A2
Rieger: The Man He Killed (Hardy), I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Wordsworth)
Schlueter: The Time I Lost in Wooing (Moore), Not For That City (Mew)
Schumacher: To An Athlete Dying Young (Houseman), Insomnia (Rossetti)
Verrilli: J. Alfred Prufrock (Eliot), The Mower (Larkin)
Abeln: A Birthday (C Rossetti), Love Lives Beyond the Tomb (Clare)
Asgian:The Tables Turned (Wordsworth), When You Are Old (Yeats)
Bruggemann: She Walks in Beauty (Byron), The Destruction of Sennacherib (Byron)
Bruns: Invictus (Henley), Shall earth no more inspire three (E Bronte)
Josephson: The Star (Ann Taylor), The Good Morrow (Donne)
Griffiths: Fortuna (Carlyle), The Spring (Carew)
Hanna: A Poison Tree (Blake), The Tyger (Blake)
Naber: The Pilgrim (Bunyan), Immortal Sails (Noyes)

A3
King: A Birthday (Rossetti), A Dream or No (Hardy)
Kunkel: I Remember, I Remember (Hood), Break, Break, Break (Tennyson)
McCreary: Chorus Sacerdotum (Greville), The Donkey (Chesterton)
Nymberg: The Affliction of Richard (Bridges), Amor Mundi (Rossetti)
Reed: The City of Sleep (Kipling), Meeting at Night (Browning)
Himes: Up Hill (Rossetti), Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee (E Bronte)
Rumsey: Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson), The Owl (Thomas)
Shade: Invictus (Henley), If (Kipling)
Shaffer: Ode (O'Shaughnessy), The Second Coming (Yeats)
Strotman: Vain and Careless (Graves), Crossing the Bar (Tennyson)
Wheat: On Lord General Fairfax...(Milton), Dead Man Walking (Hardy)

A2
Group A -- Wednesday, January 23
Orkwis: La Figlia Che Piange (Eliot), Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Shakespeare)
Pappalardo: I Remember, I Remember (Hood), So We'll Go No More A Roving (Byron)
Hoderlein: Envy (Lamb), Afflictions of Richard (Bridges)
Myers: No Coward Soul Is Mine (E Bronte), Song to Cecilia (B Johnson)
Rieger: The Man He Killed (Hardy), I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Wordsworth)
Smallwood: Hymn to My God (Donne), Light shining out of darkness (Cowper)
Voss: The Kiss (Graves), London (Blake)
Wick: A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Carroll), I Find No Peace (Watts)
Williams: The Solitary Reaper (Wordsworth), Convergence of the Twain (Hardy)
Worobetz: Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats), A Mathematical Problem (Coleridge)

A3
Group A -- Wednesday, January 23
Bugada: The Tables Turned (Wordsworth), Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare)
Greve: Dover Beach (Arnold), Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers (Carew) 
Kincaid: Sonnet 29 (Shakespeare), The Darkling Thrush (Hardy)
King: A Birthday (Rossetti), A Dream or No (Hardy)

Now that you have all the "tools" to analyze poetry, you will complete an in-class poetry explication response for Queen Elizabeth I's "On Monsieur's Departure." Download and complete the following worksheet, and then dropbox at end of class.

    DOWNLOAD: Explication Worksheet (Elizabeth I)

Be sure to re-read all the criteria for the explication project. All parts of the project are due on the date you were assigned:

    Group A for Wednesday, Jan. 23
    Group B for Friday, Jan. 25

LRJ #5 -- Poetry in Culture -- due on Wednesday, Jan. 23

In-class work today
Read or re-read the "Rules for Quoting a Poem" handout and then complete the worksheet. You have two short poems to read and then respond to the prompts, using the rules for quoting a poem.

This is good practice for doing your own poetry explication essays, which are due next week.

    DOWNLOAD: Rules for Quoting a Poem (DOC)
    DOWNLOAD: Quoting from a Poem Worksheet (DOC)

Dropbox the completed worksheet at the end of class.

Today, in class, you will be downloading and completing the "Figuative Language" worksheet.

    DOWNLOAD: Figurative Language Worksheet (DOC)

Dropbox before the end of class.

For Wednesday
  LRJ #3 – Three Imagery Poems   
  Quiz on Chapters 6-9 of Sound and Sense

Note for January 31
You are required to purchase your own copy of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (preferably the Signet Classics edition) by January 31. I have five or six used copies that I'll sell for $5. If you are interested, see me before school in room 335.

Reminder: You should have your "Three Found Poems" written in your LRJ by Wednesday's class. We'll be going over some of them, which should be thoroughly entertaining, I'm sure.

Next, you should download the Poetry Explication Project assignment packet:

    DOWNLOAD: Poetry Memorization & Explication Assignment packet 

includes:
    - How Do I Choose My Poems?
    - Explication Responses Assignment
    - Explication Essay Assignment
    - Poetry Recitation Criteria & Tips
    - Rubric for Poetry Recitation Presentation
    - Sample Poetry Explication
    - Sample Explication Essay

Second, here are your poem assignments:

A2
Group A -- Wednesday, January 23
Orkwis: La Figlia Che Piange (Eliot), Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Shakespeare)
Pappalardo: I Remember, I Remember (Hood), So We'll Go No More A Roving (Byron)
Hoderlein: Envy (Lamb), Afflictions of Richard (Bridges)
Myers: No Coward Soul Is Mine (E Bronte), Song to Cecilia (B Johnson)
Rieger: The Man He Killed (Hardy), I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Wordsworth)
Smallwood: Hymn to My God (Donne), Light shining out of darkness (Cowper)
Voss: The Kiss (Graves), London (Blake)
Wick: A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Carroll), I Find No Peace (Watts)
Williams: The Solitary Reaper (Wordsworth), Convergence of the Twain (Hardy)
Worobetz: Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats), A Mathematical Problem (Coleridge)
*Zimmerman: In a London Drawing Room (Eliot), Ode (O'Shaughnessy)
*Paz: Love's Philosophy (Shelley), The Destruction of Sennacherib (Byron)

Goup B -- Friday, January 25
Schlueter: The Time I Lost in Wooing (Moore), Not For That City (Mew)
Schumacher: To An Athlete Dying Young (Houseman), Insomnia (Rossetti)
Verrilli: J. Alfred Prufrock (Eliot), The Mower (Larkin)
Abeln: A Birthday (C Rossetti), Love Lives Beyond the Tomb (Clare)
Asgian:  The Tables Turned (Wordsworth), When You Are Old (Yeats)
Bruggemann: She Walks in Beauty (Byron), The Destruction of Sennacherib (Byron)
Bruns: Invictus (Henley), Shall earth no more inspire three (E Bronte)
Josephson: The Star (Ann Taylor), The Good Morrow (Donne)
Griffiths: Fortuna (Carlyle), The Spring (Carew)
Hanna: A Poison Tree (Blake), The Tyger (Blake)
Naber: The Pilgrim (Bunyan), Immortal Sails (Noyes)

A3
Group A -- Wednesday, January 23
Bugada: The Tables Turned (Wordsworth), Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare)
Greve: Dover Beach (Arnold), Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers (Carew)
Kincaid: Sonnet 29 (Shakespeare), The Darkling Thrush (Hardy)
King: A Birthday (Rossetti), A Dream or No (Hardy)

Group B  -- Friday, Jan. 25
Kunkel: I Remember, I Remember (Hood), Break, Break, Break(Tennyson)
McCreary: Chorus Sacerdotum (Greville), The Donkey (Chesterton)
Nymberg: The Affliction of Richard (Bridges), Amor Mundi (Rossetti)
Reed: The City of Sleep (Kipling), Meeting at Night (Browning)
Himes: Up Hill (Rossetti), Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee (E Bronte)
Rumsey: Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson), The Owl (Thomas)
Shade: Invictus (Henley), If (Kipling)
Shaffer: Ode (O'Shaughnessy), The Second Coming (Yeats)
Strotman: Vain and Careless (Graves), Crossing the Bar (Tennyson)
Wheat: On Lord General Fairfax...(Milton), Dead Man Walking (Hardy)

In class today
Download and complete the "Paraphrasing a Poem" worksheet and dropbox by the end of class. This is "in class" work! It must be dropboxxed by end of class.

    DOWNLOAD: "Parapharasing a Poem" worksheet

For Wednesday
In order to discuss, explicate, and analyze poetry you need to be familiar with the poetic terms and language resources. (Incidentally, in order to succeed on the AP Lit exam in May you will need to have more than a passing familiarity with all these terms and how to apply them when writing about poetry.) Therefore, you will have a quiz on poetry terms on Wednesday. Download and study the terms in the document below.

    DOWNLOAD: Poetry Terms: A Quick Reference Guide (DOCX)

LRJ Assignments for Poetry Unit
That's right, it's time to crack open the LRJ once again. The good news (I think) is that most of these LRJ assignments for poetry are creative, designed to be enjoyable as much as edifying. For Wednesday, you are preparing LRJ #1, "Found Poems."

    DOWNLOAD: Poetry LRJ Prompts (DOCX)

Poetry Unit
When we come back from Christmas break we will immediately begin the poetry unit. Since one-third of the A.P. exam focuses on poetry, this will be an important unit. First, you will need to download the following :

    Textbook: Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry by Perrine and Arp (PDF)
    Article: "Got Poetry?" by Jim Holt (Sunday Book Review)

For Monday, January 7. Here is what you should be prepared for: 

1. QUIZ #1:
You will have a 45-point quiz over all material in Jim Holt’s article “Got Poetry?” and Chapters 1 and 2 of Poetry Sound and Sense.

2. CHOOSE POEMS:
Be prepared to submit your choice of two poems you would like to study, memorize, write about, and present during this unit. Since no one in your section may work with the same poem, you should submit one or two back-up choices as well.

How Do I Choose My Poems?
Over Christmas break, you will be choosing the two poems you want to memorize and explicate. You will choose these from a list that can be found on the “Poetry Out Loud” website. But, not just any poem qualifies. You must meet the following requirements:
 
1. The poem must be written by a British or Irishpoet: This includes Welsh, Scottish, and English poets. Be sure to look up the nationality of the poet!

2. The two poems must add up to a minimum of 40  full lines of poetry. Thus, you can choose a 7-line poem and a 35-line poem, two 20-line poems, etc. Be sure to do the math!

3. The poem must be found on the Poetry Out Loud list: 
     http://poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/find-poems

4. At least one of the poems must date from before 1900. 

5. The poems should be ones you like, enjoy, findfascinating, etc. You get to pick them, so do a little research and find two that you really want to work with.

6. No one else in your section may be doing the same poem; that means “first come, first serve.” I’ll personally deal with tie-breakers. (You should come to class with one or two “back up” poems in case one or both of your poems is already taken.)

7. After you have your assigned poems, be sure to read or re-read the “Got
Poetry?” article (see download above) for tips on how to approach memorizing poetry.

First Assignment of the Semester:
You are going to be reading the latest edition of The Crusader and writing a "letter to the
editor." It must be dropboxxed AND emailed to crusader@moeller.org by the end of class -- or you will receive no credit for this assignment (worth 25 points). No late assignments will be considered.

Since most of you will not have a copy of the newspaper with you, you can read the PDF verison of the lastest issue online

    DOWNLOAD: The Crusader, December 2012 issue

In order to successfully complete this assignment, you will first download and read carefully the following document:

     DOWNLOAD: How to Write a Letter to the Editor (PDF)
 
Now, open up a new Word document, select a Crusader article to respond to, and following the guidance of the "how to write a letter to the editor" article, write a well-crafted letter to the editor, beginning with "Dear Editor:" How long: It should be between 200 and 300 words!

I call special attention to the two Moe-pinions articles about e-Books versus hardcopy books as well as the front-page article about the creation of a so-called e-Library at school to replace our dismantled traditional book library. Another interesting article is the page 3 editorial on Moeller as more than a "jock school." These articles in particular provide food for thought. Consider what YOU think, what opinions you might have on these topics.

Yes, some student letters will be selected to be published. So, this is your big chance to see your name in print.

For next class:
For full details of what is due on Monday, please review the previous blog entry (Jan. 2)

Oxford University Press has announced its 2012 “Oxford Dictionaries UK Word of the Year.” And the winner is: omnishambles.

Coined by the writers of the British sitcom The Thick of It, Oxford has defined the word as “a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.”

Although omnishambles won’t necessarily make it into the next edition of the Oxford dictionary, it had “great resonance for 2012,” especially in political contexts, and even gave rise to its own derivative, omnishambolic. It beat out other notable new words like Eurogeddon (the potential financial collapse in the Eurozone), pleb (an ordinary person, especially one regarded as being of low social status), and second screening (watching television while simultaneously using a second technological screen device).