Monday, April 30, 2012

Siddhartha ch 4-5. We read four aloud. Students are to read five on their own.The last fifteen minutes of class were given for this purpose.




Lit terms: practice

I handed out packets today to cover Siddhartha and also to cover "Macbeth". Students will be given a grading option tomorrow about whether they want to do the questions in the packet for a grade over "Siddhartha". Stay tuned for details.



An extra credit assignment was given out. It is contained in the packet on Siddhartha.


Reminders:

Monday, May 14th, extra credit

Friday, April 27, 2012

We discussed and handed in "Do not go gentle"  page of textbook: 1275 
Write your normal one page on this, or write some type of response to this poem that uses your creativity.



Lit terms:. theme, tone,  universality (we finished up the packet of lit terms.)



Final test on The Stranger was handed back.


Rest of Stranger questions due today.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Do not go gentle 1275
Write your normal one page on this, or write some type of response to this poem that uses your creativity.

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.

Final test on The stranger.



Rest of Stranger questions due by Friday.

We picked up the book Siddhartha. Read first chapter by tomorrow.

Reminders:

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Algerian Rhapsody,




Myth of Sisyphus: we read the article that was in the Stranger packet. We watched a video.



Lit terms: stereotype, symbol.



Reminders:

Monday, questions from chapters 1-6 due.

Thursday, April 26, Final over Stranger

Monday, April 23, 2012

Stranger, We finished the book in class.
We reviewed for the test on Thursday.


Questions Chapters 1-6 were due today. They were graded.



Reminders:

Monday, questions from chapters 1-6 due.

Thursday, April 26, Final over Stranger

Friday, April 20, 2012

Stranger, Are there any questions over ch 9-10, which are actually 2-1 and 2-2?

For Monday, read chapter 2-3 and chapter 2-4.this starts on page 83.

Questions Chapters 1-6 are due Monday

Lit terms: restraint, pun

Reminders:
Monday, questions from chapters 1-6 due.
Thursday, April 26, Final over Stranger

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Mark, discuss, hand in P 180 End and the Beginning (1098)  We watched the Japanese thank you video and related it to this poem.:




POV acting to learn the literary terms.


Stranger, ch 7-8. Questions Chapters 1-6 are due Monday







Reminders:

Monday, questions from chapters 1-6 due.

Thursday, April 26, Final over Stranger

P 180 End and the Beginning (1098)

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   

Paragraph one is summary. Next paragraphs can deal with author's skills and connections. Analyze.  One page.



Stranger, ch 5-6. Questions Chapters



Lit terms: POV  We practiced a skit to illustrate the different points of view. We will perform those on Thursday.



Turn in your papers from the last two days. It should be on page on both sides. See yesterday's notes on blog.



Reminders:

Friday, April 20, questions from chapters 1-4 due.

Thursday, April 26, Final over Stranger

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Stranger, ch 3-4 read these chapters for tonight.

 Tomorrow we have a full page on both sides to hand in.If you divide the two sides in half, you end up with four parts:

A. When Camus says that his main character is unable to lie, and that makes it impossible for him to get along in the world, explain what you think he means by this. Feel free to reflect on your own life and see what part of your life is comprised of lies.

 B. From the Stranger packet, the back page, answer the questions marked with the numbers 3, 7, and 12.

C. From the same packet, answer questions marked by the numbers 17, 21, and 24.

D. Respond to and explain the quote "I must find a truth that is true for me . . . the idea for which I can live or die." --Soren Kierkegaard This two day assignment should be one full page, front and back.

 Lit terms: plot, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, suspense.

Ppt isms, We watched a powerpoint on the different isms that we will be covering.You can view the powerpoint at the following site:

 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VXWauSScw44zuvaj8y8IVH8ego6AaFgmUwrHDpX8wCw/edit

Reminders:
Thursday, April 26, Final over Stranger

Monday, April 16, 2012

Lit terms: pathetic fallacy, personification


Check out "Old Man and the Sea". Read to page 42 by tomorrow.


We checked out vocabulary 6 worksheets.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The seniors reviewed the poem, "The Soldier".

They practiced literary terms for Thursday's lit term matching test over the first two pages of lit terms.

Monday, Tuesday, April 9-10

We went over the poem "When I have fears that I may cease to be".


We had all the outside reading scores done today. It will be late if not completed until tomorrow.

We watched more of Dr. Strangelove as we looked for satire.



Reminders:

Thursday, 4-12, Lit term test

Friday, April 6, 2012

On-demand literary analysis done in room 448. It took all the period.





Reminders:

Friday, 4-6, In-class on-demand Lit analysis 3-03/9-89

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages)

Thursday, 4-12, Lit term test

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Figure of speech, foil, foreshadowing hyperbole

 In class Quiz over poem, "When you are old" p 552, Literature.

 We looked over a literary analysis paper about "Macbeth". Parenthetical citations: page 205 language book.

Reminders:
Friday, 4-6, In-class on-demand Lit anaylysis 3-03/9-89
Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages)
Thursday, 4-12, Lit term test
Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Contrast, epic, epithet, kenning, and iambic pentameter. We spent quite a bit of time on iambic pentameter, using examples and practice scanning.


Poetry 180 We read the poem Valediction: Forbidding Mourning from the textbook. We did not write an assignment over it.


Reminders:

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages) Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Some students will finish their Things Fall Apart tests today. those who were absent the last day or two would start taking the test. If TFA packet has not been handed in today, it will lose another 10%, Telephone Conversation ( 1157) We discussed and handed in a half-page on this poem. Some used today to get outside reading done. Reminders: Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages) Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE

Monday, April 2, 2012

Connotations, denotations  from lit terms sheets.

To understand connotation, we watched "Slowly I turn".





Some students will take their Things Fall Apart tests today.

Hand in packets from book TFA.





Telephone Conversation ( 1157)

Write at least half a page. Include short summary and an explanation of the satire present in this poem.



Reminders:

Monday, 4-2, packet for Things Fall Apart is due.

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages) Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)