POETIC VOICES - CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR YOU ON NOVEMBER 11TH...

POETRY ASSIGNMENT: READ THE FOLLOWING ATTEMPTS TO DEFINE POETRY. CREATE A POEM OF YOUR OWN - WITHOUT ANY VOCABULARY OR SUBJECT LIMITATIONS FROM ME. IT IS WORTH TWO QUIZ GRADES. IT MUST BE MEMORIZED AND PERFORMED IN FRONT OF THE CLASS ON NOVEMBER 11TH. ENJOY! Attempts at a Definition of Poetry by Famous Poets "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Poetry Quote by Robert Frost American Poet (1874-1963) "Poetry is what gets lost in translation." Poetry Quote by Robert Frost American Poet (1874-1963) "A poem should not mean but be." Poetry Quote by Archibald MacLeish American Poet (1892-1982) "The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both." Poetry Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet (1803-1882) "Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science." Poetry Quote by Sigmund Freud Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. Poetry Quote by Sigmund Freud "Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words." Poetry Quote by Paul Engle (1908-1991) University of Iowa "To have great poets there must be great audiences too." Poetry Quote by Walt Whitman American Poet (1819-1892) "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." Poetry Quotes by Charles Simic American Poet born in 1938 "One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves." Poetry Quote by W. H. Auden English and American Poet (1907-1973) "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." Poetry Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley English Poet (1792-1822) "Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject." Poetry Quotes by John Keats English Poet (1795-1821) "Poetry ... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." Poetry Quote by John Keats English Poet (1795-1821) "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language." Poetry Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet (1772-1834). "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either." Poetry Quote by Robert Graves English Poet (1895-1985) "A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweler, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more." Poetry Quote by Horace Walpole English Poet (1717-1797) "God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations." Poetry Quote by Robert Browning Famous English Poet (1812-1889) "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." Poetry Quote by Paul Valery French Poet (1871-1945) "He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life." Poetry Quote by George Sand Female French writer who used the pseudonym George Sand (1804-1876) "Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content." Poetry Quote by Alfred de Musset French Romantic Poet (1810-1857) "Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." Poetry Quote by Plato "Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular." Poetry Quote by Aristotle "Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

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THEME CARD DIRECTIONS

You will need to create a theme card for each play or novel we read in class. I will assign a specific due date for each. The THEME CARD REQUIREMENTS ARE: 1. Give a brief plot synopsis of the novel or play in a short paragraph. 2. Identify the author and publication date information. 3. Discuss the significance of the title 4. List all major characters. 5. Identify five excellent quotes from the work. 6. Identify five major symbols and what they represent in the novel. 7. Identify three major literary elements that are integral to the particular work other than symbolism. Write a topic sentence for each. 8. Identify three major subjects and write a thematic statement for each.

Tutorial for How to Write a College Essay

You are all unique and wonderful individuals. The problem most of you are having is how to communicate this. Many of the essays sound the same, and I want you to try to bring an aspect of yourself that shows what specific, unique contribution you will make to your college campus. Here is a tutorial that will remind you of the basics. The majority of you are already here, but there are some areas he covers that a few of you could work on a bit. http://youtu.be/Vf2LQFG0lZs

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VOCABULARY QUIZ - SEPTEMBER 18TH - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - LIST ONE

Create your own satire on your chosen Brave New World subject. You have until the 18th of September to do this. Do this in honor of The Onion piece you enjoyed and in preparation for your research paper. You must use TEN words in your piece. They must be highlighted. Please watch the tutorial on writing a SATIRE to help you get started. http://youtu.be/PuvjDK3mpA0 What will you satirize???

ALDOUS HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD HAS ARRIVED. PROVE IT.

Brave New World Research Paper. The Brave New World has arrived. Prove it. Using scientific, historic, anthropological, and psychological resources - explain how the ideas and values concerning science and technology, sex, drugs, death, aging, censorship, art, religion, emotion, and consumerism that are espoused in Huxley's Brave New World mirror those in contemporary American culture. YOU MUST PICK ONE AREA OF FOCUS AND CARVE YOUR THESIS OUT OF THIS AREA. YOU MUST FOCUS YOUR RESEARCH ON THIS ONE PARTICULAR AREA. For research you must use at least three scientific resources. The rest are up to you. RESEARCH is an integral part of the research paper, and you need to do your best to come up with creative and interesting resources. You must also use two interviews and one survey in your research paper. You can create a survey in Google Drive. You will also need to incorporate at least two artifacts into your paper in addition to five quotes from Huxley's text. The paper must be a minimum of FIVE pages typed, double spaced. We will be using APA formatting unless otherwise noted. Make sure you have a solid, workable thesis ready to turn in on TUESDAY, SEPT 24TH. The tentative due date for the final paper is Wednesday, October 9th. Do not procrastinate. READ THE FIRST SECTION FROM THE AP LANGUAGE TEXT, PAGES 154 - 176 BY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH (E-MAILED PDF) READ: READING, WRITING, AND SYNTHESIS: THE RESEARCHED ARGUMENT ON PAGES 176 - 188 FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH. (E-MAILED PDF) READ 192 - 218 BY SEPTEMBER 19TH GATHER YOUR TEN ARTIFACTS AND POST TO YOUR BLOG BY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH. THESIS IS DUE, TUESDAY - SEPTEMBER 24TH ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY IS DUE - FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 27TH TENTATIVE DUE DATE FOR PAPER: OCTOBER 9TH - 5 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED.

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A SAMPLE THESIS FOR YOUR ESSAY ON BNW

In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World , he employs soma as a symbol to reveal man's escapist tendencies. Through Linda's addiction, he underscores soma's ability to alleviate reality's horrors; in the hospital scene, the government's manipulation of drugs to control it's denizens; and in the church scene, human willingness to compromise morality for social acceptance. Ok, so it is not perfect, but it is working. This one is based on the three by three: ESCAPISM NUMBS HUMANITY...Cody, Farah, and Sarah worked on this one. Now, they will still need a solid hook in their intro, solid transitions that link ideas as they switch from one to the next, well developed evidence with insights as they make their arguments, and a great conclusion that avoids simple restatements. Is this possible??? YES!!! If you need help developing a theme, the three by three is a solid springboard, but you can also check out the links below on theme and symbolism to help you. Remember the theme is also known as THE MEANING OF THE WORK AS A WHOLE... WE WILL BE WRITING MONDAY!!!!