Well students I think we are now back on track after the random weather events of the last few weeks!
This week seems to be about PRESENTATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
English 11
2A
Here is a excerpt from the Soledad Daily News:
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George Milton Trial Set For January 31st POSTPONED UNTIL FEBRUARY 2ND BECAUSE OF JUDGE'S ILLNESS
No one expected George Milton to pull the trigger and kill his best friend, Lennie Small. But that is exactly what happened and now a team of detectives has swarmed onto the ranch in Soledad, Californina to investigate the crime scene. George never expected his life to turn out this way, but now as he sits in his Soledad County jail cell awaiting his trial, he reflects on his friendship with Lennie and what his fate will be as his lawyer and the prosecution team prepare their cases. Since a criminal case like this has not occurred in this otherwise quiet, lonesome community, a media circus has flooded Soledad and made George Milton the center of controversy. What will happen to George Milton once his trial begins? Milton, arraigned in court last month, is charged with the capital murder of Small. In a press conference today the D.A. confirmed the State's intent to hold Milton accountable for the premeditated murder of Small by seeking the harshest punishment available under California law. The trial is set to begin around 11 o'clock on Monday morning in Judge Elliott's courtroom.
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English 11/1A & 2A
Complete the assignment given in class on Thursday: read pp 216-222 in your textbook and complete the critical thinking questions for "Incident" and ""Tableau" by Countee Cullen. Be prepared to discuss these poems in class. Look up the critical analysis of both online. Those students who have not passed the reading or language portion of the Alabama High School Graduation Exam should discuss opportunities for test taking practice with me.
We will be working in your grammar workbook this week in class Additionally, I would like for you to complete Unit 3 partially in class and the pages you do not complete in class will be your homework. Some of you work faster than others and you may complete all of the work in class. We will check the work on Thursday in class. This will be graded work, so be attentive to the grammar rules that apply to your work.
Shakespeare:
We will continue our study of The tragedy: Macbeth. Practice and learn your lines for scene presentations. You did very well on the vocab test last week -Congrats! You will be writing an essay on the play. I will provide the prompt. Additionally, I will test on Acts I -IV after viewing. Make sure you know the characters and the themes of the play. Cliff notes can be very helpful in providing additional explanatory information. such as summaries of the acts and explanations of themes within the play. You can find these online. They will supply you with a deeper understanding of the works. This is a link to the powerpoint for your to watch:
http://www.worldofteaching.com/powerpoints/english/Unlocking%20Themes%20in%20Macbeth.ppt
Senior English
Complete Macbeth. Scene presentations on Friday in the Auditorium. Consider your topic for a research paper. Remember you must use scholarly sources, so consider topics that academics have researched and written about. I will give the unit test on Macbeth next week, because you have your scene presentations this week. We will also discuss the handout that I gave you last week on THE GLOBE THEATER AND THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.Additionally, I will test on Acts I -IV after viewing. Make sure you know the characters and the themes of the play. Cliff notes can be very helpful in providing additional explanatory information. such as summaries of the acts and explanations of themes within the play. You can find these online. They will supply you with a deeper understanding of the works.
French I/II
This week we will be working with reflexive verbs and talking about our daily routine. I will give you a vocab quiz over reflexive verbs on Tuesday...BE SURE TO STUDY FOR THIS. I will assign homework exercises in class.
AP Language and Comp.
This week we will complete the multiple choice test and analysis of In Cold Blood. Then we will write the timed essays. Since we have 60 more multiple choice questions and analysis to do, I think we will probably have to write the essays next week. ( I only have you 2 days this week and the analysis and discussion seems to take a good bit of our time.)
ALERT: AP LANG AND COMP VOCABULARY E-H
http://quizlet.com/4262597/ap-lang-and-comp-e-h-flash-cards/
TEST NEXT WEDS. FEBRUARY 9TH, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
WELCOME BACK JAN 4-7 2011
AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
We will begin Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS
MULTIPLE CHOICE PRACTICE
practice multiple choice test
syntax: sentence structure(handout)
Stylistic Analysis (handout)
VOCAB WORDS FOR THIS WEEK: http://quizlet.com/3886406/c-d-words-flash-cards/
FRENCH 2
THIS WEEKS VOCAB WORDS CHAPTER 4:
http://quizlet.com/622772/bien-dit-level-2-ch-4-vocab-1-flash-cards/
HOMEWORK EXERCISES: # 5 P. 121, 12 & 14 P.124-125, 18 P. 127
ENGLISH 11
ALERT: The test over both sets of vocabulary for the novel OF MICE AND MEN will be on Thursday Jan 13 or Friday Jan 14th following the schedule for English A and B.
VOCAB WORDS FOR OF MICE AND MEN: http://quizlet.com/1099563/of-mice-and-men-vocabulary-colloquialisms-flash-cards/
CHARACTERS: http://quizlet.com/959239/of-mice-and-men-characters-flash-cards/
As per my instructions you were to read John Steinbeck's novel OF MICE AND MEN over the break. Actually you should only have to reread the text as this was your assigned summer reading.
John Steinbeck, American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading writer of novels about the working class and was a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression (a downturn in the American system of producing, distributing, and using goods and services in the 1930s, and during which time millions of people lost their jobs).
Of Mice and Men (1937), first conceived as a play, is a tightly constructed novella (short novel) about an unusual friendship between two migrant workers (laborers who travel to wherever there is available work, usually on farms). Although the book is powerfully written and often moving, some critics feel that it lacks a moral vision. http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Steinbeck-John.html I personally disagree. I think George's concern and his self sacrifice to insure Lennie's well being speaks to man's ethical responsibility to those with disabilities.
Additionally, the theme of loneliness underscores man's desire for community and the struggle to answer the age old question: How shall we live well together? The American Dream of property ownership is powerfully depicted within the text through the characters' desire for their own farm. George is not selfish with his dream like Gatsby, but rather his dream signifies a desire to establish an edenic setting for those marginalized by society.
Senior English:
We are moving into the Elizabethan period. We will begin our study of the Shakespearean tragedy, Macbeth.
BRING YOUR BOOKS TO CLASS.
TEST ALERT Begin to study these Macbeth quotes: http://quizlet.com/3281867/macbeth-quotes-flash-cards/
Shakespeare
Welcome to the class!
This a link to the introductory vocabulary list
http://quizlet.com/23945/shakespearean-english-vocabulary-flash-cards/ TEST ON MONDAY JAN 10
Introduction to Shakespeare
Elizabethan England
We will begin Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS
MULTIPLE CHOICE PRACTICE
practice multiple choice test
syntax: sentence structure(handout)
Stylistic Analysis (handout)
VOCAB WORDS FOR THIS WEEK: http://quizlet.com/3886406/c-d-words-flash-cards/
FRENCH 2
THIS WEEKS VOCAB WORDS CHAPTER 4:
http://quizlet.com/622772/bien-dit-level-2-ch-4-vocab-1-flash-cards/
HOMEWORK EXERCISES: # 5 P. 121, 12 & 14 P.124-125, 18 P. 127
ENGLISH 11
ALERT: The test over both sets of vocabulary for the novel OF MICE AND MEN will be on Thursday Jan 13 or Friday Jan 14th following the schedule for English A and B.
VOCAB WORDS FOR OF MICE AND MEN: http://quizlet.com/1099563/of-mice-and-men-vocabulary-colloquialisms-flash-cards/
CHARACTERS: http://quizlet.com/959239/of-mice-and-men-characters-flash-cards/
As per my instructions you were to read John Steinbeck's novel OF MICE AND MEN over the break. Actually you should only have to reread the text as this was your assigned summer reading.
John Steinbeck, American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading writer of novels about the working class and was a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression (a downturn in the American system of producing, distributing, and using goods and services in the 1930s, and during which time millions of people lost their jobs).
Of Mice and Men (1937), first conceived as a play, is a tightly constructed novella (short novel) about an unusual friendship between two migrant workers (laborers who travel to wherever there is available work, usually on farms). Although the book is powerfully written and often moving, some critics feel that it lacks a moral vision. http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Steinbeck-John.html I personally disagree. I think George's concern and his self sacrifice to insure Lennie's well being speaks to man's ethical responsibility to those with disabilities.
Additionally, the theme of loneliness underscores man's desire for community and the struggle to answer the age old question: How shall we live well together? The American Dream of property ownership is powerfully depicted within the text through the characters' desire for their own farm. George is not selfish with his dream like Gatsby, but rather his dream signifies a desire to establish an edenic setting for those marginalized by society.
Senior English:
We are moving into the Elizabethan period. We will begin our study of the Shakespearean tragedy, Macbeth.
BRING YOUR BOOKS TO CLASS.
TEST ALERT Begin to study these Macbeth quotes: http://quizlet.com/3281867/macbeth-quotes-flash-cards/
Shakespeare
Welcome to the class!
This a link to the introductory vocabulary list
http://quizlet.com/23945/shakespearean-english-vocabulary-flash-cards/ TEST ON MONDAY JAN 10
Introduction to Shakespeare
Elizabethan England
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
December 13 -17
MIDTERMS THIS WEEK
THURSDAY: A DAY 1/2
FRIDAY: B DAY 1/2
AP literature and Senior English:
Essay due by midterms (bring to class)
Essay: The Economics of A Christmas Carol--handout
Source: http://www.nallon.com/carol/chrcarIII.html
View Dicken's A Christmas Carol
Themes: Aging, Children, Death and Dying, Disability, Empathy, Family Relationships, Father-Son Relationship, Grief, Human Worth, Loneliness, Memory, Mourning, Poverty, Religion, Society, Spirituality, Suffering, Time
The primary recipients of Scrooge's moral rebirth are his poor clerk Bob Cratchit and his family, especially the crippled boy Tiny Tim. When Scrooge wakes from his ghostly visitations, he delivers a huge turkey to the Cratchit household and gives Bob a raise. He becomes a "second father" to Tim and reconciles with his own nephew.
Commentary: A Christmas Carol exemplifies Dickens's vigorous opposition to those Victorian social reformers and businessmen who believed, like Scrooge, that charity encouraged idleness and that the poor should be left to die and "decrease the surplus population" (12).
This Victorian Malthusianism (based loosely on the ideas of 18th century writer Thomas Malthus) was often accompanied by an individualism that classified all misfortunes as personal failings rather than public problems. Dickens's anti-Malthusian approach to issues like poverty and disability, however, is also worked out in personal and local ways: rather than lobbying for Parliamentary reform, Scrooge acts on his moral rebirth by helping one family.
The resilient popularity of the story testifies to our continuing desire to believe that one person's change of heart can solve social problems. A Christmas Carol is emotionally satisfying in other ways as well: we may safely face death with Scrooge, experiencing vicariously his moral recovery; we may share with Tim and Bob the satisfaction of having one's worth recognized and one's suffering removed (a recurrent theme of Victorian melodramatic literature).
The character Tiny Tim, who hopes that "people saw him in . . . church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see" (45) is the clearest literary image of physical disability in the minds of many twentieth-century people. Tiny Tim is also the disabled character most objectionable to literary critics and disability activists alike. He is both an emblem of Victorian sentimental excess and the model for all the poster children of our time--the "patient . . . mild" cripple who accepts his suffering and is sweetly grateful for the charity of the non-disabled (68).
Tim's body invites metaphoric and spiritual readings as a reminder of Christly miracles and as a figure for spiritual wholeness. With a crutch and iron frame supporting his limbs, however, the character is firmly anchored to harsh Victorian social realities, as are the allegorical figures of Ignorance and Want, who appear to Scrooge as two "wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable" children (56).
The character of Tim should be evaluated within the context of Victorian literature and culture, in which the saintly child visibly "afflicted" with physical disability was a recurrent and thus recognizable figure, so effective at stimulating charitable giving that indigent people with disabilities could not simply ignore it if they wanted to survive outside the workhouse. Similarly, the degree of cultural harm characters like Tim undoubtedly produced should be evaluated in conjunction with the possible benefits of the social awareness and financial contributions they stimulated.
Source: http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1341
Preparation for midterms
English 11
prepare for midtermsENGLISH 11
MIDTERM (all multiple choice)
Introduction to the Moderns
EZRA POUND:
“The River-Merchant’s Wife”
“The Garden”
“A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste”
T.S. Eliot:
“The Love Song of J. Afred Prufrock”
William Carlos Williams:
“The Red Wheel Barrow”
“The Great Figure”
“This Is Just To Say”
Horacio Quiroga
“The Feather Pillow”
Work Due for class: Word Search/ Christmas Essay
French 1/2
Christmas in France
Prepare for midterms
Myth and Legend
complete Dracula/ discussion groups/ science and technology in the 19th century
Preparation for midterms: You must have your book (Dracula)for the midterm you will use this book on for the test!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by re-reading chapter 1-8 and 11-20. Look for details of literary elements like personification, imagery, and foreshadowing. Know the plot sequence, characters and their idiosyncrasies.
Know the following words and be able to use these words in a sentence: acquiesce, diabolical, inquietude, lethargy, malignity.
You have 2 essay questions that count 1/2 of the test.
Essay 1. What is meant by "the burden of souls" in chapter 20. Who has the burden of souls and who does not and how is this ironic?
Essay 2. As the novel begins, Dracula has been a vampire for many centuries and has great strength and power. He accomplishes his evil purposes mainly through weak links: women, an insane man, and an unsuspecting, unprotected foreigner. His "children," the vampires he has created, are all women, including the lovely female vampires who live with him at the castle. They are presented as unnatural women. They prey on children and behave aggressively and seductively toward men. Lucy acts in this manner after she becomes a vampire. How does this representation of women reflect the mores and values, positioning of power and privilege in the Victorian era? You will need to thoroughly discuss this point to receive credit for the questions. Spelling and correct grammar count.
THURSDAY: A DAY 1/2
FRIDAY: B DAY 1/2
AP literature and Senior English:
Essay due by midterms (bring to class)
Essay: The Economics of A Christmas Carol--handout
Source: http://www.nallon.com/carol/chrcarIII.html
View Dicken's A Christmas Carol
Themes: Aging, Children, Death and Dying, Disability, Empathy, Family Relationships, Father-Son Relationship, Grief, Human Worth, Loneliness, Memory, Mourning, Poverty, Religion, Society, Spirituality, Suffering, Time
The primary recipients of Scrooge's moral rebirth are his poor clerk Bob Cratchit and his family, especially the crippled boy Tiny Tim. When Scrooge wakes from his ghostly visitations, he delivers a huge turkey to the Cratchit household and gives Bob a raise. He becomes a "second father" to Tim and reconciles with his own nephew.
Commentary: A Christmas Carol exemplifies Dickens's vigorous opposition to those Victorian social reformers and businessmen who believed, like Scrooge, that charity encouraged idleness and that the poor should be left to die and "decrease the surplus population" (12).
This Victorian Malthusianism (based loosely on the ideas of 18th century writer Thomas Malthus) was often accompanied by an individualism that classified all misfortunes as personal failings rather than public problems. Dickens's anti-Malthusian approach to issues like poverty and disability, however, is also worked out in personal and local ways: rather than lobbying for Parliamentary reform, Scrooge acts on his moral rebirth by helping one family.
The resilient popularity of the story testifies to our continuing desire to believe that one person's change of heart can solve social problems. A Christmas Carol is emotionally satisfying in other ways as well: we may safely face death with Scrooge, experiencing vicariously his moral recovery; we may share with Tim and Bob the satisfaction of having one's worth recognized and one's suffering removed (a recurrent theme of Victorian melodramatic literature).
The character Tiny Tim, who hopes that "people saw him in . . . church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see" (45) is the clearest literary image of physical disability in the minds of many twentieth-century people. Tiny Tim is also the disabled character most objectionable to literary critics and disability activists alike. He is both an emblem of Victorian sentimental excess and the model for all the poster children of our time--the "patient . . . mild" cripple who accepts his suffering and is sweetly grateful for the charity of the non-disabled (68).
Tim's body invites metaphoric and spiritual readings as a reminder of Christly miracles and as a figure for spiritual wholeness. With a crutch and iron frame supporting his limbs, however, the character is firmly anchored to harsh Victorian social realities, as are the allegorical figures of Ignorance and Want, who appear to Scrooge as two "wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable" children (56).
The character of Tim should be evaluated within the context of Victorian literature and culture, in which the saintly child visibly "afflicted" with physical disability was a recurrent and thus recognizable figure, so effective at stimulating charitable giving that indigent people with disabilities could not simply ignore it if they wanted to survive outside the workhouse. Similarly, the degree of cultural harm characters like Tim undoubtedly produced should be evaluated in conjunction with the possible benefits of the social awareness and financial contributions they stimulated.
Source: http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1341
Preparation for midterms
English 11
prepare for midtermsENGLISH 11
MIDTERM (all multiple choice)
Introduction to the Moderns
EZRA POUND:
“The River-Merchant’s Wife”
“The Garden”
“A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste”
T.S. Eliot:
“The Love Song of J. Afred Prufrock”
William Carlos Williams:
“The Red Wheel Barrow”
“The Great Figure”
“This Is Just To Say”
Horacio Quiroga
“The Feather Pillow”
Work Due for class: Word Search/ Christmas Essay
French 1/2
Christmas in France
Prepare for midterms
Myth and Legend
complete Dracula/ discussion groups/ science and technology in the 19th century
Preparation for midterms: You must have your book (Dracula)for the midterm you will use this book on for the test!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by re-reading chapter 1-8 and 11-20. Look for details of literary elements like personification, imagery, and foreshadowing. Know the plot sequence, characters and their idiosyncrasies.
Know the following words and be able to use these words in a sentence: acquiesce, diabolical, inquietude, lethargy, malignity.
You have 2 essay questions that count 1/2 of the test.
Essay 1. What is meant by "the burden of souls" in chapter 20. Who has the burden of souls and who does not and how is this ironic?
Essay 2. As the novel begins, Dracula has been a vampire for many centuries and has great strength and power. He accomplishes his evil purposes mainly through weak links: women, an insane man, and an unsuspecting, unprotected foreigner. His "children," the vampires he has created, are all women, including the lovely female vampires who live with him at the castle. They are presented as unnatural women. They prey on children and behave aggressively and seductively toward men. Lucy acts in this manner after she becomes a vampire. How does this representation of women reflect the mores and values, positioning of power and privilege in the Victorian era? You will need to thoroughly discuss this point to receive credit for the questions. Spelling and correct grammar count.
December 6-10
All classes refer to class blogs of November 29-December 3
We will be completing these lessons
Myth and Legend: Thursday there will be a guest speaker.
We will be completing these lessons
Myth and Legend: Thursday there will be a guest speaker.
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