T minus two days until the sonnet is due. Do you know where your iambic pentameter is?
"Ozymandias"! Now you know what the word means. He was "King of Kings"! Well, at least he thought so. But understanding who Ozymandias is is only a small part of the task...do you understand the poem? That is what you need to figure out tonight. You have six question that I want you to "jot" down quick responses to tonight. DO NOT come to class without having done so. Tomorrow, in small groups, you will delve deeper into the prompts and the responses.
Why do this? Well, it is the same thing Acuity, ISTEP, and the SAT and ACT tests will ask you to do: read a poem on your own and decipher some meaning out of it. If you can do it on your own now, you can do it on your own when you take those tests.
One more thing, as you read and analyze the poem, be thinking how the poem fits into our discussion from today. Ambition? Greed? Both? Or is it something else entirely?
Speaking of which, can anyone tell me what hubris is?
And what about Anton Chekov? I mentioned him yesterday. Where will he come in?
Here's something else to chew on...What do Project Imaginat10n and Django Unchained have in common? Tell me tomorrow for an Archer card signature.
IMC trip tomorrow. Be sure to bring books to return and money to pay fines.
See you tomorrow.
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