Short Story Thoughts: Due Sunday (11/17) by 7 pm

Answer the following questions (6-9 sentences). Be very specific in all of your responses. Use support as needed:

What are your thoughts about this week's short story? Why?

What is one thing you hope is on the test? Why?

What is one thing you hope is not on the test? Why?

Week 2: Due Thursday, September 12

Test your knowledge of this past week's vocab homework by identifying which word (slant rhyme, assonance, ballad, sonnet) fits each of the following entries. There are five entries, so one word will be used more than once. Also, one entry may have more than one answer!!! Don't forget your answers should also explain why.  No cheating!!!

Number 1

11.      Between my finger and my thumb
      The squat pen rests; snug as a gun 

        Number 2

22.      Fountain, coolest fountain,

Cool fountain of love,

Where all the sweet birds come

For comforting-but one,

A widow turtledove,

Sadly sorrowing,

At once the nightingale,

That wicked bird, came by,

And spoke these honied words:

"My lady, if you will,

I shall be your slave."

"You are my enemy:

Begone, you are not true!"

Green boughs no longer rest me,

Nor any budding grove.

Clear springs, where there are such,

Turn muddy at my touch.

I want no spouse to love

Nor any children either.

I forego that pleasure and their comfort too.

No, leave me; you are false

And wicked-vile, untrue!

I'll never be your mistress!

I'll never marry you!

Number 3

33.      Ascend from childhood and become independent.
He measured his weight and also his height.
She kept the letter, but accidentally dropped it later.

N.    Number 4

44.      As spring did pass into summer’s full bloom

To stand with arms outstretched in seasons all

As the seasons knit like the weaving loom

Through the cold of winter, strong through to fall

Its strength and character for eons stand

The unkindest cut that will ever be

To not love and support this tree so grand

And not to kindly prune the fruiting tree.

The strength of sweeping boughs as arms held wide

My heart grows secure within those limbs strong

As arms strong, my dreams to be held inside

Standing folded in your boughs is not wrong

Number 5

55.      As a strong longing to be my fruit tree

I beg of nature that you fruit with me

I Like/I Hate: Due Wednesday, September 4

As I stated during the first week of school, AP requires a lot of writing.  I don't feel fifty-minute periods can allow us to write as much as needed and still (partially) enjoy the class :-)  To this end, I plan to utilize the blog to get in some extra writing.  I am pulling ideas from everywhere, so if you have one please share.

For this week's blog, I want you to write about something you like or hate. You should feel very passionate about your choice, and this passion should show forth in your writing.  Please don't spend your time simply being mushy or hateful, but let your writing example your knowledge about the subject matter.  The result of a well-written response just might be that you convince us (your readers) to feel the way you do.  Please adhere to traditional grammar and mechanics rules.  Have fun with this assignment, and, remember, you may respond to your classmates, but you MUST respond to me first!!

Welcome to AP everyone!  I appreciate you for accepting the challenge.  I entitled this blog complex minds because together you embody complexity.  For this reason, I want your first blog post to simply represent your frame of thought.  I want to know what's going on in your mind.  Don't worry about punctuation, sentence structure, spelling, etc.  I want your raw, unedited thoughts.  Limit your post to AP and/or school, and please no profanity.  Express yourself!!!