You will need to read all of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare by the time you return. I do encourage you to view a film version in addition to your reading. Please make sure you understand characters and major plot events in case there is an "accountability activity" when you return.
Please use your time over break to also go "beastmode" on your AP English prep.
Happy Reading and Happy Vacation!
Friday, December 19, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
Due Monday: Story and Kane Essay II
Please read the short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" in your book.
Kane Character Essay
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. Please submit to turn it in by 9:30 Monday morning.
Kane Character Essay
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. Please submit to turn it in by 9:30 Monday morning.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Kane Device Analysis Due Friday
Kane Device Analysis
Please write a 2 page minimum (typed, double-spaced) reflection paper on the use of a minimum of 3 film techniques in Citizen Kane. Please describe the specific technique and analyze its effect and how its use contributes to the meaning of the film. There are no structural requirements for the paper, but the paper should be written in formal voice.
This assignment will be turned in through Turnitin and is due Friday by 9:15.
Please write a 2 page minimum (typed, double-spaced) reflection paper on the use of a minimum of 3 film techniques in Citizen Kane. Please describe the specific technique and analyze its effect and how its use contributes to the meaning of the film. There are no structural requirements for the paper, but the paper should be written in formal voice.
This assignment will be turned in through Turnitin and is due Friday by 9:15.
Friday, December 5, 2014
Prose Prospectus #3 for Monday
Please complete a prose prospectus for the passage available here. I included a proper prompt for you to guide your work with the text. I realize the prompt tells you to write an entire essay, but please just follow the prospectus guidelines available in previous posts. Please note however, that I have added a "thesis" element as part of the prospectus process.
For those of you still struggling with the prose prospectus idea, I am including an example below based on the story "The Other Paris."
My Example:
Title and Author of Passage: “The Other Paris” by Mavis Gallant
Approximate Era of Passage: Modern
New Vocabulary: none (it was a pretty simple passage.)
Devices you would mention in your essay: direct/indirect/ characterization, Narrative Voice, imagery Irony, Satire, Diction, setting, point of view.
****Answer to the prompt question as thesis****: Gallant presents a scathing criticism of passionless and depersonalized expectations of marriage based on social convenience and money through her use of characterization and ironic narrative voice.
Essay Organization:
Intro
Paragraph 1: Carol (indirect char, imagery, setting, voice/tone, satire, irony)
Paragraph 2: Howard (diction, direct char, voice/tone, satire, irony)
Conclusion
Key Quotations for support: I think you know what I want for this.
Insights, Inferences, Interesting stuff:
Both Carol and Howard seem easily influenced by others and socially awkward
Both seem very business like: he by nature, she by training
Ironically, their dispassion makes them suited for each other (maybe good conclusion idea)
Paris setting is ironic
One Analytical Unit: Gallant begins with an ironic contrast between the idyllic imagery of Carol’s imagined proposal, replete with “moonlight”, “barrows of violets”, “misty backgrounds”, and that most iconic of Romantic images the “Eifel tower”, juxtaposed with the prosaic reality of being proposed to at lunch over a “tuna-fish salad.” The disparity of these two images, strengthened by the olfactory unpleasantness of a smelly and boring lunch option, creates from the beginning an air of ridiculousness the permeates the passage, letting the reader know that Carol and Howard’s relationship is subject of her critical ridicule.
For those of you still struggling with the prose prospectus idea, I am including an example below based on the story "The Other Paris."
My Example:
Title and Author of Passage: “The Other Paris” by Mavis Gallant
Approximate Era of Passage: Modern
New Vocabulary: none (it was a pretty simple passage.)
Devices you would mention in your essay: direct/indirect/ characterization, Narrative Voice, imagery Irony, Satire, Diction, setting, point of view.
****Answer to the prompt question as thesis****: Gallant presents a scathing criticism of passionless and depersonalized expectations of marriage based on social convenience and money through her use of characterization and ironic narrative voice.
Essay Organization:
Intro
Paragraph 1: Carol (indirect char, imagery, setting, voice/tone, satire, irony)
Paragraph 2: Howard (diction, direct char, voice/tone, satire, irony)
Conclusion
Key Quotations for support: I think you know what I want for this.
Insights, Inferences, Interesting stuff:
Both Carol and Howard seem easily influenced by others and socially awkward
Both seem very business like: he by nature, she by training
Ironically, their dispassion makes them suited for each other (maybe good conclusion idea)
Paris setting is ironic
One Analytical Unit: Gallant begins with an ironic contrast between the idyllic imagery of Carol’s imagined proposal, replete with “moonlight”, “barrows of violets”, “misty backgrounds”, and that most iconic of Romantic images the “Eifel tower”, juxtaposed with the prosaic reality of being proposed to at lunch over a “tuna-fish salad.” The disparity of these two images, strengthened by the olfactory unpleasantness of a smelly and boring lunch option, creates from the beginning an air of ridiculousness the permeates the passage, letting the reader know that Carol and Howard’s relationship is subject of her critical ridicule.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
