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Photo: Armando Uribe, poet

First, we’re off to place our autobiographical letters in the career center. Whoo-hooo…Dont’ forget to give me onw.

Next, I’ll mention and go through a study guide for the final exam next week.

Then, let’s share some poetry before we talk about metaphors. (poetry1.pp)

Your turn: write a 10+ line poem that uses either an extended metaphor or a series of metaphor in order to create a riddle, give us clues that allow us to guess what the subject might be.

If we have time, we’ll go on to look at some Blake and the idea of form.

First, we’ll talk to the Italians (1st period only).

Then, we’ll take a little time for groups to get ready. The scenes will begin and we’ll all be impressed.

Hopefully, we’ll have time to look at this in class, but if not it’s homework.  Read this sonnet by Shakespeare and write a 300 word reaction.  Paraphrase the sonnet.  What is the effect or reason behind the use of rhyme, metaphor, and imagery in the poem?  Who do you think is the speaker and who the subject?  Why?

Sonnet XXXVII.

As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by fortune’s dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
That I in thy abundance am sufficed
And by a part of all thy glory live.
Look, what is best, that best I wish in thee:
This wish I have; then ten times happy me!

Image credit: Art of the Print

So, we’ll start with a discussion of Acts 3-5. I also want to mention the spaceship scenario.

Then, I want to do one close read of Prospero’s Farewell Speech

Finally, I’ll give you time to memorize your lines for the scenes due next Friday.

Blog Post: Respond to the following scenario (thanks Signet Books!)

You have been elected President of the Student Council during the last election, but your brother betrays you. Because you are very involved with your studies, you allow your brother, who is Vice-President of the Student Council, to take over most of your duties. He seems to enjoy the work, and this allows you to be free to really get into your multimedia and English classes.

But you also enjoy the status of being President, and you make sure that the work of the Council is being done. However, early in the Spring semester, your brother engineers your downfall. He goes to the faculty advisor with whom he is friendly and enlists his help in deposing you. At a Council meeting, the advisor charges you with dereliction of duty and kicks you out of office. He installs your brother as President. Hurt and aggrieved, you withdraw within yourself to reflect on what has happened to you.

Through reflection, meditation, and study of the classics, you develop powers that you did not know you had before. Also, you discover that an audio tape you had been using to record environmental noise for your multimedia class somehow picked up the conversation of your brother and the advisor when they plotted to force you out. When the activity bus breaks down on a field trip that the Council officers and the advisor are taking, you offer the two a ride to get help. They are stunned when you put the tape in your tape player and play back their conversation to them. You have them in your power. Now you have a choice. Do you go for vengeance, get the advisor fired and your brother publicly dishonored and maybe suspended from school? Or do you go for mercy, forgive your brother and the advisor; have the advisor reinstate you as president and your brother as vicepresident? What would have to happen before you could feel merciful to your brother?”

Afterwards, we’ll discuss your answers and Act 1 and 2.

Next, I’ll ask small groups to answer questions from Acts 3-5.

Finally, we’ll choose scenes for small groups to read through, memorize, and present to the class.

Image credit: WilliamShakespeare.info

So, we start today with The Tempest, whilst I grade your Macbeth essays. First period will plan a 10 minute presentation for the Italians on Macbeth to the theme of What Macbeth tells us about the 21st century. Third period will write a 300 word blog post on this question: What is an educated person? What are the benefits of education and what are the drawbacks. Tell a short anecdote in your answer.

Then, we’ll watch the 1960 version of The Tempest.

HW: 1st period–Using the following 2 themes: 1)    Ambition is good, too much is very bad. 2)  Our current media is similar to the superstition of the witches in that both lead you to believe untrue things.  Prepare a 300 word description of how these themes relate to your lives and to current events that our friends the Italians might be aware of.