Poetry Quiz #2

We will have our second poetry quiz tomorrow, Friday 9/28 (50 pts.). This will be mainly a multiple choice exercise, and you will need to know the following terms to do well on it:

Assonance
Alliteration
Synesthesia
Onomatopoeia
Ceasura
Rhyme
Meter
Tone
Consonance

The link I posted earlier will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1660 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters 10-13 won't hurt either.

Poetry Paper #1

Using the suggestions from “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper analyzing or explicating a single poem, or comparing and contrasting any two poems in the poetry section of the text (or of your choosing).  This paper should be a minimum of 500 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:

Poems and topic of paper selected and e-mailed to me – Monday 9/24
First draft of paper – Monday 10/1
Second draft – Wednesday 10/3
Final draft – Friday 10/5

Poetry Quiz I Review

We will have our first poetry quiz on Tuesday 9/18 (50 pts.). This will be mainly a multiple choice exercise, and you will need to know the following terms to do well on it:


Simile
Apostrophe
Metaphor
Personification
Metonymy
Allusion
Paradox

The link below will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1660 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters five and seven won't hurt either.

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

Classical/Biblical Allusions

Many literary works in the western tradition allude to mythological and biblical figures and stories that were well known to all literate people through much of our history. Below you will find an assignment that is designed to help you familiarize yourselves with some of the most prominent of these.


What I want you each to do is complete each of your identifications in a word file. Make sure that you use the same format as the sample that is provided below. Please write in complete, coherent sentences and proof-read/spell-check your entries. When you have all six in final, clean-copy form, paste them into a post on this blog. These will be graded for 5 points per identification, and they must be posted by the end of the school day on Monday September 10 (you should really be ablle to complete them by the end of class Friday!).

EXAMPLE:

Cerberus – In Greek mythology, Cerberus was the hound of Hades (God of the underworld) who had three heads, a dragon-tale, and snakes down his back and mane. He permits all spirits to enter the underworld, but none to return. He is the origin of the term “hounds of hell” (i.e., Vincent Price in Michael Jackson’s Thriller). Cerberus is overcome several times in mythology and literature, and so symbolizes both the horror of death and hell and the triumph of light over dark, goodness over evil, and reason/cunning over brute force.

Abraham and Isaac - CA
Absalom - MCC
Achilles - TF
Adonis - AG
Agamemnon - LH
Antigone - EH
Atalanta - HK
Atlas - FK
Cain and Abel - CS
Cassandra - GS
Cupid and Psyche - BS
Daedalus and Icarus - CA
Daniel (in the lion’s den) - MCC
Daphne - TF
David and Bathsheba - AG
Dionysus (Bacchus) - LH
“Eye for an eye…” - EH
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - HK
Garden of Gethsemane - FK
Good Samaritan - CS
Hercules (12 labors of) - GS
Herod - BS
Hyacinth - CA
Jacob and Esau - MCC
Jacob’s ladder - TF
Jezebel – AG
John the Baptist - LH
Jonah - EH
Judas Iscariot - HK
Laius - FK
Last Supper - CS
Lazarus - GS
Leda (and the Swan) - BS
Lot/Lot’s wife - CA
Magi - MCC
Mammon - TF
Mary Magdalene - AG
Medusa - LH
Midas - EH
Minotaur - HK
Moses – FK
Narcissus - CS
Nero (fiddled while Rome burned) - GS
Noah and the flood - BS
Odysseus - CA
Oedipus - MCC
Pandora - TF
Persephone – AG
Perseus - LH
Pharisees - EH
Philistines - HK
Pontius Pilate – FK
Procrustes - CS
Prodigal Son - GS
Prometheus - BS
Pygmalion - CA
Pyrrhus - MCC
Rachel and Leah - TF
Romulus and Remus - AG
Salome - LH
Samson and Delilah - EH
Scylla and Charybdis - HK
Sermon on the Mount - FK
Sisyphus - CS
Sodom and Gomorrah - GS
Solomon (the wise) - BS
Styx (not the band!) – CA/HK
Sword of Damocles – CS/MCC
Tantalus – BS/FK
Theseus – AG/TF
Tower of Babel – EH/GS
Trojan horse – LH

Poetry Reading Assignemt

The poetry section of Perrine's begins on page 655 and is divided into 16 chapters. Each of those chapters consists of anywhere from 3-9 pages of introductory/explanatory narrative (with a few poems included as examples), a textbox with the heading "REVIEWING CHAPTER ____", and several pages of poems and critical reading questions. By Wednesday September 19 you need to have read the narrative parts of each of those chapters. You should read and consider the poems included as examples, but you do not need to answer the questions or read any of the poems that appear at the end of the respective chapters.

During this unit, which will last apporoximatley 9 weeks, you will need to bring your composition book and Perrine's with you to class every day.  Assessments will include two 50-point quizzes, two AP-prompt essays, and two out-of-class papers.  I will also collect and assess your composition books at least once during the unit.  The Frsit Trimester Exam will also focus primarily on poetry as this unit will comprise 3/4 of the content of Trimester 1.

Assignment for Wednesday 4/18

Read Act I, Scenes I and II of Hamlet and post responses to the following questions. These will be recorded as homework grades...15 pts. each if you do them reasonably well, 0 if you have not posted by the beginning of class.

1. What portents appear in Act I Scene I? What does Horatio think these signs mean?

2. In his soliloquy, Hamlet uses the image of an unweeded garden. What is Hamlet comparing to a garden? What are the weeds? Who is responsible for tending the garden? If Hamlet were the chief gardener, how do you think he would go about restoring the garden?

Ch. 30 Assignment

Post answers to the following questions from Ch. 30 RGs:

Kat – pt. 1 #1 & pt. 2 #5
Eddie – pt. 1# 2 & pt. 2 #4
Nathan – pt. 1# 3 & pt. 2 #3
Billy – pt. 1#4 & pt. 2 #2
Jack – pt. 1 #5 & pt. 2 #1
Cayce – pt. 1# 6 & pt. 2 #4
Michael – pt. 1#3 & pt. 2 #5
Tommy – pt. 1 #1 & pt. 2 #2
Maddie – pt. 1 #4 & pt. 2 #3
Eric – pt. 1 #6 & pt. 2 #1

Oedipus Unit Itinerary

Reading: Perrine's "The Elements of Drama," Ch 1. pp 1036-1039; Ch. 3 pp. 1222-1229; Oedipus Rex pp 1229-1274.

Assessment: CPS Quiz (40 pts.)

W 3/21 – finish Metamorphosis questions/begin drama reading
HW: selections from "The Elements of Drama"

Th 3/22 – DPS essay samples/discuss Kafka
HW: begin reading Oedipus

F 3/23 - Oedipus reading day
HW: finish the play

M 3/26 – Oedipus discussion day
HW: review for quiz

T 3/27 - CPS Quiz over Oedipus/"Elements of Drama" (40 pts.)

Class Schedule, 1/25-2/6

Wednesday 1/25 – Paideia Discussion A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Thursday 1/26 – Pan reading day

Friday 1/27 – First-draft peer-editing day (in 508 Comp Lab, so you can work on papers for the second half of the period)

Monday 1/30 – Pan reading day

Tuesday 1/31 – Pan reading day

Wednesday 2/1 – Pan Reading Quiz (CPS 25 pts.), marked-copies due (50 pts.)

Thursday 2/2 – Paper word day (508 Comp Lab)

Friday 2/3 – Second-draft peer-editing day (in 508 Comp Lab, so you can work on papers for the second half of the period)

Monday 2/6 – AP-Prompt Essay over Pan (25 pts.)

Paper Timeline

Friday 1/13 - Work Day #1 508 Computer Lab/Library. At the end of the period, e-mail me and tell me which question you have chosen and what you accomplished during the period.

Friday 1/20 - Work Day #2 508 Computer Lab/Library.

Friday January 27 - Peer-editing of first drafts. Partners are:

Jack-Michael
Kat-Cayce
Eddie-Eric
Nathan-Sarah
Maddie-Shelby

Friday February 3 - Peer-editing of second drafts.

Friday February 10 - Papers Due.