Daily Agendas

• Professor Quiz
• Literary Terms Group Challenge
• Color Code Literary Terms list
HW: Have materials ready for Thursday (we will organize notebooks and binders)

• Wrap up with Group Challenge
– What does it say, how does it say it, what does it mean, why does it matter?
• Color Code Literary Terms List
• Organize Notebooks/Binders
• AP Multiple Choice Passages: poetry and prose
– Do passage
– Discuss roadblocks, strategies, and needs

• Finish discussion of AP MC
• Return quizzes and discuss questions that came up
• In groups: read “Underside”
What does it say?
How does it say it?
What does it mean?
So what?
HW: One page essay (approximately 250 words): “Discuss a book that has made a lasting impression on your life”

• How can violence be symbolic of something? (Out, Out, and
Beloved)
• Are we going to have a chance to read novels that demonstrate some of what the book taught?
• Is the Bible really used in other novels?
• Why, when snow is just a it colder than rain, can one create and the other destroy?
• What does it actually mean for a sonnet to be square shaped?

• Do you ever think about the root of all literature?
• Did the author over analyze some of the ideas he wrote? (some of his ideas seem bizarre)
• Why do things like rains have so many double meanings? In other words, rain signifies both illness and fertility.
• How many books that are alluded to in "Professor" have you read?
• Since Foster talks about missing details when you don't know about the background, I wondered if there was anything inexperienced readers in genres discussed might be missing in his analysis.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.

• Vocabulary: mottled, tapestry, ambivalence, ambiguous, solidarity
• Discussion: “Underside”
• Questions for “Underside”
HW: Read “How to Mark a Book” and talk to the text.

“ambivalence regarding her work as a waitress”
• Having inconclusive feelings about something or someone
• Adj.
• Ambivalence = noun

Uncertainty An added bonus here is the lack of ambiguity in fairy tales.
Noun
Ambiguous = adj.

I imagine the underside of the English language, a garbaged, mottled dreamtangle like the reverse side of a tapestry where each thread runs wild in a course of its own . . . .
A woven fabric
Noun

• It doesn’t take any great sagacity to know that
Ezra Pound’s “Sestina:
Altaforte” (1909) is actually a sestina, but I for one am very grateful that he labels it as to form.
Wisdom
Noun
Sagacious = adjective

I imagine the underside of the English language, a garbaged, mottled dreamtangle like the reverse side of a tapestry where each thread runs wild in a course of its own . . . .
Splotted or blotched in coloring
Adj.

• Turn in HW
• Review Vocabulary
• Wrap up with “Underside”
• Read “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”
-Model think aloud, discuss four questions
• Debate line: How to Mark a Book
HW: Read for at least 20 minutes

• Poem: “The World is Too Much With Us”
– Think aloud in pairs
– Discuss Four questions
• Return Essays and start Personal Correction area page
• “How To Mark a Book” Debate Line
• HW: Read “Bookends: Should literature be considered useful?”
– Write down a well-crafted sentence.
– Write down a sentence that captures the main theme for
each side.
– Write down a sentence that resonates with you personally.

• Specific words bring readers into the scene
General:
Nice
Specific:
Generous
The door shuts The door thuds
The army wants revenge The army thirsts for revenge

Depends on Occasion:
• Formal - "I am not sanquine about the decision of the board."
• Informal - "I am not pleased with the board's decision."
• Conversational - "I'm not comfortable about the decision.”
• Colloquial - "I'm not cool with what the brass decided."
• Slang-y-- "I'm ticked off at what the suits did."
• Vulgar -- "I'm royally pissed."

• Depends on purpose
Inform: Straightforward
Entertain: ironic, playful diction

Diction can impart freshness and originality to writing.
Words used in unusual ways make us rethink what we know.

-about the diction in the poems we read yesterday and today?
-about the diction in the book you are currently reading
-about the diction in How to Read Literature Like a Professor

• SSR
• Vocabulary Review
• Third Hour: finish “How to Mark a Book” discussion
• Return articles and discuss levels of notation
• Discuss “What is the Utility of Literature”
• Read “Early Autumn”
• HW: 1. Study for quiz (vocab., readings)
2. Change the general term in the brackets in the paragraph following the story to the specifics from the story. For example,
– Characters: Bill and Mary

http://readingapprenticeship.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/01/RFU-ch-4-metacogfunnel.pdf

• Turn in HW to tray
• Quiz
• SSR
• Diction Lesson
HW: Read for at least an hour over the weekend. Be prepared to discuss the diction in your book.