Working Our Way Through Frank

We had a couple of writing quizzes and some great discussion about Frankenstein--fun Times!

We took a stern look at the poem, "Elegy for Jane" by Theodore Roethke-- searching for meaning through seeing how tone-- Formal and Respectful-- contrasts with Word Choice (diction): which shows the speaker's ATtItUdE-- and reveals his true feelings in the fine print of the poem.
Please continue to read along, Mark up Your Text with all kinds of things you notice--fill out your Major Works Data Sheet for Jane Eyre and be ready to write an amazing essay next week---Oh, yeah!
Mrs. E

Last Week of Jane the Eyre--ee and on to the truly Eerie: Fankie!

Romantics be glad-- we have another Gothic novel on tap.  Frankenstein is a much shorter work, but very full of the high drama and "Emo" attitudes we have come to know and love, via Charlotte Bronte and Jane, herself.  Here is a link to the reading schedule-- we keep strictly to this schedule and there will in-class writings almost daily that will depend upon your having read the material.  Enjoy this romantic, Gothic, Victorian, scary read.

Really working on getting inside those dense poems!

Here is a link to the poem we looked at today that makes a whole new message about beauty-- one that I'm sure never entered Keats's mind! Barbie Doll  and Mirror along with a couple of other poems we will use later.
Glossary Reminder: Please only turn in entries on Thursdays.
APH Essay Outline: Please bring in your revised outline-- if I asked you to revise it-- on Monday.
Reading goal by Monday: Finished with Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre.
Have a great weekend!

Reading Update

Read Jane Eyre!  Okay-- a few more details:

Quiz on Thursday, October 4th if you need to make the first one up-- be done with Chapter 15 by then.

Two chapters a day, that's all we ask!  Easy reading schedule put us finished with Chapter 17 by Friday of this week and up through Chapter 23 by Monday--Mondays are my favorite Quiz days--just thinking aloud here.

Enjoy!

More Poetry Tools!!!!!

We went over a very thoroght guide for evaluation poetry in class today-- Wednesday, October 3rd
Investigation Poetry Guide
Investigation Poetry Form
Poem to investigate (Just do the Keats Poem-- we will compare it with the other on a later assignment.
Have most excellent fun!