Monday Dec. 5, 2011

1. Monday Dec. 5, 2011 L.O. SWBAT describe the themes of two poems and synthesize the information. • Silent Reading • Upcoming Week • Conditional Synthesis • Group Brainstorming • HW: • Poetry Portfolio due Friday • Conditional Synthesis Brainstorm Sheet • Vocabulary Crossword • Poetry Review + Poetry Presentation

2. This Week • Dec. 6 Tuesday – Hand in Vocab Crossword • Dec. 7 Wednesday – Work Period • Dec. 8 Thursday – Poetry Review – Work Period? • Dec. 9 Friday – Poetry Portfolio Due/Poetry Test • Dec. 12 Monday – Poetry Presentations • Dec. 13 Tuesday – Poetry Presentations • Dec. 14 Wednesday – Creative Writing Intro + Conditional Synthesis Paragraph • Dec. 16 – Grade 10 Vocab Matching Test

3. Dylan Thomas– Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night • Welsh Poet (1914-1953) • Written for his dying father • One of his most popular poems • Doctor gave him four years to live

4. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightExplanation #1 • Watched his father, formerly in the Army, grow weak and frail with old age • Speaker tries to convince his father to fight against imminent death • Uses “wise, good, wild, grave” men – illustrate the same message that no matter how they have lived or what they feel at the end, they should die fighting • One should not die without fighting for one’s life or after life

5. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightExplanation #2 • Speaker admits that death is unavoidable, but encourages all men to fight death • This is not for them, but to give closure and hope for their loved ones left behind • “Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray” • Never showed this poem to his father, so he composed it more for his own benefit

6. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightExplanation #X • The author’s own fear of death • Fear having little separation between life and death • Father’s own catharsis before passing on • Wild hope that he will see his father before he passes

7. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night • Structured as a villanelle • Only has two rhyme sounds • The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close • 19 lines long, consisting of five tercets (3 lines forming a stanza) and one concluding quatrains

8. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night • Villanelles usually imply a light gay tone • Profound paradox: unavoidable death in the face of the perpetual rhythm of rebirth • The refrains – courage and frustration, strength and grieving • The different epithets (word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality) “wise”, “good”, “wild”, and “grave” – attitudes of men in front of their last challenge

9. John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud • Sonnet # 10 • A metaphysical poem • Written around 1610 and pushing posthumously in 1633

10. John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud • Sonnet addresses Death, telling him not to be proud, because death is not to be feared • Sleep is a type of death, and that is pleasurable; then death must be even more so • Death is a slave to fate, chance (accidental death), kings (who have the power of life and death), and desperate men • ABBA ABBA CDDC AE rhyme scheme

11. John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud • Lines 1 – 2 • Addressing Death as an equal, apparent later as inferior • Death likes to think of himself as powerful and terrifying • Some people have called him that, but that is not truth

12. John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud • Lines 3-4 • Death thinks that he is “overthrowing” men when he takes them (i.e. conquering, vanquishing, ruining, etc.) • Death is a means by which man finds Resurrection, eternal life and immortality through Christ in heaven • “poor Death” – sarcastic, patronizing • “nor yet canst thou kill me” – Death does not kill, but is the enabler of new, immortal life • Cannot kill, so holds no power over the speaker

13. John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud • Lines 5 - 8 • Idea of sleep as death’s image • (Parallel of sleeping/waking and dying/waking is noted later in the sonnet) • Best man of the era go unhesitatingly to their deaths • They wisely realized death is another form of sleep • Their bones go to their rest (graves) and their soul gets “delivered” (set free) • Multiple meanings: being freed from the human body, freed from the fear of death, delivered into heaven, delivered in the sense of being born

14. John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud • Lines 9-10 • Death is a slave • Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men as his “master” • Personified Death does not always have the power to choose who is to die • Fate and chance may suddenly take someone • Kings on a whim may doom people to their deaths • Desperate men, who see no way out, may take their own lives • Cheats Death of his control and mastery • Likens Death to a scavenger who cleans up where poison, war, and sickness have raged – How proud is his position now?

15. John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud • Lines 11-12 • Back to sleep/Death image • Drugs alike have the power of producing sleep, and in fact, create a truer sleep than Death (since Death is a fleeting moment’s sleep before resurrection) • Death’s self-image is belittled and shown as false • Question: What reason have you, Death, to be proud? (Image is that of a chest swelling with pride)

16. John Donne – Holy Sonnet X: Death, Be Not Proud • Lines 13 – 14 • “One short sleep past” – fleeting moment • “We wake eternally” – we will wake up resurrected, to eternal life, never to sleep or die again • “Death, thou shalt die” Then, death will cease to exist altogether, will die • Death is a mere mortal, or rather less than mortals • Idea that Death is the one who should be afraid, not the one to be feared

17. HOMEWORK • Vocab Crossword • Thesis + 3 Supporting Points • Read Poetry Cafe

18. Poetry Review • Poetic Devices • See Poetic Device Sheet • See ENG 12 Literary Terms Sheet • Poetic Forms Assignment (Forms + Types) • Be able to read a poem and label them • E.g. Narratives, Didactic, Lyric, Etc. • Synthesis Hook + Synthesis Structure • You will be writing a Synthesis Essay

19. Tuesday Dec. 6, 2011 L.O. SWBAT present a thesis and understand synthesis structure. • Silent Reading + Collect Vocab • Synthesis Discussion • Group Discussion on Poems • Present Brainstorm to Class • HW: • Poetry Portfolio due Friday • Conditional Synthesis Brainstorm Sheet • Poetry Review (Test Friday) + Poetry Presentation

20. Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011 L.O. SWBAT… • Work Period • HW: • Poetry Portfolio due Friday • Conditional Synthesis Brainstorm Sheet • Poetry Review: Test Friday • Poetry Presentation (Dec. 12/13)

21. Thursday Dec. 8, 2011 L.O. SWBAT demonstrate their understanding of the main concepts in poetry. • Review Period • HW: • Poetry Portfolio due tomorrow • Poetry Test tomorrow • Poetry Presentation (Dec. 12/13)

22. Friday Dec. 9, 2011 L.O. SWBAT demonstrate their understanding of the main concepts in poetry. • Poetry Test • HW: • Poetry Presentation (Dec. 12/13) • Conditional Synthesis Package • Grade 10 Vocab Dec. 16