Due Tuesday after vacation, 2011

(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.

Be preprared to turn in your complete short story notes.

Have a great break!

Due Monday, 12/13

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.

Due Thursday, 12/8

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 but please write in formal voice. You may wish to include an analysis of:

Camera Shots
Camera Angles
Lighting
Mis-en-scene
Movement
Sound
Editing

Due Wednesday, Dec. 1

"Araby" by James Joyce (65-69)
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (362-366)

Focus Topic:

Stories often focus on characters' reactions as they encounter something that is new and or unexplained to them. What are some instances in these stories where characters interact with something new and/or something they do not understand, and how do these interactions illuminate the overall meaning of the story?

And, of course, GREGOR is due on Friday, Dec. 3rd:

5 meaningful adjectives
3 significant quotations from the story
1 picture of symbolic importance
1 poem (minimum of 5 lines) honoring Gregor's spirit
1 philosophical, thought provoking question for us to ponder.

Due Tuesday, 11/16

Reading
“Rose for Emily” 56-62
“The Short Happy Life of Francis MacComber” 258-278

Focus Idea: Commonly in literature, characters feel dissatisfied with their current situation in life. For these two stories, analyze different examples of when characters feel dissatisfied and consider how these feelings contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole.

Your College Essay will be due on Thursday. 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 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. Here are the document guidelines we discussed in class.

Due 11/5

"Living like weasels" and "Battle of the ants"

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Due 11/3

Be prepared to discuss Swift's use of rhetorical devices in A Modest Proposal.