Grade 12

• I thought I had linked the Orpheus video here, but I didn't. Here it is: Orpheus and Eurydice
• Continued with lecture/notetaking practice with the "Separation, Creation and the Birth of Consciousness"
• Continued evaluating the Chinese creation myth.
• Response paper due on Thursday.

Grade 10

• More vocabulary!

19. Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily means one thing is used to mean another, thus making a comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).


20. Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using ‘like’ or ‘as’, as in “she is like a rose.”

21. Lyric poetry: a form of poetry often with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings.

22. Narrative poetry: a form of poetry that tells a story to express a particular theme.

• Began background reading for Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus."