French I/II
Chapter 3 Part 2 On fait les courses
Vocabulary pp. 94-97. Exercises 24, 25, 26.
Homework translate pp 106-109 and answer all questions turn in to substitute on Friday.
Vocabulary 2 - http://quizlet.com/1789704/bien-dit-french-2-chapitre-3-vocabulaire-2-flash-cards/
Senior English
writing the persuasive essay/introduction/assignment
your essay will be due at the end of class on Friday.
MYTH AND LEGEND
This week we will continue our study of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Your second set of questions will be due on Tuesday December 7
These are links to two scholarly articles that I will pass out in class on Wednesday. The first explains the phenomenon of Spiritualism that pervaded the Victorian world. This fad was based on the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish mystic, philosopher, theologian, and scientist, http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/spirit.html Many Victorians, particularly those who had begun to abandon conventional religion, fervently believed in spiritualism, Elizabeth Barrett Browning among them (much to the dismay of her husband).The second scholarly article deals with the epistolary structure of Dracula as a text. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/stoker/scarborough1.html
Hopefully, we will view a section of the PBS series "Regency House Party" in which the tension between science and spiritualism is discussed. Remember that literature
helps us understand and make sense of the world around us. Through literature, we explore the human condition and analyze how and why people think the way they think and feel the way they feel. Dracula reflects ways in which some Victorians made sense of their world. Literature is important to us because it speaks to us, it is universal, and it affects us. Good literature, speaks of issues that are still present in our current society like issues of good and evil. We can learn a great deal about the human experience from studying the ideas of others.
English 11
We will analyze T. S. Eliot's poem of 1915T.S.Eliot's "The Love Song of Alfred J.Prufrock" (1915) is certainly a 'Modernist' poem. Modernism is a literary movement that is marked by a sense of isolation and unhappiness with the movement from the agricultural society to an industrial one.One element that emerged from this period was stream-of-conscious, which is writing characterized by the procession of thoughts.
Some of the important features of modernist writing are as follows:
1. The poem is a detailed record of the random thoughts -subjective consciousness-represented just as they are going on in the mind of Prufrock.
2. Modernist writers were influenced by Freud's psychoanalytical method by which a person was able to speak freely to release all his repressed emotions just like Prufrock in the poem: "To spit out all the butt ends of my days and /ways?"
3. The poets used avant garde methods like the 'Stream of Consciousness' technique to faithfully portray the complex ways in which the mind works-psychologically by association rather than logically.
4. This resulted in their characters having multiple personalities like Prufrock who is both the speaker and the listener in the poem.
5. The modernist writers were influenced by contemporary artistic movements like 'Collage.' The poem is a mosaic of quotations from Dante, Shakespeare and the Holy Bible.
6. Eliot, like other modernist writers, deals with chronological (past,present and future), historical and most importantly subjective time.
7. Pessimism and loneliness: The entire poem is a desperate attempt by Prufock to relate to another human being.
8. The poem is dedicated to his friend who died in the 1st World War.
On Wednesday and Thursday you will write an essay on Prufrock. The following is the prompt for the essay-- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was written during the modernist literary movement. What lines show influence of a modernist society? Or in other words, is there evidence in the poem that shows this poem was clearly a modernist work?
AP Language and Composition
Practice test multiple choice/return essay/debrief
Friday - James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohican's - examining the first American hero as a basis for understanding the transition of the American hero.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
November 22-23
Happy Thanksgiving!
English 11
Complete descriptive essay and turn in.
If possible introduce Fenimore Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales
Last of the Mohicans
AP English
AP reader for a day. On Tuesday you will be an AP reader and dissect your last essay. Bring your highlighters to class for this exercise.
Myth and Legend
Women and Gender in Dracula. Gothic Literature
Guided practice in literary analysis
Senior English
Ballads of the Medieval period.
French I/II
Food Fete
English 11
Complete descriptive essay and turn in.
If possible introduce Fenimore Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales
Last of the Mohicans
AP English
AP reader for a day. On Tuesday you will be an AP reader and dissect your last essay. Bring your highlighters to class for this exercise.
Myth and Legend
Women and Gender in Dracula. Gothic Literature
Guided practice in literary analysis
Senior English
Ballads of the Medieval period.
French I/II
Food Fete
Sunday, November 14, 2010
November 15 -19
AP English
I will return your essays to you on Tuesday. You have improved your writing capacity. We will move on to Asserting (the practice of stating opinions vigorously, thereby giving argument clarity and direction). We will write a timed persuasive essay this week.
French I/II
This week you will take the test over vocabulary Chp. 3. Since there were so many absences on Friday, I moved the date to Tuesday of this week. On November 23rd we we will prepare French dishes and participate in a classroom fete. We will continue to write in French as well as practice pronunciation of phrases to request something, to ask how much something cost and to ask directions. I will continue with the PowerPoint's for practice, because I thought that these engaged you in critical thinking.
English 11
BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS EACH DAY. We will continue to work with the poetry of the early 20th century
Imagism, Symbolism, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, ee cummings and T.S. Eliot
You will write a descriptive essay pp. 679 in class on Thursday.
Senior English
WHERE WERE YOU ON FRIDAY???????????????BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS EACH DAY. This week we will continue to work with literature in the Middle Ages, however we will take a little turn to the South, to Italy, and read Federigo's Falcon a tale from the frame narrative The Decameron. This tale uses the literary element of situational irony. Situational irony is a relationship of contrast between what an audience is led to expect during a particular situation within the unfolding of a story's plot and a situation that ends up actually resulting later on. One element that defines the Middle Ages is the movement of the Bubonic Plague across Europe. Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in recorded history. By the time the epidemic played itself out three years later, anywhere between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had fallen victim to the pestilence. Some thought that moderate living and the avoidance of all superfluity would preserve them from the epidemic. They formed small communities, living entirely separate from everybody else. They shut themselves up in houses where there were no sick, eating the finest food and drinking the best wine very temperately, avoiding all excess, allowing no news or discussion of death and sickness, and passing the time in music and suchlike pleasures.This is represented in Boccaccio's Decameron (1350). Others thought just the opposite. They thought the sure cure for the plague was to drink and be merry, to go about singing and amusing themselves, satisfying every appetite they could, laughing and jesting at what happened. They put their words into practice, spent day and night going from tavern to tavern, drinking immoderately, or went into other people's houses, doing only those things which pleased them. This they could easily do because everyone felt doomed and had abandoned his property, so that most houses became common property and any stranger who went in made use of them as if he had owned them. And with all this bestial behaviour, they avoided the sick as much as possible. As you can see this catastrophe had an unprecedented effect upon the European population.
When studying the arts of any period it is vitally important to examine the political, social and economic factors bearing down upon aesthetics. We will watch a history channel documentary of the effects of the plague on the whole of Europe, since we will be examining Boccaccio's Decameron (1350). Additionally, you will be composing a piece of creative writing yourself! This tale will be due on Friday Nov. 19th. We will share the tales in class and determine the best tale.
Myth and Legend
This week we will begin the study of Bram Stoker's Dracula. BRING YOU BOOKS TO CLASS EACH DAY THAT WE MEET. I would like you to consider these questions: What is the appeal of Gothic Horror? Why do we continue to be intrigued by the Myth of the Vampire? The contemporary commerical success of the vampire themed fantasy romance series Twilight reiterates this assumption. But my question is why? Why does Gothic horror continue to be so popular with readers? Scholars believe that the Victorians turned to this type of novel for emotional and physical release from a world controlled by a repressive moral code. I hardly think that that argument holds water in the 21st century. Think about these questions and be prepared to discuss in class. We will use a study guide/questions/vocabulary to work through the text.
I will return your essays to you on Tuesday. You have improved your writing capacity. We will move on to Asserting (the practice of stating opinions vigorously, thereby giving argument clarity and direction). We will write a timed persuasive essay this week.
French I/II
This week you will take the test over vocabulary Chp. 3. Since there were so many absences on Friday, I moved the date to Tuesday of this week. On November 23rd we we will prepare French dishes and participate in a classroom fete. We will continue to write in French as well as practice pronunciation of phrases to request something, to ask how much something cost and to ask directions. I will continue with the PowerPoint's for practice, because I thought that these engaged you in critical thinking.
English 11
BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS EACH DAY. We will continue to work with the poetry of the early 20th century
Imagism, Symbolism, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, ee cummings and T.S. Eliot
You will write a descriptive essay pp. 679 in class on Thursday.
Senior English
WHERE WERE YOU ON FRIDAY???????????????BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS EACH DAY. This week we will continue to work with literature in the Middle Ages, however we will take a little turn to the South, to Italy, and read Federigo's Falcon a tale from the frame narrative The Decameron. This tale uses the literary element of situational irony. Situational irony is a relationship of contrast between what an audience is led to expect during a particular situation within the unfolding of a story's plot and a situation that ends up actually resulting later on. One element that defines the Middle Ages is the movement of the Bubonic Plague across Europe. Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in recorded history. By the time the epidemic played itself out three years later, anywhere between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had fallen victim to the pestilence. Some thought that moderate living and the avoidance of all superfluity would preserve them from the epidemic. They formed small communities, living entirely separate from everybody else. They shut themselves up in houses where there were no sick, eating the finest food and drinking the best wine very temperately, avoiding all excess, allowing no news or discussion of death and sickness, and passing the time in music and suchlike pleasures.This is represented in Boccaccio's Decameron (1350). Others thought just the opposite. They thought the sure cure for the plague was to drink and be merry, to go about singing and amusing themselves, satisfying every appetite they could, laughing and jesting at what happened. They put their words into practice, spent day and night going from tavern to tavern, drinking immoderately, or went into other people's houses, doing only those things which pleased them. This they could easily do because everyone felt doomed and had abandoned his property, so that most houses became common property and any stranger who went in made use of them as if he had owned them. And with all this bestial behaviour, they avoided the sick as much as possible. As you can see this catastrophe had an unprecedented effect upon the European population.
When studying the arts of any period it is vitally important to examine the political, social and economic factors bearing down upon aesthetics. We will watch a history channel documentary of the effects of the plague on the whole of Europe, since we will be examining Boccaccio's Decameron (1350). Additionally, you will be composing a piece of creative writing yourself! This tale will be due on Friday Nov. 19th. We will share the tales in class and determine the best tale.
Myth and Legend
This week we will begin the study of Bram Stoker's Dracula. BRING YOU BOOKS TO CLASS EACH DAY THAT WE MEET. I would like you to consider these questions: What is the appeal of Gothic Horror? Why do we continue to be intrigued by the Myth of the Vampire? The contemporary commerical success of the vampire themed fantasy romance series Twilight reiterates this assumption. But my question is why? Why does Gothic horror continue to be so popular with readers? Scholars believe that the Victorians turned to this type of novel for emotional and physical release from a world controlled by a repressive moral code. I hardly think that that argument holds water in the 21st century. Think about these questions and be prepared to discuss in class. We will use a study guide/questions/vocabulary to work through the text.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Nov 8-12
VETERAN'S DAY - SCHOOL HOLIDAY THURSDAY NOV. 11
AP LITERATURE: OPENING PARAGRAPHS
Last week as we examined Thomas Paine's Common Sense our brillant class discussions lead us to investigate the idea of Anarchy. Hotel Rwanda is an excellent example anarchy at work within in a nation.
I hope you better understand the difference between revolution and anarchy now. We want to examine the type of language used in introducations to garner the reader's attention. Secondly, we will move on to Asserting (the practice of stating opinions vigorously, thereby giving argument clarity and direction).
English 11
Grammar Workbook pages 75-82 (compound subjects & predicates, order of sub/predicates, direct and indirect objects,object &subject complements)
Introduction to modern poetry Imagism & Sybolism, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, ee cummings
Writing a descriptive essay pp. 679
Thursday no class
Senior English
This week we will continue to work with British literature in the Middle Ages. One element that defines the Middle Ages is the movement of the Bubonic Plague across Europe. We will watch a history channel documentary of the effects of the plague on the whole of Europe, since we will be examining Boccacio's Decameron. Additionally, you will be composing a piece of creative writing yourself! This tale will be due on Friday Nov. 12th. We will share the tales in class and determine the best tale.
Myth and Legend
We are finally completing Arthurian Legend by examining 2 contemporary pieces of artistic expression. The first is Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot," http://charon.sfsu.edu/tennyson/tennlady.html
the second is a song by The Moody Blues, "Knights in White Satin."
French 1/2
We will continue to work with grammar and the vocabulary of chapter 3. Additionally, I think we need a good deal of practice on verb identification. On November 23rd we we will prepare French dishes and participate in a classroom fete. I know you are excited about this.Please prepare for the chapter 3 vocabulary test on Friday chapter 3 vocabulary 1 link on quizlet: http://quizlet.com/1759935/bien-dit-2-ch-31-flash-cards. We will continue to write in French as well as practice pronounciation of phrases to request something, to ask how much something cost and to ask directions.
There are very good powerpoints at this website /http://www.mflresources.org.uk/#frppt
I encourage you to go to this website and practice your French.
See you in class.
AP LITERATURE: OPENING PARAGRAPHS
Last week as we examined Thomas Paine's Common Sense our brillant class discussions lead us to investigate the idea of Anarchy. Hotel Rwanda is an excellent example anarchy at work within in a nation.
I hope you better understand the difference between revolution and anarchy now. We want to examine the type of language used in introducations to garner the reader's attention. Secondly, we will move on to Asserting (the practice of stating opinions vigorously, thereby giving argument clarity and direction).
English 11
Grammar Workbook pages 75-82 (compound subjects & predicates, order of sub/predicates, direct and indirect objects,object &subject complements)
Introduction to modern poetry Imagism & Sybolism, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, ee cummings
Writing a descriptive essay pp. 679
Thursday no class
Senior English
This week we will continue to work with British literature in the Middle Ages. One element that defines the Middle Ages is the movement of the Bubonic Plague across Europe. We will watch a history channel documentary of the effects of the plague on the whole of Europe, since we will be examining Boccacio's Decameron. Additionally, you will be composing a piece of creative writing yourself! This tale will be due on Friday Nov. 12th. We will share the tales in class and determine the best tale.
Myth and Legend
We are finally completing Arthurian Legend by examining 2 contemporary pieces of artistic expression. The first is Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot," http://charon.sfsu.edu/tennyson/tennlady.html
the second is a song by The Moody Blues, "Knights in White Satin."
French 1/2
We will continue to work with grammar and the vocabulary of chapter 3. Additionally, I think we need a good deal of practice on verb identification. On November 23rd we we will prepare French dishes and participate in a classroom fete. I know you are excited about this.Please prepare for the chapter 3 vocabulary test on Friday chapter 3 vocabulary 1 link on quizlet: http://quizlet.com/1759935/bien-dit-2-ch-31-flash-cards. We will continue to write in French as well as practice pronounciation of phrases to request something, to ask how much something cost and to ask directions.
There are very good powerpoints at this website /http://www.mflresources.org.uk/#frppt
I encourage you to go to this website and practice your French.
See you in class.
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