Wednesday - May 11, 2011

1st Period - Maps testing.  No students.

2nd Per - We are nearly finished watching the Earnest movie.  Probably going to be a worksheet or a test on it very soon. 

3rd Per - We had a short power point presentation about Jim Crow laws then a class discussion on whether this kind of thing still exists in our country.  Reading assignment - finish the book and the epilogue for class tomorrow.

4th Per - We started learning about rhyme scheme.  Poetry employs all kinds of rhymes that are organized in different ways.  Usually, the word at the ends of the lines will rhyme, and they are assigned a letter to help identify.  For example:

The cat was mad    - a
And I was sad,     - a
so off I flew     - b
to weep and stew.     - b

Or:

I like to eat     - a
the tasty toast.     - b
with jam so sweet     - a
I love it most.     - b

Shakespearean sonnets are really precise in their rhyme scheme.  there are always 14 lines, and they alwasy follow this rhyming pattern:

Lines 1 - 4 are A,B,A,B
Lines 5 - 8 are C,D,C,D
Lines 9 - 12 are E,F,E,F
and lines 13 and 14 are GG

Here is one example I wrote.  (It's a very poor example!)

They begged me take them on their senior trip - a


I wist not what I had agreed to do. - b

I soon discovered from the stenches ripped - a

That Gary’s butt and Carlin’s butt stink true. - b


The Tickets got left in the hotel room - c

In nervousness I told them of our plight - d

They graciously sent not me to my doom - c

I ran inside and quickly put it right. - d



The girls loved malls and stores with shopping lots. - e

The boys thought it was droll and rather dumb. - f

The girls swooned at the Mayan diver’s hots. - e

And all agreed that Boondocks was most fun. - f



Three colleges t’were large parts of the trip.  - g

Proud Weber State won hands-down as the bomb. - g


5th Per:  Began watching the Macbeth video in class.  Character Plot maps for all five acts are due Thursday (tomorrow.)

6th Per:  Continued watching the Merchant of Venice video.  It seemed kind of boring at first, but the characters are really starting to ham it up now, and it is more enjoyable. 

Alas, poor BYU did sadly drip

In Idaho we met friends now long gone.



How fun to go and see the sights and sounds

But coming home, I found I’d gained 12 pounds.