Thursday May 11

Song of Songs 4 1-8

I also showed students how to get to the eLearning site for this class. I'm going to be using it after the Culminating Activity unit.

So today was ... a day that I tried to keep my students on the cheery side of poetry, but they insisted on "going dark" in their readings.

we did a "Blazon" - a type of poetry where a poet describes someone using flattering terms. We used Song of Songs 4:1-8 as an example. The image at the top of this post is my humble version of the same poem.

We also took a look at William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, working our way through the definition of it, too.

Finally, I showed this video without the sound for people to admire a few of the limericks of Edward Lear. I did a major project on him as a younger person, and he's someone I like to use in order to lighten the mood on days like to today:

We did get this one for homework: