IMPORTANT: you must check our class blog each day.
Tomorrow, Thursday, there will be an assignment posted. In order to receive attendance credit, you must submit the material by 3:30. This is a very short fill-in-the-word vocabulary assignment.
Please copy and paste onto a google doc and share at dorothy.parker@rcsdk12.org
On Monday and Tuesday, I will post a zoom link on the blog. To receive attendance credit, you must log on at your usual class time.
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IMPORTANT: you must check our class blog each day.
Learning Targets: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.
I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.
I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.
In class: listening / reading to W. H. Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts and responding to analysis questions.
The assignment is due by midnight Tuesday, January 4
Part 1. Collect your notebooks
Label: Musée des Beaux Arts
List 8 items you see within Breughel's painting: The Fall of Icarus
Part 2: Reading/ Listening to the text
Musee des Beaux Arts listening
Below is the text of the poem
Musée des Beaux Arts
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
