1. What does Dante tweet when he peers over the ledge with Virgil and sees Lucifer chomping on Judas, Cassius, and Brutus.
2. Tweet the plot of Macbeth
3. Tweet the plot of your life so far.
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Please create a post in which you write THREE (3) tweets (140 characters or less -- hashtags OK)
1. What does Dante tweet when he peers over the ledge with Virgil and sees Lucifer chomping on Judas, Cassius, and Brutus. 2. Tweet the plot of Macbeth 3. Tweet the plot of your life so far. Watch the clip of three different versions of 1.3 (which we've read in class). Go to the class blog and post which version you liked best and why? Now you're the director: Choose a setting (place and time, not just time of day, but time in history); what do the witches look like, what do they wear? You can change the lines if you like.
Look at the following link to screenplays to get an idea of how to write your Scene. I want you to describe the setting, the clothes, the actions, and include dialog. So, you have two different posts: Post 1 -- which version did you prefer and why Post 2 -- a screenplay for 1.2 Please post your paper idea or question you are considering trying to answer in your paper. That's it. Thanks!
You have TWO assignments: Assignment 1: Research ONE of the following (now, in class) and summarize your findings. If you quote, use quotation marks. Please include where you found your information. You may do this with a hyperlink to the website. 1. Research topics: The Philosopher's Stone; Galvanism; Body Snatching; Vivisection; Polar Expeditions: Mary Shelley's biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: John Locke's "tabula rasa," or "blank slate" theory; Rousseau's ideas On Education (1762); doppelganger; Mont Blanc (the place, not the pen); The Orkney Islands; Prometheus. Write from 100 - 300 words. Include your source or sources. Be sure you quote correctly. Don't JUST copy and paste -- I am looking for summary skills. Do NOT respond to your classmates. I do however encourage you to read their findings. 2. After you post your research findings, post TWO of your discussion questions. Include chapter, question, and page number, if applicable. Respond to TWO of your classmates' discussion questions. Your responses should be approx. 100 words long and grammatically correct. These are due by the start of class. Blog Questions to answer: This is due Thursday at 12:00 Noon. No late postings accepted.
1. What do YOU think zombies represent? In other words, what are they a symbol or metaphor for? 2. What are the three main similarities between Max Brooks's Zombie Survival Guide (the parts we read) and the CDC's novella comic book? What are the three main differences? 3. What is the purpose of Max Brooks's Survival Guide? Why do you think it was a best-seller? What is the purpose of the CDC's preparedness website and novella?
Absolutely loved your blog comments from last Friday. Keep up the good work! This week's question is below. Please respond to two of your classmates by the next class (25-50 words). Write about something (150-200 words) that annoys, frightens, or even crazes you and others. Your subject could be a natural phenomenon, such as the one Didion describes, or something more Vegas associated -- we have bad winds, scorching heat, floods or something else: bumper-to-bumper traffic at rush hour, long lines at the department of motor vehicles or another government agency, lengthy and complicated voice-mail menus that end up in busy signals, parking at CSN. You may use examples from your own experience and observation, from experiences you have read or heard about, or, like Didion, from both sources. How did you learn to read? How did you learn to write? Do you share any experiences with Francine Prose? How do you feel about reading and writing now? (Please answer in complete, grammatically correct sentences -- approx 100 - 200 words; it's OK to go over.) By the next class, please respond to two of your classmates in 25 - 50 words. Thanks! Read the linked article, "The Monsters Among Us" by Pete Zrioka. Go to turnitin.com, discussions, and answer TWO of the questions posted. Follow directions. Respond to at least 2 classmates. This is class work and due by the end of class. This is not homework, unless you're really late to class or absent on Friday. Thanks! For homework - due Tuesday, Wednesday 11/26, 11/27, please read Chapter 1 of The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. PDF of the full text is linked to picture. Read the intro through page 27. Be prepared to discuss how this is a parody of the zombie legends. What else did Max Brooks write? Do a quick google search and be prepared to discuss "voodoo zombies" in class as well. Link to John Eliot reading The Zombie Survival Guide Someone asked about some of the scientific rationale behind the monster myths. Here is a link to an NPR interview with Matt Kaplan, a science journalist who wrote Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters." This is a blog where you can type and post a comment. Please read the following excerpt from Marjorie Garber's book, The Use and Abuse of Literature and then respond. If you don't know how to respond, try just answering the question, "why do we read literature" or even why you do or don't read literature. Do you think literature should be taught in school and if so why; if not, why not? Your answer should be 100 - 150 words. Thank you! This is due before your next class. Please take care with your grammar and spelling as well :-) P.S. this post, before the PS was 100 words.
Excerpt: "But what is the use of literature? Does it make us happier, more ethical, more articulate? Better citizens, better companions and lovers? Better businesspersons, better doctors and lawyers? More well-rounded individuals? Does it make us more human? Or simply human? Is what is being sought a kind of literary Rolodex, a personal Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations of apt literary references (“To be or not to be?” “Only connect”; “Do I dare to eat a peach?”) — phrases that can be trotted out on suitable occasions, at the dinner table, or on the golf course? Such literary taglines or touchstones were once a kind of cultural code of mutual recognition among educated people — but their place has long been taken by references from fi lm, video, TV, rock music, advertising, or other modes of popular culture. Is literature something that everyone should study in the same way that we should study other basic cultural facts about the world we live in, like the history of art or the history of music, studying them all in one fell swoop, in survey courses or general introductions or appreciations? Why read literature? Why listen to it on audiotapes or at poetry slams or at the theater? Why buy it? And even if you enjoy reading literature, why study it?" Click on the White Rabbit to the left to open the Prezi of questions for Alice. There are three essential questions that lead to discussion topics on turnitin.com. Your responses are due at the end of class today. You must respond to two classmates by the end of the day (11:59PM) Please start pulling together your papers for your senior portfolios. The following will be due April 29 & April 30: (These can be placed in a file folder or clipped together. If you've already started your portfolio, bring that in. I'll just check items and return them to you the same day.) Items: Resume, typed goals -- these are part of your journal assignment, 3 poems, 3 compositions (see handout), 3 misc (see handout) Remember to read through Chapter 5 and mark something from each chapter that interests you or peaks your curiosity. Go to www.turnitin.com and find the discussion board. There are three discussion topics. Choose TWO of the topics to resond to. Your response should be a complete, thoughtful, grammatically correct paragraph (roughtly 100 words). Respond to two of your classmates in complete sentences. (roughly 25 words) These are due by the end of today. I recommend you do this during class. Homework: Read the essay by A.S. Byatt on the Alice books and be prepared to discuss. Read the first two chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Using sticky notes, find two passages or quotes that interest you or you have a question about. Comment or write question on sticky note, place note in book at passage. Hamlet essays due this evening. Find lines of poetry you or someone else wrote that you are prepared to share with the school. Wednesday is Sidewalk Poetry day. (P.S. Wear comfortable clothing; ladies, pants work better than skirts) Clicking on the image to the left will take you to Poets.org for more ideas on how to celebrate poetry this month (and every month). TODAY: READ THE DIRECTIONS. There is a poetry assignment due Mon/Tues that you can start today AND you must answer the question at the bottom of this post today before the end of class. Competition 1: Found Poem -- Follow the directions at the link. Really, follow the directions! Submit this typed poem to me Monday/Tuesday. Let me know if you enter the competition. Prove it, and you'll get 5 points extra credit :-) OR Competition 2: Haiku -- These directions are VERY vague and there's no due date. So write three Haikus and submit them to me, typed Monday/Tuesday. But I'll still give you 5 points extra credit if you prove you submitted. (one submission's worth only, although the competition allows you 5 entries. Tuesday, we'll be working with our words and creating "I Am" poems about yourself. In the meantime, please find a poem that you like and bring it to class on Monday. You'll be sharing with classmates in small groups and you'll get credit for bringing in a poem. Please find a poem that has made its way into an anthology -- a poem that has been published. Some possible resources: www.poets.org The Poetry Foundation Poetry 180 Please answer the following question about poetry (that's recently been posted on the student blog of the NY Time). You can answer in the comment box. This is due at the end of class today. I also encourage you to answer at the linked NY Times comment box. Students: Tell us about your own experiences with poetry, positive or negative, and about any memorable poems you’ve encountered in your life. Do you like poetry in general? Why or why not? Have you ever written a poem? What would you do if you were assigned to help poetry reach a wider audience of people your own age? Why? *Reminder that your Hamlet paper is due Friday, 4/12 at 11:59PM on turnitin.com. Late papers will not be accepted without prior arrangements. Don't forget to read a book for second semester. Definition for Characterization:
Character, characterization A character is a person presented in a dramatic or narrative work, and characterization is the process by which a writer makes that character seem real to the reader. A hero or heroine, often called the protagonist, is the central character who engages the reader's interest and empathy. The antagonist is the character, force, or collection of forces that stands directly opposed to the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story. A static character does not change throughout the work, and the reader's knowledge of that character does not grow, whereas a dynamic character undergoes some kind of change because of the action in the plot. A flat character embodies one or two qualities, ideas, or traits that can be readily described in a brief summary. They are not psychologically complex characters and therefore are readily accessible to readers. Irony A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. It is ironic for a firehouse to burn down, or for a police station to be burglarized.Verbal irony is a figure of speech that occurs when a person says one thing but means the opposite. Sarcasm is a strong form of verbal irony that is calculated to hurt someone through, for example, false praise. Dramatic irony creates a discrepancy between what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience member knows to be true. Tragic irony is a form of dramatic irony found in tragedies such as Oedipus the King, in which Oedipus searches for the person responsible for the plague that ravishes his city and ironically ends up hunting himself. Situational irony exists when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to forces beyond human comprehension or control. The suicide of the seemingly successful main character in Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "Richard Cory" is an example of situational irony. Homework: Complete Logs for 3.1 & 3.2 (traditional) For 3.3 & 3.4 (in place of logs) 1. Choose one character from 3.3 OR 3.4 (other than Hamlet) and discuss how Shakespeare characterizes them. How does Shakespeare use language and actions to make the character real. In what ways (if any) has this character seemed to change since the beginning of the play? What images seem to be associated with this character? What do you think are the character’s motivations? (Why does he or she do what they do? What do they want?). What quote best represents your character. Is the character you’ve chosen a protagonist, antagonist, foil, hero, static, flat? 2. Find and discuss examples of irony: verbal, dramatic, situational in 3.3. and /or 3.4. Identify for each, which type of irony it is. Provide the quote and an explanation. Two short clips for you to watch of 1.5 -- the Ghost and Hamlet. I recommend that you individually click on the links at left and listen with headphones. (If this isn't an option, Mr. O will play the clips on all the computers). Clip 1: Fast forward as close as you can to 33:25 (in Chapter 5) and watch Patrick Stewart as the Ghost and David Tennant as Hamlet. End this scene after the re-appearance of Horatio and Marcellus (line 119 / 40:45). Note the difference in your text stage directions and David Tennant's actions at the end of the scene. Clip 2: This Zeferelli version cuts much of the Ghost's speech. Does that change things? In the comment section, please do just that. Comment on the two versions of The Ghost and Hamlet. Is the relationship between Hamlet and his father different? How do the edits change the scene? What about setting and costuming? Is the scene different to you now viewing it than it was reading it? That's it for today. Your homework is to read the attached essay on the ghost's speech. You may print it out in order to annotate it. Be prepared to discuss Camille Paglia's essay. "The Ghost's Speech" by Camille Paglia (from Break, Blow Burn) Format for rhetorical precis with explanatory notes
Article to summarize: This article comes from the book The Use and Abuse of Literature by Marjorie Garber (2011) Marjorie Garber's chapter "Why Literature is Always Contemporary" from her book The Use and Abuse of Literature (2011) argues that [here is the thesis]. Note: Title of chapter is in quotation marks; title of book is italicized. Screenshot from the NY Public Library's free Frankenstein app. Go to Box.com and sign up for a mini-research project. (Let me know if there are any problems with the sign up.)
Instructions: Choose a research topic of interest to you. You may work individually or with one other person. Sign up for the topic. Please don't write over anyone's name. You are to answer the reporter questions on your topic: who, what, where, when, why, how. Then you are to package the information into a 3 - 5 minute presentation for the class. Your presentation can be a poster, a powerpoint, a prezi, a video, but must also include a handout for your classmates. (I will copy them if you get them to me soon enough.) When you present, give me a copy of the handout and on the back of the handout, write two quiz questions covering material from your presentation (along with the answers). These can be multiple choice, fill in the blank, or short answer. No true or false. Dates TBA. Go to the NY Public LIbrary link and find an essay to ready. I recommend you download this app if you have have an IPad. It is an amazing free app, but you can access all the essay material without the app. You will choose any of the essays, read it carefullly, and (1) write an annotated bibliography entry for the essay (2) provide a paragraph of commentary on the essay: how it relates to the text, other things it made you think of, etc. |