
constant spring thaw flooding into
any solemn or serious occasion.
Like summer in its exuberance uttering
flies, mosquitoes, zeppelin hornets
he would arrive with his harvest of cheer.
And here now at his autumn grave
the bird smiles, the grasshopper smiles
the tree sheds its leaves with
riotous shouting. All of earth
shares his mirth. “It’s only
woolly winter I’m missing,” he
says chuckling, “These untimely things
happen to us all.”
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SSR One-Pager
English I
Name:_________________________________
Period:_____
Title:________________________________________________________
Author:______________________________________________________
Date started/date completed:_____________________________________
Pages read:__________
Rating of book (1-10):________
Choose five (5) of the following sentence starters and write a brief reflection for each on the
back of this paper:
I noticed…
I wonder…
I was reminded of…
I think…
I’m surprised that…
I’d like to know…
I realized…
If I were…
The central issue(s) is/are…
One consequence of _____________________could be…
If ___________________, then…
I’m not sure…
Although it seems…
Author’s purpose:
Intended audience:
ACADEMIC HONESTY--By signing below, I am indicating that I read the book, and the
information on this page is accurate:
Signature_________________________________________