PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE YOUR BINDER AND TWO NOTEBOOKS. THIS MONDAY YOU WILL HAVE A CLASSROOM NOTEBOOK ENTRY ON THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER OF THE BOARD.

Honors

-Study guide over "Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle"
-Discussion

HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY, September 1: After spending some time with Scala's chapbook, we are ready to write an outline for our own. Write twenty questions for _____________. Who or what are you going to write twenty questions for? Remember, your questions should be for someone or something that can't quite answer you back.

Today's discussions were incredible. I was impressed with your ability to analyze an entire chapbook of poetry. We talked about form, narrative, confession, repetition, intent, and theme (just to name a few things).

CP

-We started a study guide, but due to grade level meetings and the pep rally, class was cut short. We will finish the study guide on Monday and discuss the book.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27

Honors & CP

-Turn in surveys
-course description & classroom procedures
-"Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle" by J. Gabriel Scala
-Study Guide

Excerpted from the Wick Poetry Center website

J. Gabriel Scala's poems and reviews have appeared in Lullwater Review, Beacon Street Review, Poems & Plays, and Mid-American Review. "Inspired by the story of Secundus the Silent Philosopher and the twenty vital questions posed to him by Emperor Hadrian, J. Gabriel Scala's Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle moves swiftly and deftly into the essence of human existence—memory. Imbued with that ancient consideration, Robbie Dunkle emerges as a chance metaphor for the poet's own past, the dead past, which becomes our past, with all of its wonders and wastes, which only brilliant poetry can revive this powerfully."—Larissa Szporluk