Feb.+8+-+12

Monday, February 8

 * Go over "Ballad of the Landlord"
 * onomatopoeia, imagery, plot
 * "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
 * who is the voice of the poem?
 * "Mother to Son"
 * extended metaphor, dialect
 * "I, Too"
 * conversation between poets?, promise for future of America
 * "Theme for English B"
 * aspects? free verse, personal, varied comments, directed at instructor
 * Hand out "Theme for Ms. B" assignment -
 * Theme for Ms. B due Feb. 12
 * Choice poem due Feb. 12
 * Zora Neale Hurston notes

Tuesday, February 9
Work Day
 * Due today:
 * Sonnet - 14 points
 * Claude McKay questions
 * Langston Hughes questions
 * work on assignments
 * work on assignments

Wednesday, February 10

 * Hand out ''Gilded 6-Bits"
 * hand out questions for both stories

Thursday, February 11

 * discuss "Gilded 6-Bits"
 * "youth triumphed"
 * coin under the pillow?
 * Joe and Missie Mae's relationship?
 * what should she have done?
 * what should he have done?
 * what would you have done?
 * " Hand out "Sweat"
 * answers to both stories due Tuesday, Feb. 16

Friday, February 12

 * vocab quiz - 25 points
 * vocab exercises due,
 * pages 31, 32, 33 - 5 points each = 15 points
 * list of words and definitions - 5 points
 * Theme for English B due - 10 points
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Choice poem due - 10 points