Tuesday, 1/17/12: Grammar, Perrine, etc.

* Pray

This week: Quiz on our block day covering Q2 outside reading and terms (Perrine's poetry --ch. 6; fiction--ch. 3). We will also have a single M.C. test section. Tea party and Bleak House follow.

* Ch. 4: "Valediction Forbidding Mourning"

Grammar: Semicolon.
Read 34, 34a, 34b, 34c, and 34d. Do ex. 34-1 (all letters and numbers)

* J 30 Due Monday and the next journal the following block day.

We will have a weekly journal that combines our fiction, poetry, novel reading, and terms.

1. Perrine's Introductions and Terms: Define and supply an example or example sentence for each

1. Metaphysical poetry (if you have the note already, just add a sentence)
2. Round, flat, static, developing/dynamic, static characters
3. allegory
4. symbol
5. carpe diem
6. understatement
7. direct vs. indirect presentation
8. epiphany
9. motif
10. free indirect discourse
11. satire
12. comedy of manners
13. irony: verbal, situational, dramatic

2. Perrine's Fiction Ch. 3. Takes notes on the introduction. Read "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty and answer these two questions. 1. Describe and categorize (flat, round, etc.) Phoenix's character. Defend your answer. 2. Analyze one line or passage that illustrates her character complexity.

3. Perrine's Poetry, Ch. 6. Takes notes on the introduction. Choose two poems from separate centuries to answer questions for; one of the two must have five or more questions.

4. Austen: Answer any 10 questions from chapters 12-15. (Generally, read 10 chapters per week.)

These four assignments make up J30. J31 will then be Fiction ch. 4, Poetry, ch. 7, Austen 28-30, and appropriate terms.


* Tea party this week: Leave a comment to today's entry with your period and what you are bringing. Everyone brings something.

First, we need to cover drinks:
Water
Something to heat the water for tea
Tea
CUPS
Honey
Sugar
Milk
Soy Milk
Napkins or paper towels

If we have all of those are covered, we can add snacks:
Crackers
Bread
Plates
More Napkins or paper towels
Butter
Plastic knives
Cookies, Cake, Pie, Cupcakes, Baked goods
Fruit, Dried fruit, Nuts

If breads and crackers are covered:
Cheese, Cream cheese
Jam, Curd
Dried meat (like dry salami or prosciutto...not like roast beef or turkey or ham)
Hard-boiled eggs
Salt
Pepper

Do not bring:
Rice
Dinner food
Things you have to heat up
Things that go bad quickly
Things that are really messy, sticky, etc.
Beans
Fish or seafood of any kind
Pasta
Baked Potatoes
Macaroni salad, potato salad, vegetable salad
Anything with a dressing

At the end of the day? We throw food away.

HW: 34-1; Read