Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Quiz chapter 1: Two minutes without the book; two minutes open book.

Do Not Go Gentle turn in.

Page 1331 “The Soldier” One page due on Thursday.
Possible paragraphs would include:
 Summary (with title and author name in first sentence)
Theme (remember that topics are not themes; themes are statements about a topic)
Discussion of difficult lines (don't just say you are confused; tell what you do know about the lines) Author's skills (how does the author use rhythm, rhyme scheme, metaphor, imagery, alliteration, contrast)
Connections (Connect the theme to your own life or another work of literature).

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
 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.



 To see the video we watched in class, use this link:
http://youtu.be/e6mg2qD_KaY

 Siddhartha read chapters 2-3 for tomorrow 50-50 chance of using notes on the quiz tomorrow.
Do you need to read the book online? Follow this link:
http://www.online-literature.com/hesse/siddhartha/3/

Monday, April 29, 2013

"Do Not Go Gentle"  turn in assignment. Third period may also turn it in on Tuesday for full credit.


Stranger Final: fifty question, 100 point test.

Alone: add 3 points      Partner: 89% max, subtract 5 if in the 80-100%   No change if 79% or lower.



Check out Siddhartha from the library. Read chapter one for tomorrow. Likely quiz.



Siddhartha ppt.that focuses on Buddhism and the related concepts that we will deal with in the novel "Siddhartha".  You can see that powerpoint by going to the World Lit and Comp section of the webpage.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Watch remainder of the movie "The Stranger".

Discuss Remind about "DO not go gentle" villanelle.

A  practice powerpoint is available for the novel. Find it on the webpage. Click on webpage link on the right, click on World lit and comp, click on "Click here" after the title "Stranger review".

Make sure you click on the download icon if you want to run it as a real review. You don't have to do this, but it is better.

 Enjoy the next parody of "Bohemian Rhapsody" as a review of the novel "The Stranger".

Thursday, April 25, 2013

"Do not go gentle" from page 1275 of the text book. Write a page for Monday. Include summary and theme, and then anything appropriate.

Chapters 4 and 5 of the book "The Stranger" are assigned for tomorrow.

Watch the movie from youtube starting at 43:00 for third period and go to 1:00; for fourth period start at 51:00 and go to 1:13

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.

 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Pizza survey by Andy

Sisyphus We watched a couple of animated versions of this myth, and discussed Camus' association with the myth.

Amoral, immoral

absurdity

Video: We watched 43 to 51 minutes of The Stranger, depending on whether you were third or fourth period. Copy and paste this address          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LM8q_D1wt4





Wednesday, homework, part 2, chapters 2, 3



Reminders:

Thursday, homework, part 2, chapters 4,5

Monday, final over “The Stranger”.

Monday, April 22, 2013

We did NOT get to any video of the movie today. We will have a look next class.

Quiz from chapter 6.  Mersault's name is a play on words for sea and sun. See how these two play a part in the story.

Images of plants from chapter 6. asphodels, tamarisks, rock irises

Reenact scene from 2 points of view

Assign part 2, chapter 1 for tomorrow.

 Remember tomorrow test for 9-11th grade.

Reminders:
Wednesday, homework, part 2, chapters 2, 3
Thursday, homework, part 2, chapters 4,5
Monday, final over “The Stranger”

Friday, April 19, 2013

page 1098 of lit book, read and discuss "End and the Beginning".
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The End and the Beginning

Wislawa Szymborska from Miracle Fair: 2001

  

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.

                 

Review chapters 4 and 5.
Read chapter 6 for Monday, which brings us to the end of part one.




Reminders:

Friday homework, chapter 6.

Monday homework, part 2, chapter 1; In class test over first part of book. No make-up tests on this.

Wednesday, homework, part 2, chapters 2, 3

Thursday, homework, part 2, chapters 4,5

Monday, final over “The Stranger”.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Mark, discuss, hand in from P 1338 “Not Waving but Drowning”. One page: summary, theme, author’s skills, connections.



Review chapter 3. Read chapters 4 and 5.



Reminders:

Friday, 4-18, homework, chapter 6.

Monday, 4-21, homework, part 2, chapter 1; In class test over first part of book. No make-up tests on this.

Wednesday, 4-23, homework, part 2, chapters 2, 3

Thursday,4-24,  homework, part 2, chapters 4,5

Monday, 4-28,final over “The Stranger”.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

P 1338 “Not Waving but Drowning” for tomorrow. One page: summary, theme, author’s skills, connections.

Stevie Smith - Not Waving But Drowning

Nobody heard him, the dead man,

But still he lay moaning:

I was much further out than you thought

And not waving but drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking

And now he's dead

It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,

They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always

(Still the dead one lay moaning)

I was much too far out all my life

And not waving but drowning.

Thanks to Anna V. and Kenneth H. for reading their reflective papers to the class. They were awesome.



Review chapters one and two.

Read ch 3. for tomorrow.

Monday, Tuesday/ April 15, April 16

Choice reading
Read Chapter one and two from "The Stranger".


Poems from the lit analysis test: we reviewed the "Shepherd's reply."

Online "The Stranger"


Anyone want to read their reflective paper?

State writing for Juniors. took place during class.
Juniors and seniors who are interested in going to the PCC field trip to bring these two forms ASAP to the counseling office:Signed parent permission formBlue pre-approved absence formDEADLINE to turn in the forms is Thursday, April 18 the trip is on Friday, April 19.NO STUDENT is allowed to go without the SIGNED PARENT PERMISSION form.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

We went to the library lab and wrote an on-demand literary analysis of a poem.






Thursday, April 11th, choice reading paper. ShakeOff video

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

We did the ShakeOff in class.

 Reminders: Wednesday, April 10 in-class essay on a poem (Lib lab)
Thursday, April 11th, choice reading paper.
Thursday, April 11th, ShakeOff video

Monday, April 8, 2013

Passionate Shepherd page 295



Friday , April 5th resubmit the reflective essay

Macbeth test


Reminders:

Monday, April 8, ShakeOff for those not here Tuesday.

Tuesday, April 9, ShakeOff, / Passionate Shepherd. Make sure you use effectively the words pastoral and carpe diem. One page. The first paragraph should be a short summary.

Wednesday, April 10 in-class essay on a poem (Lib lab)

Thursday, April 11th, choice reading paper.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Continue to read choice reading

Passionate Shepherd page 295 Write a full page. Include summary first paragraph. Include theme second paragraph. You may choose for other paragraphs, choices to include are author's skills, connections, context, use of literary terms. The words "carpe diem" and "pastoral" should be included in your paper.   See poem at bottom of this page, and see the youtube.

We took the Macbeth test today. There were 75 questions worth a total of 100 points.

By tonight (Friday) at midnight,   resubmit the reflective essay



Reminders:

Monday, April 8, ShakeOff for those not here Tuesday.

Tuesday, April 9, ShakeOff
                             Turn in assignment for ""A Passionate Shepherd to his Love".

Wednesday, April 10 in-class essay on a poem (Lib lab)

Thursday, April 11th, choice reading paper.


.The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of th purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love,
    -- Christopher Marlowe

The following youtube includes today's poem, and the nymph's reply:

Wednesday, April 4, 2013; Thursday, April 4, 2013

Prom court. Nominations will be held this Friday, April 5


Read choice reading

Thursday, April 4 Father and Son” due. One page. Context turned in today.
We watched and discussed the song and its context.

If you want to review for the Friday test over Macbeth, click on "Dessert webpage" on the right side of this blog. When you are at the webpage, go to the top left corner and click on 12th grade World Lit and Com. You will find the ppt review there. If you download it, you will be able to use it just as we did in class. If you don't, the answer will show up when the question shows up so it won't be as good a method of studying.

Reading and practicing. 83; Appositives, Direct Address.



Reminders

Friday , April 5th resubmit the reflective essay

               Macbeth test

Monday, April 8,

Tuesday, April 9, ShakeOff

Wednesday, April 10 in-class essay on a poem (Lib lab)

Thursday, April 11th, choice reading paper.

Monday, April 1, 2013; Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Bring choice reading tomorrow.











Tuesday, April 2, Bring choice reading. We will continue practicing the ShakeOff.
We continue to practice for the Macbeth test. Find the Macbeth ppt. by going to blog, click on webpage, on lower right side find Macbeth Jeopardy powerpoint. If you download it, then it will be able to be played like we did in class. 





Wednesday, April 3 last long time for practice ShakeOff




Thursday, April 4th: We will hand in papers on "Father to Son". We will make sure all groups have teleprompter from outside the group.




Friday, April 5th resubmit the reflective essay on turnitin.com. See the revision assignment.


Friday, April 5, Macbeth test


Monday, April 8,


Tuesday, April 9, ShakeOff




Wednesday, April 10 in-class essay


Thursday, April 11th Choice reading papers due, total pages due. Last day of the quarter.