"This Be the Verse" by Philip Larkin

We had a great conversation today about Larkin's poem and the connections with our tragedy unit. Here are the group annotations we created:

5th Hour:

6th Hour:

"Study of Reading Habits" Annotation & Essay Assignment

Hi all!

Wow--you guys blew me away today with your deep reading and analytical skills. You absolutely brought it as we discussed Philip Larkin's "A Study of Reading Habits."

Here are our living documents, the annotations we created in class. This is the product of all of our brains working together. You guys taught me some things about this poem.

5th Hour's Annotation

6th Hour's Annotations

We will work more tomorrow with Dickinson's poem and the Morrison essay.

HOMEWORK: Today you received your essay assignment for the weekend. You homework for tonight is to complete the brainstorming questions (pg. 2). 

Wednesday, Sept. 9

If you missed today, please see me about taking the poetry pre-test!

Today everyone took a poetry annotation/analysis pre-test. I will score this but the score WILL NOT count toward your grade. This is to give us a baseline. 

We read and annotated Philip Larkin's "A Study of Reading Habits." 

Homework (due tomorrow): Read and annotate Maya Angelou's "The Reader as Artist"

As always, I expect you to annotate, keep notes and engage deeply with texts I assign. We will discuss!