WINTER BREAK! No school!

But I’ve given you work anyway.

Remember to complete the Victorian Era Poetry Packet of Elegies and Narratives. We dissected “O Captain, My Captain” by Whitman in class. Now you need to write up all that we found, then on your own dissect the other two poems–mark up the text as much as you can–and write up your findings for us to discuss the week after break.

Use SLAM to help you analyze all aspects of the poems.

I also assigned this Sentence Combining exercise for your enjoyment. You don’t have to follow all of the suggestions, but do find ways to combine the shorter sentences into longer, more sophisticated sentences.