Daily Archives: February 4, 2015

2/4/2015 – B

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If you did not get finished with your Pre-Writing from yesterday, spend about 15 minutes finishing that. IF YOU SPEND ANY LONGER, YOU WON’T GET THE POEMS DONE.

There will need to be two poems. I don’t care if you and your buddy write one each individually, or if you both write them together.

poems

Poem 1

  • Persuasive
  • 24 lines
  • 6 stanzas
  • Rhyming couplets
  • AABB Rhyme Scheme

Poem 2

  • Rejection of Poem 1
  • 24 lines
  • 6 stanzas
  • Rhyming couplets
  • AABB Rhyme Scheme

Make sure that when you turn your poem in, you let me know who your partner is so he/she can get credit as well.

We are using The Passionate Shepherd and The Nymph’s Reply as a model, so if you need to see what the poem should look like, go look at the poems we read yesterday.

2/4/2015 – A

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Today was a shut up and work day! Most students worked on the Foil Flip Doll, but *please* don’t forget about your Beo-Boast – it’s due on Friday and worth 150 points.

Thanks to Daniel for reminding me to show the epic Rap Battle of Dr. Seuss versus William Shakespeare. We talked about flyting and how our rap battles today have evolved from flyting. This was because Ango-Saxon life was so violent that this was a way to resolve disputes without killing people.

If you are interested, here are a few papers/articles that might interest you:

Verbal Dueling

Flytes of Fancy: Boasting and Boasters from Beowulf to Gangsta Rap

Back to Oral Culture: Internet Flaming and the Art of Invective

The Dozens