Block Day: Journey from Eliot to Bacon

* Open

• "Journey of the Magi" by T. S. Eliot
• Read and answer the m.c. questions in your composition book.
• If you'd like a copy on the blog: here it is
• Review (if you'd like some scholars reviewing the poem, click here)

• How does Eliot create tone and theme in "Journey of the Magi"? 

* Share thoughts

* Chaucer

• Please review and edit the three parts of your work.
• You edit.
• Peer edit. 

* Sir Francis Bacon

• Read the first two essays in the first book you will find in this link.
• You will find notes underneath the book that will help you understand what he is essaying.
• Next, do the journal:

Writing Assignment: Journal 16

• In five fine sentences, respond to either of the essays with your agreement, disagreement, and further thoughts on the given subject (truth or innovation).

 Finished early?  Please work on your coastal poem or Chaucer editing.

HW: Journal 16