We began unit 8 by my placing on the board the poetic techniques we will be studying in Unit 8: extended metaphor, paradox, antithesis , ambiguity ,and symbolism. Starting with extended metaphor , I discussed various functions of the metaphor or the conceit as well as verbs that can be used in an essay on function. We then studied a Shakespearean sonnet and discussed the extended metaphor, its function, and how the extended metaphor creates theme or meaning . Joshua then practiced writing an interpretative thesis statement on the function of the extended metaphor in the sonnet.

We will use differential equations to derive the growth and decay Formulas. We will solve problems involving growth and decay.

Review and analyze test questions. Use formula G=AH-TS to solve and explain how to determine required temperature needed to change a reaction from reactant favored to product favored. Solve problems from textbook page 910

State the law of universal gravitation. Outline and examine how the force of gravitation varies directly by the product of the masses. Outline and discuss how the force varies inversely as the square of the distance. Introduce the universal gravitational constant 6.6X10^-11. Use the formula to determine the weight of the planet.

Joshua took his final test on Unit 5 (poetry)during today's session.

Joshua was absent today.

Elicit from the formula to determine free energy, (delta G = delta H - T delta S) that free energy is a function of temperature. Delta G will change as temperature changes. Determine which reactants are product favored and which reactant favored ( which are entropy favored and which are enthalpy favored). For a specific reaction with a positive delta G, show how the temperature dependance of
G produced a means to turn the decomposition into a product favored reaction. Determine from given numbers at what temperature the reaction will change.

Two labs given this lab period. One to illustrate the principle of conservation of energy using a pendulum... The second was to measure the potential and kinetic energy of the pendulum in order to see whether energy is conserved.

We first discussed Joshua's test essay on "Dover Beach" and focused on the distinction between the poet's lamenting society's loss of faith and the view of the later Naturalist writers. We then began Unit 8 by instruction on identifying imagery throughout an entire poem and then tying the different images into a coherent interpretation. In this regard , we studied Bishop's "Fish" noting how the florid and rainbow imagery extend from segment to segment to create meaning. We then began an examination of the complex thick poem "Pied Beauty' . I defined numerous obsolete or uncommon words in the poem (including pied) and we identified the poem's structured (but erratic) rhyme scheme .

We will complete several examples of solving a differential equation. We will look at a slope field and determine a possible family of curves that it represents. We will draw slope fields for given differential equations.