Senior English 12/6/10

1. Senior English 12/6/10 • Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.  ~Plato, Ion • What do you call a bunch of chickens playing hide and seek? • Sanguisugent – bloodsucking Goals –Recite your first poem for the class. Learn how to evaluate a poetry recitation. Homework – Write your first poem from memory on your daily work paper. Recite it before going to bed.

2. Senior English 12/7/10 • There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Shakespeare, Hamlet. • What two letters spell jealousy? • Sciapodous – having very large feet. Goals –Recite or read your second poem for the class. Evaluate recitations. Homework – Write your second poem from memory on your daily work paper. Recite it before going to bed.

3. Senior English 12/8/10 • Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.  ~John Keats • What do acorns say when they grow up? • Philosity – the degree of body hair. Goals –Recite your first poems with partners. Evaluate a poetry recitations. Check for accuracy Homework – Write your first poem from memory on your daily work paper. Recite it before going to bed.

4. Senior English 12/9/10 • Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.  ~Percy BysheShelley • How do you spell a hated opponent with only three letters? • Aspectabund – of a pleasantly changing coutenance. Goals –Recite your second poem with partners. Evaluate a poetry recitations. Check for accuracy. Homework – Don’t forget to study for quiz #15 tomorrow. Write your second poem from memory on your daily work paper. Recite it before going to bed.

5. Senior English 12/10/10 • Five minutes to prepare for vocabulary quiz #15. • What game can be dangerous to your mental health? • Axilla – armpit. Goals –Complete #15. Practice reciting and evaluation of poetry recitations with partners. Homework – Do whatever it takes to be able to recite one poem in class on Monday. The contest begins!