Iron Maiden v. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

For those of you who still need to do the "Charge of the Light Brigade" assignment, here is the gist.

"The Trooper"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"

In class, we compared both poems and talked about the rhyme scheme, stanza length, and meter.

1. Choose one stanza from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and scan it (mark stressed and unstressed syllables).

2. Mark the rhyme scheme.

3. Explain one way that the rhyme scheme, meter, or line/stanza length contributes to the poem's topic, mood, or theme.
(eg. the first two lines of stanza 1 sound like a horse galloping, which is crucial to the topic)

Reflective writing

Today we watched clips from Ken Burns's documentary Baseball.  You can find it on Netflix (if you have an account).  We watched Inning Five (25:00-34:59, 40:52-43:54, 1:56:59-2:00:29).  You are to create a document in your English 9 folder called "[Yourname] Writing Samples"

In the document, put today's date, skip a line, and then answer the writing prompts below. 
Because this is personal and reflective writing, you MAY use first person pronouns ("I," "we," etc.).

The video implies that American attitudes toward race during the early 20th century were...

[Finish the thesis and explain in 1-3 paragraphs]

What effect did players like Josh and Satchel have on American views of race? Did they change or reinforce ideas/stereotypes?

Grammar Work - Updated

Thursday, 2/20 you will work in partners to look at word choice, sentence fluency, and grammar/usage/mechanics in your own writing.  Pick a partner whose judgement you trust, and to whom you don't mind showing a bad grade. You will be working together to look at each other's "I Have a Dream" speech papers.
When I grade revised papers, I will NOT take anything off for late work. However, I WILL grade the "Style..." and "Conventions" parts of the rubric.

If you turned your paper in on time, I have graded it and have written comments.
If you turned it in late, I may not have gotten to it yet.

Grammar Lessons

By now you should have emailed me your three "grammar goals" for what you want to improve in your writing.  If you're ambitious (of just a grammar nerd), you can check these lessons out on your own.  Otherwise, as I read you emails for your grammar goal plans, I will be compiling the lessons you need to practice. I will let you know which lessons to work on and come up with an assessment to see how you did in the first week of March.

http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html

Have... fun?

Poetry Portfolio

Your poetry portfolio will be due Wednesday, 2/12.
You will have time Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to work on it in class.

To get the template, go to Shared with me> 9 English Common.
Make a copy of "Poetry Portfolio."  This copy will appear in your main My Drive folder.
Go to "My Drive" and move "Copy of Poetry Portfolio" into your English 9 folder.
Rename the file "[Yourname] Poetry Portfolio."
Now you're ready to go!

List of literary poets, bios, etc.

• Remember, you need one poem for EACH form.
• Also you need to address EACH of the following terms somewhere in your portfolio and analyze how the poetic device (term) contributes to the meaning of the text (poem).
• You need to analyze a MINIMUM of two elements per poem.  If you find a poem that you really like that has a lot of elements you can check off, go for it!

What you need to analyze:

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: simile, hyperbole, personification, direct metaphor, implied metaphor, extended metaphor
• SOUND DEVICES: alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme scheme
• STRUCTURE: meter, line, stanza, imagery

Quizlet bank for poetry terms 

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFO (put in the notes section of each slide):
Author name. "Title." http://url.goes.here.