AP Language & Composition REMEMBER SCHOLARLY LANGUAGE DAY
Hey guys, I hope you learned a lot at your session this weekend. The instructor in the first session was most impressed with your intelligence. :) He was awed by your level of critical thinking.:)
We will discuss the material that you worked on at the prep session...and practice writing, writing, writing. Remember you assignment to complete the essay (typed) by Nov. 2nd. See you in class.
English 11
B day take Gatsby test
A& B day We will continue working in the grammar workbook. We will look at types of writing and work with the structure of an essay by breaking it down into parts.
French I/II
I hope you enjoyed your guest lecturer on Friday!!!! This put us behind a bit since I only saw you 2 days last week. The horrible A/B block that we have to deal with. So this week we will be working to catch up.
Comment est-ce qu'on fait...?
We will take the test over chapter 2
Begin the study of food - vocabulary and introduction to chapter 3
chapter 3 vocabulary 1 link on quizlet: http://quizlet.com/1759935/bien-dit-2-ch-31-flash-cards/
This is a food market in Tunisie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4JyZjlBwo&feature=related
This is the Thursday market in Aix en Provence (where I lived and studied for nine WONDERFUL weeks:)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7SQ4TKLHIM&NR=1
At the Paris market: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQtoOM3Nh9Q
French table setting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fe0KcKKlU
READ ALERT! YOU WILL READ A YEAR IN PROVENCE DURING THIS UNIT
Myth and Legend
READ ALERT ----BRAM STOKER''S DRACULA
Boy, did you enjoy your guest lecturer or what? I think it is interesting to explore the way humans make sense of their world. Each has his/her unique approach. Kudos to Zack for his wonderful lecture on his personal approach to spirituality. One thing I think that comes across from studying myths and legends is that there is nothing new under sun. Human thought connects us through time and space.
This week we will complete your presentations of Arthurian legend and Excalibur came in!!!!!!!!! So we will view the film and discuss the cinematic representation of the legend.
Senior English CATCHING UP! CATCHING UP!
This week we will complete the Canterbury tales.
We will continue to discuss the socio-economic and political implications of the tales by focusing in on The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. After reading and completing the work packet for Miller's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale, we will listen to a professor from the Great Courses Series explain the socio-economic, political, and aesthetic nature of the work. Then we will write an essay.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
October 25-29
French I/II
Comment est-ce qu'on fait...?
We will review for the test over chapter 2
Begin the study of food - vocabulary and introduction to chapter 3
chapter 3 vocabulary 1 link on quizlet: http://quizlet.com/1759935/bien-dit-2-ch-31-flash-cards/
This is a food market in Tunisie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4JyZjlBwo&feature=related
This is the Thursday market in Aix en Provence (where I lived and studied for nine WONDERFUL weeks:)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7SQ4TKLHIM&NR=1
At the Paris market: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQtoOM3Nh9Q
French table setting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fe0KcKKlU
READ ALERT! YOU WILL READ A YEAR IN PROVENCE DURING THIS UNIT
Myth and Legend:
READ ALERT!!! BEGIN READING BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
This week we will continue to work with Arthurian legend
Each of you should be prepared to teach your peers your Arthurian legend
We will discuss the legend of Camelot and its connection to our own country.
I am hopeful the DVD of Excalibur will come this week. On the 27th we will have a guest speaker who will provide in depth information on the legend of the werewolf. This should be interesting!
English 11
We will work in the grammar workbook this week.
This week we will complete our discussion and viewing of the The Great Gatsby.
The test over Gatsby will be on Thursday October 28th. We will review for the test on Wednesday.
English AP
This Saturday we will have your first student prep for the AP Exam at Columbia. Don't forget!
You will have a timed writing on Tuesday and a debrief on Friday. Reciprocal teaching groups will present their subject to the class. We will complete the film Gatsby.
Senior English
This week we will complete the Canterbury tales.
We will continue to discuss the socio-economic and political implications of the tales
complete packet on the Prologue to the Canterbury tales. You will choose a pilgrim and write an essay. Details in class. See you then.
Comment est-ce qu'on fait...?
We will review for the test over chapter 2
Begin the study of food - vocabulary and introduction to chapter 3
chapter 3 vocabulary 1 link on quizlet: http://quizlet.com/1759935/bien-dit-2-ch-31-flash-cards/
This is a food market in Tunisie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4JyZjlBwo&feature=related
This is the Thursday market in Aix en Provence (where I lived and studied for nine WONDERFUL weeks:)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7SQ4TKLHIM&NR=1
At the Paris market: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQtoOM3Nh9Q
French table setting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fe0KcKKlU
READ ALERT! YOU WILL READ A YEAR IN PROVENCE DURING THIS UNIT
Myth and Legend:
READ ALERT!!! BEGIN READING BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
This week we will continue to work with Arthurian legend
Each of you should be prepared to teach your peers your Arthurian legend
We will discuss the legend of Camelot and its connection to our own country.
I am hopeful the DVD of Excalibur will come this week. On the 27th we will have a guest speaker who will provide in depth information on the legend of the werewolf. This should be interesting!
English 11
We will work in the grammar workbook this week.
This week we will complete our discussion and viewing of the The Great Gatsby.
The test over Gatsby will be on Thursday October 28th. We will review for the test on Wednesday.
English AP
This Saturday we will have your first student prep for the AP Exam at Columbia. Don't forget!
You will have a timed writing on Tuesday and a debrief on Friday. Reciprocal teaching groups will present their subject to the class. We will complete the film Gatsby.
Senior English
This week we will complete the Canterbury tales.
We will continue to discuss the socio-economic and political implications of the tales
complete packet on the Prologue to the Canterbury tales. You will choose a pilgrim and write an essay. Details in class. See you then.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
October 18-22
French I/II
This week we will complete unit two. We will review the construction of the passe compose with etre and avoir, review and practice irregular past participles, and prepare for a unit test on Friday. Please review all materials of chapter two before coming to class on Tuesday. This is a link to practice the passe compose of avoir and etre verbs on quizlet: http://quizlet.com/31933/u2-french-verbs-passe-compose-with-avoir-etre-flash-cards/ PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU PRACTICE THIS VERB VOCABULARY
English 11
This will be a short week for you and we have much to do. On Thursday you will have a test over the Great Gatsby vocabulary on Wednesday. This is the link to study that was posted last week: http://quizlet.com/2467438/great-gatsby-h-m-king-flash-cards/
we will view a documentary on F. Scott Fitzgerald and you will compare and contrast characterizations from the Gatsby with the author's life. Additionally, I will show you the opulent mansions on what was know as "the gold coast" of Long Island in the 1920s contrasting these with sharecroppers homes of the South, and a documentary on the effects of prohibition. All of these will demonstrate the ROAR of the 1920s and the disparity that remained between the classes
English AP
We will continue our work on the Great Gatsby. Wednesday vocabulary test over Gatsby: http://quizlet.com/2467438/great-gatsby-h-m-king-flash-cards/
This week we will view a documentary on F. Scott Fitzgerald and you will compare and contrast characterizations from the Gatsby with the author's life. Additionally, I will show you the opulent mansions on what was know as "the gold coast" of Long Island in the 1920s contrasting these with share croppers homes in the South., and a documentary on the effects of prohibition. All of these will demonstrate the ROAR of the 1920s and the disparity that remained between the classes
Friday you will write your second timed essay.
Myth and Legend
We will continue our study of Arthurian legends.
test over Arthurian vocabulary: http://quizlet.com/2319058/king-arthur-flash-cards/
we will continue to look at how the these legends helped shape the British character
and the characteristics of the medieval romance
each of will be assigned a particular legend to teach to the class. More later on this!
SENIOR ENGLISH .....AWAY TO CANTERBURY
this should be a rollicking good time tra la la....
WEDNESDAY-VOCAB TEST ON CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND READ ABOUT "THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT" THAT OCCURRED IN CHAUCER'S TIME: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A980624 (the Anglo-Saxons wore 'boats' on their 'fate' while the English wear 'boots' on our 'feet'.)
HANDOUT OF OLD/MIDDLE/AND MODERN ENGLISH
GENERAL PROLOGUE INTRODUCTION OF THE CHARACTERS AND THEIR POSITION IN THE ESTATES SATIRE - WORK SHEET
KNIGHT'S TALE (COURTLY LOVE)
WIFE OF BATH TALE
MILLER'S TALE
This week we will complete unit two. We will review the construction of the passe compose with etre and avoir, review and practice irregular past participles, and prepare for a unit test on Friday. Please review all materials of chapter two before coming to class on Tuesday. This is a link to practice the passe compose of avoir and etre verbs on quizlet: http://quizlet.com/31933/u2-french-verbs-passe-compose-with-avoir-etre-flash-cards/ PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU PRACTICE THIS VERB VOCABULARY
English 11
This will be a short week for you and we have much to do. On Thursday you will have a test over the Great Gatsby vocabulary on Wednesday. This is the link to study that was posted last week: http://quizlet.com/2467438/great-gatsby-h-m-king-flash-cards/
we will view a documentary on F. Scott Fitzgerald and you will compare and contrast characterizations from the Gatsby with the author's life. Additionally, I will show you the opulent mansions on what was know as "the gold coast" of Long Island in the 1920s contrasting these with sharecroppers homes of the South, and a documentary on the effects of prohibition. All of these will demonstrate the ROAR of the 1920s and the disparity that remained between the classes
English AP
We will continue our work on the Great Gatsby. Wednesday vocabulary test over Gatsby: http://quizlet.com/2467438/great-gatsby-h-m-king-flash-cards/
This week we will view a documentary on F. Scott Fitzgerald and you will compare and contrast characterizations from the Gatsby with the author's life. Additionally, I will show you the opulent mansions on what was know as "the gold coast" of Long Island in the 1920s contrasting these with share croppers homes in the South., and a documentary on the effects of prohibition. All of these will demonstrate the ROAR of the 1920s and the disparity that remained between the classes
Friday you will write your second timed essay.
Myth and Legend
We will continue our study of Arthurian legends.
test over Arthurian vocabulary: http://quizlet.com/2319058/king-arthur-flash-cards/
we will continue to look at how the these legends helped shape the British character
and the characteristics of the medieval romance
each of will be assigned a particular legend to teach to the class. More later on this!
SENIOR ENGLISH .....AWAY TO CANTERBURY
this should be a rollicking good time tra la la....
WEDNESDAY-VOCAB TEST ON CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND READ ABOUT "THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT" THAT OCCURRED IN CHAUCER'S TIME: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A980624 (the Anglo-Saxons wore 'boats' on their 'fate' while the English wear 'boots' on our 'feet'.)
HANDOUT OF OLD/MIDDLE/AND MODERN ENGLISH
GENERAL PROLOGUE INTRODUCTION OF THE CHARACTERS AND THEIR POSITION IN THE ESTATES SATIRE - WORK SHEET
KNIGHT'S TALE (COURTLY LOVE)
WIFE OF BATH TALE
MILLER'S TALE
Thursday, October 7, 2010
October 11-15
HEY EVERYONE!!!!!! I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GREAT FALL BREAK. HOWEVER......
we still have our education to think about, right? We want to accomplish great things, right?
“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. ” ~~ Barack Obama
English AP 11
this is a link to the vocabulary words for The Great Gatsby. There are 57 terms so you should begin to study these on quizlet NOW. http://quizlet.com/2467438/great-gatsby-h-m-king-flash-cards/
~~~~~~~~~~Read Alert!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember you will have a reading test over The Great Gatsby as soon a you return to school. Please read the NOTES UNDER ENGLISH 11 ON Modernism & the Modern Novel. Print out and bring to class. You are responsible for knowing this information
English 11
this is a link to the vocabulary words for The Great Gatsby. There are 57 terms so you should begin to study these on quizlet NOW. http://quizlet.com/2467438/great-gatsby-h-m-king-flash-cards/
~~~~~~~~~~Read Alert!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember you will have a reading test over The Great Gatsby as soon a you return to school.
Please read the following information. Print out and bring to class. You are responsible for knowing this information
Modernism & the Modern Novel Notes:
The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered, stable and inherently meaningful world view of the nineteenth century could not, wrote T.S. Eliot, accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism, they presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. This despair often results in an apparent apathy and moral relativism.. Modernist writers, in their attempt to throw off the aesthetic burden of the realist novel, these writers introduced a variety of literary tactics and devices. Modernism is often derided for abandoning the social world in favor of its narcissistic interest in language and its processes. Recognizing the failure of language to ever fully communicate meaning ("That's not it at all, that's not what I meant at all" laments Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock), the modernists generally downplayed content in favor of an investigation of form.The fragmented, non-chronological, poetic forms utilized by Eliot and Pound revolutionized poetic language. Modern life seemed radically different from traditional life -- more scientific, faster, more technological, and more mechanized. Modernism embraced these changes. Technological innovation in the world of factories and machines inspired new attentiveness to technique in the arts. To take one example: Light, particularly electrical light, fascinated modern artists and writers. Posters and advertisements of the period are full of images of floodlit skyscrapers and light rays shooting out from automobile headlights, movie houses, and watchtowers to illumine a forbidding outer darkness suggesting ignorance and old-fashioned tradition. Vision and viewpoint became an essential aspect of the modernist novel as well. No longer was it sufficient to write a straightforward third-person narrative or (worse yet) use a pointlessly intrusive narrator. The way the story was told became as important as the story itself.
Henry James, William Faulkner, and many other American writers experimented with fictional points of view (some are still doing so). James often restricted the information in the novel to what a single character would have known. Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury (1929) breaks up the narrative into four sections, each giving the viewpoint of a different character (including a mentally retarded boy). To analyze such modernist novels and poetry, a school of "new criticism" arose in the United States, with a new critical vocabulary. New critics hunted the "epiphany" (moment in which a character suddenly sees the transcendent truth of a situation, a term derived from a holy saint's appearance to mortals); they "examined" and "clarified" a work, hoping to "shed light" upon it through their "insights."
SOURCE: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EqHJOMsYVjcJ:www.troyhigh.com/ourpages/auto/2007/8/29/1188402427607/The%2520Great%2520Gatsby.ppt+literary+modernism+and+gatsby&cd=28&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
RESEARCH ONLINE:
1. THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR I ON THE LOST GENERATION
What were the youth rebelling against? Has anything changed in 2010?
2. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND ZELDA SAYRE (Zelda was from Montgomery, Alabama.)
SENIOR ENGLISH
WE ARE NOW MOVING INTO THE MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. WE WILL BEGIN OUR STUDY OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER AND THE CANTERBURY TALES. I SUGGEST THAT YOU TAKE MY DIRECTIONS AND STUDY THE RESOURCES BELOW. MANY OF YOU DID NOT DO THIS WITH BEOWULF AND YOUR TEST GRADES REFLECTED THIS LACK OF ATTENTION TO YOUR ASSIGNMENTS.
I WILL LEAVE THESE LINKS UP FOR TWO WEEKS.
ALL THE INFORMATION ON THESE WEBSITES WILL BE ON THE UNIT TEST SO YOU SHOULD TAKE NOTES OR PRINT OUT THE MATERIAL.
Go to this link and read about Thomas a Becket and his martyrdom: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/becket.htm
These are the terms you need to know for this week. They are the pilgrims who travel to Canterbury in the Tales: http://quizlet.com/1252657/canterbury-tales-pilgrim-profiles-flash-cards/
View the original manuscripts of the Canterbury tales: http://molcat1.bl.uk/treasures/caxton/search.asp
PLEASE READ, STUDY, and PRINT OUT (bring to class with you) THE PAGE CONNECTED TO THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bBWoutwHhfsJ:arapahoe.littletonpublicschools.net/Portals/7/Language%2520Arts/Siekmeier/AP%2520Language/CT%2520Addl%2520background.doc+BACKGROUND+FOR+CANTERBURY+TALES&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS INFORMATION ON THE TEST OVER CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
THIS IS A LINK TO A MAP OF THE PILGRIM'S ROUTE TO CANTERBURY: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/346map.htm
HERE IS A LINK TO A PICTORIAL TOUR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL: http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/canterbury/canterbury.shtml#tour
RESEARCH ON LINE: KNOW THIS MATERIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUELDALISM: http://www.historyonthenet.com/Medieval_Life/feudalism.htm
ST. THOMAS A BECKET (see link above)
COURTLY LOVE: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm
here is an excerpt on COURTLY LOVE: YOU NEED TO KNOW THE CONVENTIONS LISTED BELOW: PRINT OUT A COPY FOR YOURSELF AND BRING TO CLASS.
The conventions of courtly love are that a knight of noble blood would adore and worship a young noble-woman from afar, seeking to protect her honor and win her favor by valorous deeds. He typically falls ill with love-sickness, while the woman chastely or scornfully rejects or refuses his advances in public, but privately encourages him. Courtly love was associated with (A) nobility, since no peasants can engage in "fine love"; (B) secrecy; (C) adultery, since often the one or both participants were married to another noble or trapped in an unloving marriage; and (D) paradoxically with chastity, since the passion could never be consummated due to social circumstances, thus it was a "higher love" unsullied by selfish carnal desires.
An example of this attitude is found in Castiglione's The Courtier, which presents a Renaissance outlook on this medieval ideal:
I hold that a gentleman of worth, who is in love, ought to be sincere and truthful in this [labor] as in all other things; and it if it is true that to betray an enemy is baseness and a most abominable wrong, think how much more grave the offense ought to be considered when done to one whom we love. And I believe that every gentle lover endures so many toils, so many vigils, exposes himself to so many dangers, sheds so many tears, uses so many ways and means to please his lady love--not chiefly in order to possess her body, but to take the fortress of her mind and to break those hardest diamonds and melt that cold ice, which are often found in the tender breasts of women And this I believe is the true and sound pleasure and the goal aimed at by every noble heart. Certainly, if I were in love, I should wish rather to be sure that she whom I served returned my love from her heart and had given me her inner self--if I had no other satisfaction from her--than to take all pleasure with her against her will; for in such a case I should consider myself master merely of a lifeless body. Hence, those who pursue their desires by these tricks, which might perhaps rather be called treacheries than tricks, do wrong to others, nor do they gain that satisfaction withal which is sought in love if they possess the body without the will. I say the same of certain others who in their love make use of enchantments, charms, sometimes force, sometimes sleeping potions, and such things. And you must know that gifts do much to lessen the pleasures of love; for a man can suspect that he is not loved but that his lady makes a show of loving him in order to gain something by it. Hence, you see that the love of some great lady is prized because it seems that it cannot arise from any other source save that of real and true affection, nor is it to be thought that so great a lady would ever pretend to love an inferior if she did not really love him.
--The Book of the Courtier, Book 2, Paragraph 94 SOURCE: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/courtly_love.html
FRENCH I/II
we will continue our work in chapter two. You all did very well on your vocabulary test! Felicitations! I will post more as the week progresses so please check back!
Myth and Legend
Hey guys! On Monday you will take your test over Edith Hamilton's Mythology.
Next we will move into a study of England's legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I will be supply you with handouts of this work and you will also be required to do some online reading. I have a very good documentary on The Legend of Arthur that I will show you in class.
Joseph Campbell said, We don't look to myth to find the meaning of life, its purpose is to make us appreciate 'the adventure of being alive'. Without some sense of ourselves within a larger history of human imagination and experience, our life would inevitably lack romance and depth. The stories and imagery we have in our heads are only a tiny fraction of what is available to us, and in increasing our knowledge of past culture and art, life is enriched immeasurably.
First I would like for you to go to this website and read the following: When did King Arthur live? Knights of the Round Table Geography (click on the links of all places and know these) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~merrie/Arthur/index.html
This is a vocabulary list for the Arthurian legend unit. You must begin your study of these terms now.
http://quizlet.com/2319058/king-arthur-flash-cards/
we still have our education to think about, right? We want to accomplish great things, right?
“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. ” ~~ Barack Obama
English AP 11
this is a link to the vocabulary words for The Great Gatsby. There are 57 terms so you should begin to study these on quizlet NOW. http://quizlet.com/2467438/great-gatsby-h-m-king-flash-cards/
~~~~~~~~~~Read Alert!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember you will have a reading test over The Great Gatsby as soon a you return to school. Please read the NOTES UNDER ENGLISH 11 ON Modernism & the Modern Novel. Print out and bring to class. You are responsible for knowing this information
English 11
this is a link to the vocabulary words for The Great Gatsby. There are 57 terms so you should begin to study these on quizlet NOW. http://quizlet.com/2467438/great-gatsby-h-m-king-flash-cards/
~~~~~~~~~~Read Alert!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember you will have a reading test over The Great Gatsby as soon a you return to school.
Please read the following information. Print out and bring to class. You are responsible for knowing this information
Modernism & the Modern Novel Notes:
The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered, stable and inherently meaningful world view of the nineteenth century could not, wrote T.S. Eliot, accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism, they presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. This despair often results in an apparent apathy and moral relativism.. Modernist writers, in their attempt to throw off the aesthetic burden of the realist novel, these writers introduced a variety of literary tactics and devices. Modernism is often derided for abandoning the social world in favor of its narcissistic interest in language and its processes. Recognizing the failure of language to ever fully communicate meaning ("That's not it at all, that's not what I meant at all" laments Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock), the modernists generally downplayed content in favor of an investigation of form.The fragmented, non-chronological, poetic forms utilized by Eliot and Pound revolutionized poetic language. Modern life seemed radically different from traditional life -- more scientific, faster, more technological, and more mechanized. Modernism embraced these changes. Technological innovation in the world of factories and machines inspired new attentiveness to technique in the arts. To take one example: Light, particularly electrical light, fascinated modern artists and writers. Posters and advertisements of the period are full of images of floodlit skyscrapers and light rays shooting out from automobile headlights, movie houses, and watchtowers to illumine a forbidding outer darkness suggesting ignorance and old-fashioned tradition. Vision and viewpoint became an essential aspect of the modernist novel as well. No longer was it sufficient to write a straightforward third-person narrative or (worse yet) use a pointlessly intrusive narrator. The way the story was told became as important as the story itself.
Henry James, William Faulkner, and many other American writers experimented with fictional points of view (some are still doing so). James often restricted the information in the novel to what a single character would have known. Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury (1929) breaks up the narrative into four sections, each giving the viewpoint of a different character (including a mentally retarded boy). To analyze such modernist novels and poetry, a school of "new criticism" arose in the United States, with a new critical vocabulary. New critics hunted the "epiphany" (moment in which a character suddenly sees the transcendent truth of a situation, a term derived from a holy saint's appearance to mortals); they "examined" and "clarified" a work, hoping to "shed light" upon it through their "insights."
SOURCE: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EqHJOMsYVjcJ:www.troyhigh.com/ourpages/auto/2007/8/29/1188402427607/The%2520Great%2520Gatsby.ppt+literary+modernism+and+gatsby&cd=28&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
RESEARCH ONLINE:
1. THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR I ON THE LOST GENERATION
What were the youth rebelling against? Has anything changed in 2010?
2. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND ZELDA SAYRE (Zelda was from Montgomery, Alabama.)
SENIOR ENGLISH
WE ARE NOW MOVING INTO THE MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. WE WILL BEGIN OUR STUDY OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER AND THE CANTERBURY TALES. I SUGGEST THAT YOU TAKE MY DIRECTIONS AND STUDY THE RESOURCES BELOW. MANY OF YOU DID NOT DO THIS WITH BEOWULF AND YOUR TEST GRADES REFLECTED THIS LACK OF ATTENTION TO YOUR ASSIGNMENTS.
I WILL LEAVE THESE LINKS UP FOR TWO WEEKS.
ALL THE INFORMATION ON THESE WEBSITES WILL BE ON THE UNIT TEST SO YOU SHOULD TAKE NOTES OR PRINT OUT THE MATERIAL.
Go to this link and read about Thomas a Becket and his martyrdom: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/becket.htm
These are the terms you need to know for this week. They are the pilgrims who travel to Canterbury in the Tales: http://quizlet.com/1252657/canterbury-tales-pilgrim-profiles-flash-cards/
View the original manuscripts of the Canterbury tales: http://molcat1.bl.uk/treasures/caxton/search.asp
PLEASE READ, STUDY, and PRINT OUT (bring to class with you) THE PAGE CONNECTED TO THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bBWoutwHhfsJ:arapahoe.littletonpublicschools.net/Portals/7/Language%2520Arts/Siekmeier/AP%2520Language/CT%2520Addl%2520background.doc+BACKGROUND+FOR+CANTERBURY+TALES&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS INFORMATION ON THE TEST OVER CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
THIS IS A LINK TO A MAP OF THE PILGRIM'S ROUTE TO CANTERBURY: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/346map.htm
HERE IS A LINK TO A PICTORIAL TOUR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL: http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/canterbury/canterbury.shtml#tour
RESEARCH ON LINE: KNOW THIS MATERIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUELDALISM: http://www.historyonthenet.com/Medieval_Life/feudalism.htm
ST. THOMAS A BECKET (see link above)
COURTLY LOVE: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm
here is an excerpt on COURTLY LOVE: YOU NEED TO KNOW THE CONVENTIONS LISTED BELOW: PRINT OUT A COPY FOR YOURSELF AND BRING TO CLASS.
The conventions of courtly love are that a knight of noble blood would adore and worship a young noble-woman from afar, seeking to protect her honor and win her favor by valorous deeds. He typically falls ill with love-sickness, while the woman chastely or scornfully rejects or refuses his advances in public, but privately encourages him. Courtly love was associated with (A) nobility, since no peasants can engage in "fine love"; (B) secrecy; (C) adultery, since often the one or both participants were married to another noble or trapped in an unloving marriage; and (D) paradoxically with chastity, since the passion could never be consummated due to social circumstances, thus it was a "higher love" unsullied by selfish carnal desires.
An example of this attitude is found in Castiglione's The Courtier, which presents a Renaissance outlook on this medieval ideal:
I hold that a gentleman of worth, who is in love, ought to be sincere and truthful in this [labor] as in all other things; and it if it is true that to betray an enemy is baseness and a most abominable wrong, think how much more grave the offense ought to be considered when done to one whom we love. And I believe that every gentle lover endures so many toils, so many vigils, exposes himself to so many dangers, sheds so many tears, uses so many ways and means to please his lady love--not chiefly in order to possess her body, but to take the fortress of her mind and to break those hardest diamonds and melt that cold ice, which are often found in the tender breasts of women And this I believe is the true and sound pleasure and the goal aimed at by every noble heart. Certainly, if I were in love, I should wish rather to be sure that she whom I served returned my love from her heart and had given me her inner self--if I had no other satisfaction from her--than to take all pleasure with her against her will; for in such a case I should consider myself master merely of a lifeless body. Hence, those who pursue their desires by these tricks, which might perhaps rather be called treacheries than tricks, do wrong to others, nor do they gain that satisfaction withal which is sought in love if they possess the body without the will. I say the same of certain others who in their love make use of enchantments, charms, sometimes force, sometimes sleeping potions, and such things. And you must know that gifts do much to lessen the pleasures of love; for a man can suspect that he is not loved but that his lady makes a show of loving him in order to gain something by it. Hence, you see that the love of some great lady is prized because it seems that it cannot arise from any other source save that of real and true affection, nor is it to be thought that so great a lady would ever pretend to love an inferior if she did not really love him.
--The Book of the Courtier, Book 2, Paragraph 94 SOURCE: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/courtly_love.html
FRENCH I/II
we will continue our work in chapter two. You all did very well on your vocabulary test! Felicitations! I will post more as the week progresses so please check back!
Myth and Legend
Hey guys! On Monday you will take your test over Edith Hamilton's Mythology.
Next we will move into a study of England's legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I will be supply you with handouts of this work and you will also be required to do some online reading. I have a very good documentary on The Legend of Arthur that I will show you in class.
Joseph Campbell said, We don't look to myth to find the meaning of life, its purpose is to make us appreciate 'the adventure of being alive'. Without some sense of ourselves within a larger history of human imagination and experience, our life would inevitably lack romance and depth. The stories and imagery we have in our heads are only a tiny fraction of what is available to us, and in increasing our knowledge of past culture and art, life is enriched immeasurably.
First I would like for you to go to this website and read the following: When did King Arthur live? Knights of the Round Table Geography (click on the links of all places and know these) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~merrie/Arthur/index.html
This is a vocabulary list for the Arthurian legend unit. You must begin your study of these terms now.
http://quizlet.com/2319058/king-arthur-flash-cards/
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