December 16th

DOUBLE BLOCK:

Orthography quiz today!

Last class before winter break! 
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"and the Moon Be Still as Bright"

"So We'll Go No More a Roving" alludes to title to emphasize the lost Martian culture and Spender's desire to "keep it alive".

Martians eradicated by chicken pox like many North American Indians were wiped out by the small pox that European settlers "Brought" with them (Cherokee).

3rd Person Limited Omniscient POV with shifting perspective between Spender and Wilder.

Course question chapter.

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Conjunction- A word that connects parts of sentences or whole sentences:
For
And
Nor
But/Because
Or
Yet
So/Since

Noun worksheet- Find conjunction! Now done first side of sheet!
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PEE on "and the Moon Be Still as Bright" and a course questions.

AWESOME THREE LAYER TITLE!
"Quotation" :
Perspective/ or/ essential nature of humans(Bad/Good) of Ray Bardbury's
"and the Moon Be Still as Bright"

TS: Ray Bradbury's "and the Moon Be Still as Bright" shows-
                                                                -How humans are essentially (Bad or Good)
                                                                -How one's perspective influences one's judgement.
P1: Spender kills his crew-mates.
Example:Quote with PAGE NUMBER.
Explain!!
P2: Biggs? Parkhill? Humans-what they have done to Earth and will do to Mars...
Example:Quote with PAGE NUMBER.
Explain!!
------------------- Literary Terms:  Subjective tone: All
                              Objective tone: 1st and 2 sentences.
                              Expert testimony: 2nd sentence
                              Historical reference: 1st 3 sentences
                              Editorial: All
                              Bias: Until the colon (:)
                              Rhetorical question: 1st sentence.

December 14th

ORTHOGRAPHY QUIZ NEXT CLASS!

Continue reading "and the moon be still as Bright"

PG.80-81: Bodies found, hunting for Spender.
PG.81-91: Spender and Wilder talk re: Mars and reasons.
91: Shift in whose head we are in. (2 different).
PG.91-93: Wilders dilemma of killing Spender.
PG.93-95: Understanding Spendors choices and laying him to rest. (Kills him).

Includes entirety of and alludes to Byron's "So We'll Go No More a Roving"- Emphasize loss of great Martian culture.
Martians eradicated by chicken-pox.
Motif of Music, and Religion. (again).

December 9th

2 class heads up: ORTHOGRAPHY QUIZ- 15 words you had to spell correctly. Next (16) Wednesday.

Make sure "So We'll Go No More a Roving" is finished. What is it about?

Roving- (ROVE): Travel constantly without a fixed destination; wander. (Verb)

-Poem is saying he won't wander at night anymore, he still loves it and the moon will still shine bright. He needs a rest. Love at night and day too soon. No more wandering at night, he is too old/tired. (Love) (Can't). Imagery: At night.

Course Question poem! #4,3,2.

Martian Chronicles: "and the Moon Be Still As Bright". Read in class.
Pg.63-72: Martians dead from chicken-pox. Spender does not want Mars to be disrespected by                             celebration.
Pg.75: "So We'll Go No More a Roving" mentioned.

Pg.72-76: They go to city, Biggs pukes.

Pg.76: Wait for Spender to return.

Pg. 76-80: Spender returns and kills many in crew.

December 7th

Go through Root Quiz 4 words.

Got Root Quiz 3 back, can redo or still take if needed, ask Hanlon at lunch or after school!!

Responses to sentence from essay we read last day.

Take out critical questions for "The Veldt", look at poem on the back.
"So We'll Go No More a Roving"- Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Find:

• Rhyme scheme,,
•  Examples of parallelism,
• Motifs,
• Shift--where?
• About?

It has a quatrain stanza-type.

"Song to Celia" - The fourth line from the bottom= shift. What is the shift? Tone.
"She Walks in Beauty"- No legitimate/meaningful shift.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"- The whole last stanza, shift in setting.


A shift would be the crisis/climax of a story, so something shifts, BUT is a shift word, YET, HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH.

December 4th

DOUBLE BLOCK TODAY

Get out Noun WS and finish #15.

Literary Term: 
Allegory: A narrative (story) that acts as an extended metaphor in which persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only themselves level, but they also stand for something else on the symbolic level (EG: "The Veldt" is an allegory for the dangers of television-especially on youth.)

"The Desensitization of Twentieth-Century Man" by Norman Cousins (1959)
Find a well written sentence that you like.
What do you think? Opinions?
Brutality in last paragraph- Like in "The Veldt".
Irrationality in last paragraph- Like in "The Third Expedition".

2 questions: (DON'T FORGET PAGE NUMBERS FOR QUOTATIONS).

1. Write 1 sentence (or portion there of) from the essay that you thought was well written and explain why.
2. Respond to something in the essay with which you strongly agree/disagree.

SECOND BLOCK

"The First Men on Mercury" by Edwin Morgan
How is this a poem?
Free Verse poem. (No rhyme, no meter).
8-10 syllables per verse.
Not very poetic.
Transfer languages.
Course Question #3
On poem write what you think is the message.
What story does it relate to, which we have read this year? - "Earth Men" or "The Third Expedition".

Root quiz 4 words- Cross off MOR and MUS.

December 2nd

ROOT QUIZ 3 TODAY !!! Ask Hanlon to do at lunch or after school!! You can always redo this, if less than 80%.


Take out NOUNS sheet, where we found Adjectives and Adverbs on last day! Review.