Saturday, March 25, 2017 A.P. Workshop


9:00 - 10:30
Look at Bruegel's painting of "Icarus" 
Take an overview of it: write down some of the things you notice about the painting.
Now after some analysis, write a sentence describing the scene.
There is a man farming,  a man herding sheep,  a pirate ship in the distance and a city across the water.

Now divide the painting into quadrants and analyze each part.

What do you see in the upper left quadrant?
Jamille: a city like those in Europe
Itzel: the lighting is different
Lela: there are ships right next to the city

What do you see in the upper right quadrant?
Luis: water and mountain
Valorie and Julia: the sunset
Leyla: a house

Itzel: it’s not as busy

What do you see in the lower left quadrant?
Luis: a ploughhorse
Lester: a weapon
Courtney: darker and there is more verdant nature

What do you see in the lower left quadrant?
Anthony: sheep, darker,
Luis: livestock
There is a pair of legs sticking up from the water. How did those legs get there and from where?

Watched the video of “The Myth of Icarus”
Read W.H. Auden’s poem “Musee des Beaux Arts”
Read it for the overview
Write down in one sentence what you think it’s about
Discussion
Luis: One moves on after a tragedy that doesn’t involve them.
Itzel: People focus on their own concerns.
Vocabulary
Martyrdom: giving up one’s life for a cause that is larger than yourself.
Martyr: is a person who gives up one’s life for a large cause – either religious or social or political.
Read the poem aloud
Discussion
Now write in your words – paraphrase what the poem is about.
Jamille:
Even in the presence of most terrible situations and circumstances, it is in human nature to mind our own business.

Who is the speaker?
Cruz: W.H. Auden is the speaker.
Any examples of figurative language?
Christian:
Imagery: the dog and his doggy life
The torturer’s horse scratching his innocent behind on a tree
Allusion: to the bible – the birth and the crucifixion
Allusion: to the other paintings by Brueghel
 Itzeel: personification and synechdoche
What is the attitude?
Honest and candid about human nature
Are there any shifts or voltas in the poem?
Jamille: the shift occurs in between the stanzas
What is the title?
What is the theme?

Watched video of W.H. Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts”

Read William Carlos Williams’ “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Anthony Cruz read the poem aloud!

Write a short paraphrase of the poem

Who is the speaker ?

Any figurative language?

Attitude (tone)?

Any shifts?

Theme

Comparison of “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Irony of last stanza of poem

Discussion 

10:45 - 1:00

Enrique read “Flight 063”

Vocabulary:
Imperiled: endangered
Peril: danger

Perilous: dangerous
Tallow: animal fat which is used to make candles and soap

Paraphrase what the poem “063” is about.
Discussion:
Jamille, Valerie, Jazzmyn, Lirio, Julia, Shania, Courtney, Cruz, Brice, Alexandria

What do the words “dinner” and “oblivious” suggest about modern attitudes toward modern flight?

Who is the speaker?
The narrator

Figurative Language:
Jamille: allusion
Shannon: imagery
Jazzmyn: personification
Shift: Emie, Jazzmyn, Shannon
Attitude: Jazzmyn, Luis, Alexandria, Brice
Awe, frustrated, unamused by hypocrisy
Theme: Lirio, Jonathan, Valerie, Jazzmyn, Shannon, Cruz, Alexandria
Despite failure it is the effort that counts.
Over time, extraordinary things become ordinary and banal.
To fully live one has to push one’s boundaries.

Read “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph” – Anne Sexton
Read by Shania Vista
Discussion

Read Icarus by Edward Fields: Lirio
Discussion: Shania, Brice,
Choose one of the five poems we read and write a paragraph which includes the following:
The title, a brief paraphrase of the poem, the speaker, the figurative language used, the tone, a shift in the poem – if any, and the theme!

Students who  read their one paragraph essay:
Dylan

Watched video on Edward Field’s “Icarus”

“Foregrounding and Privilege”
Write what you think “foreground” means.
Write what you think the word privilege means.
Discussion

Read “Foregrounding and Privilege”: Courtney
Discussion: What makes Heart of Darkness racist?

Read Middlemarch excerpt.
Annotate the excerpt – look for examples of:
What is the central conflict:
What is Lydgate’s position?
What is Rosamond’s position?
Selection of detail
Shifts in narrative point of view
The complexity of the married couple’s relationship –
Who has the power in the relationship:
            Examples which show power
            Strategies used by the couple in their argument
           








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