Assignments over break!

Please finish reading Hamlet over break!

Also, please write your Citizen Kane analysis essay and submit through Turnitin!

Assignment:

Please spend a few paragraphs analyzing Kane as a character.  What drives him?  What helps to explain him?  What are some ironies or larger themes that he embodies?  How do minor characters and their relationships help to define him?

Please spend a paragraph analyzing at least one specific short story technique:  symbolism, point of view, narrative chronology, tone, setting, irony, etc.  Make sure to provide evidence of your technique and analyze the specific effects this creates.

Please spend a few paragraphs analyzing at least two specific applications of film techniques:  camera shot, camera angles, lighting, editing, mis-en-scene, music, sound, movement, etc.  Make sure to identify and describe the technique and explain the effects this creates.

You finished assignment should be 3-5 pages double spaced.  If you refer to ANY outside resources, please be sure to cite them appropriately and include a works cited.  You may organize this in any way, but please be sure to use an academic voice.

An approximate screen play is available here if you would find it helpful for identifying quotations or scenes.

Hamlet Act I scenes i and ii due Tuesday/Wednesday

Please read Act One, scenes 1 and 2 for Tuesday/Wednesday.

Short Short Story Quiz Thurs/Fri

In addition to our discussion of Metamorphosis on Thursday/Friday, we will be taking a short, short story quiz on the following stories:

The Yellow Wallpaper 
Araby 
Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Young Goodman Brown 
Good Country People
 Metamorphosis
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Recitatif


Please be prepared by knowing the authors of each story, main interpretive ideas we discussed, and evidence we used in supporting those interpretations.

Metamorphosis reading due Monday! and VOMWEW make up

Please read the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka for Monday.  Remember that this is categorized as a novella--too short to be a novel but to long to be a proper short story.  Therefore, plan your reading carefully and break it down into sections.  The best translation is available in your red book, but if you are bookless, you will be able to find a link to the text online.


If you missed the VOMWEW (Very Old Man With Enormous Wings) free write, please review the Essay Hack slideshow in the previous post.  Then, consider for the VOMWEW story, what commentary Marquez makes about mankind.  (Mankind is ____ and _____ and _______.)

Please write for twenty minutes in response to this topic using as many essay hacks as you see fit and referencing specific details from the story (not as quotations, but just specific things that happened.)  This is not assessed other than being completed, so enjoy and think some thoughts without worrying about a grade.

Reading due Thurs/Friday

Please read this story available here for Thursday/Friday.  Give special thought to what the reader knows and what the reader doesn't know and how this ambiguity is important for the reader's experience.

This is a longer story and best spread out over two nights of reading.

Essay Hack Information

Here is the slideshow on how to hack your analysis essays and make them awesomer.