H10+-+December+10+-+14

=Monday, December 10= = = =Tuesday, December 11= > ====="An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"===== >> = = =Wednesday, December 12= = = =Thursday, December 13= = = =Friday, December 14 - Half day class, half day grading= > Final pronoun / antecedent notes > > > > >
 * =====Solid Potato Salad=====
 * =====http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1J3NLNWAPU=====
 * poetry: literary devices
 * "The Prize Cat"
 * =====Grammar notes!=====
 * =====Admit it. You missed them . . .=====
 * =====warm-up on then/than=====
 * =====finish "Prize Cat"=====
 * =====context=====
 * =====affect / effect warm-up=====
 * ====="The Song of Wandering Aengus"=====
 * =====literal meaning vs. figurative meaning=====
 * =====Frost poetry=====
 * =====rhyme scheme=====
 * =====literal meaning=====
 * =====finish those grammar notes!=====
 * =====return the Twain book=====
 * =====affect / effect warm-up=====
 * =====Finish "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"=====
 * =====Go over "The Road Not Taken"=====
 * Look at "Home" poem
 * homework: write your own "Home" poem
 * =====Do those grammar notes!=====
 * =====Look at "Delicious Death"=====
 * =====homework: write another poem!=====
 * Generic nouns are singular
 * Every //runner// must train vigorously if //he or she// wants to excel. (not they)
 * Treat collective nouns as singular unless the meaning is clearly plural.
 * The committee granted its permission to build.
 * The committee put their signatures on the document.
 * Treat most compound antecedents joined with //and// as plural.
 * In 1987, //Reagan and Gorbachev// held a summit where //they// signed a treaty.
 * With compound antecedents joined with //or// or //nor// (or with //either . . . or// or //neither . . . nor//), make the pronoun agree with the nearer antecedent.
 * Either //Bruce// //**or**// //Tom// should receive first prize for //his// poem.
 * **Neither** the mouse **nor** //the rats// could find //their// way through the maze.