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TODAY IN CLASS
Iambs, iambic pentameter, foot, blank verse, free verse, one starter sonnet fact (14 lines!)--but most importantly, the constant need to evaluate sound and sense when studying poetry.  Memorizing terms is a necessary step, but not an end in itself. 

Paradise Lost:  blank verse; range,sources, and density of allusions; Milton's cosmography, and his reliance on Dante's Inferno; Milton's blindness . . . (your class may have done more/may have done less).  We will even things out and move on tomorrow.

FOR TOMORROW
"Make-up" (i.e., should have been done over break):  Be sure that you have read (CAREFULLY, not just skimmed) all the PL hanRime of the And-outs you received during the week before break. You should also have read the entirety of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, but if you have not, you've got a couple more days before that becomes problematical.


For Wednesday:  Be sure to have re-read Acts I and II of Hamlet.