EQ: Why do we memorize things? (Brain? Identity? Language?)
*"To take a poem to heart is to know it by heart" (Brad Liethauser).
*Consider this:
"It occurred to me that there were two sets of virtues, the resume virtues and the eulogy virtues. The resume virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral -whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love?" (Dave Brooks ~ Click here to read the full article). *What part of our education actually builds virtues to accompany our skills?
MEMORIZATION
"If" by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
POETRY
- Start a new document in Notability called "Poetry Notes for Final"
- Click here for a Mini-lesson on Mood (aka Atmosphere)
- Tone: The attitude the writer or speaker takes toward the subject, audience, or herself. You will look more directly at the syntax to find this.
- Mood: The total feeling or atmosphere communicated by a scene, selection, or complete work of art. Ask, how does this make me feel?
- *Quick Review~If you saw our EQ on the final, how would you answer it? Record the question and answer in your notes.
- Poster time!
HW: Finish poster and work on memorization!
