Category Archives: English Class

These posts are for Mrs. Scarff’s English class.

E9 AGENDA 5/24: Concrete Poetry

 

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HOMEWORK:

  • Use the following resources to help you write your sonnet:
    • Rhyme zone – End Rhyme
    • Write Express – Includes different types of rhyme
    • Dillfrog– A rhyming dictionary with lots of choices
    • Rhymer – Another rhyming dictionary that includes examples and definitions for each kind of rhyme

 

E9 AGENDA 5/23: Free Verse, con’t

  1. Read and Watch To This Day by Shane Koyczan

HOMEWORK:

  • WRITE: a free verse poem about being different, bullying, or some other social issue
  • Use the following resources to help you write your sonnet:
    • Rhyme zone – End Rhyme
    • Write Express – Includes different types of rhyme
    • Dillfrog– A rhyming dictionary with lots of choices
    • Rhymer – Another rhyming dictionary that includes examples and definitions for each kind of rhyme

 

E9 AGENDA 5/21: Haiku Poetry

  1. Notes: Haiku Poetry

HOMEWORK:

  • Write THREE haiku about the same subject using the 5/7/5 syllable pattern.  Due tomorrow
  • Use the following resources to help you write your sonnet:
    • Rhyme zone – End Rhyme
    • Write Express – Includes different types of rhyme
    • Dillfrog– A rhyming dictionary with lots of choices
    • Rhymer – Another rhyming dictionary that includes examples and definitions for each kind of rhyme

 

E11 AGENDA 05/21: American Literature Timeline 

Take Contemporary Literature Quiz

HOMEWORK

  • Due Thursday: Working with a team, create an American Literature Timeline.  Make it big– use several large sheets of paper.  Make it big, clear, and nice.  For each era, include the following:
    • Years
    • Name of the era
    • Major historical events
    • Authors (at least 3 per era)
    • Famous works of the era
    • Characteristics of the writing and beliefs of the era
    • Illustrations (drawings)

E11 AGENDA 05/17: Contemporary Literature Intro 

Read and Notes: Pages 1146-1151 in your literature textbooks

HOMEWORK

  • Write two pages of notes about the introduction to contemporary literature
  • There is a quiz on Monday over the reading
  • All Makeup work must be submitted by June 7, 2019.  Late work will not be accepted after that date.

E11 AGENDA 05/6-5/9: e. e. cummings

  • Notes on Form, Syntax, and Creative Grammar in poetry
  • Read and TOASTTT the following poems by e. e. cummings:

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
                                                      i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

[anyone lived in a pretty how town]

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn’t he danced his did.
Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more
when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone’s any was all to her
someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream
stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)
one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was
all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.
Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond

E. E. Cummings, 1894 – 1962

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

 

 

 

 

 

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