1st Period - Creative Writing: Use the words provided from the writing prompt today and write 3 short storys using those three sets of words in under 300 words per story or less. Due Tomorrow.
2nd Per - Honors: We worked on Sonnets today. Sonnets express emotion and are very strictly written. They must have 14 lines, containing 3 quatraines of 4 lines each and a couplet. The rhyme scheme must be ABAB CDCD, EFEF, GG. The lines are all written in Iambic Pentameter - 10 syllables per line with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable all the way across.
Assignment: Read 3 of the sonnets in your text and mark the syllable lines, the accents, and the rhyme scheme. Also, decode each of them and tell me what you think Shakespeare is trying to say.
ALSO: Attempt to write your own sonnet, and mark it up with syllables and accents and rhyme scheme all in the right places and used the right way. Be warned. This will cause you headaches. :-)
3rd Per: We began reading our Watson book in class today. Homework, read through chapter 2 for Monday and complete the character/plot map for those chapters.
4th Per: We chose our poets today. If YOU DON'T LIKE THE POET YOU CHOSE, you have unitl Friday to change it to someone else - WITH my approval. Here is the list of the poet each student will be working on.
Isaac B. - T.A. Barron
Cole - Jack Prelutskey
Rachel B. - Louis Carrol
Bethany - E.E. Cummings
Isaac S. - Robert Frost
Nathan - Gary Soto
Jill - Emily Dickinson
Alex - Donald Hall
Carly - Langston Hughes
Rachel N. - Alfred Noyes
Dalton - Carl Sandburg
Cheyenne - Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
Lizeth - Theodore Giesel
Monique - Rudyard Kipling
Jared - Al Young
Zariah - Garrison Keilor
Kye - Li Young Lee
Jazmine - ???
5th Per - Resumes and cover letters. You already covered this with Mrs. Jessup, apparently, so we are just going to do a quick refresher course in a day or two.
Assignment: Produce a resume and cover letter for a job you might apply for in Cody or West Yellowstone - something or someplace a tourist would be found around here. Due Friday.
6th Per - continue reading Merchant of Venice. Make sure you are making note of little details that I might ask on a test - I like to be picky. We have now read through Act II Scene 4 on page 27. Tomorrow in class, you will be on your own to try and get through a few scenes without my help.
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