Thurs Jan 25

I'm currently sitting in the library at BR, I'll be leaving at about 11:30am

Thursday and Friday Jan 19

Thursday and Friday we did the Task 2 and Task 3 presentations for the class.

We had a bit of time left over on each day, so I shared the exam review one day and offered some help for option sheets on the other. Friday I also spoke to every student about what they owed, if anything

Tuesday and Wednesday Jan 17

So these days we've been getting through a bunch of Task 3 Canadian Poet presentations.

I have to say "thank you" to my students for doing such a great job on educating their classmates on the lives of Canadian poets.

In any case, Wednesday we got this poem for homework:

and we listened to Patrick Stewart read this poem, too

Monday Jan 15

So ... we did some Task 2 poems, followed by some readings by the teacher.

We did read Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas. What. A Poem.

After that, we got this poem assigned to us for homework:

Fri Jan 12

So today ... we did a bit of Christian Bok. And we did read this chapter from Eunoia, his poetry book that was on the best seller list:

The poem for homework is this one, though:

and this was just cool

Thurs Jan 11

Right on. Things just keep moving forward.

Excellent.

Today we heard a number of presentations of poetry for Task 2 in the class. We also hear this version of the sonnet that starts Romeo and Juliet:

Awesome.

Then we got this part of the Bible to study as a poem for homework:

I really am not an artist, but that was my attempt at drawing the images of the poet.

Wed Jan 10

We passed into double digits in January today... almost done, almost done.

Today we looked at two different types of poetry: A limerick and a sonnet.

We did Edward Lear's limerick first:

Then we did Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130".

tomorrow we will talk about a Blazon, a type of poem that Shakespeare, among other writers, used a lot.

Tues Jan 9

So we took a listen to people reciting poetry for Task 2 this afternoon.

Then we took a look at these two poems:

I also posted the answers for the exam on the right, as well as examples for the Task 3 and the Task 4 for this unit just underneath.

Ok, Thanks!

Mon Jan 8

So ... welcome back and I hope you had a nice start to the new year.

We did a bit of a review of the unit, as we left off two weeks ago ... or more, depending on how you think about it.

We did take a peek at the terms we've looked at, too. I'll post a write up of the terms we studied on this post and in the helpful links on the right-hand side. We also read these two poems for the Task One for tomorrow: