Wednesday, February 27, 2008

WUP for Wednesday, 2/27/08

***If you were absent yesterday you need to take the quiz now***

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

With which of your friends do you think aloud? Why do you think you are willing to think aloud with him/her and not other people?

Meter:
The repetition of stresses and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

Shall I / com PARE/ thee TO / a SUM / mer’s DAY?
Thou ART / more LOVE / ly AND / more TEM / per ATE (Sonnet 18)


expedite:
(v.) to make easy, cause to progress faster
SYNONYMS: accelerate, facilitate, speed up
ANTONYMS: hinder, hamper, impede, obstruct

Punctuation
Use a comma to set off interrupting words and phrases like "however," "of course," "for example," "moreover."
Ex. He, however, would not ask her out.
He does not for example do well in algebra.

Homework
Read "If you were coming in the Fall" by Emily Dickinson.(p338)
Answer questions 1-7 on page 341 about that poem.

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