After starting vocab for unit 15, we spent the rest of the hour working with the poetry diagnostic prompt and its rangefinders. First, we completed a semi-close read analysis on the sonnet, noting that it contained alliteration, repetition (anaphora too), personification, and paradox. While that may satisfy some analysts, we were only halfway through - the prompt wanted us to consider the complexity of desire and its antagonistic role in the text and the vituperative tone throughout the speaker's exemplification of desire. And, I almost forgot, we also talked structure - the volta, the rhyme scheme. Just think if we went more in-depth with analysis!
After hearing the expectations for scoring a poetry prompt (and realizing that if you draw a picture in place of writing that you will score a 0), you found out the rangefinder scores, worked with a partner to analyze why it achieved this score, and shared your thoughts with the class. We learned many a tip through these rangefinders that will hopefully aid your future writing prompts.
At the end of class, you received your New Historicist essay and added it to your portfolio for safekeeping.
Tomorrow, be ready to talk about feet.
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