I would excuse myself by saying that I left school early to take my daughter to her doctor's appointment, did not arrive home until after 6 PM, and (having lost the entire afternoon) was utterly lost and simply failed to find my way back to my ordinary and habitual pursuits. While the absolute truth, though, I suspect that would not be enough. I will just have to beg the forgiveness of my students and promise to endeavor not to have too many repeat performances of this sort of truancy.
:-(
WORD OF THE DAY*: ZEITGEIST
* See Tuesday's blog for details; click word for information.
CW:
- Today we were in the lab.
- Tomorrow we will be finishing up the collage poems so that we may share them on Monday.
E3H:
- Today we started sharing fantasias.
- Tomorrow we will continue doing so, hoping to complete the process on Monday so everyone will get the opportunity to go during this quarter. Priority will be given on both days to those whose projects are not portable; that is to say students whose projects require them to be present to make them work. I can view others, should we fail to finish on Monday, on my own on Monday evening.
E2CP:
- Today we discussed more of Billy Collins's "Introduction to Poetray" so that we may use it as a standard for our own reading of poems. Then, using Emily Dickinson's "There Is No Frigate Like a Book," we spent the bulk of the class discussing denotation and connotation.
- Your assignment is to rewrite the poem using different words whose denotations are the same but whose connotations give the poem a very different feeling.
Ever wonder what it would be like if William Shatner sang "Bohemian Rhapsody"? These two teens didn't either, but here's a video answering the question anyway. I think it's sort of like watching a train wreck: you can't take your eyes off it as much as you might want to.
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