Lit term: satire; As an example, we read the first four pages of Modest Proposal (582), by Jonathan Swift.
Proofreading
Write out your own ideas to questions 3, 7, 12, 17 from packet
The Stranger : Finish the book.We read all but four pages of the last chapter in class.
Bring outside reading tomorrow.
Reminder:
Monday 12-5, Stranger final test AND packet due.
Monday 12-5 checking out Siddhartha
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Lit term: restraint, rhyme scheme
"Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost.
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Intro from packet? Who read it? - reread intro about Camus.
Myth of Sisyphus- anyone read anything? See notes below.
Write out your own ideas to questions 3, 7, 12, 17 from packet on the back page of Stranger packet
The Stranger chapter 4 (98) of part 2
Reminder:
Tuesday 11-29 Sisyphus
Monday 12-5, Stranger final test AND packet due.
Monday 12-5 checking out Siddhartha
Sisyphus was the most cunning of mortals. Near the end of his life, when Hades approached him to take him to the underworld, Sisyphus saw that Hades had handcuffs, which were a novelty at that time. Sisyphus tricked Hades into demonstrating the handcuffs on himself. With Hades thus bound, Sisyphus lived for a time with Sisyphus in his closet. The problem became that no one could die without the Lord of the Underworld around to take them away. That doesn't sound so bad, but if no one could die, soldiers could be hacked up on the battlefield and would still show up for dinner. Sick people could be in awful pain but have no relief from death. The gods intervened and Sisyphus was forced to let Hades return to his domain.
Even then, Sisyphus was a cunning man. Before he reported to the Underworld, he asked his wife not to bury his body. When Sisyphus arrived in the Underworld, he approached Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, and told her a sad story. (Some stories state that he asked Pluto this favor.) He said that his wife should be rebuked for not burying him properly. She hadn't even put a coin under his tongue to pay Charon, the ferryman, for passage into the Underworld. Persephone agreed to let him go back to Earth. There he passed the time freely, forgetting about his agreement. Eventually the gods grabbed him and returned him to Hades to be condemned to continually roll a rock up a hill, only to have it roll back down again.
Camus wrote a book called. He uses the myth to illustrate man's futile search for the meaning in a world devoid of god, truth, and value. Camus asks if the answer is suicide. He answers with a resounding "No! Revolt!" First we have to acknowledge the absurd: Much of our life is predicated on the hope for tomorrow, yet tomorrow brings us closer to death and death is the ultimate enemy.
"Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost.
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Intro from packet? Who read it? - reread intro about Camus.
Myth of Sisyphus- anyone read anything? See notes below.
Write out your own ideas to questions 3, 7, 12, 17 from packet on the back page of Stranger packet
The Stranger chapter 4 (98) of part 2
Reminder:
Tuesday 11-29 Sisyphus
Monday 12-5, Stranger final test AND packet due.
Monday 12-5 checking out Siddhartha
Sisyphus was the most cunning of mortals. Near the end of his life, when Hades approached him to take him to the underworld, Sisyphus saw that Hades had handcuffs, which were a novelty at that time. Sisyphus tricked Hades into demonstrating the handcuffs on himself. With Hades thus bound, Sisyphus lived for a time with Sisyphus in his closet. The problem became that no one could die without the Lord of the Underworld around to take them away. That doesn't sound so bad, but if no one could die, soldiers could be hacked up on the battlefield and would still show up for dinner. Sick people could be in awful pain but have no relief from death. The gods intervened and Sisyphus was forced to let Hades return to his domain.
Even then, Sisyphus was a cunning man. Before he reported to the Underworld, he asked his wife not to bury his body. When Sisyphus arrived in the Underworld, he approached Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, and told her a sad story. (Some stories state that he asked Pluto this favor.) He said that his wife should be rebuked for not burying him properly. She hadn't even put a coin under his tongue to pay Charon, the ferryman, for passage into the Underworld. Persephone agreed to let him go back to Earth. There he passed the time freely, forgetting about his agreement. Eventually the gods grabbed him and returned him to Hades to be condemned to continually roll a rock up a hill, only to have it roll back down again.
Camus wrote a book called
Monday, November 28, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
P 1331 “The Soldier” 1331
http://youtu.be/e6mg2qD_KaY
The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Lit term: pun
Intro from packet
The Stranger chapter 3 of part 2
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
http://youtu.be/e6mg2qD_KaY
The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Lit term: pun
Intro from packet
The Stranger chapter 3 of part 2
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Page 1275 in green textbook. There is no writing assignment dealing with this. We did discuss it in class.
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage. rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The Stranger chapter 1-2 of part 2
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage. rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The Stranger chapter 1-2 of part 2
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Lit terms
POV First person, third person objective, limited, and omniscient. We performed skits to illustrate the different points of view. The scenario was a family gathering or intervention.
The Stranger chapter 6
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
POV First person, third person objective, limited, and omniscient. We performed skits to illustrate the different points of view. The scenario was a family gathering or intervention.
The Stranger chapter 6
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Bad senior essay titles
Discuss, hand in P 180 The End and the Beginning
Write a page: summary, theme, context, writer’s skills, connections due Wednesday
Camus ppt
The Stranger chapter 3-4 in class.
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
Discuss, hand in P 180 The End and the Beginning
Write a page: summary, theme, context, writer’s skills, connections due Wednesday
Camus ppt
The Stranger chapter 3-4 in class.
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2012
P 180 The End and the Beginning
Write a page: summary, theme, context, writer’s skills, connections due Wednesday
The Stranger chapter 2-3
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
Write a page: summary, theme, context, writer’s skills, connections due Wednesday
The Stranger chapter 2-3
Packet: Answer on another sheet and use full sentences except for the character list at the beginning.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
P 180 The End and the Beginning (see poem below)
Write a page: summary, theme, context, writer’s skills, connections. Feel free to look up about the author and include it in the context paragraph. This is due Wednesday, not tomorrow as is usually the case.
The Stranger chapter 1 was read mostly in class. Finish the rest at home.
Packet handed out.
We discussed existentialism to introduce the concepts.
The End and the Beginning
Wislawa Szymborska
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won't
straighten themselves up, after all.
Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass.
Someone has to get mired
in scum and ashes,
sofa springs,
splintered glass,
and bloody rags.
Someone has to drag in a girder
to prop up a wall,
Someone has to glaze a window,
rehang a door.
Photogenic it's not,
and takes years.
All the cameras have left
for another war.
We'll need the bridges back,
and new railway stations.
Sleeves will go ragged
from rolling them up.
Someone, broom in hand,
still recalls the way it was.
Someone else listens
and nods with unsevered head.
But already there are those nearby
starting to mill about
who will find it dull.
From out of the bushes
sometimes someone still unearths
rusted-out arguments
and carries them to the garbage pile.
Those who knew
what was going on here
must make way for
those who know little.
And less than little.
And finally as little as nothing.
In the grass that has overgrown
causes and effects,
someone must be stretched out
blade of grass in his mouth
gazing at the clouds.
from Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska, 2001
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY
Copyright 2001 by Wislawa Szymborska.
Write a page: summary, theme, context, writer’s skills, connections. Feel free to look up about the author and include it in the context paragraph. This is due Wednesday, not tomorrow as is usually the case.
The Stranger chapter 1 was read mostly in class. Finish the rest at home.
Packet handed out.
We discussed existentialism to introduce the concepts.
The End and the Beginning
Wislawa Szymborska
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won't
straighten themselves up, after all.
Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass.
Someone has to get mired
in scum and ashes,
sofa springs,
splintered glass,
and bloody rags.
Someone has to drag in a girder
to prop up a wall,
Someone has to glaze a window,
rehang a door.
Photogenic it's not,
and takes years.
All the cameras have left
for another war.
We'll need the bridges back,
and new railway stations.
Sleeves will go ragged
from rolling them up.
Someone, broom in hand,
still recalls the way it was.
Someone else listens
and nods with unsevered head.
But already there are those nearby
starting to mill about
who will find it dull.
From out of the bushes
sometimes someone still unearths
rusted-out arguments
and carries them to the garbage pile.
Those who knew
what was going on here
must make way for
those who know little.
And less than little.
And finally as little as nothing.
In the grass that has overgrown
causes and effects,
someone must be stretched out
blade of grass in his mouth
gazing at the clouds.
from Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska, 2001
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY
Copyright 2001 by Wislawa Szymborska.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Outside Reading due
Things Fall Apart final
Reminders:
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
90’s – 8
80’s -4
70’s - -2
Alone + 2
Things Fall Apart final
Reminders:
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
90’s – 8
80’s -4
70’s - -2
Alone + 2
Monday, November 7, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Achebe video: We watched about ten minutes of a youtube video of Achebe at a conference. We listened to hear his voice so we could look for his voice in the book.
Sonnets memorized were performed.
Lit terms practice through 44
Review for tomorrow TFA final
Reminders:
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due.
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
Sonnets memorized were performed.
Lit terms practice through 44
Review for tomorrow TFA final
Reminders:
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due.
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
Friday, November 4, 2011
Sonnets for some of the class; the rest on Monday
In the computer room to do in-class, on demand lit analysis.
Lit terms quiz coming on Wednesday.
Reminders:
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due.
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
In the computer room to do in-class, on demand lit analysis.
Lit terms quiz coming on Wednesday.
Reminders:
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due.
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
TFA read chapters 21-22-23-24-25. We finished the book and discussed the last paragraph of the book.
Reminders:
Friday , 11-4 Sonnet memorization due
Friday, 11-4 Lit analysis on demand in computer lab.
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due.
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
Reminders:
Friday , 11-4 Sonnet memorization due
Friday, 11-4 Lit analysis on demand in computer lab.
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due.
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
TFA read chapters 17-18-19-20
Reminders:
Friday , 11-4 Sonnet memorization due
Friday, 11-4 Lit analysis on demand in computer lab.
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due.
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
Reminders:
Friday , 11-4 Sonnet memorization due
Friday, 11-4 Lit analysis on demand in computer lab.
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due.
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
TFA read chapters 14-15-16
keep up with the packet. We had some date changes. Please note them below. **
.
Reminders:
Friday , 11-4 Sonnet memorization due **
Friday, 11-4 Lit analysis on demand in computer lab.
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due. **
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final **
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required. **
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
keep up with the packet. We had some date changes. Please note them below. **
.
Reminders:
Friday , 11-4 Sonnet memorization due **
Friday, 11-4 Lit analysis on demand in computer lab.
Monday Finish sonnet memorization, any specials due. **
Tuesday , 11-8, Things Fall Apart final **
Tuesday, 11-8, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required. **
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance, but it will lose 10 points LATE
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
Monday, October 31, 2011
Lit terms: Plot, exp, rising, climax, falling, plot graph
TFA read chapters 11-12-13
Before leaving today- First 6 lines from sonnet required.
Reminders:
Thursday, 11-3 Sonnet memorization due
Friday, 11-4 Lit analysis on demand in computer lab.
Monday, 11-7, Things Fall Apart final
Monday, 11-7, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
TFA read chapters 11-12-13
Before leaving today- First 6 lines from sonnet required.
Reminders:
Thursday, 11-3 Sonnet memorization due
Friday, 11-4 Lit analysis on demand in computer lab.
Monday, 11-7, Things Fall Apart final
Monday, 11-7, Things Fall Apart packet is due. Complete sentences required.
Tuesday, 11-8 Outside reading due
Wednesday, 11-9, Outside Reading last chance
Wednesday, 11-9 Lit term test
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