West's Class for Wed. 2/1

Reminders

• Memorization Quiz on Block
• In Class Essay on Block

POETRY

If  Whole poem!

A bit more sonnet analysis practice.

• First let's talk through an example analysis.
• What is your check list to see if you understand the sonnet?
• What does prewriting look like for this particular writing prompt?  
• Christina Rossetti
• Robert Frost
• Here are a couple from Mr. Renault

Wednesday, February 1 ~ Villanelles (cont.)

Reminders

• Memorization Quiz on Block
• In Class Essay on Block
• J#20 & J#21 due on Friday for Bridgette's classes

 POETRY

If (Stanza 4)

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!

EQ: What is a villanelle?
French verse form

consists of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain

the first and third lines of the first stanza repeat alternately in the following stanzas

these two refrain (repeat) lines form the final couplet in the quatrain


Some Key Ideas to Consider with a Villanelle:

Any poem featuring a repetition or refrain has special qualities: 

 How does each instance of the refrain add meaning to the poem?  Perhaps it doesn't, but a great poem builds meaning.  Refrains aren't simply included for the sake of form.  Decide what the refrain means each time you see it.

Does the refrain change at all?  Even by one word?  That is important; consider how the change nuances previously building meaning. 

Check out this fine example:

Whispering Woods ~ Villanelle

1 She peers into the forest fog
   seeking another fairy face.

   Fay hears bullfrogs in the bog.

4 There’s whispers of strange dialogue

   slipping softly through cloistered space.

   She peers into the forest fog.

7 An owl calls from his cedar log

   and unsettles her sense of place.

   Fay hears bullfrogs in the bog.

10 Far off, there’s the bay of a dog

   whose master is on a coon chase.

   She peers into the forest fog.

13 She wonders if the swamp polliwog

   knows it has a change to embrace.

   Fay hears bullfrogs in the bog.

16 There’s a quiet riot to catalogue

   and she craves a calmer pace.

   She peers into the forest fog

   Fay hears bullfrogs in the bog.

So, what makes this a villanelle?

In Class Today

 Work on J#20 & J#21. Remember what you don't finish will be homework.

Tuesday, January 31 ~ The Villanelle

Reminders

• Memorization Quiz on Block
• In Class Essay on Block
• J#20 due Friday for Bridgette's class

POETRY

If (Stanza 4)

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!

• New terms for your study guide: Refrain and Villanelle.

 Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary darkness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said.
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

--Sylvia Plath

• EQ: What is a Villanelle? Click here to take notes.
• Prepare for a Villanelle analysis.
• Choose a Villanelle either from the link or one you have found from another source and answer:
• How do you know what the poem means considering the devices and structure? 
• What is the effect of the refrain (repeating line) in the poem?
• Does the meaning of that refrain line change each time it is repeated?
• Submit your analysis in Google Classroom. (J#21)

Homework

• J#20 &J#21
• Memorization

Monday, January 30 ~ Sonnet Analysis

Reminders

• Roots and Comma Quiz tomorrow (Tuesday, Jan. 31)
• Memorization Quiz on Block (All 4 stanzas)

Poetry

EQ: What are the differences between the Italian and British sonnet?

In class - finish up sonnet analysis from Block. Be ready to discuss your sonnets

Homework:

• Study for Roots and Comma Quiz

• Journal #20 - Sonnet Analysis - On Your Own
  *You will practice analyzing a sonnet below. For each poem, write a 1/2 page analysis that includes:
  1) Is this sonnet an Italian or British style sonnet?
  2) What poetic devices are present (name at least five) and how do they affect the speed and rhythm of the poem?
  3) Where is the volta (turn) and what is the conceptual relationship shown by the structure?
  
  
  On your own...Do Journal #20 based on a sonnet of your choosing..
  
• Christina Rossetti
• Robert Frost
• Here are a couple from Mr. Renault

 If (Stanza 4)

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!

Block Day, January 26 & 27 ~ The Italians vs. Shakespeare

QUIZ today - Memorization

Reminders

• Roots and Commas QUIZ on Tuesday
• Memorization QUIZ (ALL FOUR STANZAS) on Block

Roots & Commas - Review Game


Poetry  - The Sonnet Review

Terms to consider:

• iambic pentameter
• volta 
• rhyme scheme
• sonnet
• stanza
• couplet
• octave
• sestet
• quatrain

Review Practice

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud

BY JOHN DONNE

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,

And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well

And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

• EQ: What is the difference between an Italian vs. a British sonnet? 

    We'll start with the Italian, sometimes called Petrarch sonnet...


Here are a couple of examples.... Notice the Iambic Pentameter.

Italian Sonnet:

 British Sonnet

 Quatrain 1
     My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;  A
     Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;   B
     If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;   A
     If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.  B

Quatrain 2
     I have seen roses damasked, red and white,  C
     But no such roses see I in her cheeks;  D
     And in some perfumes is there more delight  C
     Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.  D


Quatrain 3
     I love to hear her speak, yet well I know  E
     That music hath a far more pleasing sound;  F
     I grant I never saw a goddess go;  E
     My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.  F


Couplet
     And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare  G
     As any she belied with false compare.  G



 Finish your group sonnet analysis and group presentations.

Journal #20 - Sonnet Analysis - On Your Own
*You will practice analyzing a sonnet below. For each poem, write a 1/2 page analysis that includes:
1) Is this sonnet an Italian or British style sonnet?
2) What poetic devices are present (name at least five) and how do they affect the speed and rhythm of the poem?
3) Where is the volta (turn) and what is the conceptual relationship shown by the structure?


On your own...Do Journal #20 based on a sonnet of your choosing..

• Christina Rossetti
• Robert Frost
• Here are a couple from Mr. Renault
•  

Wednesday, January 25 ~ The Sonnet

Roots

•  sat, satis - enough
• sent, sens - feel
• soph - wise
• ver, veri - true

Reminders

• Memorization QUIZ on Block (Stanzas 1-3)
• Roots and Grammar (Commas) QUIZ - Tuesday, Jan.31

 Memorization

If

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!’

Grammar - Comma Practice

Poetry - 

EQ: What is the difference between an Italian sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet?


SONNET
a poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes (usually 10 syllables per line)

COUPLET
two lines, one immediately after the other, that contain end rhyme

END RHYME
rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry

IAMBIC PENTAMETER
a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable

METER 
a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry 

  

So, now we know the parts of a sonnet. Let's examine the differences between the Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet and the British (Shakespearean) sonnet.  Take a look at the following Prezi to discover the differences:
The Italians vs. The British

POETRY - Group Analysis and Presentations
*Each group will practice analyzing a sonnet below. For each poem, write a 1/2 page analysis that includes:
1) Is this sonnet an Italian or British style sonnet?
2) What poetic devices are present and how do they affect the speed and rhythm of the poem?
3) Where is the turn and what is the conceptual relationship shown by the structure?

 Group 1

Remember

BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

Remember me when I am gone away,

         Gone far away into the silent land;

         When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

Remember me when no more day by day

         You tell me of our future that you plann'd:

         Only remember me; you understand

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

         And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

         For if the darkness and corruption leave

         A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

         Than that you should remember and be sad.

Group 2

Music Box

BY JORGE LUIS BORGES

TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY TONY BARNSTONE

Music of Japan. Parsimoniously

from the water clock the drops unfold

in lazy honey or ethereal gold

that over time reiterates a weave

eternal, fragile, enigmatic, bright.

I fear that every one will be the last.

They are a yesterday come from the past.

But from what shrine, from what mountain’s slight

garden, what vigils by an unknown sea,

and from what modest melancholy, from

what lost and rediscovered afternoon

do they arrive at their far future: me?

Who knows? No matter. When I hear it play

I am. I want to be. I bleed away.

Group 3

Psalm 150

BY MARY SIDNEY HERBERT COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE

Oh, laud the Lord, the God of hosts commend,

       Exalt his pow’r, advance his holiness:

       With all your might lift his almightiness;

Your greatest praise upon his greatness spend.

Make trumpet’s noise in shrillest notes ascend;

       Make lute and lyre his loved fame express;

       Him let the pipe, him let the tabret bless,

Him organ’s breath, that winds or waters lend.

Let ringing timbrels so his honor sound,

       Let sounding cymbals so his glory ring,

       That in their tunes such melody be found

As fits the pomp of most triumphant king.

Conclude: by all that air or life enfold,

       Let high Jehovah highly be extolled.

Group 4

Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

   And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

   As any she belied with false compare.

Group 5 

Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent

BY JOHN MILTON

When I consider how my light is spent,

   Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,

   And that one Talent which is death to hide

   Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent

To serve therewith my Maker, and present

   My true account, lest he returning chide;

   “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?”

   I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent

That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need

   Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best

   Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state

Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed

   And post o’er Land and Ocean without rest:

   They also serve who only stand and wait.”

Group 6

To the Poet Before Battle

BY IVOR GURNEY

Now, youth, the hour of thy dread passion comes;

Thy lovely things must all be laid away;

And thou, as others, must face the riven day

Unstirred by rattle of the rolling drums,

Or bugles' strident cry. When mere noise numbs

The sense of being, the sick soul doth sway,

Remember thy great craft's honour, that they may say

Nothing in shame of poets. Then the crumbs

Of praise the little versemen joyed to take

Shall be forgotten; then they must know we are,

For all our skill in words, equal in might

And strong of mettle as those we honoured; make

The name of poet terrible in just war,

And like a crown of honour upon the fight.

Group 7

The Professor

BY JOSHUA MEHIGAN

I get there early and I find a chair.

I squeeze my plastic cup of wine. I nod.

I maladroitly eat a pretzel rod

and second an opinion I don’t share.

I think: whatever else I am, I’m there.

Afterwards, I escape across the quad

into fresh air, alone again, thank god.

Nobody cares. They’re quite right not to care.

I can’t go home. Even my family

is thoroughly contemptuous of me.

I look bad. I’m exactly how I look.

These days I never read, but no one does,

and, anyhow, I proved how smart I was.

Everything I know is from a book.

 

Tuesday, January 24 ~ Back to Commas

QUIZ - Poetic Devices - Today

Roots

• plac, place - please
• psych - mind, soul
• ri, ridi, risi - laughter

Memorization "If" - QUIZ on Block (Stanzas 1-3)

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!’

Grammar - Comma

1. Nonrestrictive vs. restrictive elements in a sentence.
*Nonrestrictive - contains nonessential information - USE A Comma
*Restrictive - contains essential information - DO NOT USE A Comma

Ex. Nonrestrictive - The campers need to order tents, which cost $900.
Removing the nonrestrictive element "which cost $900" does not change the meaning.

Ex. Restrictive - The campers need tents that are water proof.
Removing the restrictive element "that are water proof" changes the meaning. This makes the sentence more general which looses the important message of the tents needing to be water proof.

2.Use a comma to set off direct quotations.

Ex. Ms. B screamed, "Please sit down and shut up!"

3. Use a comma with dates, addresses, titles, and numbers.

Ex. On April 8, 2017, Ms. B will marry her sweetheart.
Ex. Please deliver the package to 2 School Way, Watsonville, CA 95076
Ex. Daphne Doolittle, MD, has been appointed to the board of trustees.

4. Use commas to avoid confusion.

Ex. Students who can, leave before the last bell rings.

Practice - J#19 in Google Classroom - Add or delete commas. Write "C" if the sentence is correct.

a.The flame crawled up the fence to reach a low-hanging pine branch which quickly ignited.
b. Frozen, my niece's favorite movie, was released on November, 27 2013.
c. To err is human; to forgive divine.
d. On January 24, 2018 our office will move to 53 Overdahill Ln. Blue Town CA 99903.
e. You have to read your labels; spaghetti sauce for example contains more sodium than most people realize.  
f. Victoria is a noisy disrespectful student.
g. Founded in 1926 Monte Vista Christian School was one of the first Christian schools in Santa Cruz County.
h. A member of an organization that provides housing to the disabled was also appointed to the commission.
i. Sophia who traveled to the US in 2015 became a world class ice skating champion.
j. The artist painting a sunrise was once my English student.

Homework

• Grammar - Commas
• Practice Stanza 3 of "If"