Daily Archives: March 29, 2012

3/29/2012

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We read To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time today and took notes. Get the notes from someone!

Riley talked about how it’s an insult if someone “peaked” in high school and then said that this poem made her mad because it reminded her when her parents were getting a divorce, her father told her mother that he was divorcing her now that she could find a second husband “before [she] got fat and ugly.” Harsh.

We then listened to the Kenny Chesney song, “Don’t Blink” and then did a Venn diagram of the two. The foldable template is in LMS – make sure you change the margins of the frame – otherwise your words will get cut off when you print. Four similarities and four differences are needed!

 

We then finished the day working on the Carpe Diem Analysis. Choose four poems/songs to read and write about. Instructions, rubric, and an example are all in LMS.

3/28/2012

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Today, we started out doing the Carpe Diem foldables. For each sentence, translate it into a short sentence that makes sense. The first sentence the class translated as “We shouldn’t know our future, so don’t bother to ask.” You do the next three and add an image.

Then, we listened to Riley’s story about Making Time Count and the sister-in-law’s lingerie.

Next, we listened to Marvin Gay’s “Let’s Get it On” and discussed how it was a carpe diem poem – specifically, how it was contradictory and how it related to TIME (“stop beating ’round the bush”, and “this minute”). She asked if we thought that she’d get in trouble if Mrs. Ekster came in and we were playing this song.

We then read “To His Coy Mistress” and took notes over OneNote. The poem is a syllogism – a form of deductive reasoning. This was kind of a creepy poem. Make sure you get the notes.

We did a foldable (in LMS) that turned the poem’s syllogism into a pyramid.

For each triangle, write the following:

  • If… (1st stanza – lines 1-20) + image
  • But… (2nd stanza – lines 21-32) + image
  • So… (3rd stanza – lines 33-46) + image

Make sure you follow the instructions in the PowerPoint – rotate text and put your name on it. Drop it off in the drop box and Riley will print it in color so you can make a pretty foldable.