Noli Me Tangere

So first off we decided that the Renaissance history reading would NOT be due tomorrow! (Phew! It’s 20 pages!) Just thought we should get that cleared up because I’m pretty sure otherwise someone will do if for tomorrow. After we decided that, we read the description of Sir Thomas Wyatt together and his poem Whoso List to Hunt. We deciphered the poem together and discovered what an extended metaphor is (basically the whole poem is a metaphor). We also went over the questions orally on page 151. Next we read the essay about the sonnet so that we would “know the rules before we played the game.”(Mrs. Loconte, 10/11/12) Then we read the description of Edmund Spenser. We read about his epic poem The Faerie Queene, which we wanted to read, but then found out that it was like six books long… so we kind of lost interest. We then read Sonnet 67 and went over it together. We did the questions on page 157 orally. Joon and Brody discovered that girls prefer mutual affection opposed to aggressive pursuit… they were awestruck to say the least. We also found out about how Mrs. Loconte met and got to know her husband! (It was just like in the sonnet!) After we completed this, we decided to work on the Renaissance reading and save more sonnets for another day. Oh, and by the way, the phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. Who knew?!?

Homework:

FINISH YOUR PROJECT for the Canterbury Tales (we will be sharing them in class tomorrow)
Read The Renaissance by Tuesday and do the reading check questions on page 148
Oh, and do the bonus project by tomorrow if you want to