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3 articles in current events and science

Science
Sebastian: read the book on human cultural evolution.
Sheridan: continue reading The Cell

History
Sheridan: Revolution read the book on Ben Franklin that Zeb read
Sebastian: collect information on James Madison. (here and here for starters). Take notes to assemble a paper on him

Taiwan
Sheridan and Sebastian: Find the short book on my shelf called Taiwan: Studies in Local Chinese History by Lumley. Read the chapter entitled "The Lins of Wufeng"

Math: Big math book, practice book

Writing: practice book
Sebastian and Sheridan: we'll be doing five paragraph essays

Test friday on this week's science, current events, and history

Literature: read your chosen reading books until 9:30. Read this poem and answer the questions in your notebooks.

A poem by Emily Dickinson:

I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,
Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a star,
Stop--docile and omnipotent--
At its own stable door.

Now that you are done, look up Boanerges, pare, stanza, supercilious, docile, omnipotent and prodigious in an internet dictionary to see what they mean.

Questions:
1) what does this poem describe?
2) The poem uses an animal to represent the thing it is talking about. What animal is that?