Monday, October 6, 2014

Monday, October 6, 2014

1. Start unit on poetry.
2. Discuss poetry notebook students are to keep.
3. Discuss some of the forms of poetry.
4. Discuss couplets.
5. Write three couplets.



COUPLETS

A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. Couplets usually have two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line or verse. In a run-on couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the second.

Examples:

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd;
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
— Alexander Pope

Whether or not we find what we are seeking
Is idle, biologically speaking.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay (at the end of a sonnet)


POETRY NOTEBOOK

You will be keeping a poetry notebook this six-week period. Anything we do regarding poetry should be placed in this notebook.
Among the items you will have in this are:
            notes on poetry,
            poems you have written,
            pictures you have drawn about the poetry,
            poet information, and
            anything else I assign to be placed in it.
You may take notes on your Chromebook; however, your finished notebook will be on real paper.
In addition to the daily grades on individual assignments, you will have a test grade on your finished notebook.

Other details will be added.

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