4/30/08

Today in class after we took our quiz for the day, we discussed MAN by Henry Vaughan. We talked about how man has no true idea what he is suppose to be doing or where he is suppose to be doing it. We said that everything in nature knows where it is suppose to go. We discussed the last three lines and how they are a metaphor saying that man is always moving and can never stop. The overall idea was that God has one plan for everyone but man has a choice whether or not to follow God's plan or create his own.

Kelley Bartlett

4-29-08

Today in class we took a quiz and talked about the poem Retreat. We talked about the multiple meanings that the title signified and also about how the poem is about the retreat to innocence. We started talking about the poem Man and that is what we will be quized on tomorrow.

Eddie Akrout

What is the significance of the line about Solomon in the second stanza of "Man?"

--Laura C

Rope of Sand?

Why was the whole rope of sand thing important? it seemed like in class today it was just a cool image...

~Joe Aaron

April 28

Today in class we took a quiz on "The Collar" by George Herbert. Then we discussed more about the quizes in general. Finally, we talked about "The Collar" and some of the questions on the quiz. ~Joe Aaron

Easter- Wings

Can anyone tell me what the last stanza means in Easter- Wings?

Lydia P.

April 24

In class on Friday we talked about George Herbert breifly after taking the quiz. We also talked about the poem Easter-Wings. The poem is concrete poetry, and in this case the poem looks like wings. We also discussed that there is a turn in each stanza. So far, we talked about how the first stanza has to do with humanity in general, and tainting ourselves with sin. The poem has to do with religon and humanity. We will continute to talk about the rest of the poem on Monday.


Marci W

April 24, 2008

We started off taking a quiz on Holy Sonnet 14. Then we went over Holy Sonnet 14 and broke the poem up into the 3 quatrains and then the couplet. In the poem Donne is saying that he it wouldn't be right for him to love God back since he has this "marriage with sin", so he asks God divorce him from sin . At the end he asks God to imprison him.

Samantha Schaeffer

April 23, 2008

We started off by taking a quiz on Holy Sonnets VII and, since it was quite apparent that we didn't do so hot, Mr. lazarow urged us to use our resources and conduct research in whatever ways necessary in order to fully comprehend the material. We then went on to discuss the sonnet and its context. The sonnet deals with the death, repentance, and most importantly, judgement day. Before realizing that it is not his place, the speaker calls all of the souls to go to their scattered bodies for their time of final judgment.

-Danielle Radey

Do you think that Donne wrote all "The Flea," "The Cannonization," and Valediction Forbidding Mourning" for his wife?

--Laura C

Valediction....

What does the narrator mean by the " Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears; Men reckon what it did, and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent." ?

Lydia P.

April 7

Today in class we watched the Mel Gibson version of Hamlet. When seniors return from senior class trip we will have a quiz on the 17th century Poetry at least the first reading.

Lydia P.

April 2nd

again...posted on the wrong blog for this day...

today in class we finished up with hamlet and had a little history lesson. there was a lot that mr laz talked about. mainly, the rulers of england starting from 1588(the spanish armada) were discussed and how they played a role in creating/continuing the religion of anglicanism and how the puritans were completely against it. if you need all the notes, i have them and im sure others in class do too.

reminder: test friday! but im sure you haven't forgotten

Laurie K

April 1st

ok so apparently i accidentily posted on the AP eng III blog....my bad....

Today the themes of Hamlet were discussed, and we came up with a total of 7
Revenge
Appearance v. Reality (things/people are not always what they seem, deception)
Betrayal
Mortality
Coming of age (maturity, growth of character)
Honor, which is somewhat related to revenge
and
Concepts of Religion (difference between right and wrong, questions of marality)

all these themes are fair game when it comes to the essay/test we are writing on friday!!!

--Laurie K

Themes

For the theme of betrayal could Polonius be seen as betraying Ophelia?

Lydia P.