November 29 - Dec 3

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.