"Ode to the West Wind"

Locate devices in the following poems
Read the poem through once to get an idea for form and sound.
Start with what you know:
Distinguish what you know and what you don’t know (perhaps highlight or underline what you do not understand)
Look for patterns
Look for changes
Tone, focus, narrator, structure, voice, patterns


Check for new understanding
Re-read the poem
Annotate /paraphrase each stanza
What devices are used?
How do they add to the understanding of the poem?
How do they add to the flow/rhythm/rhyme of the poem?
Discuss how the poet’s diction and syntax are exhibited through the devices and why you believe he/she chose to use those words.


**Complete a 5 paragraph essay discussing how the devices and diction compliment the poem’s meaning.**

"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost

Please annotate and paraphrase Frost's "Mending Wall". You should focus on tone, diction, and syntax. Keep in mind that you should decipher a specific purpose/theme and how the poet communicates the theme effectively through diction, syntax, and tone.

Your essay is due Monday at the beginning of class. DO NOT RESEARCH FOR YOUR ESSAY. Approach your essay as if it were an AP test question.

Post your responses to the poem by Saturday, January 22nd @ midnight. Your responses should discuss your essay. You must respond to two of your peers by Sunday, January 23rd @ midnight.

In case you lost the poem, here is a copy:

Mending Wall

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

Awakening Questions 28-35

Below you will find discussion questions for Chapters 28-35. This assignment is worth 50 points and will be collected tomorrow. You have two options to complete this assignment:

1. Participate in an online discussion. This means not only posting your responses to the questions, but responding to multiple peers.

2. Turn in your written response. Remember to analyze the text, and always answer the "why" question. I expect your responses to reflect an in depth analysis.

Here are the questions you are to answer:

1. How is chp. 28 a defining chapter for Edna? What does it transition to?

2. Pg 116--Describe what the removal of grime might symbolize for Edna? What is she removing it for?

3. Describe Edna's feelings as she is hosting the party. Explain your answer.

4. By Robert's reaction to Alcee's picture, how is he feeling. Explain. Why is he feeling this way?

5. Chapter 35. Why was Edna's encounter so disappointing? Discuss Robert when Alcee came in.

Homework over Thanksgiving Break

Sorry Period 3--totally spaced this today, but the news should have reached you. Here's what you need to have done for Monday next week.

1. Read through chapter 20

2. Complete vocab through chapter 20


Don't forget 10+ pages of your paper are due Dec. 3rd. If you were gone for Youth in Government, you have till Tuesday next week to make up your test on chapters 1-13

The Awakening through Chap 13 Questions

Here are the questions that were on the board today in class:




1. Discuss Edna's preoccupation with Robert.




2. What do you think Edna's inability to swim symbolizes and Robert's inability to teach her?




3. Describe the sexual tension that has occurred so far?




4. Sum up Edna's "inner struggle" and locate a quote that exemplifies this.

The Awakening

Please respond to the following prompt by Saturday, November 20th at midnight. Then, respond to at least one of your classmates by Sunday, November 21st at midnight. Be prepared to go over responses on Monday, November 22nd. Your responses should be at least 2 paragraphs.

After reading and reflecting on Robinson's introduction, and reading through chapter 8, do you think you are able to locate Mrs. Pontellier's true struggle? If so, how? If not, why not? Based on what you know about the protagonist, what would you say is her true inner struggle? Explain.

(If you do not have the brown book to review the intro, you may reflect on chapters 1-8 only)

Glass Menagerie Essay due Tuesday November 16th

The Glass Menagerie Assignment
The following assignment is due Tuesday, November 16th.

Please complete a 3-5 page essay focusing on symbolism within the play. You may discuss the play itself being a symbol for life, focus on an individual character, or focus on the Wingfield family as a symbol.

3rd person only, and use quotes to back up your argument. 50 points.

Be sure to submit your paper to Turnitin.com by 8am Tuesday morning for full credit.