-Please have your reading of Metamorphosis completed. (Text is in your book and available online if needed)
You should also be making progress on your prose prospectus for the "Phineas Redux" passage.
Prose Prospectus Frame:
Title and Author of Passage:
Approximate Era of Passage: Victorian, Modern, Contemporary, etc
New Vocabulary: Write down fancy new words from the passage and their definitions.
Answer to the prompt (as specific as possible) to serve as a thesis:
Proposed Outline of Essay Organization:
Devices you would mention in your essay: Remember, these do not have to be full paragraph topics, but just appropriate literary words that you could use in your essay.
Insights/Inferences/Interesting stuff that address the prompt:
Key Quotations for support You may either retype these quotations OR turn in a highlighted, underlined, copy of the text indicating which quotations you would use.
One Analytical Unit: This should be an excerpt from your essay that uses a targeted quotation(s) and says important stuff about it. Try to sound insightful, fancy, and make good inferences.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Due Wednesday-The Yellow Wallpaper
You will need to read "The Yellow Wallpaper" (153-164) and be prepared to discuss it on Wednesday.
However, please perform the marking the text activity below (which is the first part of the story) before you read the entire story.
The marking the text task:
1. Copy and paste the information below onto a piece of paper and print. You may need to change formatting a bit to make it readable and give yourself some margins and spacing.
2. Read the prompt carefully.
3. Read the passage marking evidence and margin thoughts/insights that would allow you to discuss the prompt.
4. Finish marking the text, put aside, and read the rest of the story making no changes or additions to what you originally wrote.
(Copy and paste below here)
Prompt: Read the following excerpt and analyze how the author's use of diction, syntax, point-of-view, and selection of detail contribute to the characterization in the passage.
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!
Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.
Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.
John is a physician, and PERHAPS—(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)—PERHAPS that is one reason I do not get well faster.
You see he does not believe I am sick!
And what can one do?
If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?
My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.
So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again.
Personally, I disagree with their ideas.
Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.
But what is one to do?
However, please perform the marking the text activity below (which is the first part of the story) before you read the entire story.
The marking the text task:
1. Copy and paste the information below onto a piece of paper and print. You may need to change formatting a bit to make it readable and give yourself some margins and spacing.
2. Read the prompt carefully.
3. Read the passage marking evidence and margin thoughts/insights that would allow you to discuss the prompt.
4. Finish marking the text, put aside, and read the rest of the story making no changes or additions to what you originally wrote.
(Copy and paste below here)
Prompt: Read the following excerpt and analyze how the author's use of diction, syntax, point-of-view, and selection of detail contribute to the characterization in the passage.
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!
Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.
Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.
John is a physician, and PERHAPS—(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)—PERHAPS that is one reason I do not get well faster.
You see he does not believe I am sick!
And what can one do?
If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?
My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.
So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again.
Personally, I disagree with their ideas.
Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.
But what is one to do?
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Due Monday
Your College Essay will be due on Monday. Here is the formal assignment information:
You must select a topic for either an admissions essay or a scholarship essay. Your prompt must allow for a topic that can produce an essay of at least 300-400 words. (Therefore, for many of you, short answer questions will not count.) Please do not include an essay that is significantly longer than 800 words. If possible, choose a prompt that is narrative nature, although if this is not helpful for your actual school, and more expository prompt can do.
If you need a prompt, go online to the Common Application site, or search for a possible scholarship topic.
You must retype the prompt at the top of the page. Then include the text of your essay and a word count. When you turn yours in, you can request comments if you're interested.
Please use this assignment as an opportunity to explore elements of "great" and not merely "good" writing. My thoughts on "great" writing for this type of essay are available here.
You must select a topic for either an admissions essay or a scholarship essay. Your prompt must allow for a topic that can produce an essay of at least 300-400 words. (Therefore, for many of you, short answer questions will not count.) Please do not include an essay that is significantly longer than 800 words. If possible, choose a prompt that is narrative nature, although if this is not helpful for your actual school, and more expository prompt can do.
If you need a prompt, go online to the Common Application site, or search for a possible scholarship topic.
You must retype the prompt at the top of the page. Then include the text of your essay and a word count. When you turn yours in, you can request comments if you're interested.
Please use this assignment as an opportunity to explore elements of "great" and not merely "good" writing. My thoughts on "great" writing for this type of essay are available here.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
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