Block Day: More Sonnets and Such

* Open
  • AG Poem Peer Edit
    • Grammar: Circle errors
    • Imagery: Put a box around the best images in the poem

    • You may choose to sent this in or wait to send in your Poetry Santa Cruz submission. 

* Journal: Sonnet Volta (or Turn) Study.  You may work in pairs.
  • William Wordsworth
    • "The World Is Too Much With Us 
      • 1. Is this following an Italian or an English style?  
      • 2. Where is the volta?  In one or two sentences, explain what happens in the volta. 
  • Last poem: Gerard Manley Hopkins: "The Windhover"
      • 5. My professor at San Jose State believed this to be the most beautiful sonnet in the the English language.  The volta supports but does not create the beauty.  What creates the beauty of the poem?
      • 6. Where is the volta?  In one or two sentences, explain what happens in the volta.
  •  If you finish early, read a couple more from William Wordsworth:

* Vocabulary List 7: Compose sentences with assonance. Quiz next week on block day.

allay 
  capacious
  diurnal 
  extricate
  ignominious 
  mitigate 
  palpitate 
  phlegmatic 
  propitious 
  prostrate 

* Project Work

HW:  Austen-- ch. 45 (tested on entire novel on block day next week)

Send in Your Poem if You Wish (and take a picture of your envelope before you send it).
  • The overall winner will receive a $200 award and will be a guest at the National Agriculture Day Spring Luncheon.
    The winning entry published on 15,000 placemats and distributed to restaurants countywide next year!
    Entries must be postmarked or delivered to
    Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau 
  •   141 Monte Vista Ave.  
  • Watsonville, Ca 95076

  •  By Wednesday, February 26, 2014.
A kestrel

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