Week 6

Botticelli, "The Birth of Venus"
Pure Poetry
Plus . . . it is spring

Monday 04/28/14
  1. I feel the need to finish something . . . do you suppose it is a possibility . . . nope . . . okay
  2. Poetry options - look at the table of contents in the Lemon Yellow book pp. xii - xxv and notice that there are subsections numbered 19 - 40, which really only equals 20 selection groupings because number 19 isn't really a poetry classification of a type of poetry.  You may select 4-8 poems from any one grouping to discuss in your Summative Portfolio analysis essay.  Confused?  Look in the Lemon Yellow book to clarify. Oh, and there is a chapter (54) entitled, "Writing about Poetry," should you care to know.
  3. And now, a shocking poem to further throw off your day
Tuesday 04/29/14
  1. Please, let's finish the movie
  2. Hamlet team time
  3. Synthesis - truly
Thursday 05/01/14
  1. V34:  acrimonious, blithe, calumny, compunction, debacle, devotee, duplicity, equanimity, equivocal, extol, ameliorate, avarice, burgeon, circumlocution, credence, idee fixe, idiosyncracy, imbroglio, ipso facto, jejune
  2. Synthesis - w/ HW to be developed on the fly and to be given audibly - be on the alert
  3. Hamlet team time - did you notice what I did here?