April 4th. It’s my dad’s birthday. I guess I need to call him. Maybe I’ll read the poem from yesterday to him and see how HE likes it!

Today, we read/listened to Let’s Get it On by Marvin Gaye. We talked about the speaker and his audience (a girl) and analyzed that relationship. We highlighted evidence of carpe diem (time) in the poem, highlighted IRONY in the song, and highlighted references to LOVE in the song. We also specifically talked about how the song was contradictory and how it related to TIME (“stop beating ’round the bush”, and “this minute”).

 

Then, we read To His Coy Mistress. Make sure you get the notes from the blog or another student. The poem is a syllogism – a form of deductive reasoning, and it was also very similar to Let’s Get it On.

We create a Venn diagram comparing To His Coy Mistress with Let’s Get it On. I’m grading this based on QUALITY, not QUANTITY. Make sure you focus on significant similarities and differences.

Lastly, we did the Syllogism Pyramid foldable. You can find the template in LMS.

For each triangle, create a text box and write the following:

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

You will need to ROTATE the text box. Grab the little green ball and turn it. Make sure that the text box faces the hypotenuse. Don’t worry about the text that is already on the pyramid – that will be hidden when you fold it up.