HOC OPUS, HIC LABOR EST.
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Registration Week: December 3-5
Initial assignments
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Period 1 |
- Reading: Start reading the
four dramas in
the packet.
- Writing: Turn in one 12 inch folder with
your
name, course,
and section number on the tab.
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Week 1: December 8-12
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Period 1 |
- Reading: BIL (The Bedford Introduction
to
Literature) 182-184.
Packet 48a, "Young Goodman Brown." Packet 3, "Three Religious Lies."
Browse
through BIL for a topic for research. It must be a literary
paper
about a specific work in our text, or about one of our collateral
readings.
- Writing: Do the prewriting questions below.
- What is the significance of Goodman Brown's name? Of
Faith's name?
Goody
Cloyse? Deacon Gookin?
- As you read the story a second time, make a list of all
the qualifying
words that Hawthorne uses to suggest that the events described may or
may
not be actually happening--words like seem, appear, perhaps,
etc.
What does Hawthorne achieve through this word choice?
- Consult an encyclopedia to find out exactly what the
meaning of a Witches'
Sabbath is. Is Hawthorne's description accurate?
- What causes Goodman Brown's tragedy? What is it that
ruins his life?
- List at least 5 words that describe the setting of this
story.
- Point of View. What kind of narrator does the story have?
What does the
method of narration imply for the impact of the story?
- Develop two outlines for an essay using two of the
approaches discussed
in part II of BIL (structure, imagery, viewpoint, etc.) or
approaches
discussed in class.
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Period 2 |
- Reading: Shirley Jackson
"The Lottery," Leviticus 16:6-10, Joshua 7:1-26, John
7:53-8:11. BIL 270-273, 2156-2163. Packet 1, 5-9.
- Writing: Thesis exercises, packet p. 8.
- Develop the outline into a rough draft. Bring the outline
and rough
draft
to class today. Use BIL 2156-2163 to learn how to incorporate
quotes
into your draft.
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Week 2: December 15-19
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Period 1 |
- Reading: BIL 51-67. Begin work on your
research paper. Read
the work at least twice and begin the prewriting process to get ideas
for
a thesis.
- Writing:
- Research paper. Submit two topics for research
(in
order of preference).
I'll take these and approve one for your research paper. Select a
literary
work from the text or one of the collateral works.
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Period 2 |
- Reading: BIL 95-105, 218-223, 2147-2166 on
point of view & Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily."
- Writing:
- In preparation for an essay on "A Rose," do prewriting
questions below
- What does Faulkner achieve by disrupting the chronology
of "A Rose"?
- How would you describe the point of view here? Is it
effective? Why or
why not?
- What are the social tensions portrayed in the story?
What stereotypes?
- What kind of person is Emily Grierson? Why does she
live in the past?
How
do the townspeople feel about her? How do you feel about her?
- What kind of person is Homer Barron? Why do the
townspeople consider
him
not good enough for Miss Emily?
- Explain the function of dust and decay in the story?
- Why is Emily able to "get away with it"? Does she
really
get
away with it?
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Week 3: January 5-9
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Period 1 |
- Reading:
- Writing: ESSAY ON "LOTTERY" OR "YOUNG GOODMAN
BROWN" DUE.
- Research paper prewriting.
- Correct the bibliography in your packet, p. 16. Follow
the guidelines
on
MLA form in BIL 2154-2163.
- Submit a bibliography on your research topic consisting
of 10 works
(books
& journal articles). Follow the guidelines in BIL
2154-2163.
Compile
the bibliography using the following sources.
- The card catalog
- The MLA Bibliography
- Essay and General Literature Index
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Period 2 |
- Reading: BIL 182-183, "Roman Fever" at About.com.
At Memorial
High School. At CoolSchool.
- Writing: Prewriting exercises.
- What was "Roman fever" in the time of Mrs. Slade's and
Mrs. Ansley's
youth?
What is the metaphoric meaning of the term?
- List all the times Grace Ansley hints at her secret.
How does the
foreshadowing
contribute to the effectiveness of the story?
- Contrast the characters of Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley.
What sort of
lives
have these ladies led before their widowhood? Which one do you like
better
& why?
- Why does Mrs. Slade resent Grace Ansley?
- What is the function of setting in "Roman Fever"?
- Research paper: Submit notes taken from 3
sources.
Submit thesis
(problem or purpose for research) and outline.
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Week 4: January 12-16
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Period 1 |
- Reading: Carefully review "A Rose for Emily" and
"Roman Fever."
Be prepared to write an in-class essay on one of these stories. Bring BIL
and the packet to class, along with a dictionary and your handbook.
- Writing: IN-CLASS ESSAY ON "ROMAN FEVER" OR "A
ROSE." Research
paper: note checks in class.
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Period 2 |
- Reading: Packet 48k "September When It Comes," "Ulysses"
by Tennyson and Dante
- BIL "Mending Wall" 499-500
- Packet 1b-2 & BIL 1358 "Leda & the
Swan,"
"Leda"
- Writing: Research paper: note checks in
class.
- Bring the answers to your Odyssey study
guide questions.
Questions on "Ulysses"
- Outline the main ideas of each section of the poem.
- What does Ulysses want? How does this contrast to what he
wants in The
Odyssey? What is his attitude toward his life ruling the island
Ithaca?
- How does Ulysses contrast himself to his son?
- What do you think of Ulysses' views on how life should be
lived?
Questions on "Leda and the Swan" and "Leda"
- What myth do these poems deal with? How does that myth
relate to the Odyssey?
To Agamemnon's death?
- What is the focus of "Leda and the Swan"? Of "Leda"? How do
the titles
relate to these foci?
- Why does Yeats describe the swan as "feathered glory" and
"the brute
blood
of the air"? How does this relate to the swan's identity?
- How would you answer Yeats' last question? How does Van
Duyn in "Leda"?
- What motivates the swan in the two poems? How do the
motives differ?
- How does Van Duyn contrast Leda's fate in "men's stories"
with her
actual
fate? How do artists go about selecting the portions of life they
depict?
Why?
Questions on "Mending Wall"
- In what ways do "Good fences make good neighbors"?
- In what ways do they not?
- What is it that doesn't like a wall?
- Why do the men repair the fence?
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Week 5: January 19-23
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Period 1 |
- Reading:
- Writing:
- Research paper: note checks in class.
- Bring the outline of your entire research paper
and a brief introduction to
your paper. This should state your thesis, purpose, and organization.
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Period 2 |
- Reading: "Daddy"
- Submit a ROUGH DRAFT of the RESEARCH PAPER.
Questions on "Daddy"
- Who does the speaker compare her father to? Her husband?
How are the
two
phenomena similar?
- How has the speaker tried to free herself from her father?
- List some words describing the tone of the poem.
- What happened to Plath when she was 10? What was going on
in world
history
at the time? How does Plath relate world history to personal history?
- How do your attempts to balance your family and individual
identity
compare
to Plath's? (let's hope favorably)
Questions on "Supermarket in California"
- What similarities exist between Ginsberg & Whitman? How
much time
elapsed
between their works?
- What do Ginsberg's assumptions about Whitman reflect about
his own
identity?
- Look up Charon & Lethe. Explain the last paragraph of
the poem.
- Why does Ginsberg imagine he sees Whitman? Why in a grocery
store?
- Pick a famous person you would like to see & a fitting
place to see
him/her.
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Week 6: January 26-30
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Period 1 |
- Reading: Class discussion on The Oresteia
Trilogy.
- BIL 1469-1506. Packet 24ff (King, Plato,
Aristotle)
- Writing: ESSAY ON POETRY DUE.
- Using Aristotle's analysis, which type of government does
Thebes start
with? What type of government does it become?
- In the Creon-Antigone debate, which author tends to
support Antigone?
Creon?
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Period 2 |
- Reading: Class discussion on Greek drama.
- Writing:
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Week 7: February 2-6
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Period 1 |
- Reading: Class discussion on Greek drama
- Writing: RESEARCH PAPER DUE.
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Period 2 |
- Reading:
- Writing: BOOK TEST ON GREEK DRAMA.
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Week 8: February 9-13
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Period 1 |
- Reading:
- Writing: Work on drama essay in class.
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Period 2 |
- Reading: Packet 22a "When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard
Bloom'd."
- Writing: Bring rough draft of drama paper
to
class.
- Answer the following questions using your research
skills. (This means
I want you to go to the Library and do some Research. Really)
- What are the occasion & purpose of the poem?
- Read Catullus XCVI, CI, & CII (packet 23--the right
side of the
page
is in English). Look up the term "elegy." How do the elegies of
Catullus
differ from "Lilacs"? How are they similar?
- What is the real star Whitman considers? What does the
star symbolize?
The thrush? The lilac? Where are the lilacs? Be specific.
- What is the "black murk that hides the star (line 9)?
- Who is in the coffin? What is the action described in
sections 5 &
6?
- Where is the train coming from? Going to?
- Where are the "chamber walls" of section 11? What does
the speaker want
to hang there? Why?
- What is the relationship between the season of the poem
and the mood of
the poem? Is this the mood normally associated with the season?
- Who are the other dead of section 15? Why does he
mention them?
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Week 9: February 16-20
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Period 1 |
Reading:
Writing: |
Period 2 |
Reading:
Writing: IN-CLASS ESSAY |
Week 10: February 26 - March 3
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Period 1 |
Reading:
Writing: ESSAY ON DRAMA DUE. |
Period 2 |
Reading:
Writing: |