Listening To Your Sonnet With a Stethoscope: October 2, 2018

Focus: How can a poem's rhythm contribute to its meaning?

Please make sure your metacognitive is turned in / shared with me.

1. Warming up with a five-minute terms (Weeks 1-6) review on www.quizlet.com

2. Listening to the heartbeats of three songs:

In each song, how does the rhythm reflect meaning?

Song #1: "Stressed Out" (twenty one pilots)
Song #2: "Critical Mistakes" (888)
Song #3: "Modern Man" (Arcade Fire)

3. Introducing you to scansion with Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" and "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun"

• What different types of poetic rhythm should we be listening for when there's no music?
• How does the rhythm in each poem reflect the poem's larger meaning?

4. Listening for the rhythm in your sonnets (small groups)

HW:
1. For this week: Please finish your sonnet metacognitive if you have not yet done so. If it's handwritten, turn it in; if it's typed, Google share it with me.

2. For WEDNESDAY: Just make sure you're up through Chapter 43 (the reading for yesterday) in East of Eden; we will have today's Socratic on Wednesday.

3. FOR FRIDAY: Finish East of Eden! Complete your final reading ticket by doing the following:

• Select one motif (water, apples, the color gray, Cain & Abel, etc.).

• Describe where the motif has shown up previously, and address where/how it comes into play in the final chapters (include quotations/page numbers).

• What has this motif contributed to the meaning of the work as a whole. In other words, why do you think Steinbeck developed this particular motif?