Fri, 8/13/10
English 12
• AR rdg
• Pd 1 Quiz partners and present to class
• Pd 4 Quiz on Believe and Organize handout
• Vocabulary & 4 Kinds of Writing: 1. Descriptive, 2. Persuasive, •ambiguous (SAT), definitions & examples
AP Literature
• Get essays back and take notes about problems.
• AR books that get 1 quarter to read are those with pts > or = to 20, or the pts times the rdg level = to or >100
• Get partner and quiz each other on yourselves.
HW: Due Mon:
•Read pp176-9 and answer 11 qstns on Ren. Poetry from handout. See questions at bottom.
•Read “They Flee from Me” p190 & write “A Critical Response, 2. Analyzing Diction” p191 .
•Read “Petrarchan Sonnets” p191 & take notes for quiz (this article is packed with information, so take good notes & study)
HW Due Tues:
•Final and first drafts of essay and outline.
1. Write the prompt and its year between your title & your essay.
2. Underline the thesis in the Introduction and Conclusion ¶s and the topic sentence in each body ¶ of the final draft of your essay
Drama
• Sit in groups in your area and prepare to perform
• Handout: Script Format, Group 1, Early group,make your improv into a scene script
• Group 2 perform: Bronston group
• Write reflections individually ( except group that performed, write as a group)
Renaissance Poetry pp176-179 Answer the following questions and be ready for a quiz.
1. What years ( give the numbers) were considered one of the greatest ages of English poetry?
2. What was the primary tone of most poetry and other literature of the Renaissance? Why? ( briefly)
3. How were the leisured and educated people portrayed in pastorals?
4. What adjectives would describe most Renaissance poems ( other than songs, which were simple and sincere) ?
5. What term of approval and admiration for poems of the Renaissance meant "skillfully made"?
6. What four qualities did Renaissance poetry have that are unlike most of our poetry today?
7. What was a "conceit" and how do they seem to us today? Give an example.
8. Name 5 uses of Renaissance poetry for purposes that are now served by prose.
9. What was considered the highest kind of poetry during the Renaissance?
10. Who were England's two great poets of this "highest kind" of poetry?
11. What one great Renaissance idea and philosophy was found in both their poems?
