Meter and Epic Similes

Wednesday 14 February 2018 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 15 February 2018 for Periods 1, 2, & 7

Membean Vocabulary Drills:  10 minutes

Vocabulary Test 3

Mr. Stone gave students three meter sheets for their commonplace books and went over the five most common metric feet in English:  the anapest, the dactyl, the iamb, the spondee, and the trochee.
Each sheet contains five famous quotations from poems in English.  Mr. Stone went helped the students identify the dominant type of metrical foot for each quotation on the first sheet and students worked in small groups to identify the dominant foot in each of the quoted passages on the other two sheets.

For now, students are to place the meter sheets in their commonplace books next to the back cover.

Students received a photocopied page from Book 9 of a verse translation of The Odyssey, labeled Examples of Epic Similes.

Mr. Stone defined and discussed the concept of marginalia and instructed students to write from the board the definition for epic  simile at the bottom of the "Examples of Epic Similes" sheet.

Homework:  Continue to work on your Odyssey project and to study notes from your commonplace book to prepare for the test over The Odyssey to be taken at the end of next week. 

Remember projects are due on Monday, February 26th for Periods, 1, 2, 5, & 6 and on Tuesday, February 27th for Period 7.