Due Monday and Tuesday

On Monday, you'll be writing your last open ended essay on Wuthering Heights. Please come prepared with character names, plot references, quotations, and MOWAAW so that you can demonstrate these on your essay.

For Tuesday, you'll need to have completed your Chapter 1 reading for Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and completed the "scavenger hunt" assignment below. Under each column, write down plot references or quotations that would allow you to support the topic at the top of the column. This and other resources are below.

Portrait Text (in case you forgot a book)
Chapter 1 notes
Scavenger Hunt

Spring Break Responsibilities

Make sure you finish your reading of Wuthering Heights and continue to trace your focus topics. Below you will find a document that will guide you through the last part of Wuthering Heights. You do not need to write your responses to the questions to be turned in, but you should consider entering your responses in your reading/discussion notes. I do expect that when I ask questions inclass regarding these topics, that you have a thorough response prepared.

Wuthering Heights Questions

Wuthering Heights Reading for Thursday, topics, and text

Please read chapters 1-8 of Wuthering Heights for Thursday. Depending on your month of birth, you will be gathering quotations/plot references for the following focus topics. Be prepared to present evidence and discuss the importance of your topic.

January, February, March: Moments of violence, wildness, loss of control
April, May, June: Animals and their significance
July, August, September: Pressures/expectations/influence of society and "proper" behavior
October, November, December: Symbolic environments

If you absolutely hate your topic, you can switch with someone, but make sure that they are willing to do your original topic so we'll be certain to have enough people covering all topics.

The text for Wuthering Heights is available online here, just in case you forgot to pick up a book.

Drama Test Study Guide

Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 Authors of all of the plays

 All character names (correct spelling preferred—or at least close)

 Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony

 Greek Drama Terms, development of, and general knowledge
o Hubris, harmartia, peripeteia, epiphany, catharsis, stichomythia
o Aristotle and Aristotelian Unities (Time, location, plot)
o Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles

 Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o Groundlings, foil, blank verse, prose

Test format:

90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)

 20 True/False Questions
 5 event timeline questions for each play
 Quotations identification
 Term identification

Practice Quotation ID's below:

1. Almost everyone who goes bad in early in life has a mother who’s a chronic liar.

2. My, my, what lovely lacework on your dress!
The workmanship’s miraculous, no less.
I’ve not seen anything to equal it.

3. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows.

4. Let me go home. Bear your own fate, and I’ll
Bear mine. It is better so: trust what I say.

5. Tomorrow I’m going home—I mean, home where I came from. It’ll be easier up there to find something to do.

6. It’s hard to be a faithful wife, in short,
To certain husbands of a certain sort,
And he who gives his daughter to a man she hates
Must answer for her sins at Heaven’s gates.

7. If he doesn’t buckle down, he’ll flunk math!

8. Set your mind at rest.
If it is a question of soothsayers, I tell you
That you will find no man whose craft gives knowledge
Of the unknowable.

9. If only we two shipwrecked people could reach across to each other.

10. There’s a vast difference, so it seems to me,
Between true piety and hypocrisy:
How do you fail to see it, may I ask?
Is not a face quite different from a mask?

11. Thus I associate myself with the oracle
And take the side of the murdered king.

12. …I oughta be makin’ my future. That’s when I come running home. And now, I get here, and I don’t know what to do with myself.

Answers

Due Tuesday and Doll's House in-class assignment

On Monday, 2/22, you will be writing your first open ended essay. Make sure to review all character names, plot references, author names, and MOWAAWs

For Tuesday, 2/23, you will need to have all of A Raisin in the Sun read. It is in your red book.

If you missed the Doll's house in-class brainstorm activity, it is printed for you below. You only need to complete the activity for ONE of the prompts.

Frequently in literature, the audience is given information that is lacking to some or all other characters. Choose a work in which the audience knows a secret about a character, consider the consequences of the audience knowing this information, and analyze its importance to the meaning of the work as a whole.

1. The audience knows that Nora has taken out an illegal loan to save her husband’s life.
2. Brainstorm: What are the consequences? What is interesting about this? Are there any ironies present? What insights does this give us? What inferences can we make? What connections can we make? What parallels does this create? What literary techniques will this allow me to discuss? What other plot references will this allow me to discuss?
3. How does this connect analytically to the MOWAAW? (make a causality statement)

Frequently in literature, the author uses a character that contrasts with a main characters in their actions, attitudes, or experiences. Select a work that contains such a character, consider the significance of this contrast, and analyze its importance to the meaning of the work as a whole.

1. Kristine Linde’s life and background contrast with that of Nora because she is single, has no family, and needs to work outside the home.
2. Brainstorm: What are the consequences? What is interesting about this? Are there any ironies present? What insights does this give us? What inferences can we make? What connections can we make? What parallels does this create? What literary techniques will this allow me to discuss? What other plot references will this allow me to discuss?
3. How does this connect analytically to the MOWAAW? (make a causality statement)

Due Monday and Tuesday

Due Monday:

Please write an introduction and one body paragraph on the prompt below using Tartuffe as the literary work. Please underline your use of "causality" statements to show your analytical connections.

Open Ended Prompt

Most literary works emphasize the actions and development of characters who are present during the majority of the literary work. Sometimes, however, it is the characters who are absent who nevertheless are a major influence on the work as a whole. Select a literary work where a character is rarely seen (or not seen at all) and write an essay in which you identify the absent character and explain his/her significance to the story. Do not merely summarize plot.

(Use the play Tartuffe to respond to this question)

Thinking process:

Identify a character who is ‘absent or rarely seen’. [the prompt topic]

Identify the significance of the story [a meaning of the work as a whole].

Connective thinking/Causality Statements: For what reason(s) is this character being absent important to the meaning of the work as a whole?

Note: Often with Open Ended Essays, the answer to “for what reasons” will become your POA. Your POA will rarely be literary devices.

Due Tuesday

Read Act I of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House which is in your red book right after Tartuffe. For Act I, your note topics should be foil characters, gender identity, and social expectations.

For Monday

Here is the passage from class today, if you'd like to be a super student and write a practice essay for Monday.


In the following speech from Shakespeare’s play Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey considers his sudden downfall from his position as advisor to the king. Spokesmen for the king have just left Wolsey alone on stage. Read the speech carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Shakespeare uses elements such as allusion, figurative language, and tone to convey Wolsey’s complex response to his dismissal from court.


So farewell—to the little good you bear me.
Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness!
This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms,
5 And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
And then he falls as I do. I have ventur’d,
10 Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,1
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and now has left me,
Weary and old with service, to the mercy
15 Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye!
I feel my heart new open’d. O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favors!
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
20 That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,2
Never to hope again.


1 air-filled sacs
2 Satan, the fallen angel