Tuesday, November 3, 2015

1. Read aloud the six love poems from the last two days.
1. Rank them from best to worst. 
2. Write a one-sentence explanation for each poem's rank.
3. We will compile and compare rankings.
4. Discuss and defend rankings.

Monday, November 2, 2015

1. Read the three poems.
2. Write a one-half page minimum response to one of them.

Love’s Philosophy

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

The fountains mingle with the river

   And the rivers with the ocean,

The winds of heaven mix for ever

   With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single;

   All things by a law divine

In one spirit meet and mingle.

   Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven

   And the waves clasp one another;

No sister-flower would be forgiven

   If it disdained its brother;

And the sunlight clasps the earth

   And the moonbeams kiss the sea:

What is all this sweet work worth

   If thou kiss not me?

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

by Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of th purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love

Love and Friendship

by Emily Bronte

Love is like the wild rose-briar,

Friendship like the holly-tree

The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms

But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,

Its summer blossoms scent the air;

Yet wait till winter comes again

And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now

And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,

That when December blights thy brow

He may still leave thy garland green.

Friday, October 30, 2015

1. Quiz on Book 2, Ch. 1-4
1. Novel reading for 10/30 due (Book 2, Ch. 6, pages 77-86, "Hundreds of People")

A Tale of Two Cities


Summary

Thursday, October 29, 2015

1. Read the three poems.

2. Write a response to one of them. (minimum one-half page)






How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)







Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861







How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.




A Red, Red Rose  by Robert Burns



O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,

That’s newly sprung in June:

O my Luve’s like the melodie,

That’s sweetly play’d in tune.



As fair art thou, my bonie lass,

So deep in luve am I;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry.



Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.



And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!

And fare-thee-weel, a while!

And I will come again, my Luve,

Tho’ ’twere ten thousand mile!







Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare






Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:

But thy eternal Summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

1. Novel reading assignment for 10/23 due. (Book 2, Ch. 4-5, pages 67-76, "Congratulatory" & "The Jackal")

A Tale of Two Cities

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

1. Finish Meeting of the Minds.

Monday, October 26, 2015

1. Present Meeting of the Minds projects.

Friday, October 23, 2015

1. Work on Meeting of the Minds project (due Monday).
2. Novel reading assignment that was due today will be due on Wednesday.
3. There will also be a quiz on Book 2, Ch. 1-4 in A Tale of Two Cities, on Wednesday.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

1. Work on Meeting of the Minds project.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

1. Work on Meeting of the Minds project.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

1. Work on Meeting of the Minds project.

Monday, October 19, 2015

1. Meeting of the Minds project

MEETING OF THE MINDS PROJECT

A moderator on a television program has a job to interview and discuss issues with the guests.

Choose three real persons from history, at least one of which is an author. They are to be the guests on the show. Script a program in which the moderator and the three figures discuss an issue.

The guests should represent different and/or opposing views on the issue.

You will be graded on the thoroughness in which the issue is discussed, the proper views of the guests as they would have seen it, attention to detail, and time. It is important to get the views of the guests properly across. Having them use exact quotes would be a plus.

It must be between five minutes and ten minutes long.

You will act this out in class.

We will video each of the programs.

This is due on Monday, October 26.

They will be presented on Monday, October 26, and if necessary, Tuesday, October 27.

Friday, October 16, 2015

1. Novel reading assignment for 10/16 (Book 2, Ch. 3) due.
2. Discuss Ch. 3, "A Disappointment".

Thursday, October 15, 2015

1. Judge headstones.
2. Put the headstones on display.
3. Read novel section due tomorrow.


A Disappointment