8/31/15

• Discussion: Upcoming scholarships & procedures. You can visit the WEHS Career Center website for links to the scholarships they showcase. 

• Poem of the Week:  
• "Notes on the Art of Poetry" by Dylan Thomas
• Due Fri. 9/4/15: Read & analyze poem in this way:
•  Look up any words you don't know or are used in an unfamiliar way. Make note of the definition right on the page.
• Decide if the poem is lyric (about ideas / emotions) or narrative (like a story) and look for those elements.
• Note ideas about how literary devices (metaphor / simile / imagery, etc.) are used.
• Determine the topic (general subject) of the poem and label it at the bottom.
• Determine the poetic idea (what the poet is trying to say about the topic) and write it in one sentence at the bottom of the page.

• Film notes: We finished watching "Beowulf and the Roots of Anglo Saxon Poetry" 
• Get note guide handout here.
• Watch video here.

• Beowulf books returned
• Grading rubric for summer reading notes.
• Discussion of the purpose of annotation
• HW due Tues. 9/1/15: Read the handout on Harvard's "Interrogating Texts" style of annotation which we will be using. We will discuss on Tues.
• We will work with Beowulf in four sections, so mark them off in your text:
                       #1:  p. 3-71, lines 1 – 1061
                       #2:  p. 71 – 131, lines 1062 – 1904
                       #3:  p. 131 – 171, lines 1905 – 2541
                       #4:  p. 173 – 213, lines 2542 - 3182
•  HW due Tues. 9/1/15: Review section 1 of Beowulf. Focus on adding any annotations you might have missed the first time around and also on the characterization of Grendel, Hrothgar, and Beowulf. What are some details that help us understand these characters? What techniques did the author use to make these characters vivid?

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Wed. 9/23/15 @ 9:00 am: College Fair
• Thurs. 9/24/15: Senior GPA distribution