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Friday, February 06, 2009

Fri, Feb 6, 2009

Fri, Feb 6

Pds 1,2,4
1. AR rdg
2. Hand in sonnets & 10 sentences.
3. Review sonnets p62 Also: Italian (Petrarchan) is 8 lines=octave + 6 lines=sestet.
English is 4 lines= quatrain x 3 plus 2 lines=couplet.
Problem/ Question at the beginning and Solution/ Answer/ Comment at the end.
4. Read Milton sonnets pp63-4 “On Arriving at the Age of Three-and-Twenty” and “On His Blindness” and discuss what they are saying.


Pd 5
1. AR rdg
2. Quizzes on poets & poems.
3. Discuss
HW: Read Charles Dickens, p845, from David Copperfield p846, and “The English Language” p907. Quiz on all.