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:
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