A Substitute for Learning

Dang...I usually have a regular sub who was an English major, but she was already booked. I can't wait to get more info about your new favorite teacher. You had cake!

As for the details of class and what is due Tuesday: 1.) Questions that follow "To Autumn" in your journal. 2.) Read through Chapter 5 and be familiar with Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, and Metonymy. 3.)"Work" the following poems. Take extensive notes on the poet’s use of figurative language, imagery, and diction in:

• “To His Coy Mistress”
• “To An Athlete Dying Young”
• “Birches”
• “Toads”
• “The Fly”
• “The Fish”

The typed paper will not be due. We will probably quiz on the above.

Be prepared to move at a pretty rapid clip on Tuesday.