PRE-READING Definition
Useful Vocabulary
1. anniversary-n.
2. charge - v.
3. military decoration-n.
4. cowshed-n.
5. retreat-v.
6. invasion-n.
7. exploit-n.
8. rebelliousness-n.
9. ambush-n.
a. to run away
b. a surprise attack
c. to run directly at someone in order to make an attack
d. an entrance, especially of an armed force, as if to take
over
e. an adventure or exciting story
f. a medal given as an award, usually pinned on a
uniform, in honor of special bravery or success
g, a celebration that happens at regular intervals to
remember an important event
h. a shelter for cows
i. the attitude of wanting to make a revolution, or general
disobedience
INSTRUCTIONS: Match the

Read the excerpt from “man listening to disc.” to tommy potter for taking the time to join us on this breezy afternoon with his most unwieldy bass and to the esteemed arthur taylor who is somehow managing to navigate this crowd with his cumbersome drums. and i bow deeply to thelonious monk for figuring out a way to motorize—or whatever—his huge piano so he could be with us today. which of the following additional features would best enhance the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a diagram showing the narrator’s route through the city a visual simulation of the man walking down the street audio samples of music by the specified musicians textbook chapters on the history of jazz musicians

Write an email to your favourite author/poet inviting him/her to attend a literature festival organised in your school

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?