1. 20 January 2015:
Today’s Agenda:
Modern Sonnets from Last Week, a Continued Discussion
Our Sonnets!
Romeo and Juliet BEGINS TOMORROW!!!
HMWK:
Analysis of the Prologue from Act I DUE tomorrow, 1/21/15
Look up and define drama terms in the Romeo and Juliet study guide for Thursday, 1/22/15.
Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word!
Look over the notes you had on your sonnets from last week. Refresh your memories and discuss what you loved/detested with those around you.

2. “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines” By Edna St
“I will put Chaos into fourteen lines” By Edna St. Vincent Millay I will put Chaos into fourteen lines And keep him there; and let him thence escape If he be lucky; let him twist, and ape Flood, fire, and demon—his adroit designs Will strain to nothing in the strict confines Of this sweet Order, where, in pious rape, I hold his essence and amorphous shape, Till he with Order mingles and combines. Past are the hours, the years, of our duress, His arrogance, our awful servitude: I have him. He is nothing more nor less Than something simple yet not understood; I shall not even force him to confess; Or answer. I will only make him good.

3. “The New Colossus” By Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame, “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

4. “Ozymandias” By Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

5. “Those Winter Sundays” By Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

6. “If We Must Die” By Claude McKay If we must die—let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die—oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

7. “Love Is Not All” By Edna St
“Love Is Not All” By Edna St. Vincent Millay Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain, Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink and rise and sink and rise and sink again. Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death even as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour, pinned down by need and moaning for release or nagged by want past resolution's power, I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Or trade the memory of this night for food. It may well be. I do not think I would.

8. “The Sonnet-Ballad” By Gwendolyn Brooks Oh mother, mother, where is happiness? They took my lover’s tallness off to war, Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guess What I can use an empty heart-cup for. He won’t be coming back here any more. Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knew When he went walking grandly out that door That my sweet love would have to be untrue. Would have to be untrue. Would have to court Coquettish death, whose impudent and strange Possessive arms and beauty (of a sort) Can make a hard man hesitate—and change. And he will be the one to stammer, “Yes.” Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?

9. 21 January 2015:
Today’s Agenda:
SAT Review
Review of Prologue for Act I and Review Act I, scene I (I, i)
HMWK:
Look up and define drama terms in the Romeo and Juliet study guide for Thursday, 1/22/15.
Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word!
Take out your homework and place it on your desk. Then, get straight to the SAT practice for today! You should be done with it about a minute into class!

10. 22 January 2015:
Take out your word collection and your Romeo and Juliet study guide! Today, we will be playing charades!
Today’s Agenda:
Dramatic Terms, Played Out for All to See
Act I, scene i (I, i) Continued!
HMWK:
Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word!

11. 23 January 2015:
Today’s Agenda:
SAT Practice!
Act I, scene i (I, i) Discussed!
Paper Ideas for Monday, 1/25/15
HMWK:
Develop THREE ideas for Your “Perspective on Love” Paper for Monday, 1/26/15
Continue collecting words, four a week, but now, you must collect THREE vocabulary words and ONE spelling word!
Get straight to the SAT practice for today! You should be done with it about a minute into class! Then, we will discuss life and how characters react to it.