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. In discussing the role of the individual, which quote best outlines your philosophy?
Thoreau: “if the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go… perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out…. If it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then , I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. Socrates: “an individual must do what his city or country demands of him or he must change their view of what is just.” Kennedy: “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.” What problems or limitations do you see with the other views? What should be the role between the individual and the government? Connect these ideas to Huckleberry Finn Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" In your units, read the following 1: Section 1 - lines 1-7 2. Section 1 - lines 8-13 3. Section 2 - lines 1-7 4. Section 2 - lines 8 - 14 5. Section 3 - lines 1 - 9 6. Section 4 - lines 10 - 19 Summarize your section in a few sentences as a blog post. Please title your blog post Section and lines. Read the linked Op-Ed article by Charles Blow in the NY Times. Write a letter to the editor in response to Blow's article. I have provided a link to letters in today's paper regarding Obama's announcement to opening relations with Cuba to give you some letter examples. Typically, a letter to the editor is 150 - 175 words long.
Enjoy your break, but things to keep in mind and complete. Journals are due on Thurs, 1/08/15. Memoir presentations begin upon our return. I'll pass around a sign up sheet. Please read Mark Twain's short story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and answer the questions in the boxes. I have linked to the story with the boxes. You can also print it and hand-write your answers if you prefer. When we return, we will wrap up discussions of H.F. and talk about Twain's short story. We will then move on to some other short works of realism and naturalism.
Good luck on the SAT on Saturday. Your best strategy now is to get plenty of sleep Friday night; eat before the test, be a few minutes early, bring snacks and some water.
Please give your journals to Mr. Martin Friday or bring them to my office after class. Submit your three speeches to google docs by Friday night. There is a folder called unit speeches. Label each speech as follows: Unit1_1; Unit1_2; Unit1_3; Unit2_1, etc. This is your Douglass exam. Read the directions. I've also given you a hard copy. The Douglass exam is due by Noon on 11/18. The assignment will be closed at that point and no late assignments will be accepted. I have also linked to a brief biography of Douglass that you might be interested in. It also might help with the last question. The video is short and worth watching. See ya 11/13 at Parent's Night :-) Read Frederick Douglass, Chapters 1 & 2
For Homework (due Tuesday, 10/28), read Frederick Douglass, chapters 6 & 7. Complete the following response paper (choose ONE of the topics) Topics for response paper NY Times: Room for Debate, Pap's Rant
Read the excerpt above (you also have the whole passage in a handout). Respond to the following question in a blog post of no less than 200 words please. How does Coates's essay speak to Pap's rant about the "free nigger there from Ohio" in the excerpt from Huckleberry Finn? In other words, what do these two texts together say about race relations in America? I would encourage you to quote (correctly) from from Coates and Twain. You can also bring in the Chapelle video if you'd like. While your post must address Coates and Twain (and can address Chapelle), you can also include your own experiences and thoughts. You are welcome to respond to someone else's comments, but you don't have to. Over the weekend, I'd like you to read this article from The LA Times, and choose at least two more of the Room for Debate arguments to read. Bring to class 3 short summaries: (summaries do not include your opinion). Explain the central argument of each piece in no more than 5 sentences per summary. Bring your Bedford Reader to class please. Link to upload 6 word Memoir. Once you access Period 6 in Google Drive, go to the folder for 6 word memoirs and upload your .jpg file. If you need help converting a file to .jpg, please let me know. Do NOT upload .ppt or.doc files. Listen to Luis Alberto Urrea's essay, "Life on the Mississippi." I think it helps to read the transcript while you're listening. Understand that Urrea did NOT grow up on the Mississippi. Read his short bio so that you'll understand what he's doing in the essay. (Luis Alberto Urrea, 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph. Born in Tijuana, Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother, Urrea has published extensively in all the major genres. The author of 13 books, Urrea has won numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. Urrea lives with his family in Naperville, IL, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.) Both Alexie and Urrea (friends) describe the impact of books on their lives in unique ways. They also have an interesting approach to place. Edward Abbey's 1968 classic, Desert Solitarire: A Season in the Wilderness, describes his time working as a park ranger in Moab. The first chapter begins This is the most beautiful place on earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even, possibly, for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio or Rome -- there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment. Theologians, sky pilots, astronauts have even felt the appeal of home calling to them from up above, in the cold black outback of intersteller [sic] space. For myself I'll take Moab, Utah. I don't mean the town itself, of course, but the country which surrounds it - the canyonlands. The slickrock desert. The red dust and the burnt cliffs and the lonely sky -- all that which lies beyond the end of the roads. What's your most beautiful place on earth? That's your blog post for this week. Write your own post; include at least one sentence that uses parallelism and underline it. No need to respond to anyone else's post, but I hope you'll read each other's work For homework, please read ""Ladder" by Sven Birkerts on page 180 and the introduction to Narration on pp 93-100. Bring your Bedford Reader to class Tuesday. |