Sestina

Sestina Form

History.

Historically, the Sestina is a French form. It appeared in France in the twelfth century, initially in the work of Arnaut Daniel. He was one of the troubadours or court poets and singers in the service of French nobles.
Troubadours were lyric poets. They began in Provence in the eleventh century. For the next two centuries, they flourished in South France, East Spain, and North Italy, creating many songs of romantic flirtation and desire. Their name is from the French trobar, to "invent or make verse".
The Sestina was one of several forms in the complex, elaborate, and difficult closed style called trobar clus (as opposed to the easier more open trobar leu).

Form

In a traditional Sestina:

• The lines are grouped into six sestets and a concluding tercet. Thus a Sestina has 39 lines.
• Lines may be of any length. Their length is usually consistent in a single poem.
• The six words that end each of the lines of the first stanza are repeated in a different order at the end of lines in each of the subsequent five stanzas. The particular pattern is given below. (This kind of recurrent pattern is "lexical repetition".)
• The repeated words are unrhymed.
• The first line of each sestet after the first ends with the same word as the one that ended the last line of the sestet before it.
• In the closing tercet, each of the six words are used, with one in the middle of each line and one at the end.
• The pattern of word-repetition is as follows, where the words that end the lines of the first sestet are represented by the numbers "1 2 3 4 5 6":

  1 2 3 4 5 6         - End words of lines in first sestet.
  6 1 5 2 4 3         - End words of lines in second sestet.
  3 6 4 1 2 5         - End words of lines in third sestet.
  5 3 2 6 1 4         - End words of lines in fourth sestet.
  4 5 1 3 6 2         - End words of lines in fifth sestet.
  2 4 6 5 3 1         - End words of lines in sixth sestet.
  (6 2) (1 4) (5 3)   - Middle and end words of lines in tercet.

English 2 - Note Cards and Research Paper Rubric

Research Paper Rubric

Note cards and Source Cards Instructions

English 2 - Research Paper Part 3

How does this work for your project?

Thesis:

I. Introduction
    A. Explanation of purpose and background information
    B. Thesis

II. Argument 1
      A. support
      B. support
    C. support

III. Counter-argument/or Argument 2    (if you do not have a counter-argument)
    A. support              
    B. support
    C. support

IV. Argument 3
    A. support
      B. support
    C. support

V. Conclusion
      A. Mention the opposing side of the argument
      B. Re-emphasize your own argument by summarizing the    
           main points that you made
    C. Restate your thesis

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English 2 Research Part 1

You will choose an invention and idea or something that was created as a solution to a problem. This will be the focus of your research paper which will count as your final exam grade. To begin, brainstorm problems that have occurred in the world and what the solutions were to these. Your research paper will be argumentative and must include the cause and effects of the item/idea of your choosing. You paper MUST convince the reader that the idea/invention is the best ever created and why. 

Here are some useful links! 

Assignment

Time's Best Inventions

Who Are the Best Inventors in History? 

Greatest Inventors of All Time 

Inventors/Philanthropists

English 2 Research Part 2

English 2 - Argumentative Research 4/25

*Now that you have chosen your topic (and it has been approved), you will begin to gather your sources (reliable websites - not wikipedia, ask.com, askyahoo or about.com) to use to support your argument. Before you can begin your writing, you must read up on your topic. 

*Today you need to gather 3 sources. Using easybib.com you will create a page (sources copied into a word document) with the proper formatting (follow the directions under the tab "bibliography" on easybib.) for what will be your works cited page (also known as a bibliography). Every source you use (no matter if it is 3 or 19) needs it's own entry.

The information you find on your websites must be copied and pasted into a word document. DO NOT PRINT THE WEBSITES!

Your next step is to create a THESIS STATEMENT which will be ONE SENTENCE that explains to the reader what they will be reading about. THIS NEEDS TO BE IN AN ARGUMENTATIVE FORMAT...What is it you're trying to "prove?" Use the Persuasive Thesis Builder to help you write your thesis. 

At the end of class today, you must print out your three sources in the proper format and your thesis. Please save ALL of your word documents!

Poetry

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Drama

Soliloquy - a long speech given by a character alone on stage
Monologue - a long speech given by a character on stage
Aside - dialogue by a character not meant to be heard by other characters on stage - meant for the audience

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Main Idea Practice 
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Things Fall Apart - English 2

TFA Scavenger Hunt

Answer 5 of the following questions.


Support all answers with references to details or quotations from the text.
1. Pick a ritual or cultural event of Ibo life and explain what it tells us about Ibo values.
Compare it to and contrast it with a similar or analogous ritual in our culture.
2. Pick an event where there is a clear clash of values between the Ibo and the white
man’s culture, and explain both sides’ perspectives.
3. Pick a proverb from the novel, elucidate its meaning, and explain its significance for a
character or event in the novel.
4. Pick a story and explain its role in the novel, as well as the role of storytelling in
general in the novel.
5. Describe the relationships between Okonkwo and his father and his son. Why do you
think there are such tensions?
6. Pick three characters with widely different reactions to Okonkwo. Name them and then
describe their attitudes toward him.
7. Discuss the role of Ikemefuna in this novel. Be sure to discuss his relationship to the
village of Umuofia as a whole as well as his relationship to Okonkwo and Nwoye.
8. Discuss the role of Ezinma in this novel. Be sure to include a discussion of ogbanje,
her fever, Chielo, and her relationship to Okonkwo.
10. Discuss the status of women in this culture as it is represented in the novel.

Watch the video on proverbs in Things Fall Apart