Due Thursday, 11/10

"Yellow Wallpaper" 153-164

Focus Idea: Frequently in literature, characters experience a loss of power. Write down examples from the story of how the female narrator lacks power. Make sure to include your thoughts on why her losing or lacking power is important to the meaning of the story.

Reading:

Once More to the Lake (1605-1609)[Monday discussion]

Cub wants to be a Pilot (1598-1603)[Tuesday discussion]

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 11/2

Be prepared to discuss Dillard's "Living Like Weasels" in regards to purpose (interpretation) and devices. Note the title of the text above is linked in case you need it. If you use the link, consider priting out a copy so you can mark the text as we discuss it in class.

Due 11/1

Be prepared to discuss Swift's use of rhetorical devices in A Modest Proposal. There is should be a copy in your book, but I provided the link just in case.

Also, here is a link to the rhetoric packet we discussed today in class. The spacing is a bit crazy, but hopefully you can deal with it.

Readings!

Modernism Readings:

Ulysses 649
Channel Firing 672
Windhover 675
To an Athlete 677
Leda and the Swan 684
Sailing to Byzantium 685
Fire and Ice 695
Acquainted with the Night 699
Danse Russe 707
Ars Poetica 729
Ars Poetica 730
Anyone live in a… 733

Romanticism Readings:

608 Description of Morning
609 Essay on Man
614 Clod and Pebble
619 Lines
624 She Walks…
626 Ode to the West Wind
628 When I have fears…
632 Grecian Urn

The Poetry Prospectus Strikes Back! Due 10/21

You will have three additional poetry prospectuses due on Friday, October 21st. Follow the same format for these as for your first set, although all three paragraphs this time must be body paragraphs.

New information: Each of your poems should come from a different literary movement, choosing from among those we have discussed in class.

(And don't worry; there is no "Return of the Poetry Prospectus" so this is your last set!)

Please read and think about the following poems for next time:

Renaissance/Metaphysical Readings:

584- "One Day I wrote" (Spenser)
589- "Since there's no hope" (Drayton)
590- "Let me not...“ (Shakespeare)
590- "My Mistress' eyes" (Shakespeare)
593-"The Canonization" (Donne)
595- "The Flea" (Donne)
594- "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (Donne)
599- "To the Virgins" (Herrick)
601- "Easter Wings" (Herbert)
602- "When I consider" (Milton)
604- "To his Coy..." (Marvell)