A Rainy Monday

TODAY IN CLASS
Time to work on "The Wanderer"--then things diverged.  If you were absent, here is what you need to prepare in order to have the necessary practice and understanding for later this week:
Identify (and include line numbers):
kennings--try to find them all
alliteration--the 3 "best lines"
assonance--the 3 "best lines"      (for both of these sound features, try to have three instances in each line)

Find passages (you don't need to write out in full, but give key phrases and complete line numbers):
a) lines which show "exile"
b) "ubi sunt" --the heart of the where is . . ? / where are . . .? longing
c) other "elegiac" tone examples--lines that express longing for the past/ people who are gone/places or a way of life that no longer exist
d) have an opinion on whether the poem reflects one speaker or is a dialogue of sorts with two speakers

In 2nd, we started with kennings and slid quickly into meaning.  Did not get to checking the worksheet, which I'd hoped to do.  So in 4th, after students worked on the poem, I said to finish at home if you weren't done--then I gave back the worksheets.  We got up to the last question. (We will start with that on Tuesday in 2nd).

So, FOR TOMORROW
Finish, if needed.  And READ the next poem, which is short (and a very odd translation):  "The Wife's Lament" (pp. 25-26).