Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

If you'd like do conduct your first solo close reading on the Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire clips, you can find them here:

Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor: "Moses Supposes," from Singin in the Rain.

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: "Night and Day," from The Gay Divorcee, I think.

Period Five: "Falling Bough" voting

Leave a comment here with the alias of the two most impressive paragraphs.

Also see if you can guess which one is Hill's.

Friday's Poem, "Good-by, and Keep Cold"

by Robert Frost.

"Falling Bough" (2002)

Here is a link to "Falling Bough."

After you complete your paragraph, save it to your period's sub-folder under Hill/Homework.

Your solo close-reading paragraphs should be posted, along with a link or image of the work you are analyzing, to your class blog by Tuesday.

Thursday's poem: "The Death Deal"

"The Death Deal," by Ron Padgett. At The Writer's Almanac.

Amanda's Poem for Wednesday, 2.9.11

Winter by Walter de la Mare

Clouded with snow
The cold winds blow,
And shrill on leafless bough
The robin with its burning breast
Alone sings now.

The rayless sun,
Day's journey done,
Sheds its last ebbing light
On fields in leagues of beauty spread
Unearthly white.

Thick draws the dark,
And spark by spark,
The frost-fires kindle, and soon
Over that sea of frozen foam
Floats the white moon.

Tuesday's Poem: "At North Farm"

Please comment at the other Ety blog, here.