Thursday, Day 1, 9.5.13

Working Agenda:

Seating chart - favorite poet.

Heaney reading - students read poetry out loud!
You will learn that I enjoy listening to poetry for pleasure - we need not always over analyze it.
Check out "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.

Heaney reading "Digging" (video) in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY article.

Text and audio of "Digging"

NILO TIMERE - Heaney's final words according to his son.

The Old English video - Opening lines of Beowulf



"Who am I?" sheet

HOMEWORK:

Email "reply all" a link to a favorite video or audio reading by Seamus Heaney

Finish reading lines 1-498 for Friday’s class 

Seamus Heaney (audio book) reading BEOWULF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaB0trCztM0

KOBrien Google site

REMEMBER SUMMER READING QUIZ ON MONDAY.