We wrote an essay imitating the style of the one studied yesterday: "In The Trenches". A narrative essay is a story with an implied thesis.
IF YOU WERE ABSENT TODAY, YOU MUST ARRIVE WITH YOUR NARRATIVE ESSAY, HANDWRITTEN, DOUBLE SPACED. You choose the topic. You may wish to write about a memory of a time you were frightened.
Next, I read aloud the Joy Kogawa essay, "Grinning and Happy". We discussed the use of dissonance and the chicken coop motif.
Tonight, complete the following:
Thesis: implied or direct?
Write out the thesis in your own words
Add three facts which support the thesis. If you quote, cite properly.
Choose 1 literary device. Name it. Quote it. Explain how it supports the thesis.
Tomorrow we will be editing our narrative essays and learning about the four types of sentences in English:
1.simple
2. complex
3. compound
4. compound-complex
Lucky you.
We'll also be reading an essay entitled, "The Dirtiest Job" by Pierre Berton. Some of you may already have dirty jobs. We'll be writing about your worst job during Thursday's class.
To get ready for the holidays, we will be reading an essay on hockey called, "Man, You're A Great Player".
For each essay, complete the list above.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Writing 12: Postcard stories continue . . .
Today, we each wrote a postcard story from a title and a last line. We also listened to at least 7 stories. Which one was your favourite? Why?
Think about what you need to have in your story.
Type up a story for Friday. If you will be absent, you must email it to me or hand it in early. Thanks.
Wed: Emi and Mia present the short stories of Margaret Atwood. Lucky us.
IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBMITTED YOUR FICTION REPORT. GET IT IN.
Think about what you need to have in your story.
Type up a story for Friday. If you will be absent, you must email it to me or hand it in early. Thanks.
Wed: Emi and Mia present the short stories of Margaret Atwood. Lucky us.
IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBMITTED YOUR FICTION REPORT. GET IT IN.
English 10: Study all your notes and marked assignments . . .
Tomorrow's practice exam will be a great way to learn what you do not yet know, right?
Study tonight.
Make sure you know:
1. our vocabulary words
2. our literary must-have lists
3. where you need to improve your writing
4. how to integrate and cite quotations
5. how to use sentence variety and verbs for a formal effect
6. how to show and not tell
7. how to punctuate dialogue (for the story you have to write on the exam)
8. how to make your story interesting (details, description, short paragraphs, accurate word choice, good character development, symbols, put the symbol in the title, show but don't TELL your theme
9. reading on and between the lines
10. how to create a what/so what chart
11. how to infer
12. how to go beyond the obvious
13. how to write a literary paragraph
14. how to study for an exam!!!
We won't have USSR tomorrow but if you finish the exam early, you'll be able to read all of Thursday and Friday. YOU MUST FINISH THE NOVEL, ANIMAL FARM, BY JAN. 6TH. Be sure to post-it note
1. examples of rules
2. examples of breaking the rules
3. how to acquire power
4. Bonus: examples of satire: hyperbole, understatement, wit, sarcasm, and irony (verbal, situational, and dramatic).
La la la
You are learning soooo much!!!
I am loving your poems.
If you write poems over the holiday, I will edit them when you return.
Study tonight.
Make sure you know:
1. our vocabulary words
2. our literary must-have lists
3. where you need to improve your writing
4. how to integrate and cite quotations
5. how to use sentence variety and verbs for a formal effect
6. how to show and not tell
7. how to punctuate dialogue (for the story you have to write on the exam)
8. how to make your story interesting (details, description, short paragraphs, accurate word choice, good character development, symbols, put the symbol in the title, show but don't TELL your theme
9. reading on and between the lines
10. how to create a what/so what chart
11. how to infer
12. how to go beyond the obvious
13. how to write a literary paragraph
14. how to study for an exam!!!
We won't have USSR tomorrow but if you finish the exam early, you'll be able to read all of Thursday and Friday. YOU MUST FINISH THE NOVEL, ANIMAL FARM, BY JAN. 6TH. Be sure to post-it note
1. examples of rules
2. examples of breaking the rules
3. how to acquire power
4. Bonus: examples of satire: hyperbole, understatement, wit, sarcasm, and irony (verbal, situational, and dramatic).
La la la
You are learning soooo much!!!
I am loving your poems.
If you write poems over the holiday, I will edit them when you return.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Writing 12: Postcard Stories or Flash Fiction
I collected the stories today. If you were absent, be sure to email me the story TODAY. No stories accepted tomorrow unless accompanied by a note explaining how deathly ill you were today.
I also collected the Fiction REPORTS and the Bill Gaston responses.
We read our stories for 15 minutes. We wrote our Bill Gaston responses for 15 minutes. We started a new genre today: the postcard story!!
We wrote a short one today (250 words). If you were absent, stay in at lunch tomorrow to
make up the time. You need to read the two stories, read your USSR book, and write the postcard exercise.
We read Monika Lee's story, "Dizzy" and we discussed the elements of postcard stories. I also read the story, "The Boy with the Duck on His Head".
You have one postcard story due FRIDAY. If you will not be here, either submit it Thursday or email it to me Friday. It must be fewer than 750 words. It can be anywhere from 200 to 750 words. It must WORK. It has to feel as if something happened, some epiphany or shift occurs for the character or for the reader, be concise and precise in style, and be based on a FABULOUS idea.
Read through Claremont Reviews to see what great ideas you can steal. It's TRADITION.
Tonight: Think of an idea for a postcard story. This genre is also called Flash Fiction. Think of a photograph. A lot can be happening in a photograph but it's is captured in that one moment, somewhat like a scene but everything has to be finished, cleared up, by the end of the scene.
We will read some brilliant ones tomorrow and practice write.
Wed: Emi and Mia present.
Thurs: Time to write your postcard story which is due Friday.
Friday: Hand in the postcard story. Start thinking about the long story that will be due the second Thursday in January. Finish reading the book you have and sign out a new one for the holidays.
I also collected the Fiction REPORTS and the Bill Gaston responses.
We read our stories for 15 minutes. We wrote our Bill Gaston responses for 15 minutes. We started a new genre today: the postcard story!!
We wrote a short one today (250 words). If you were absent, stay in at lunch tomorrow to
make up the time. You need to read the two stories, read your USSR book, and write the postcard exercise.
We read Monika Lee's story, "Dizzy" and we discussed the elements of postcard stories. I also read the story, "The Boy with the Duck on His Head".
You have one postcard story due FRIDAY. If you will not be here, either submit it Thursday or email it to me Friday. It must be fewer than 750 words. It can be anywhere from 200 to 750 words. It must WORK. It has to feel as if something happened, some epiphany or shift occurs for the character or for the reader, be concise and precise in style, and be based on a FABULOUS idea.
Read through Claremont Reviews to see what great ideas you can steal. It's TRADITION.
Tonight: Think of an idea for a postcard story. This genre is also called Flash Fiction. Think of a photograph. A lot can be happening in a photograph but it's is captured in that one moment, somewhat like a scene but everything has to be finished, cleared up, by the end of the scene.
We will read some brilliant ones tomorrow and practice write.
Wed: Emi and Mia present.
Thurs: Time to write your postcard story which is due Friday.
Friday: Hand in the postcard story. Start thinking about the long story that will be due the second Thursday in January. Finish reading the book you have and sign out a new one for the holidays.
English 12: Personal Essay Unit begins . . .
Today I collected the Catcher essays, edited drafts, checklist and quote log. If you have not yet emailed me your essay due to your absence, you must do so today, or bring it tomorrow with a note explaining why you could not meet this deadline.
If you were absent, please go to the library as soon as you arrive at school tomorrow. Return your post-it note free Catcher and Inside Poetry. Sign out a book of essays entitled The Act of Writing.
Read the narrative essay entitled: "In the Trenches" on page 13. Write down the author, the title, the thesis (it is implied so you have to put it in your own words). Three details (paraphrases or quotations cited correctly with line numbers). Finally, write down one main literary technique. In this essay the following techniques dominated: simile, understatement, personification, motif of insanity, motif of bestiality and pathetic fallacy. Choose one. Write down the name of the technique. Write down your example and explain its effectiveness.
We read this essay aloud and discussed its merits. We predicted the thesis as we went along, looking for supportive details.
Tomorrow: YOU WILL WRITE A NARRATIVE ESSAY IMITATING THE STYLE OF ESSAYS IN THIS SECTION OF THE TEXT. YOUR TOPIC SHOULD BE SOMETHING PERSONAL AND EMOTIONAL SUCH AS A FRIGHTENING MOMENT, AN UNRESOLVED DISPUTE WITH A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE OR FAMILY MEMBER, A TIME WHEN YOU FELT DISRESPECTED. Choose an event that you think would appeal to your readers.
Your job is to narrate the story and imply the thesis. You will have one hour to complete this task. Work on it tonight so you feel prepared. You can read other essays in that narrative section of the text. Re-read the essay we studied today. How does one scene move to the next? How well are the characters created? What details do you remember? Why? ETC
Once you have chosen your topic. Brainstorm several thesis statements that you could imply in through the use of description.
Eg: Fight with a sibling: Possible thesis statements
If you were absent, please go to the library as soon as you arrive at school tomorrow. Return your post-it note free Catcher and Inside Poetry. Sign out a book of essays entitled The Act of Writing.
Read the narrative essay entitled: "In the Trenches" on page 13. Write down the author, the title, the thesis (it is implied so you have to put it in your own words). Three details (paraphrases or quotations cited correctly with line numbers). Finally, write down one main literary technique. In this essay the following techniques dominated: simile, understatement, personification, motif of insanity, motif of bestiality and pathetic fallacy. Choose one. Write down the name of the technique. Write down your example and explain its effectiveness.
We read this essay aloud and discussed its merits. We predicted the thesis as we went along, looking for supportive details.
Tomorrow: YOU WILL WRITE A NARRATIVE ESSAY IMITATING THE STYLE OF ESSAYS IN THIS SECTION OF THE TEXT. YOUR TOPIC SHOULD BE SOMETHING PERSONAL AND EMOTIONAL SUCH AS A FRIGHTENING MOMENT, AN UNRESOLVED DISPUTE WITH A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE OR FAMILY MEMBER, A TIME WHEN YOU FELT DISRESPECTED. Choose an event that you think would appeal to your readers.
Your job is to narrate the story and imply the thesis. You will have one hour to complete this task. Work on it tonight so you feel prepared. You can read other essays in that narrative section of the text. Re-read the essay we studied today. How does one scene move to the next? How well are the characters created? What details do you remember? Why? ETC
Once you have chosen your topic. Brainstorm several thesis statements that you could imply in through the use of description.
Eg: Fight with a sibling: Possible thesis statements
- Sibling rivalry must be accepted but a brother always forgives a brother.
- There is no such thing as sibling rivalry. Accepting it means accepting bullying in the home.
- Fighting with siblings is a direct result of parental mismanagement. Parents must treat siblings equally.
- Sibling rivalry occurs less often between siblings of the same gender because it is easy to compare two brothers' athletic abilities but less easy to compare the athletic skills of a sister to her brother.
- Sibling rivalry occurs for power. It is a direct reflection of society.
- Canadian families should not have more than one child.
- Only children create imaginative brothers and sisters so they can fight with them.
Are you getting the idea? You need to know what it is that you want your readers to take away when finished reading your essay. It's a little more directly created than a short story. It relies a lot on strong, descriptive details: the rat, the sounds of the artillery, the colours of the sky, mud in the mouth, the blood in the sock, praying to a God you don't even believe in etc.
English 10: The Child Who Walks Backwards
Make sure that your notes on Lorna Crozier's poem is up to date.
Be able to define theme.
Memorize this method of writing a poem.
1. Choose a topic that bugs you or an incident that you have not yet resolved: an argument, not getting a spot on the team, a divorce in the family and new step siblings, parents, someone ill in the family etc
2. Create at least 10 opinions about this topic: families should stay together, families are repressive and abusive, families always have one kid who doesn't quite fit, families are an economic invention of the 19th century to replicate serfdoms etc
3. Make a list of interesting nouns: seagull, slipper, canvas, midnight, egg, church steeple, the blue of prayer, silk socks, etc
Write the poem to reveal your THEME but without stating the opinion directly. Using action, concrete detail, sound, and narration, write a narrative, lyric (emotional) poem similar to Lorna Crozier's poem, "The Child Who Walks Backwards". WE WILL WRITE THE POEM DURING CLASS TOMORROW.
Homework: Read and post-it note chapter four of Animal Farm.
Wed, Thurs, Fri: BC exam preparation
We will be writing the exam during class. If you are unable to be here, you will need to finish it at home but your parents must supervise you as you cannot use a dictionary or on-line help.
You must bring in a note to say that the exam was taken under supervision.
Thanks.
Be able to define theme.
Memorize this method of writing a poem.
1. Choose a topic that bugs you or an incident that you have not yet resolved: an argument, not getting a spot on the team, a divorce in the family and new step siblings, parents, someone ill in the family etc
2. Create at least 10 opinions about this topic: families should stay together, families are repressive and abusive, families always have one kid who doesn't quite fit, families are an economic invention of the 19th century to replicate serfdoms etc
3. Make a list of interesting nouns: seagull, slipper, canvas, midnight, egg, church steeple, the blue of prayer, silk socks, etc
Write the poem to reveal your THEME but without stating the opinion directly. Using action, concrete detail, sound, and narration, write a narrative, lyric (emotional) poem similar to Lorna Crozier's poem, "The Child Who Walks Backwards". WE WILL WRITE THE POEM DURING CLASS TOMORROW.
Homework: Read and post-it note chapter four of Animal Farm.
Wed, Thurs, Fri: BC exam preparation
We will be writing the exam during class. If you are unable to be here, you will need to finish it at home but your parents must supervise you as you cannot use a dictionary or on-line help.
You must bring in a note to say that the exam was taken under supervision.
Thanks.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
English 12: Bring a typed, double spaced copy of your essay to class . . .
Today: We wrote body three and the conclusion. I handed out a checklist for our body paragraphs and reminded the students present that a body para. is just like all the literary paragraphs we have written this year, except, be SURE to repeat your thesis or refer to your overall thesis in each body paragraph.
MAKE IT CLEAR THAT EACH BODY PARAGRAPH PROVES THE THESIS.
Tomorrow: You get a mark for arriving with a printed copy of your essay. If you need to print it, do so at lunch.
You also get marked on your peer editing so bring all the handouts.
You'll need the bodyparagraph checklist I gave you today and the package on how to write the essay. At the back of that package is an overall essay checklist. You must check off each point in order to do well on this essay.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE HAD ALL WEEK TO WRITE THE ESSAY, THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSIONS. IF YOU ARE NOT HERE ON MONDAY, YOU MUST EMAIL ME THE ESSAY BY 3:30.
DueMonday: Good copy plus cover page, peer-edited copy, quotation log.
After the peer editing during Friday's class, you will have time to work on your essay.
At this stage, you will be revising awkward sentences, improving quote integration, ensuring each body topic sentence covers the topics in the paragraph, etc.
This is an essay at the grade 12 level. It needs to be the best thing you've written in four years.
HOW TO WRITE THE COVER PAGE IS EXPLAINED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BODY PARAGRAPH EDITING SHEET (THE YELLOW ONE)
ASK ANITA IF YOU ARE CONFUSED.
MAKE IT CLEAR THAT EACH BODY PARAGRAPH PROVES THE THESIS.
Tomorrow: You get a mark for arriving with a printed copy of your essay. If you need to print it, do so at lunch.
You also get marked on your peer editing so bring all the handouts.
You'll need the bodyparagraph checklist I gave you today and the package on how to write the essay. At the back of that package is an overall essay checklist. You must check off each point in order to do well on this essay.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE HAD ALL WEEK TO WRITE THE ESSAY, THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSIONS. IF YOU ARE NOT HERE ON MONDAY, YOU MUST EMAIL ME THE ESSAY BY 3:30.
DueMonday: Good copy plus cover page, peer-edited copy, quotation log.
After the peer editing during Friday's class, you will have time to work on your essay.
At this stage, you will be revising awkward sentences, improving quote integration, ensuring each body topic sentence covers the topics in the paragraph, etc.
This is an essay at the grade 12 level. It needs to be the best thing you've written in four years.
HOW TO WRITE THE COVER PAGE IS EXPLAINED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BODY PARAGRAPH EDITING SHEET (THE YELLOW ONE)
ASK ANITA IF YOU ARE CONFUSED.
Writing 12: Bill Gaston Tomorrow
If you have missed The Belfry Theatre trip, the Jeffrey Renn reading, or will miss Bill tomorrow, you have until Jan. 15th to go to events, write them up and submit the response.
I recommend seeing David Sedaris, Thurs. Jan. 19th at the library. (I'll find out which branch. Ask Bryn. He's currently reading a Sedaris book.
I recommend seeing David Sedaris, Thurs. Jan. 19th at the library. (I'll find out which branch. Ask Bryn. He's currently reading a Sedaris book.
English 10: Essay, two drafts, quote log is due....poetry ....
Follow the criteria list that we created during class:
- how unique it is, "In A Bar" for ex. God and Satan play pool
- Use your imagination
- Not predictable. Don't let the reader guess what is coming.
- Very descriptive
- Use images: pictures with words
- Write what is important to you
- Find a good rhythm
- Format. Think it through. Spaces, punctuation, Stanzas, etc
- Emotional
- Makes you think
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
English 12: Great work today on the essay!
I will return the introductions tomorrow. I'm editing for style but mostly for insight to ensure that your thesis statements will work for you.
Today we wrote two paragraphs during class.
Arrive tomorrow ready to be marked on your intro, first and second body paragraphs.
Tomorrow, we will write the third body paragraph and the conclusion.
Read through your package for samples and criteria.
Friday: Peer Editing. Arrive with a copy of your essay double spaced. I must see it so you get marks for being organized and on-time and for being able to participate in the peer editing.
If you do not get the conclusion finished during class Thursday, I won't penalize you
as I don't want to assign homework for Friday's class.
YOU CANNOT PRINT DURING CLASS FRIDAY. IF YOU NEED TO PRINT A COPY OF THE ESSAY, PLEASE DO SO AT LUNCH. MY ROOM WILL BE OPEN.
MARKS FOR PEER EDITING.
BE SHARP.
Monday: Essay, peer edited draft and the quote log are due.
No late work is accepted. If you are absent, you need to email me all the work Monday.
Monday we start our next unit: opinion writing.. Yay, Jack Knox.
Today we wrote two paragraphs during class.
Arrive tomorrow ready to be marked on your intro, first and second body paragraphs.
Tomorrow, we will write the third body paragraph and the conclusion.
Read through your package for samples and criteria.
Friday: Peer Editing. Arrive with a copy of your essay double spaced. I must see it so you get marks for being organized and on-time and for being able to participate in the peer editing.
If you do not get the conclusion finished during class Thursday, I won't penalize you
as I don't want to assign homework for Friday's class.
YOU CANNOT PRINT DURING CLASS FRIDAY. IF YOU NEED TO PRINT A COPY OF THE ESSAY, PLEASE DO SO AT LUNCH. MY ROOM WILL BE OPEN.
MARKS FOR PEER EDITING.
BE SHARP.
Monday: Essay, peer edited draft and the quote log are due.
No late work is accepted. If you are absent, you need to email me all the work Monday.
Monday we start our next unit: opinion writing.. Yay, Jack Knox.
Writing 12: Workshop Tomorrow: Arrive Prepared . . . .
Be able to discuss the following:
1. Point of View
2. Verb Tense
3. Character Development
4. Plot Structure
5. Effectiveness of the title
6. Descriptive elements, motif, and symbol
7. Effectiveness of the opening and the ending
8. How engaging the writing it
9. Sentence structure: rhythm, rhyme, repetition, sound devices
10. Punctuation and grammar
11. The vision of the story: what does this story offer the reader?
1. Point of View
2. Verb Tense
3. Character Development
4. Plot Structure
5. Effectiveness of the title
6. Descriptive elements, motif, and symbol
7. Effectiveness of the opening and the ending
8. How engaging the writing it
9. Sentence structure: rhythm, rhyme, repetition, sound devices
10. Punctuation and grammar
11. The vision of the story: what does this story offer the reader?
English 10: Essays due Friday . . . Plus . . .
Find a poem you LOVE in the Naming the Baby text (a collection of student writing) and copy it out. Include the author and title. Copying out a poem forces you to learn the shapes, the rhythms, the rhymes, the pauses that poets use as a part of their craft, similar to the way an artist chooses colour, texture, canvas type, pencil crayon, oil paints, or clay.
Also, finish reading Chapter 1 in Animal Farm.
Be able to define
allegory
satire
irony
wit
understatement
hyperbole
sarcasm
Be able to use 's and s' easily.
Try the examples below:
Society _____ problems
Societies____ problems
The boys___ washroom
The family__ boat
Several families____ boats
One woman___ coat
Two women___coats
Also, finish reading Chapter 1 in Animal Farm.
Be able to define
allegory
satire
irony
wit
understatement
hyperbole
sarcasm
Be able to use 's and s' easily.
Try the examples below:
Society _____ problems
Societies____ problems
The boys___ washroom
The family__ boat
Several families____ boats
One woman___ coat
Two women___coats
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
English 12: How To Write an Introduction . . .
Students arrived with half of their quotation logs and we worked in complete silence until 3:00 and ALL quotation logs were finished.
If you have not completed your quotation log, you will BE lost over the next few days as we write our essays.
The quotation log is the foundation for your essay. It shows you what you think.
Due tomorrow: The Introduction: a GRADE 12, PASSIONATE, ILLUMINATING INTRODUCTION.
If you were absent today, I have several handouts for you.
ARRIVE TOMORROW WITH A TYPED INTRODUCTION THAT FOLLOWS THE CRITERIA BELOW.
If you have not completed your quotation log, you will BE lost over the next few days as we write our essays.
The quotation log is the foundation for your essay. It shows you what you think.
Due tomorrow: The Introduction: a GRADE 12, PASSIONATE, ILLUMINATING INTRODUCTION.
If you were absent today, I have several handouts for you.
ARRIVE TOMORROW WITH A TYPED INTRODUCTION THAT FOLLOWS THE CRITERIA BELOW.
WRITING
AN EFFECTIVE INTRODUCTION FOR A LITERARY ESSAY
Sample:
“Inspiration came to him” (96). Small-bodied and gentle-natured,
young Simon is the only one who understands but does not fear author
William Golding’s message that mankind has a dark and evil nature,
in the novel, Lord of the Flies. Simon does not give into “the
beast”, or the inner wickedness that has manifested in the other
boys and turned their island civilization into savagery. So it
happens that Simon is killed upon his spiritual awakening, when the
true meaning of the beast comes to him after his encounter with a
talking pig’s head. Simon’s character is society’s prophet,
bringing forth Golding’s philosophy on the dark side of human
nature. Simon is flesh and blood just like any other human, but has a
pure moral conscience that will not let evil take hold of his spirit.
Simon’s strength is a symbol of hope for all mankind—if we can
let that hope live.
Analysis of an Introduction
- The purpose of the first sentence in an introduction is _________________________________________________________________.
- The second sentence is the _______________ and includes the __________ and the ___________________ which is in ______________________.
- The third sentence is telling the readers what is to come. In fact, this sentence summarizes the thesis of ______________________________________.
- The forth sentence also tells the reader what to expect in the essay. This sentence summarizes the thesis of ____________________________________.
- The fifth sentence tells the reader what to expect. This sentence summarizes the thesis of _____________________________________.
- The final sentence rewords the __________________________ (or second sentence) but does not change the meaning. It is usually shorter and more ________________________________.
An introduction must also have style. What I notice about the
style of this sample is
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Checklist for my introduction
- _____ The first sentence catches the reader’s attention in an interesting way.
- _____ My thesis answers the question so what? It is my opinion. I can prove it with my research. It is thought-provoking and makes my reader think.
- _____ I have summarized each body paragraph in three separate sentences.
- _____ My verb choice stuns, enlivens and delights. I avoid is, does, makes etc.
- _____ My sentences are varied in length and in the way they begin.
- _____ My vocabulary is formal and appropriate. No contractions. Present verb tense.
- _____ I repeat my thesis at the end in a simple and straightforward way that appeals to the reader’s emotions and makes them want to read on or argue with me. My thesis is provocative and debatable.
- _____ My introduction is brief and to the point. 75 to 125 words should do it.
- _____ I believe that I can prove this thesis. I am passionate about my topic.
- _____ I have something to say that a reader can’t just get by reading the novel.
Writing 12: Three copies of the story due tomorrow.
You must have printed them before you arrive.
Thanks.
Thursday: Workshop
Friday: Bill Gaston will be here. Braeden and Brittany presented his works. We also read his story called "Under the Influence".
Please prepare questions so that you can ensure this presentation will benefit your writing.
Bill teaches fiction at the University of Victoria. For more information, google Bill Gaston. He is one of Canada's foremost novelists and short story writers and he has published poetry. His wife is the writer, Dede Gaston. We have her books in the library. I recommend her novel, Sympathy. Amazing. Dede used to be a professional ballerina and the protagonist is a dancer. His daughter is a writer. One son is a writer/artist/film maker. (Remember the film Shannon and Gillian talked about when they were here? That was Bill's son). He has four children in all.
Monday: Submit your story for marks.
Post Card Story Site
Geist Magazine's Post Card Story Winners
Canadian Post Card Story Site
Cool Author Post Card Site
2012 post card story winner Can. Writers' Union
For the love of blogs . . . look here
Thanks.
Thursday: Workshop
Friday: Bill Gaston will be here. Braeden and Brittany presented his works. We also read his story called "Under the Influence".
Please prepare questions so that you can ensure this presentation will benefit your writing.
Bill teaches fiction at the University of Victoria. For more information, google Bill Gaston. He is one of Canada's foremost novelists and short story writers and he has published poetry. His wife is the writer, Dede Gaston. We have her books in the library. I recommend her novel, Sympathy. Amazing. Dede used to be a professional ballerina and the protagonist is a dancer. His daughter is a writer. One son is a writer/artist/film maker. (Remember the film Shannon and Gillian talked about when they were here? That was Bill's son). He has four children in all.
Monday: Submit your story for marks.
Next week? The post card story. Here's a preview:
Post Card Story Site
Geist Magazine's Post Card Story Winners
Canadian Post Card Story Site
Cool Author Post Card Site
2012 post card story winner Can. Writers' Union
For the love of blogs . . . look here
English 10: Good Editing Today!
What is due Friday? See if you can catch everything on the list below before looking: don't peak.
1. Final Edited Copy
2. Copy you edited after you make the corrections from the peer-edited copy.
3. Peer-edited copy
4. Cover Page attached to the final copy.
5. Quotation Log. (Check all the criteria, especially the citing rules).
Tomorrow: WE START POETRY AND WE'LL READ ANIMAL FARM DURING USSR!!
You may finish your current USSR book at home.
1. Final Edited Copy
2. Copy you edited after you make the corrections from the peer-edited copy.
3. Peer-edited copy
4. Cover Page attached to the final copy.
5. Quotation Log. (Check all the criteria, especially the citing rules).
Tomorrow: WE START POETRY AND WE'LL READ ANIMAL FARM DURING USSR!!
You may finish your current USSR book at home.
Monday, December 9, 2013
English 12: Finish the Quotation Log
The quotation log (see criteria below) is your test on the novel and it is also the BEST way to create ideas and inferences based on re-reading key scenes from the novel that resonante with your topic.
Today we worked on writing our responses to the ten quotes you picked out over the weekend.
Tomorrow: Bring the quote log to class (printed out) and we will colour code the quotes into categories and write the introduction.
Don't worry yet about how to write the essay.
At this point, your job is to do add inferences and connections to each quotation. The quote log is DUE tomorrow as we need to use it to write the essay but you will submit the quote log next Monday when the essay is due.
Tonight: Finish the quote log. It doesn't have to be typed. This is the place where you think, infer, make discoveries etc
Quotation Log Sample and Criteria (Follow the sample below and you'll easily achieve 100 marks on you quote log)
Today we worked on writing our responses to the ten quotes you picked out over the weekend.
Tomorrow: Bring the quote log to class (printed out) and we will colour code the quotes into categories and write the introduction.
Don't worry yet about how to write the essay.
At this point, your job is to do add inferences and connections to each quotation. The quote log is DUE tomorrow as we need to use it to write the essay but you will submit the quote log next Monday when the essay is due.
Tonight: Finish the quote log. It doesn't have to be typed. This is the place where you think, infer, make discoveries etc
Quotation Log Sample and Criteria (Follow the sample below and you'll easily achieve 100 marks on you quote log)
Sample Quotation Log Entry for The Catcher in the Rye
Topic: Alienation
“’Life is a game, boy. Life is a
game that one plays according to the rules’
‘Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.’
‘Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.’
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where
all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right—I'll admit that.
But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots,
then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game” (8).
This quotation is from Holden's conversation with Spencer in
Chapter 2. His former teacher is needling him about his failures at
Pencey; at this point, he lectures Holden about the importance of
playing by the rules. Holden rejects these rules because they do not
treat people fairly. Consequently, we understand his silent contempt
for adults, which is evidenced by the silent ridiculing and cursing
of Spencer that Holden hides beneath his nodding, compliant veneer.
We also see how alienated he
feels. He clearly identifies with those on the "other
side" of the game, and he feels alone and victimized, as though
the world is against him, revealed in the first chapter with his
stance on top of Thompsen Hill. At this point in the novel, Holden's
sense of disadvantage and corresponding bitterness seem somewhat
strange, given his circumstances: he's clearly a bright boy from a
privileged New York family. As the book progresses, however, we learn
that Holden has built a cynical psychological armor around himself to
protect himself from the complexities of the world, in particulary
hypocrisy, phoniness and sexuality.
181 words
Quote Log Criteria:
- 12 to 15 quotations, cited correctly and numbered 1-15.
- insightful responses which discuss the tone, imagery, ideas, diction in the quote
- at least one connection is made to another scene in the novel
- it is clear that this quote contributes to your understanding of the topic
- 125-200 words per entry
- The quotation log replaces a test. DO NOT use ideas from the web or you will receive a 0 on your log for plagiarism.
- You know how to discuss text. Do so on your own. Show what you have learned.
Writing 12: Nothing to hand to me this week but be prepared for Workshop--Wednesday.
Today: We took out a new short story book from the library. Please return the one you have read and sign out a new one if you were absent today. Read. Read. Read. Writers read. Great writers read often.
I returned the first four pages of your stories today.
Tomorrow: Mia and Sam present their poems. Emma presents the works of Kurt Vonnegut.
Wednesday: Arrive with three copies of your story already printed. Come in early or during period 1 if you need to print. We will read and edit the stories Wednesday.
Thursday: Workshop. Be prepared to discuss the story clearly which means that you need to know all three stories intimately. You'll have time to read each story two or three times on Wednesday. You'll choose one story on which to complete a fiction report. The report will be due Thursday.
Editing takes work. It is not simply rejecting the work. You need to work with the writer to figure out what needs to be done in order to make the story function.
Stories due: Mon. Dec. 16th
Next week: Tues to Friday? Postcard stories. Fun. Fun. Fun. Fun.
I returned the first four pages of your stories today.
Tomorrow: Mia and Sam present their poems. Emma presents the works of Kurt Vonnegut.
Wednesday: Arrive with three copies of your story already printed. Come in early or during period 1 if you need to print. We will read and edit the stories Wednesday.
Thursday: Workshop. Be prepared to discuss the story clearly which means that you need to know all three stories intimately. You'll have time to read each story two or three times on Wednesday. You'll choose one story on which to complete a fiction report. The report will be due Thursday.
Editing takes work. It is not simply rejecting the work. You need to work with the writer to figure out what needs to be done in order to make the story function.
Stories due: Mon. Dec. 16th
Next week: Tues to Friday? Postcard stories. Fun. Fun. Fun. Fun.
English 10: Superb work today!!
You really worked hard today. I mentioned that you need to focus on INSIGHT this time. I am going to assume you have mastered the essay format: intro, three body paragraphs, and the conclusion and that you have memorized your literary must-haves, that you are focusing on style (sentence variety, strong verbs, replacing repetitive words with synonyms, starting each sentence in a different way, using punctuation creatively, etc).
Insight: Is what I have to say exciting to me? Is what I have to say based on my close reading of the text or is what I am saying something I already know and I'm applying to the book? It must be the first option. Your opinions are based on research. Your quote log goes beyond the obvious, interprets the words, tone, symbols, and makes connections to other parts of the play.
Your essay makes me read the play now from your point of view.
I no longer see Romeo as a victim of circumstance because you have clearly proven that Romeo is a rash, love-struck teen who makes love as dangerous as hatred. WOW. I NEVER SAW THAT CONNECTION UNTIL I READ YOUR ESSAY.
That is what an essay is--from the French verb, to try: essayer.
Try out your ideas in the quote log. Make sure you can prove them. Make sure your writing is clear.
Voila!!
BRING AN EDITED COPY OF YOUR ESSAY (INCLUDING THE COVER PAGE) TO CLASS TOMORROW FOR PEER EDITING.
DUE FRIDAY, DEC. 13: Final copy, a peer-edited draft, a draft edited by you, a cover page and a quotation log.
WHO EVER SAID THAT WRITING AN ESSAY WAS HARD?
Insight: Is what I have to say exciting to me? Is what I have to say based on my close reading of the text or is what I am saying something I already know and I'm applying to the book? It must be the first option. Your opinions are based on research. Your quote log goes beyond the obvious, interprets the words, tone, symbols, and makes connections to other parts of the play.
Your essay makes me read the play now from your point of view.
I no longer see Romeo as a victim of circumstance because you have clearly proven that Romeo is a rash, love-struck teen who makes love as dangerous as hatred. WOW. I NEVER SAW THAT CONNECTION UNTIL I READ YOUR ESSAY.
That is what an essay is--from the French verb, to try: essayer.
Try out your ideas in the quote log. Make sure you can prove them. Make sure your writing is clear.
Voila!!
BRING AN EDITED COPY OF YOUR ESSAY (INCLUDING THE COVER PAGE) TO CLASS TOMORROW FOR PEER EDITING.
DUE FRIDAY, DEC. 13: Final copy, a peer-edited draft, a draft edited by you, a cover page and a quotation log.
WHO EVER SAID THAT WRITING AN ESSAY WAS HARD?
IT'S EASY IF YOU KNOW HOW.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Writing 12: Get that story finished!!
Please bring three typed, double spaced copies to class Wednesday for workshop. Yay.
We'll read and critique the stories during class on Wed. Workshop on Thursday.
No pages due this week.
Full story is due Mon. Dec. 16th.
We'll read and critique the stories during class on Wed. Workshop on Thursday.
No pages due this week.
Full story is due Mon. Dec. 16th.
English 12: Choose the essay topic and post-it note 10 to 15 quotes for Monday
See last Thursday's blog for essay ideas.
Friday, December 6, 2013
English 10: Finish the intro and first body paragraphs for Monday!
Today, we worked for the entire period to create a strong introduction and a first body paragraph.
Please complete the two paragraphs for Monday.
Intro: Follow the criteria for the Mockingbird essay. Re-read your corrected essay so that you can make NEW mistakes as you take NEW risks this time in your style, insight, and structure.
Body 1: Make sure your topic sentence is specific, yet broad enough to include all of the points you wish to discuss. For example, do not say in your topic sentence that this para. will be about the features of a yellow umbrella and then start talking about rubber boots in the paragraph. RIGHT?
Also. Please review the elements of a body paragraph and use your checklist to ensure your paragraph meets all criteria!!
Here is the schedule for next week:
Friday, Dec. 6: Colour code the quotation log and create an introduction
Sat / Sun Dec. 7-8 Write the first body paragraph
Monday Dec. 9 Write body paragraphs 2 and 3 during class
Monday night: Write the conclusion
Tuesday: Bring a typed, edited draft to class for peer editing.
Wed/ Thurs night: Edit and edit and revise the draft and print a good copy. Edit the good copy. Print a final copy.
Due Friday, Dec. 12: Final copy plus cover page. The quotation log. The peer edited draft. The self-edited good copy.
YOU KNOW THESE STEPS WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE STEPS YOU WALKED DURING OUR NOVEL UNIT.
Your job this time is to improve.
Where will you focus?
Literary must-haves?
Style?
Insight?
Quoting?
Citing?
Sentence variety.
Diction (word choice)
Proving your thesis.
Enjoying the editing?
Please complete the two paragraphs for Monday.
Intro: Follow the criteria for the Mockingbird essay. Re-read your corrected essay so that you can make NEW mistakes as you take NEW risks this time in your style, insight, and structure.
Body 1: Make sure your topic sentence is specific, yet broad enough to include all of the points you wish to discuss. For example, do not say in your topic sentence that this para. will be about the features of a yellow umbrella and then start talking about rubber boots in the paragraph. RIGHT?
Also. Please review the elements of a body paragraph and use your checklist to ensure your paragraph meets all criteria!!
Here is the schedule for next week:
Friday, Dec. 6: Colour code the quotation log and create an introduction
Sat / Sun Dec. 7-8 Write the first body paragraph
Monday Dec. 9 Write body paragraphs 2 and 3 during class
Monday night: Write the conclusion
Tuesday: Bring a typed, edited draft to class for peer editing.
Wed/ Thurs night: Edit and edit and revise the draft and print a good copy. Edit the good copy. Print a final copy.
Due Friday, Dec. 12: Final copy plus cover page. The quotation log. The peer edited draft. The self-edited good copy.
YOU KNOW THESE STEPS WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE STEPS YOU WALKED DURING OUR NOVEL UNIT.
Your job this time is to improve.
Where will you focus?
Literary must-haves?
Style?
Insight?
Quoting?
Citing?
Sentence variety.
Diction (word choice)
Proving your thesis.
Enjoying the editing?
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Writing 12: Preparing for your poetry recitations . . .
Be prepared to read your poem to class tomorrow.
Marks awarded for
Marks awarded for
- volume
- appropriate pauses, facial expressions, body language
- no distracting movements
- an introduction which offers a clear reason to listen to your poem
- eye contact
- slow, clear, enthusiastic reading
English 10: Finish the quotation log tonight . . .
You worked so well today. Great job.
Here is the schedule for next week:
Friday, Dec. 6: Colour code the quotation log and create an introduction
Sat / Sun Dec. 7-8 Write the first body paragraph
Monday Dec. 9 Write body paragraphs 2 and 3 during class
Monday night: Write the conclusion
Tuesday: Bring a typed, edited draft to class for peer editing.
Wed/ Thurs night: Edit and edit and revise the draft and print a good copy. Edit the good copy. Print a final copy.
Due Friday, Dec. 12: Final copy plus cover page. The quotation log. The peer edited draft. The self-edited good copy.
YOU KNOW THESE STEPS WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE STEPS YOU WALKED DURING OUR NOVEL UNIT.
Your job this time is to improve.
Where will you focus?
Literary must-haves?
Style?
Insight?
Quoting?
Citing?
Sentence variety.
Diction (word choice)
Proving your thesis.
Enjoying the editing?
Here is the schedule for next week:
Friday, Dec. 6: Colour code the quotation log and create an introduction
Sat / Sun Dec. 7-8 Write the first body paragraph
Monday Dec. 9 Write body paragraphs 2 and 3 during class
Monday night: Write the conclusion
Tuesday: Bring a typed, edited draft to class for peer editing.
Wed/ Thurs night: Edit and edit and revise the draft and print a good copy. Edit the good copy. Print a final copy.
Due Friday, Dec. 12: Final copy plus cover page. The quotation log. The peer edited draft. The self-edited good copy.
YOU KNOW THESE STEPS WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE STEPS YOU WALKED DURING OUR NOVEL UNIT.
Your job this time is to improve.
Where will you focus?
Literary must-haves?
Style?
Insight?
Quoting?
Citing?
Sentence variety.
Diction (word choice)
Proving your thesis.
Enjoying the editing?
English 12: Chapter 20 . . .
This chapter is really significant as all the final chapters are.
Read chapters 20 to 25 closely.
Today, we reviewed the keys to effective literary paragraphs. I returned the chapter 17 paragraphs and we read one another's paragraphs and took notes regarding style, structure and insight. If you are not getting the marks you would like, focus on doing something new. Is it a structural problem? Insight? Where could you improve style?
Next, we read chapter 20 aloud in groups of two, stopping to make inferences and post-it note key quotes. If you were absent, read the chapter, post-it note the quotes below and write inferences for each one.
"I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch" (150).
It's almost one in the morning and he is still in the bar and he calls Sally. He's completely drunk.
Discuss the phone motif in the novel.
" ' No home to go to . . . ' " (152).
"When they're done combing their hair, they beat it on you" (153).
Read page 153 closely. The coat check girl ensures he puts on his red hunting hat. Significance?
Bottom of 153, he decides to go to the duck pond in Central Park.
He drops Phoebe's record, "Little Shirley Beans" and he breaks it. Discuss.
He keeps the pieces of the broken record in his pocket.
He can't find any ducks. The pond is partially frozen. page 154
He imagines he will get pneumonia and die. 154
"I started picturing millions of jerks coming to my funeral and all" (154).
"Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody" (155).
He doesn't want to be buried in a cemetery surrounded by "dead guys". He wants to be thrown in a river. So, even in death, he wants to be alone. Why?
"It rained on [Allie's] tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place. All the visitors that were visiting the cemetery started running like hell over to their cars. That's what nearly drove me crazy. . . . I couldn't stand it. I just wish her wasn't there" 155-156).
He hates leaving Allie in the cemetery all alone.
He starts skipping the few coins he has left across the pond. (156).
He decides to sneak home to see Phoebe. 156
Read chapters 21 and 22 tonight.
Play close attention to his interactions with Phoebe. Chapter 21 is quite short.
Phoebe makes him tell her what he actually enjoys.
Post-it note what Holden needs in order to be content.
Come to class prepared to discuss his dream of becoming a catcher in the rye.
Friday: We'll discuss chapter 22 and I'll put on the board the passages to read and analyze.
This weekend: Choose a topic for your essay. Post-it note 10 to 15 passages that you think will support your topic.
CHOOSING A TOPIC:
Read chapters 20 to 25 closely.
Today, we reviewed the keys to effective literary paragraphs. I returned the chapter 17 paragraphs and we read one another's paragraphs and took notes regarding style, structure and insight. If you are not getting the marks you would like, focus on doing something new. Is it a structural problem? Insight? Where could you improve style?
Next, we read chapter 20 aloud in groups of two, stopping to make inferences and post-it note key quotes. If you were absent, read the chapter, post-it note the quotes below and write inferences for each one.
"I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch" (150).
It's almost one in the morning and he is still in the bar and he calls Sally. He's completely drunk.
Discuss the phone motif in the novel.
" ' No home to go to . . . ' " (152).
"When they're done combing their hair, they beat it on you" (153).
Read page 153 closely. The coat check girl ensures he puts on his red hunting hat. Significance?
Bottom of 153, he decides to go to the duck pond in Central Park.
He drops Phoebe's record, "Little Shirley Beans" and he breaks it. Discuss.
He keeps the pieces of the broken record in his pocket.
He can't find any ducks. The pond is partially frozen. page 154
He imagines he will get pneumonia and die. 154
"I started picturing millions of jerks coming to my funeral and all" (154).
"Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody" (155).
He doesn't want to be buried in a cemetery surrounded by "dead guys". He wants to be thrown in a river. So, even in death, he wants to be alone. Why?
"It rained on [Allie's] tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place. All the visitors that were visiting the cemetery started running like hell over to their cars. That's what nearly drove me crazy. . . . I couldn't stand it. I just wish her wasn't there" 155-156).
He hates leaving Allie in the cemetery all alone.
He starts skipping the few coins he has left across the pond. (156).
He decides to sneak home to see Phoebe. 156
Read chapters 21 and 22 tonight.
Play close attention to his interactions with Phoebe. Chapter 21 is quite short.
Phoebe makes him tell her what he actually enjoys.
Post-it note what Holden needs in order to be content.
Come to class prepared to discuss his dream of becoming a catcher in the rye.
Friday: We'll discuss chapter 22 and I'll put on the board the passages to read and analyze.
This weekend: Choose a topic for your essay. Post-it note 10 to 15 passages that you think will support your topic.
CHOOSING A TOPIC:
- I am interested in your interpretations of key scenes.
- Choose a topic based on a few memorable scenes. What were your favourite parts? The museum? The scene with the prostitue? The fight with Stradlater? The opening on Thomsen Hill? The scene with the nuns? The scene in chapter 17 when he yells at Sally? The scene with Phoebe on the carousel? The scenes in the park or in the cab or bar or hotel? The scenes with the catcher in the rye? The scene with Mr. Antolini? Mr. Spencer? Sally?
- Once you start re-visiting two or three key scenes, you'll notice themes arise. Choose a topic based on a theme (what the novel makes you ponder) (what the novel makes you think about)
- Holden's alienation.
- Holden's empathy and compassion
- The role of the adults in the novel.
- The role of children in the novel.
- Holden's refusal to grow up.
- Walden and Thoreau and the yearning for a simpler, more heroic life
- New York in the 50s.
- Criticisms of privilege and economic status
- Attitudes toward women and intimacy
- The use of stream of consciousness
- Holden as typical or atypical teen
- Lack of emotional availability (No one discusses feelings)
- Loneliness in the novel
- Loss of innocence
- The nature of childhood
- Search for perfection and redemption
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
English 10: Day Two, Notes on Presentations
Reaction to killing Paris:
Tone: accusatory, blaming others, ambivalent--he is conflicted, and critical, He is also blaming himself.
Imagery: dark, gloomy, at the door of the tomb, They are fighting over love in the dark.
Romeo is crazy! He is desperate. He did not want this to happen but THIS is his fault. He is annoyed. He is confusing love and hate.
Connection: Very similar to the Tybalt scene. He gets in the way of the sword and his anger. He kills Paris without knowing who he is.
Romeo is like an animal.
He takes the light to look at the victim's face and realizes that it is Paris and then he feels remorse.
He says that love has slaughtered Paris and Romeo and that love is their grave.
"I'll bury thee in a triumhant grave (5.3.83).
Romeo's final speech (88-119)
Tone: sad and depressing
Imagery: line 95 crimson lips are now black
She doesn't look dead. She is still beautiful. Dramatic irony. We know she is not dead.
Ideas about hate: Romeo cannot live without her. LIne 101 He looks at Tybalt and feels ashamed and compassion for him. Forshadows the end of the feud.
He can't imagine Juliet without him.
He is happy to be dying.
Connection: the balcony scene He says he would rather die than live without her love.
He is so rash and irrational that the scene evokes pity.
Friar trying to lure Juliet to a nunnery . . .
The tone changes because the Friar is afraid and does not understand what is going on. Plus, he does not understand love. He is responsible, in a way, for killing Romeo and Juliet.
A greater power than we can contradict has thwarted our intents
He says: COME, I'LL DISPOSE OF THEE . . .
He refers to her as garbage, baggage, a body, something that is already dead. Yikes.
What would her life be like in a convent.
Connections: The scene with the nurse who "advised" Juliet to forget about Romeo and marry Paris.
Connections: The scene where he married them. He married them to try and stop the feud and didn't take into account how young they were.
He wants to dispose of Juliet to hide his sins which is ironic because he's a priest. This entire society is corrupt. Reveals a negative attitude toward the church.
When the Friar tells Romeo to be a man and face the consequences, yet he can't face his problems.
He wants to cover his tracks.
The characters blame their problems on fate.
Juliet's final speech
Tone: Love and sadness, She called him kind names after he is dead
no "friendly drop" for poison
Imagery: She still loves him even though all the problems they have faced sprung from his mistakes--killing Tybalt, for example.
Importance: Juliet is representing her ability to be responsible for her own actions. We could blame the Friar and the Nurse but it is her actions she must account. She doesn't want to give up. She is dedicated to Romeo. She is fearless.
Connections: Romeo risked his life many times. Juliet was the practical one, aware of consequences. Romeo is responsibe for these deaths. He is impatient, too emotional.
Lord Montague's speech, Lady Montague is dead
Tone: Shocked that his son has died before he has
Setting: The tomb. His wife has just died due to her mourning over Romeo's
banishment.
Not a lot of imagery here. These deaths of the three young people has brought silence to all. They must see the errors in their ways and face real emotion.
The Friar recalls the entire story. He uses oxymorons
greatest able to do least
He feels he is to blame but he is a man of God so they will forgive him.
The prince is indifferent to Lord Montague's pain and does not offer consolation. He says to stop the mouth of outrage until we clear these ambiguities, let's figure out what has happened and stop being rash
Actions without thinking.
In reality, these are three teenagers all lying in this tomb (creepy) Two suicides, one death. This is a traumatic scene!! All are guilty. All must look closely at this tragedy and weigh its tragedy and learn from it.
The feud has caused it all.
Prince's final speech:
He confirms the Friar's story. Points out that hatred has caused the death of love!!
Love for hate is resolved by death. He has a haughty tone I told you so but he also feels responisible for letting the feud go on for so long. You can't ignore ignorance.
Connection: Romeo's love caused the death of Tybalt and Paris. That is so ironic.
Tone: pragmatic, regretful, sad, reflective,
Final last three speeches
End of the feud. They work out their problems.
Tone: joy, peaceful, that the feud is over. They feel fate has brought them together.
Imagery: I will raise their statues in pure gold. Gold is real so their love was genuine.
There never was a story of more woe.
The greatest love in all of history.
This love was fate. The chances of a Capulet and a Montague meeting was rare.
Some shall be pardoned and some shall be punished.
The love and hate: the families are only equal when two people die
Connections: Mercutio and Tybalt died, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Tone: accusatory, blaming others, ambivalent--he is conflicted, and critical, He is also blaming himself.
Imagery: dark, gloomy, at the door of the tomb, They are fighting over love in the dark.
Romeo is crazy! He is desperate. He did not want this to happen but THIS is his fault. He is annoyed. He is confusing love and hate.
Connection: Very similar to the Tybalt scene. He gets in the way of the sword and his anger. He kills Paris without knowing who he is.
Romeo is like an animal.
He takes the light to look at the victim's face and realizes that it is Paris and then he feels remorse.
He says that love has slaughtered Paris and Romeo and that love is their grave.
"I'll bury thee in a triumhant grave (5.3.83).
Romeo's final speech (88-119)
Tone: sad and depressing
Imagery: line 95 crimson lips are now black
She doesn't look dead. She is still beautiful. Dramatic irony. We know she is not dead.
Ideas about hate: Romeo cannot live without her. LIne 101 He looks at Tybalt and feels ashamed and compassion for him. Forshadows the end of the feud.
He can't imagine Juliet without him.
He is happy to be dying.
Connection: the balcony scene He says he would rather die than live without her love.
He is so rash and irrational that the scene evokes pity.
Friar trying to lure Juliet to a nunnery . . .
The tone changes because the Friar is afraid and does not understand what is going on. Plus, he does not understand love. He is responsible, in a way, for killing Romeo and Juliet.
A greater power than we can contradict has thwarted our intents
He says: COME, I'LL DISPOSE OF THEE . . .
He refers to her as garbage, baggage, a body, something that is already dead. Yikes.
What would her life be like in a convent.
Connections: The scene with the nurse who "advised" Juliet to forget about Romeo and marry Paris.
Connections: The scene where he married them. He married them to try and stop the feud and didn't take into account how young they were.
He wants to dispose of Juliet to hide his sins which is ironic because he's a priest. This entire society is corrupt. Reveals a negative attitude toward the church.
When the Friar tells Romeo to be a man and face the consequences, yet he can't face his problems.
He wants to cover his tracks.
The characters blame their problems on fate.
Juliet's final speech
Tone: Love and sadness, She called him kind names after he is dead
no "friendly drop" for poison
Imagery: She still loves him even though all the problems they have faced sprung from his mistakes--killing Tybalt, for example.
Importance: Juliet is representing her ability to be responsible for her own actions. We could blame the Friar and the Nurse but it is her actions she must account. She doesn't want to give up. She is dedicated to Romeo. She is fearless.
Connections: Romeo risked his life many times. Juliet was the practical one, aware of consequences. Romeo is responsibe for these deaths. He is impatient, too emotional.
Lord Montague's speech, Lady Montague is dead
Tone: Shocked that his son has died before he has
Setting: The tomb. His wife has just died due to her mourning over Romeo's
banishment.
Not a lot of imagery here. These deaths of the three young people has brought silence to all. They must see the errors in their ways and face real emotion.
The Friar recalls the entire story. He uses oxymorons
greatest able to do least
He feels he is to blame but he is a man of God so they will forgive him.
The prince is indifferent to Lord Montague's pain and does not offer consolation. He says to stop the mouth of outrage until we clear these ambiguities, let's figure out what has happened and stop being rash
Actions without thinking.
In reality, these are three teenagers all lying in this tomb (creepy) Two suicides, one death. This is a traumatic scene!! All are guilty. All must look closely at this tragedy and weigh its tragedy and learn from it.
The feud has caused it all.
Prince's final speech:
He confirms the Friar's story. Points out that hatred has caused the death of love!!
Love for hate is resolved by death. He has a haughty tone I told you so but he also feels responisible for letting the feud go on for so long. You can't ignore ignorance.
Connection: Romeo's love caused the death of Tybalt and Paris. That is so ironic.
Tone: pragmatic, regretful, sad, reflective,
Final last three speeches
End of the feud. They work out their problems.
Tone: joy, peaceful, that the feud is over. They feel fate has brought them together.
Imagery: I will raise their statues in pure gold. Gold is real so their love was genuine.
There never was a story of more woe.
The greatest love in all of history.
This love was fate. The chances of a Capulet and a Montague meeting was rare.
Some shall be pardoned and some shall be punished.
The love and hate: the families are only equal when two people die
Connections: Mercutio and Tybalt died, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
English 12: YOU ARE AMAZING
AND NOT JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE READING THIS BLOG.
I recognize your sincere attempts to improve and I appreciate that.
I can see the improvement, too.
If you found today's question hard to understand, know that Holden's rant was truly anti-American dream and pro-Walden and Rousseau. Who are Walden and Rousseau? I'm glad you asked.
Here is a link:
Chop wood and carry water. Sell the car.
Tonight, please read chapters, 18 and 19. They are not THAT significant so a quick read is fine. If you do find something pertinent, that I may have overlooked, post-it note it, and share it with the class tomorrow.
We will read chapter 20 closely tomorrow during class and then we only have four chapters to go.
We will finish those on Friday. This weekend, you will choose your essay topic, and pick 12 to 15 quotations to support that topic and next week, we will be writing until your wrists ache. Get in shape now!!
Our next unit is personal essays, one of my favourite units of the year.
Our final unit is the novel, The Outsider (The Stranger) by Albert Camus, translated from the French and set in North Africa during the 40s. It has been called the best book of the 20th century. It is short but compelling.
It involves making peace with the world from a jail cell.
How is that possible?
It asks us to ponder the meaning of life.
Camus has been called an absurdist. A philosophy that says that since we cannot prove the existence of God, there must be another way to understand the human predicament (that we are born as mortals who know they will die). What motive do we have to rise out of bed? To feed ourselves? To go to work?
The fact that there is no KNOWN purpose in the world, an absurdist would argue, means that we cannot FORCE meaning onto the world.
For example, you might say, well, I go to work to feed my family and to help students learn to read.
No! the absurdist yells.
Work has no meaning.
You go to work because you go to work.
HMMM. Think about that!!
Camus believed that going to work for the sake of going to work or living for the sake of living was heroic and that attempting to force meaning onto situations was unheroic.
A lot to discuss and a great way to end your high school English career.
I think you will (if you haven't already) realize that you need to keep reading and reading and reading and reading to examine the imaginations of great and not-so-great writers and thinkers so you have something to which you can compare your own ideas.
You are never alone in the universe with a good book.
The universe does not care about you, the absurdist says.
I recognize your sincere attempts to improve and I appreciate that.
I can see the improvement, too.
If you found today's question hard to understand, know that Holden's rant was truly anti-American dream and pro-Walden and Rousseau. Who are Walden and Rousseau? I'm glad you asked.
Here is a link:
Chop wood and carry water. Sell the car.
Tonight, please read chapters, 18 and 19. They are not THAT significant so a quick read is fine. If you do find something pertinent, that I may have overlooked, post-it note it, and share it with the class tomorrow.
We will read chapter 20 closely tomorrow during class and then we only have four chapters to go.
We will finish those on Friday. This weekend, you will choose your essay topic, and pick 12 to 15 quotations to support that topic and next week, we will be writing until your wrists ache. Get in shape now!!
Our next unit is personal essays, one of my favourite units of the year.
Our final unit is the novel, The Outsider (The Stranger) by Albert Camus, translated from the French and set in North Africa during the 40s. It has been called the best book of the 20th century. It is short but compelling.
It involves making peace with the world from a jail cell.
How is that possible?
It asks us to ponder the meaning of life.
Camus has been called an absurdist. A philosophy that says that since we cannot prove the existence of God, there must be another way to understand the human predicament (that we are born as mortals who know they will die). What motive do we have to rise out of bed? To feed ourselves? To go to work?
The fact that there is no KNOWN purpose in the world, an absurdist would argue, means that we cannot FORCE meaning onto the world.
For example, you might say, well, I go to work to feed my family and to help students learn to read.
No! the absurdist yells.
Work has no meaning.
You go to work because you go to work.
HMMM. Think about that!!
Camus believed that going to work for the sake of going to work or living for the sake of living was heroic and that attempting to force meaning onto situations was unheroic.
A lot to discuss and a great way to end your high school English career.
I think you will (if you haven't already) realize that you need to keep reading and reading and reading and reading to examine the imaginations of great and not-so-great writers and thinkers so you have something to which you can compare your own ideas.
You are never alone in the universe with a good book.
The universe does not care about you, the absurdist says.
Writing 12: Resources . . . Have a look!
Writing Resources for Student Writers
Have a look at the resources above for ideas and exercises.
Remember, the focus for tonight's assignment and each weekly assignment is to make you a better writer and that may mean taking risks, trying a new style, aiming for a new type of plot, showing and not telling, discussing topics close to your heart.
If the writing does not excite you, it's not ready to be submitted.
Find a topic you are interested in and enjoy the writing.
Two more pages of your story due Thursday. Two more next Thursday and then a good copy by Monday of our last week before Xmas break.
Tomorrow: Bring the poem you plan to read to the class so that we can practice and prepare for recitations, Friday. See last Friday's blog for all of the criteria. Think a combo of Gabe Lunn (UVic student), Carla Funk, and Jeffrey Renn. Take the best of these performers' attributes and apply it to your poem.
In the introduction to your poem, give the audience something to listen for.
For example,
The first poem I'd like to read today uncovers a topic close to my heart--my dad. I know it may not be cool to talk and write about your dad but I love this guy.
That's all you need. Don't talk down to the audience. Don't try to be cool. Don't try to be liked, accepted, respected, revered.
Don't try, Yoda, said. There is DO or DO NOT.
Just be yourself.
Pass the potatoes, please.
You do NOT need this audience's approval.
If you have prepared. If you love the poem. If you are enunciating, pausing, expressing your heart out, how could you err? So, the key to any successful performance, Mr. Plant, assures me, is PREPARATION.
la la la
To err is human, to forgive? Divine.
Have a look at the resources above for ideas and exercises.
Remember, the focus for tonight's assignment and each weekly assignment is to make you a better writer and that may mean taking risks, trying a new style, aiming for a new type of plot, showing and not telling, discussing topics close to your heart.
If the writing does not excite you, it's not ready to be submitted.
Find a topic you are interested in and enjoy the writing.
Two more pages of your story due Thursday. Two more next Thursday and then a good copy by Monday of our last week before Xmas break.
Tomorrow: Bring the poem you plan to read to the class so that we can practice and prepare for recitations, Friday. See last Friday's blog for all of the criteria. Think a combo of Gabe Lunn (UVic student), Carla Funk, and Jeffrey Renn. Take the best of these performers' attributes and apply it to your poem.
In the introduction to your poem, give the audience something to listen for.
For example,
The first poem I'd like to read today uncovers a topic close to my heart--my dad. I know it may not be cool to talk and write about your dad but I love this guy.
That's all you need. Don't talk down to the audience. Don't try to be cool. Don't try to be liked, accepted, respected, revered.
Don't try, Yoda, said. There is DO or DO NOT.
Just be yourself.
Pass the potatoes, please.
You do NOT need this audience's approval.
If you have prepared. If you love the poem. If you are enunciating, pausing, expressing your heart out, how could you err? So, the key to any successful performance, Mr. Plant, assures me, is PREPARATION.
la la la
To err is human, to forgive? Divine.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
ENGLISH 12: Chapter 16, The Catcher in the Rye . . .
Reading closely is a skill. Inferring is a skill. Practice.
Not to infer means not thinking. Someone who does not think loses their edge. Their humanity.
Homework: Read chapter 17, closely. When you get to page 131 (in the small version of the novel), the confrontation between Sally and Holden, post-it note that section and write your insights down on the post-it. Tomorrow, during class you will be writing a paragraph on that section, using the quotes, and ideas that you discover tonight.
If you missed today, you missed a lot!!
GET all the notes from a friend.
We reviewed what you need to do to succeed on the poetry section of the exam. Get those notes.
I passed out the two-page list of literary terms that could be on the provincial exam and we went over the ones which are usually on the exam. Make sure to get a copy of that sheet and to circle the key ones. Study the ones you don't know on quizlet.com. Create an account. Search for sstenson and copy my English 12 list onto your page. You can organize the terms by genre: poetry, drama, short stories, novels, and personal essays so they are easier to remember. All of the definitions are on my quizlet page.
We had two questions on the board that we answered with post-it notes as I read chapter 16 aloud so read chapter 16 and borrow a friend's book to post-it note the key passages. Discuss the significance of the museum, tying the girl's skate, and the child singing the hymn "when a body catch a body comin' through the rye".
We started reading chapter 17.
NOTE: Memorize quotes from the novel to use on your provincial exam. Imagine starting your synthesis essay with this hook: Holden Caulfield believes that nothing should change. Time must stop. However, the character, Hal, in the story, "Hal's Day Off" is the anti-thesis to the innocent boy from New York.
Good readers make connections. Good writers remember them. Great English 12 students do both because THEY read the blog.
Lucky you.
Not to infer means not thinking. Someone who does not think loses their edge. Their humanity.
Homework: Read chapter 17, closely. When you get to page 131 (in the small version of the novel), the confrontation between Sally and Holden, post-it note that section and write your insights down on the post-it. Tomorrow, during class you will be writing a paragraph on that section, using the quotes, and ideas that you discover tonight.
If you missed today, you missed a lot!!
GET all the notes from a friend.
We reviewed what you need to do to succeed on the poetry section of the exam. Get those notes.
I passed out the two-page list of literary terms that could be on the provincial exam and we went over the ones which are usually on the exam. Make sure to get a copy of that sheet and to circle the key ones. Study the ones you don't know on quizlet.com. Create an account. Search for sstenson and copy my English 12 list onto your page. You can organize the terms by genre: poetry, drama, short stories, novels, and personal essays so they are easier to remember. All of the definitions are on my quizlet page.
We had two questions on the board that we answered with post-it notes as I read chapter 16 aloud so read chapter 16 and borrow a friend's book to post-it note the key passages. Discuss the significance of the museum, tying the girl's skate, and the child singing the hymn "when a body catch a body comin' through the rye".
We started reading chapter 17.
NOTE: Memorize quotes from the novel to use on your provincial exam. Imagine starting your synthesis essay with this hook: Holden Caulfield believes that nothing should change. Time must stop. However, the character, Hal, in the story, "Hal's Day Off" is the anti-thesis to the innocent boy from New York.
Good readers make connections. Good writers remember them. Great English 12 students do both because THEY read the blog.
Lucky you.
Writing 12: Who is John Gardner? Who is Raymond Carver?
Graeme knows who John Gardner is. Do you? Graeme has peanut butter cups to prove it. Do you?
Tonight: Work on your next two pages which are due Thursday. Re-submit your first two pages so I can remember where I left off. Thanks.
THURSDAY: YOU WILL BE PRESENTING AN INTRO TO A POEM AND A POEM. I AM EXPECTING YOUR BEST. SEE LAST FRIDAY'S BLOG POST FOR THE CRITERIA. ARRIVE WITH YOUR POEM AND INTRODUCTION ALREADY CHOSEN. DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU CAN READ A POEM ALOUD AND ENGAGE AN AUDIENCE WITH YOUR RECITATION.
Thanks to Prasant for an engaging look at Carver's story, "The Viewfinder". If you were away today, ask to read it and to do the exercise.
I read a longer Carver story to the class called, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". Think long and hard about that story. So, what do we talk about when we talk about love? Why so much exposition in that story? Does it work? Why are there so many descriptions of light and gin? What is the "make-up" / legend motif all about? Why does the narrator wish to walk off alone into the sunset? Why can't Laura understand that?
Look at the way the story uses anecdote--the story about Ed, the traffic accident, the vassals/vessels.
Look at the way it uses the cardiologist as the speaker in the story, yet, he is not the narrator.
What is the point of view?
If you spend time, reviewing this story, you will become a better writer. No doubt about that.
Tonight: Work on your next two pages which are due Thursday. Re-submit your first two pages so I can remember where I left off. Thanks.
THURSDAY: YOU WILL BE PRESENTING AN INTRO TO A POEM AND A POEM. I AM EXPECTING YOUR BEST. SEE LAST FRIDAY'S BLOG POST FOR THE CRITERIA. ARRIVE WITH YOUR POEM AND INTRODUCTION ALREADY CHOSEN. DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU CAN READ A POEM ALOUD AND ENGAGE AN AUDIENCE WITH YOUR RECITATION.
Thanks to Prasant for an engaging look at Carver's story, "The Viewfinder". If you were away today, ask to read it and to do the exercise.
I read a longer Carver story to the class called, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". Think long and hard about that story. So, what do we talk about when we talk about love? Why so much exposition in that story? Does it work? Why are there so many descriptions of light and gin? What is the "make-up" / legend motif all about? Why does the narrator wish to walk off alone into the sunset? Why can't Laura understand that?
Look at the way the story uses anecdote--the story about Ed, the traffic accident, the vassals/vessels.
Look at the way it uses the cardiologist as the speaker in the story, yet, he is not the narrator.
What is the point of view?
If you spend time, reviewing this story, you will become a better writer. No doubt about that.
English 10: Act 5 Presentation Notes
Tonight: Choose an essay topic. How does one choose? How did you choose a topic for the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird? You thought about three of your favourite scenes. You thought about the themes presented in those themes. You re-read those passages carefully, created a quote log, summarized the log into three sentences and created a thesis statement, which you then used formal language to prove!!
Choose a topic. (See last night's blog for ideas, too).
Find 9 to 15 passages or quotations that inform your topic.
Post-it note them. Number the post-its (in any order).
Bring them to class tomorrow. We will start our quotation logs. If you have a computer, bring it to class.
We will complete the presentations tomorrow. Copy and paste these notes into your books.
Lines 1-11 Romeo has a dream about love but he is questioning his dream as if Queen Mab has him and he's believing Mercutio's version because his love is far away and like a dream.
He dreams that Juliet found him dead--foreshadows his death. Dramatic irony as the audience knows she is dead.
Also, it is like he HAS died since she is so far away.
Tone: bittersweet, happy and sad, happy to love her but he may not see her again
Imagery: He wants to become Emporer because love lifts him above the ground. He is above society, above the grave,
Connections: in the same state as he was with Rosaline, so he could act rashly
How sweet is love possessed
He lives on the love of Juliet.
24-29
Tone: determined, not indecisive, wants to be with Juliet dead or alive
he is a man of his word
He thinks he knows what love is but he won't listen to anyone else. He can't LIVE on his own.
Balthasar doesn't understand Romeo's perspective of love so he can't talk him out of buying poison.
Same as when he was pining over Rosaline
Lines 34-52
Romeo's anger
He wants to kill himself.
Tone is dark. He wants to LIE with her tonight. He can't live without her.
The connection to earlier in the story--love is poison--the Friar's potion and the apothecary's poison
Imagery: stuffed skins, bladders, musty seeds, alligator, decrepit images,
Fate: Romeo will lie with her forecver
Lines 60-85
Tone: persuasive,
Apothecary is poor and hungry
Imagery: Famine in thy cheeks, starveth in thy eyes, full of wretchedness,
ironic that the apothecary is sick,
Romeo calls the poison a cordial (a refreshing drink) to convince himself that he must drink it and he has no choice.
Love takes away choice.
I pay thy poverty and not thy will.
Coonection; when he went to the ball he had a prophecy that something bad was going to happen and here he has
Scene 2:
Tone: panic, Friar Laurence realizes Romeo didn't receive the letter. It could have been prevented by one letter. The theme that sometimes we try to help others but we are not helping at all. Fate intervened to show that there were too many complications in their relationship anyway. Hate gets in the way of love. Juliet was right to say that she thought their love was a spark that would burn out to quickly.
Unhappy fortune. Unhappy fate says Friar Laurence and he realizes there is danger now.
Scene 3:
Lines 1-20 Paris at the tomb
Tone: sad, his bride to be has just died, First time we really get to see his despair, he orders around his servant to try to make himself feel better, He is doing what Romeo did to Rosaline. He loved Juliet even though he didn't know her. LOve is just physical. People think that they are in love until they really find love and then LOVE EQUALS UNION. LOVE IS A COMPROMISE.
Lines 22-39
Romeo opening the tomb
Tone: Serious and determined
Do not interrupt me. He tells Balthasar not to disturb him.
Imagery: More fears ... far from empty tigers or the roaring sea--he'll fight the world to attend to Juliet. Frightens Balthasar.
He puts fate into his own hands.
He drinks the poison after seeing her face one last time very similar to the hasty marriage.
Lines 58-71 Romeo fights Paris
Tone: Hatred, misunderstanding
Ideas about love and hate: Romeo kills Paris and Paris wants to be right beside Juliet and Tybalt. More dramatic irony. Death unites rather than love.
It's important that Romeo kills Paris since Romeo's love is the more authentic and authorized by God. Paris must die.
Connection to earlier parts: The fight Roemo had with Tybalt. Romeo didn't want to fight with Tybalt. Dramatic irony.
Choose a topic. (See last night's blog for ideas, too).
Find 9 to 15 passages or quotations that inform your topic.
Post-it note them. Number the post-its (in any order).
Bring them to class tomorrow. We will start our quotation logs. If you have a computer, bring it to class.
We will complete the presentations tomorrow. Copy and paste these notes into your books.
Lines 1-11 Romeo has a dream about love but he is questioning his dream as if Queen Mab has him and he's believing Mercutio's version because his love is far away and like a dream.
He dreams that Juliet found him dead--foreshadows his death. Dramatic irony as the audience knows she is dead.
Also, it is like he HAS died since she is so far away.
Tone: bittersweet, happy and sad, happy to love her but he may not see her again
Imagery: He wants to become Emporer because love lifts him above the ground. He is above society, above the grave,
Connections: in the same state as he was with Rosaline, so he could act rashly
How sweet is love possessed
He lives on the love of Juliet.
24-29
Tone: determined, not indecisive, wants to be with Juliet dead or alive
he is a man of his word
He thinks he knows what love is but he won't listen to anyone else. He can't LIVE on his own.
Balthasar doesn't understand Romeo's perspective of love so he can't talk him out of buying poison.
Same as when he was pining over Rosaline
Lines 34-52
Romeo's anger
He wants to kill himself.
Tone is dark. He wants to LIE with her tonight. He can't live without her.
The connection to earlier in the story--love is poison--the Friar's potion and the apothecary's poison
Imagery: stuffed skins, bladders, musty seeds, alligator, decrepit images,
Fate: Romeo will lie with her forecver
Lines 60-85
Tone: persuasive,
Apothecary is poor and hungry
Imagery: Famine in thy cheeks, starveth in thy eyes, full of wretchedness,
ironic that the apothecary is sick,
Romeo calls the poison a cordial (a refreshing drink) to convince himself that he must drink it and he has no choice.
Love takes away choice.
I pay thy poverty and not thy will.
Coonection; when he went to the ball he had a prophecy that something bad was going to happen and here he has
Scene 2:
Tone: panic, Friar Laurence realizes Romeo didn't receive the letter. It could have been prevented by one letter. The theme that sometimes we try to help others but we are not helping at all. Fate intervened to show that there were too many complications in their relationship anyway. Hate gets in the way of love. Juliet was right to say that she thought their love was a spark that would burn out to quickly.
Unhappy fortune. Unhappy fate says Friar Laurence and he realizes there is danger now.
Scene 3:
Lines 1-20 Paris at the tomb
Tone: sad, his bride to be has just died, First time we really get to see his despair, he orders around his servant to try to make himself feel better, He is doing what Romeo did to Rosaline. He loved Juliet even though he didn't know her. LOve is just physical. People think that they are in love until they really find love and then LOVE EQUALS UNION. LOVE IS A COMPROMISE.
Lines 22-39
Romeo opening the tomb
Tone: Serious and determined
Do not interrupt me. He tells Balthasar not to disturb him.
Imagery: More fears ... far from empty tigers or the roaring sea--he'll fight the world to attend to Juliet. Frightens Balthasar.
He puts fate into his own hands.
He drinks the poison after seeing her face one last time very similar to the hasty marriage.
Lines 58-71 Romeo fights Paris
Tone: Hatred, misunderstanding
Ideas about love and hate: Romeo kills Paris and Paris wants to be right beside Juliet and Tybalt. More dramatic irony. Death unites rather than love.
It's important that Romeo kills Paris since Romeo's love is the more authentic and authorized by God. Paris must die.
Connection to earlier parts: The fight Roemo had with Tybalt. Romeo didn't want to fight with Tybalt. Dramatic irony.
Monday, December 2, 2013
English 12: If you missed Friday, you write the test today . . . BUT
We are reading three chapters during class today and answering the following questions in paragraphs that are edited, use formal language, quotations, and add insight to the chapter. Do not discuss the obvious. Tell us something you have just figured out.
Ch. 13: Visit with the prostitute: Discuss the significance of the green dress in this chapter. (It is key to understanding Holden's view of the world). In your discussion of Holden and what the dress means to him, tie your ideas to at least one previous scene in order to support your opinions.
Ch. 14: Talks to his dead brother, Allie, rants about the Disciples in the Bible, confronts Maurice while he is in his pyjamas, cries, and wants to jump out the window but he doesn't WHY? Explain the connections between all these seemingly disconnected scenes in this chapter. What is the purpose for juxtaposing these events?
Ch. 15: Sally Hayes, nun, suitcases, economic status: Compare the tone (diction, sentence structure, rhythm,) in this chapter to the previous two.
Be sure to use examples from the chapter to support your opinions.
Last week, you read three chapters, created a chart and a thesis statement.
Many of your thesis statements were unclear. You did not answer the question.
If you were absent today, write this thesis into your notebook:
After reading chapters 10, 11, and 12, discuss Holden's attitude toward women, including his sister
Thesis:
Holden's role as big and loyal brother to Phoebe influences the respect he shows to women who seem less appreicated in society due to their appearance; however, in order to fit in and feel accdepted in a man's world, the confused teen feels pressured to have sex. Because he cannot separate sex and love, he can only think sexually about girls who he assumes have loose morals. This conflict between his sexual desires and his personal values confuses him and makes him doubt himself.
Be prepared to read chapter 16 during class tomorrow.
Ch. 13: Visit with the prostitute: Discuss the significance of the green dress in this chapter. (It is key to understanding Holden's view of the world). In your discussion of Holden and what the dress means to him, tie your ideas to at least one previous scene in order to support your opinions.
Ch. 14: Talks to his dead brother, Allie, rants about the Disciples in the Bible, confronts Maurice while he is in his pyjamas, cries, and wants to jump out the window but he doesn't WHY? Explain the connections between all these seemingly disconnected scenes in this chapter. What is the purpose for juxtaposing these events?
Ch. 15: Sally Hayes, nun, suitcases, economic status: Compare the tone (diction, sentence structure, rhythm,) in this chapter to the previous two.
Be sure to use examples from the chapter to support your opinions.
Last week, you read three chapters, created a chart and a thesis statement.
Many of your thesis statements were unclear. You did not answer the question.
If you were absent today, write this thesis into your notebook:
After reading chapters 10, 11, and 12, discuss Holden's attitude toward women, including his sister
Thesis:
Holden's role as big and loyal brother to Phoebe influences the respect he shows to women who seem less appreicated in society due to their appearance; however, in order to fit in and feel accdepted in a man's world, the confused teen feels pressured to have sex. Because he cannot separate sex and love, he can only think sexually about girls who he assumes have loose morals. This conflict between his sexual desires and his personal values confuses him and makes him doubt himself.
Be prepared to read chapter 16 during class tomorrow.
Read Act 5. Prepare for a quiz . . .
Although you have watched a film version of a play, a film is not THE PLAY. Consequently, it is imperative that you do the reading in order to feel prepared for tomorrow's lesson.
Read each scene slowly. Read all three columns in the text to ensure understanding.
Start thinking of essay topics:
1. The juxtaposition of love and hate
2. The roles of the Nurse and the Friar
3. Juliet risks all
4. Various views of love in the play
5. Love only comes out at night
6. Use of light and dark imagery
7. Romeo's changing relationship to love
8. The role of hatred in the film
9. How love is misunderstood in the play
10. Love and hatred as magical spells
11. The role of loyalty in the play
12. Write an essay on a particular scene and how it reveals key themes: the opening scene in Act 1, the balcony scene, Queen Mab speech, etc
13. The role of Mercutio in the play
14. The role of destiny
Read each scene slowly. Read all three columns in the text to ensure understanding.
Start thinking of essay topics:
1. The juxtaposition of love and hate
2. The roles of the Nurse and the Friar
3. Juliet risks all
4. Various views of love in the play
5. Love only comes out at night
6. Use of light and dark imagery
7. Romeo's changing relationship to love
8. The role of hatred in the film
9. How love is misunderstood in the play
10. Love and hatred as magical spells
11. The role of loyalty in the play
12. Write an essay on a particular scene and how it reveals key themes: the opening scene in Act 1, the balcony scene, Queen Mab speech, etc
13. The role of Mercutio in the play
14. The role of destiny
Writing 12: Books to put on the Xmas wish list . . .
Try ABE books for second hand copies or call Russell Books or they may be in our library.
A Passion for Narrative (Jack Hodgins) Canadian, used to teach at UVic in the Writing dept.
On Writing (Stephen King) He's got some great ideas.
The Art of Fiction (John Gardner) spouting off at a UVic party that you've read this book will make you sound and look important even if you do have a blob of guacamole on your shirt
Today: We wrote two scenes. One as a warm up to review the elements of a scene:
conflict
thought
action
speech
description
conflict (worse than what started the scene)
Between scenes you can have exposition (details the reader has to know (explanations, "tell" us straight out) Keep these parts short and they won't work.
Descriptive Passages (motivated)
If you were absent today, be sure to get the notes from a friend regarding the various plot structures you will need to attend to.
Next,
We wrote the next scene in our stories.
Thursday: The next two pages of your story are due. Hand in today's original two plus two more.
Good luck.
A Passion for Narrative (Jack Hodgins) Canadian, used to teach at UVic in the Writing dept.
On Writing (Stephen King) He's got some great ideas.
The Art of Fiction (John Gardner) spouting off at a UVic party that you've read this book will make you sound and look important even if you do have a blob of guacamole on your shirt
Today: We wrote two scenes. One as a warm up to review the elements of a scene:
conflict
thought
action
speech
description
conflict (worse than what started the scene)
Between scenes you can have exposition (details the reader has to know (explanations, "tell" us straight out) Keep these parts short and they won't work.
Descriptive Passages (motivated)
If you were absent today, be sure to get the notes from a friend regarding the various plot structures you will need to attend to.
Next,
We wrote the next scene in our stories.
Thursday: The next two pages of your story are due. Hand in today's original two plus two more.
Good luck.
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