Wed, Oct 27, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 20 mins
• Conventions of Literary Analysis: An academic paper is formal, unlike personal essays such as our college application essay. Formal papers are only about their subject, not about the writer of the essay.
1. Do not say I or me or my or talk about your essay. Talk only about the literature or the author’s techniques using 3rd person: it, he, she, they
2. Contractions are informal. Don’t = Do not. Do not use contractions.
3. Do not use slang, use only standard English. Write man, not guy or dude. Say many, not a bunch or a lot.
AP Literature
• Quiz on Donne’s 4 works. Hand in questions 1-8, with your quiz, afterward.
• Check notes on Big 4. Get back, discuss, and hand in.
• Recitations? No. Due Mon
• Check MC Practice #1 FINISH
• HW: Recite lines Mon
• HW: Read Donne’s life pp362-3. Make a list of 3 facts from his life that correspond in some way to the 4 works we read. Tell how they correspond.
• HW: p363 Read Metaphysical Poetry and summarize the 2 ¶s.
• HW: Read p 417, “On His Blindness” by John Milton, and paraphrase it (not a summary) Look up these words that are used with a meaning different from the most common one: spent, chide, exact (vt: verb transitive), fondly, bidding, post (vt)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tue, Oct 26, 2010
Tue, Oct 26, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 20 mins
• Literary Analysis: Compare Grendel and The Seafarer to learn more about their meaning.
• Analyze by looking at small parts, common elements of stories such as plot, characters, setting, theme, & tone.
• Make a T chart to compare facts for the 2 works. Use literary terms to analyze a small part: plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution). Write facts for each part and for each work.
Hand in your chart and handout of the 2 works.
AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Hand in essays. As I collect them, read pp338-9 in textbook for quiz. Also read Shakespeare’s sonnets #s 29, 30, 71, 73, 116, 130 on the next pages.
• Take a quiz on sonnet form.
• Check MC Practice #1
• HW: Recitations due tomorrow or Mon
• HW: Read pp364-369: Bait, Song, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, and Meditation 17. Either answer all the Analyzing the Poem questions, or take a quiz on the 4 works tomorrow.
HW: Take notes (always Cornell) on the “Big Four” rules #s14-17 p18-?
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 20 mins
• Literary Analysis: Compare Grendel and The Seafarer to learn more about their meaning.
• Analyze by looking at small parts, common elements of stories such as plot, characters, setting, theme, & tone.
• Make a T chart to compare facts for the 2 works. Use literary terms to analyze a small part: plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution). Write facts for each part and for each work.
Hand in your chart and handout of the 2 works.
AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Hand in essays. As I collect them, read pp338-9 in textbook for quiz. Also read Shakespeare’s sonnets #s 29, 30, 71, 73, 116, 130 on the next pages.
• Take a quiz on sonnet form.
• Check MC Practice #1
• HW: Recitations due tomorrow or Mon
• HW: Read pp364-369: Bait, Song, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, and Meditation 17. Either answer all the Analyzing the Poem questions, or take a quiz on the 4 works tomorrow.
HW: Take notes (always Cornell) on the “Big Four” rules #s14-17 p18-?
Mon, Oct 25, 2010
Mon, Oct 25, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg in the library and check out books.
• Voc: NEW
#22 irony
#23 analysis
Coming up:
moral
omniscient
symbolism
thesis
tone
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg in the library and check out books.
• Review & take Qz on the Medieval Period
AP Literature
• AR rdg in the library and check out books.
• Peer Edit
• Essay due tomorrow
Drama
• Present monologues, due today
• Scores will be F 50% until performed
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg in the library and check out books.
• Voc: NEW
#22 irony
#23 analysis
Coming up:
moral
omniscient
symbolism
thesis
tone
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg in the library and check out books.
• Review & take Qz on the Medieval Period
AP Literature
• AR rdg in the library and check out books.
• Peer Edit
• Essay due tomorrow
Drama
• Present monologues, due today
• Scores will be F 50% until performed
Friday, October 22, 2010
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• EssVoc: ballad
• Read Edward, Edward p 148 Rdg Lit, answer 1-7 p150 and hand in.
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg
• Read Edward, Edward, p 148 Rdg Lit, answer 1-7 p150 and hand in.
AP Literature
• Show me 600 words
• MB outline posted below to help in finding quotations and evidence
• Go over how to quote and document Shakespeare and poetry. See below for information.
• Check MC prose2 and poetry 2
• HW: Write final draft, due Tues. Peer editing Mon.
Drama
• SSRFF
• Monologues
OUTLINE of Macbeth
ACT I
Scene 1, p255 Witches talking, “Fair is foul.”
Scene 2, p256 Macbeth’s bravery, Cawdor’s treason
Scene 3, p257 Macbeth meets witches, who prophesy for him and Banquo.
Scene 4, p263 King Duncan congratulates Macbeth on his bravery and new title.
Scene 5, p265 Lady Macbeth gets letter, plans to murder King Duncan.
Scene 6, p267 King arrives at Macbeth’s castle.
Scene 7, p268 Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill, against his objections.
ACT II
Scene 1, p272 Macbeth sees dagger appear in the air and goes to kill the king.
Scene 2, p274 Macbeth hears voices saying Macbeth has murdered sleep.
Scene 3, p277 Ross and Macduff come to wake Duncan, find him dead, call to everyone.
Scene 4, p282 Ross and Macduff discuss the strange situation with an old man.
ACT III
Scene 1, p285 Macbeth hires murderers to kill Banquo.
Scene 2, p289 Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth about more killing to come.
Scene 3, p291 Banquo is murdered, but Fleance escapes.
Scene 4, p293 The murderers report; Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost at the supper feast.
Scene 5, p298 Hecate plans a meeting with the witches to give Macbeth his destiny.
Scene 6, p299 Lennox and another lord discuss Macduff raising an army against Macbeth.
ACT IV
Scene 1, p301 Macbeth visits the witches and sees the apparitions
Scene 2, p306 Macbeth’s murderers slaughter Macduff’s wife and child
Scene 3, p309 Malcolm tests Macduff’s honor by appearing to have many vices
ACT V
Scene 1, p317 Lady Macbeth sleepwalks while a doctor and a gentlewoman look on.
Scene 2, p319 Scottish lords discuss Malcolm and Macduff’s plan and Macbeth’s state.
Scene 3, p320 The doctor reports Lady Macbeth's condition to Macbeth, who calls for armor
Scene 4, p322 Near Birnam, Malcolm and Macduff’s soldiers march
Scene 5, p323 Lady Macbeth dies, Birnam Wood approaches Dunsinane
Scene 6, p324 Malcolm and Macduff call for the attack on Dunsinane
Scene 7, p326 Macbeth kills Young Siward as Malcolm, Macduff, Siward enter Dunsinane.
Scene 8, p327 Macduff, not of woman born, kills Macbeth; Malcolm becomes the new king.
How to Quote from Works by Shakespeare
by Dr. Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College English Department
Assuming that it is clear from the context of your paper which play you are quoting from, you need not identify the work by its title. At the end of the quotation from Shakespeare, place parentheses, in which you put three numbers, separated by periods. The first number is the act, the second is the scene, and the third the line numbers quoted, the first one and the last one, separated by dash. The parentheses locating the quotation come after the quotation mark and before the punctuation of your own sentence. Here are three examples:
1) "So shaken as we are, so wan with care," Henry announces to his court (1.1.1).
2) Henry appears infirm from the very beginning of the play: "So shaken as we are, so wan with care" (1.1.1).
3) Henry thinks of the terrain of England as a thirsty mother perversely feeding on the blood of her sons: "No more the thirsty entrance of this soil / Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood" (1.1.5-6).
Note the use of the slash (/)--preceded and followed by a space--to separate lines of poetry in example #3. This is standard practice when you are quoting blank verse (iambic pentameter) from Shakespeare into your own text.
Sometimes--though not often in short essays--you will want to quote a larger block of verse, four verse lines or more, which you then should discuss in close, careful detail. Usually this sort of quotation will be introduced by a full colon (:) and then indented ten spaces from your left-hand margin. You will no longer need slashes to separate lines, nor quotation marks; instead, the quotation should appear as it does on the printed page.
4) Henry's first speech is full of metaphors of physical distress: (Students, I added hyphens to simulate 10 spaces. You don't.)
----------So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
----------Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
----------And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
----------To be commenced in strands far remote. (1.1.1-4)
In this instance, the parentheses locating the quotation follow the final punctuation mark. Note that all citations in parentheses are in Arabic rather than Roman numerals.
Do note, finally, that Shakespeare also writes some scenes in prose. You need to know the difference!
Please consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research for more information and additional examples.
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• EssVoc: ballad
• Read Edward, Edward p 148 Rdg Lit, answer 1-7 p150 and hand in.
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg
• Read Edward, Edward, p 148 Rdg Lit, answer 1-7 p150 and hand in.
AP Literature
• Show me 600 words
• MB outline posted below to help in finding quotations and evidence
• Go over how to quote and document Shakespeare and poetry. See below for information.
• Check MC prose2 and poetry 2
• HW: Write final draft, due Tues. Peer editing Mon.
Drama
• SSRFF
• Monologues
OUTLINE of Macbeth
ACT I
Scene 1, p255 Witches talking, “Fair is foul.”
Scene 2, p256 Macbeth’s bravery, Cawdor’s treason
Scene 3, p257 Macbeth meets witches, who prophesy for him and Banquo.
Scene 4, p263 King Duncan congratulates Macbeth on his bravery and new title.
Scene 5, p265 Lady Macbeth gets letter, plans to murder King Duncan.
Scene 6, p267 King arrives at Macbeth’s castle.
Scene 7, p268 Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill, against his objections.
ACT II
Scene 1, p272 Macbeth sees dagger appear in the air and goes to kill the king.
Scene 2, p274 Macbeth hears voices saying Macbeth has murdered sleep.
Scene 3, p277 Ross and Macduff come to wake Duncan, find him dead, call to everyone.
Scene 4, p282 Ross and Macduff discuss the strange situation with an old man.
ACT III
Scene 1, p285 Macbeth hires murderers to kill Banquo.
Scene 2, p289 Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth about more killing to come.
Scene 3, p291 Banquo is murdered, but Fleance escapes.
Scene 4, p293 The murderers report; Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost at the supper feast.
Scene 5, p298 Hecate plans a meeting with the witches to give Macbeth his destiny.
Scene 6, p299 Lennox and another lord discuss Macduff raising an army against Macbeth.
ACT IV
Scene 1, p301 Macbeth visits the witches and sees the apparitions
Scene 2, p306 Macbeth’s murderers slaughter Macduff’s wife and child
Scene 3, p309 Malcolm tests Macduff’s honor by appearing to have many vices
ACT V
Scene 1, p317 Lady Macbeth sleepwalks while a doctor and a gentlewoman look on.
Scene 2, p319 Scottish lords discuss Malcolm and Macduff’s plan and Macbeth’s state.
Scene 3, p320 The doctor reports Lady Macbeth's condition to Macbeth, who calls for armor
Scene 4, p322 Near Birnam, Malcolm and Macduff’s soldiers march
Scene 5, p323 Lady Macbeth dies, Birnam Wood approaches Dunsinane
Scene 6, p324 Malcolm and Macduff call for the attack on Dunsinane
Scene 7, p326 Macbeth kills Young Siward as Malcolm, Macduff, Siward enter Dunsinane.
Scene 8, p327 Macduff, not of woman born, kills Macbeth; Malcolm becomes the new king.
How to Quote from Works by Shakespeare
by Dr. Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College English Department
Assuming that it is clear from the context of your paper which play you are quoting from, you need not identify the work by its title. At the end of the quotation from Shakespeare, place parentheses, in which you put three numbers, separated by periods. The first number is the act, the second is the scene, and the third the line numbers quoted, the first one and the last one, separated by dash. The parentheses locating the quotation come after the quotation mark and before the punctuation of your own sentence. Here are three examples:
1) "So shaken as we are, so wan with care," Henry announces to his court (1.1.1).
2) Henry appears infirm from the very beginning of the play: "So shaken as we are, so wan with care" (1.1.1).
3) Henry thinks of the terrain of England as a thirsty mother perversely feeding on the blood of her sons: "No more the thirsty entrance of this soil / Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood" (1.1.5-6).
Note the use of the slash (/)--preceded and followed by a space--to separate lines of poetry in example #3. This is standard practice when you are quoting blank verse (iambic pentameter) from Shakespeare into your own text.
Sometimes--though not often in short essays--you will want to quote a larger block of verse, four verse lines or more, which you then should discuss in close, careful detail. Usually this sort of quotation will be introduced by a full colon (:) and then indented ten spaces from your left-hand margin. You will no longer need slashes to separate lines, nor quotation marks; instead, the quotation should appear as it does on the printed page.
4) Henry's first speech is full of metaphors of physical distress: (Students, I added hyphens to simulate 10 spaces. You don't.)
----------So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
----------Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
----------And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
----------To be commenced in strands far remote. (1.1.1-4)
In this instance, the parentheses locating the quotation follow the final punctuation mark. Note that all citations in parentheses are in Arabic rather than Roman numerals.
Do note, finally, that Shakespeare also writes some scenes in prose. You need to know the difference!
Please consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research for more information and additional examples.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Tue, Oct 19, 2010
Tue, Oct 19, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• Read & take notes on Medieval Pd p 140-1 in Rdg Lit. up to ¶2 of Medieval Church.
• Hand in.
AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Show me:
- Prompt
- 3 Easy Steps to thesis
- Rough outline
• Check MC Practice #1, Poem
• HW: Write >or = 300 words of essay
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• Read & take notes on Medieval Pd p 140-1 in Rdg Lit. up to ¶2 of Medieval Church.
• Hand in.
AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Show me:
- Prompt
- 3 Easy Steps to thesis
- Rough outline
• Check MC Practice #1, Poem
• HW: Write >or = 300 words of essay
Mon, Oct 18, 2010
Mon, Oct 18, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• Quiz on “The Seafarer”
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg
• Quiz on “The Seafarer”
AP Literature
• Hand in notes on “An Approach to Style” 4 + 20 and discuss.
• Macbeth essay handout; discuss requirements.
• Essay due next Tuesday
• Triangle graphic on how to write for a prompt on the AP Exam: Answering the question, identifying strategies, & finding evidence for the strategies
• How to write a thesis from an AP essay prompt using the 3 Easy Steps process:
Write a simple,obvious statement, Draw inferences & ask questions, Add new ideas and polish.
• Example of working with 3 Easy Steps to Write a Thesis- 1. Simple/obvious statement: In MB Shakespeare shows how being too ambitious causes one to “overleap and fall…” Sh. uses an object to further this idea by giving it purposes that parallel his theme.
Drama
• Any more monologues? Practice. Monologues must be memorized.
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• Quiz on “The Seafarer”
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg
• Quiz on “The Seafarer”
AP Literature
• Hand in notes on “An Approach to Style” 4 + 20 and discuss.
• Macbeth essay handout; discuss requirements.
• Essay due next Tuesday
• Triangle graphic on how to write for a prompt on the AP Exam: Answering the question, identifying strategies, & finding evidence for the strategies
• How to write a thesis from an AP essay prompt using the 3 Easy Steps process:
Write a simple,obvious statement, Draw inferences & ask questions, Add new ideas and polish.
• Example of working with 3 Easy Steps to Write a Thesis- 1. Simple/obvious statement: In MB Shakespeare shows how being too ambitious causes one to “overleap and fall…” Sh. uses an object to further this idea by giving it purposes that parallel his theme.
Drama
• Any more monologues? Practice. Monologues must be memorized.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• Check qstns5-8
• OralRdg
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg
• Check Seafarer questions 3-8
AP Literature
• Hand in examples of A&B terms from p1260 & 3 theses for MB
• Video MB to end
• HW: Read Els of Style Ch 5, pp 66-69, “Approaches to Style” and take 4 notes. Also read pp 70-81 and number 1-20, copy the rule, and tell what part of the author’s explanation that you think explains it best.
• Demonstrate building a thesis in 3 steps using the prompt about an object and its purposes.
Drama
• Monologues due
• Read aloud
• Get feedback
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• Check qstns5-8
• OralRdg
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg
• Check Seafarer questions 3-8
AP Literature
• Hand in examples of A&B terms from p1260 & 3 theses for MB
• Video MB to end
• HW: Read Els of Style Ch 5, pp 66-69, “Approaches to Style” and take 4 notes. Also read pp 70-81 and number 1-20, copy the rule, and tell what part of the author’s explanation that you think explains it best.
• Demonstrate building a thesis in 3 steps using the prompt about an object and its purposes.
Drama
• Monologues due
• Read aloud
• Get feedback
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg , log
• Get grades
• Check Seafarer qstns and discuss answers
AP Literature
• Quiz on terms A&B
• HW: Examples due Fri for terms
• Handout of Open Qstn for AP Exam to 2003 Find Macbeth on list of Works of Literary Merit to see Open topics & copy one from 2009.
• HW: Pick 3 topics from list of Open topics and from list in textbook pp333-4, and write a thesis for each to hand in Fri.
Drama
• Discuss plans for Q2
• Charades w/movies in 2 teams for points-tied
• HW: Get monologue for Friday
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg , log
• Get grades
• Check Seafarer qstns and discuss answers
AP Literature
• Quiz on terms A&B
• HW: Examples due Fri for terms
• Handout of Open Qstn for AP Exam to 2003 Find Macbeth on list of Works of Literary Merit to see Open topics & copy one from 2009.
• HW: Pick 3 topics from list of Open topics and from list in textbook pp333-4, and write a thesis for each to hand in Fri.
Drama
• Discuss plans for Q2
• Charades w/movies in 2 teams for points-tied
• HW: Get monologue for Friday
Wed, Oct 14, 2010
Wed, Oct 14, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg , log
• Grades: essays, exams, and AR books
• Students in groups of 4-5 work to finish #s 5-8 qstns for Seafarer individually. Then work on answering RdgLit 1-5, Voc,& OralRdg for class presentation
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg , log
• Go over answers to Qtr1 Exam
• Get essays back. Write comment to remember on sheet • AR rdg , log
• Get grades
• Check Seafarer qstns and discuss answers
Drama
• Drama activities from bk Tchg Teenagers Theater
• Charades w/ anything in 2 teams
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg , log
• Grades: essays, exams, and AR books
• Students in groups of 4-5 work to finish #s 5-8 qstns for Seafarer individually. Then work on answering RdgLit 1-5, Voc,& OralRdg for class presentation
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg , log
• Go over answers to Qtr1 Exam
• Get essays back. Write comment to remember on sheet • AR rdg , log
• Get grades
• Check Seafarer qstns and discuss answers
Drama
• Drama activities from bk Tchg Teenagers Theater
• Charades w/ anything in 2 teams
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tue, 10/12/10
Tue, 10/12/10
AP Literature
Terms from pp1260-on for quiz Thur:
apostrophe
assonance
blank verse
caesura
canto
classicism
conceit
metaphysical conceit (no example yet)
consonance
couplet
heroic couplet
AP Literature
Terms from pp1260-on for quiz Thur:
apostrophe
assonance
blank verse
caesura
canto
classicism
conceit
metaphysical conceit (no example yet)
consonance
couplet
heroic couplet
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