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Seniors
Your profile essays are due by end of classes Thursday. Remember that the focus of this essay is a "profile" of your parent, not a biography. Focus on specific, sensory details of the interview (including body language and tone), and include a description of them then and now. Please see the following for specific guidelines and questions:
Sophomores
Your exam on lyric poetry in the renaissance is Tuesday. Please study your notes, and re-read the selections in your handouts. We will review in class, but the following will be included:
  • lyric poetry - pastoral poetry, sonnets, and scansion (analyzing meter)
  • poems by Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlowe
  • poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare
  • Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Shakespearean sonnet forms
  • The Faerie Queen, Amoretti, and Sonnets 
For Thursday, you have TWO choices - to recite (or write down) one of Shakespeare's 154 Sonnets, or to write your own, using the same form. If you write your own, then please type and format according to MLA. You may use whatever font you'd like (12-14), as long as it's readable.

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