Due Monday

Over the weekend you need to work on the Gascoigne poem by reading it carefully, translating it, and marking the text. I'd like to see the poems annotated and a complex interpretation statement.

Additionally, you will need to work on your group's review sheet for the play you were assigned. Information is available below.

Each review sheet must address the following:

Title of Work
Author
Approximate Time Period
Main Characters: Names and Relationships
Brief Plot Summary
Handy Plot References
A Meaning of the Work as a Whole
Relevant Literary Techniques
If I write on this work, I will be sure to mention...
Quintessential Quote(s) [Easy to memorize, sure to impress]



A Condensed Example (Yours will be more detailed)

Title: Metamorphosis Author: Franz Kafka Time: Early Modern
Characters: Gregor-Salesman and Bug Grete: Sister and aspiring musician
Mr. Samsa, Mrs. Samsa, Charwoman, Lodgers
Plot Summary: No space— but self explanatory. Can be done as bullet points.(Do not plagiarize!)
Handy Plot References: Rocking to get out of bed, desire to go to work, never miss a day, arrival of boss, attempt to communicate, picture with girl, saving furniture, apple attack, walking on walls, borders, sister playing violin…
Meaning of Work as a Whole: The essential alienation of mankind from a world that seems to value only the material contributions he can make.
Literary Techniques: Narrative voice, symbolism,
I will be sure to mention: Symbolism: picture frame, apple, music, bug. Lack of explanation for transformation, Gregor’s desire to keep working.
Quotations: “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams…” “Was he an animal…”

Victorian Prose Practice

We will be doing a study of four 19th century prose passages to get us ready for Victorian Era passages. Please print* this packet that you will use for marking the text. I'm sorry that it is so long!

*If you need to conserve paper, please change to a smaller font before printing. If you can't print, please read the passages online and do the assignment as best you can on a separate sheet of paper. OR, you can copy the passages into a new Google Doc, do your annotations in a different color, and then invite me into your document. Whatever works best for you, your printer, and your parents asking you why the printer always needs ink.

1. Read all passages and mark the text writing down insights into character, inferences, identifying quotations, or anything that would help you develop a complex response to the prompt.

2. Re-read the passage that you are to become an expert on. (Listed by alpha below). Expect that you will be asked to make a comment about your focus passage in class, so make sure you have extra fancy insights for this one. You will need to write down one turn-in-able insight about your passage. (Take me through your claim(s),the quotation(s) that support this, and, why this is interesting.

3. Be prepared to turn your all 4 marked texts in for points.



A-H: Passage 1
I-M: Passage 2
N-R: Passage 3
S-Z: Passage 4

MOWAAW Open Ended Powerpoint

Available here.

Due Thurs/Fri

Here is the prompt from class today:

Sometimes a character senses a strong connection to another character for unexpected reasons. Select such a pair of characters who may find themselves drawn to each other and analyze how their relationship is important in contributing to the meaning of the work as a whole.


Your homework is to retype the shared body paragraph from class today in four different fonts--one each element of topic sentence, plot references, analysis, and connection to MOWAAW. If you feel that your paragraph is lacking any of those steps, please made additions in the corresponding font in bold. If you feel there are any words that should be eliminated, please use strike through to indicate they should not be included. You will want to come back with as polished a paragraph as possible, so I am expecting that you should be making some edits.

Open Ended Paragraph (Doll's House example)

Here is the example of the Doll's House open ended paragraph.

Absent work from Tues/Wed

If you were absent Tuesday or Wednesday, please complete the activity from this powerpoint and show it to me so that you can earn points for the gradebook.

Wuthering Heights Spring Break reading

A note on Wuthering Heights:

This book works for almost EVERY open ended prompt ever written. (I'd say 99%). If you are feeling nervous about being prepared for the open ended essay, devoting yourself to a close reading of WH is one of the best things that you can do. I'm not making this up just so you'll do the reading.

You will be reading chapters 1-10 over Spring Break.

Please refer to the introductory slideshow first. It's available here.

If you were not able to get a copy from the library, the text is available for free here.

If you need an audio book version (which can be a big help as you are doing your reading) there seems to be a decent free one available here on Youtube. (I have not listened to all of this version, but I'm going to assume that nobody slipped in something randomly inappropriate in there. I hope. Consider yourself warned.)

I will do my best to post a FAQ powerpoint to help you if you are struggling with your reading, but this will depend on time and energy. If it doesn't get done, we will cover it in class.