Due Tuesday, after break, 2010.

(Someone doesn't have her calendar out.)

Please read all of Hamlet and be prepared for a comprehension reading quiz over this material. To help guide your notes, pay attention to:

- moments of internal conflict/inaction
- moments when Hamlet is bothered by something appearing to be something it is not.
- moments when there is a conflict between reason and emotion.

Have a great break!

Due 12/18

Read Oedipus (in your anthology).

You should read the background information provided in your anthology. (Hint: if you don't know while you're reading the play that Oedipus is really married to his mother, Jocasta, you've kind of missed the point.)

Take notes that gather specific plot references that provided evidence of:

-Oedipus' arrogance/pride
-Moments where Oedipus is a victim of fate (events that are beyond his control)
-Moments of dramatic irony

Due Monday, 12/14

You are writing a character analysis paper focusing on Charles Foster Kane. Again, it will be in formal voice, 2 pages, double-spaced, but no structure requirements. Consider discussing Kane's influences, motivations, desires, fears, relationships with others, etc. Do your best to use some quotations from the movie

Also, you must turn in your complete Short Story Notes.

Also, you must be prepared to write your first open ended essay--without using notes!

Due 12/10

Please write a 2 page minimum (typed, double-spaced) reflection paper on the use of a mimimum of 3 film techniques in Citizen Kane. Please describe the specific effect and analyze how its use contributes to the meaning of the film. There are no structural requirements for the paper.

Due 12/ 8

Work on short story notes. Yep-that's it. I'm too exhausted after 1st period today to think of an additional assignment.

Due 12/10?

I'd like you to add a chart of "plot references" to your notes for each of the short stories. A "plot reference" should be a list of specific details that you would use as evidence in an open ended essay. Even though you don't know the topic ahead of time, the plot references should be significant enough to work for any given topic. Also, you may include a brief analytical statement for your reference. For example, for Araby, I might list:

- eye imagery of street
- dynamic imagery of girl=>attraction
- light imagery surrounding girl=>religion
- Romantic imagery at market; chalice, praises, litanies
- Freudian imagery of fence
- religious imagery at Bazaar; cathedral
- flirtatious dialog; foreigness, lack of Romanticism
- disillusion at end; eyes burning

Please do not rewrite your entire notes, but instead focus on 'apt and specific references' that will make it sound like you know the story in great detail when you write an essay on it. I'd get started while you have a lull in English assignments, but if you have questions about the assignment, I'll answer them on Friday. (Note, the assignment is not DUE on Friday.)