Thu, Feb 5
Pds 2,4
1. AR rdg
2. Check 10 sentences
3. Discuss Italian and English sonnets, also names of 8 lines=octave, 6 lines=sestet, 4 lines=quatrain, 2 lines=couplet.
4. Write sonnet about the topic of your 10 sentences. Present problem or qstn in beginning of poem and answer, solution, or comment at the end.
Pd 5
1. AR rdg
2. Hand in work on Browning’s poems
and discuss
3. Book groups discuss and do log
HW: Read Elizabeth Barrett Browning p808 & Sonnet from the Portuguese p809, Gerard Manley Hopkins p827 & “Spring and Fall” p828, Thomas Hardy p833 & “The Darkling Thrush” p834. Write 3 facts for authors and write what each poem is saying.
