Block Day: Will We Ever Be Royal(ist)s?

* Open

• Usage: Who vs. Whom #1 
• Refresher on Who vs. Whom
• So, AC/DC's album Who Made Who...is...incorrect.  Sorry, Angus.  It's who made whom.   
• For Fun: Inspector Morse, Season 8 Ep. 3, "Death is My Neighbor"; 20:00ish. 
• Terms: Define Periodic Sentence and Copy Down One Example.

 * Peer Edit Your Coastal Poem

• Grammar
• Look for proper punctuation.
• Image
• What is the key image(s)?  Underline it (them).
• Emotion
• What is the tone or feeling this poem provides?  Write the tone (in your own words) somewhere on the page. Is the emotion given through images (good) or adjectives like "beautiful" (bad)?
• Effect
• Is the poem's message unified, or does some aspect detract from the overall effect?  Circle detracting or limp or cliched offenders (or tangent).  Explain your circling. 

* Begin Vocabulary List 5 

• Word, part of speech, and definition
• Example sentence (see below)

Work due next week on block day when we have a quiz on our reading, notes, grammar, and vocabulary)
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List 5: Periodic Sentences on Poets or Poetry

41.  affront
42.  blasé
43.  cajole
44.  choleric
45.  cavalier
46.  feckless
47.  impasse
48.  indolent
49.  lugubrious
50.  ribald
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* Robert Herrick (1591--1674)

• Royalist
• At age 22, enters Cambridge
• Son of Ben (poetry group) 
• Ordained in 1623
• Given Orders in Devon in 1629 (leaving London for the southwest of England)
• Ejected from his vicarage in 1647 when he would not sign the Solemn League and Covenant. 
• Restored to his post in 1662 (Charles II was restored in 1660).
• Dies in 1674 (age 83).

 
* Reading:

• Delight in Disorder
• To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
• When he would have his Verses Read 
• Read at Least Two More of Your Choice 

* Journal 18: John Donne (or King Charles) and Robert Herrick.  Choose one and respond:

• In one paragraph, describe a key difference between John Donne and Robert Herrick's style.  Incorporate at least one quotation from a poem from either poet to support your ideas.
• The musician Charles Costa goes by the name of King Charles (lyrics).  What kind of image do you think he is projecting?  Is his image intended to invoke a Cavalier/Royalist or a Roundhead/Commonwealth connotation?  Explain in one paragraph. 

* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

 
HW:

• Journal 18
• Read (at least) ch. 1 of Pride and Prejudice
• Print your Coastal Commission Poem for Tuesday (and submit to turnitin.com)

Prince Rupert (example Cavalier)