It is years later, and you have had time to reflect on what happened and you have figured out why it happened. You have not only assigned causes and reasons for what happened but also accepted or assigned responsibility. Write a letter from one character to another. This letter should reflect the events that happened in the play but may expound upon or develop the motivations for the actions in keeping with what is believable and consistent with the characterizations. Your letter should adopt a suitable tone for the situation.
Choose from Sam to Hally, Hally to Sam, or Hally to his Father
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By Wednesday 2/16 (On Special assignments-AP, go to "The Doors of Allusion") Complete questions for "Musée Des Beaux Arts" and "Icarus."
By Thursday 2/17: Vocabulary Unit 5
On Friday 2/18: (On Special assignments-AP, go to "The Doors of Allusion") Complete questions for "The World is too Much with Us."
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Write a response in essay form to the following question. Justify your response by citing evidence in the text and explaining your reasoning. Make sure you reexamine the stage directions and dialogue at the end before writing your response.
Is the ending of Master Harold optimistic or pessimistic? (worth quiz and a half grade)
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Read the information on th ewebsite below
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/623/01/
Now go to the website below and to the section on parallel structure only.
Do all the interactive exercises exercises in this section (6) and bring the print-outs as proof that you will never make these errors again for as long as you live.
http://chompchomp.com/exercises.htm
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Hally's relationship with Sam
How it changes
Why it changes
Hally's relationship with his father
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Read the material on the link:
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
What was apartheid?
What does the chart reveal about the effects of apartheid?
Bring all worksheets on Antigone to class tomorrow.
Midterm Material AP English Literature
Vocabulary
Units 1-4
Brave New World
Macbeth
Metamorphosis
Antigone
Novels
Never Let Me Go
Ragtime
Brave New World
Macbeth
Things Fall Apart
Metamorphosis
Antigone
Poetry
Sonnets
Pastorals
Other Poems
Terms
Poetry
Rhetorical Devices
Elements of Tragedy
Greek Theatre
Particular Reading Skills
Close Readings of texts
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For Monday: Go to the site below and read about paraphrasing. You will be doing a free paraphrasing. Look up unknown words.
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/usingpara.html
1. Paraphrase Antigone's speech pp. 231-232 beginning "Come tomb, my wedding chamber" and ending
with "... my doom."
2. In the passage Antigone explains why honoring her brother is important to her.
Does her logic change your opinion of her? Does it call into question her principles?
Comment on the passage in a few paragraphs.
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- Briefly discuss two traits or personal attitudes which reveal that Creon’s stubbornness about changing his position about Antigone’s defiance and punishment is not purely motivated by moral principle. Support your answer with the text.
2. In a paragraph devoted to each character, discuss the role of the guard and of Eurydice. Be careful that your answer does not merely tell what the character does in the play.
Complete Antigone
Complete all worksheets on Antigone
Complete vocabulary words
Prepare for Metamorphosis Vocab quiz postponed from last Thursday
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1. Read up to the third choral ode of Antigone.
2. Complete the vocabulary on the list 1-30
3. Complete the questions below on a separate sheet of paper.
In the event of a Wednesday snow day, the vocabulary quiz will occur on Friday. However, do thef ollowing for class on Thursday:f inish the vocabulary on the list and fill in the Handout (Lesson 1 Handouts 1 and 2) on the plan of a typical Greek Theatre
Opening Questions Antigone
1. How is Antigone’s fate foreshadowed during her opening scene with Ismene? How does this foreshadowing affect our view of her character?
2. How does Antigone react to Ismene’s reluctance to help her? What
does it reveal about her?
3. What major theme does Sophocles introduce in the opening scene of his play?
4. What do Ismene’s words at the end of her opening dialogue with Antigone reveal about Ismene’s true feelings?
5. Considering that the opening choral ode comes after the dialogue
between Antigone and Ismene, what irony hangs over it?
6. What is Creon’s attitude toward the chorus during the scene in which he delivers his edict?
7. Some critics have remarked that Antigone is a shrill character, almost too eager to embrace martyrdom and be an agent of Fate? Do you agree with this point of view? Why? Find evidence to support your answer.
8. To what degree are Antigone’s motives “pure” (based on moral principle and concern for her brother)?
9. To what degree are Creon’s “pure” (i.e. based on moral principle that the safety of the state should come foremost)?
10. The sentry is a comic character but he also serves many purposes. Explain some of these purposes.
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Tuesday :
Turn in proofread, final draft of your essay in The Metamorphosis.
Bring Antigone to class
Plan on Met vocabulary quiz on Thursday. Stories will be passed back Tuesday with clarifications about usage.
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Read the background packet on Greek theatre and answer the questions. (See Metamorphosis essay topic and Friday's homework following.)
Drama and Antigone
1. What were Sophocles two significant contributions to Greek Theatre?
2. The release of emotion building up in a spectator who watches the struggle and demise of a tragic hero is the ______________________________.
3. Who defined tragedy in Poetics? ______________________________________?
4. The chorus in Sophocles time served many purposes. Identify three.
5. Antigone is the third play of a trilogy including _____________________ and ________________________.
6. Explain the Oedipus story.
7. Who is Creon?
8. What’s the basic conflict in Antigone?
9. Define the term catastrophe or denouement.
10. The Greek term for the moment of understanding which the tragic hero experiences before his/her downfall is the __________________________________.
Due Monday, January 10. Write your thesis statement to share on Friday
Write a well-developed essay that convincingly answers the following question.
What is Kafka’s The Metamorphosis saying about _____________________? Make sure your thesis clearly answers the question and you support ideas with the text.
Choose one or substitute your own word:
Isolation
Family relationships
Dependency
Self-esteem
Conformity
Guilt
Taking Care of Others
Power
Change
Ugliness
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Complete work on this sheet.
Read the excerpt “Letter to his Father” (page 42 of The Metamorphosis) and write a response to the 2 questions below:
1. What does Kafka see as the major cause and effects of the conflicts between him and his father.
2. What parallels do you see between Kafka’s relationship with his father and the father-son relationship portrayed in The Metamorphosis?
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For monday December 20
1. Reexamine the final two pages, and the last paragraph in particular, of Things Fall Apart. What does the last paragraph tell you about the District Commissioner’s personality, values, and attitude toward the native people? What does the last paragraph contribute to your understanding of the novel as a whole and to its theme? 1 page minimum.
2. Many critics have commented on the tragic nature of Okonkwo life. Think about the similarities and differences between Okonkwo and Macbeth and list them in two columns.
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Due Thursday
Study Macbeth’s famous “Tomorrow and tomorrow” speech and analyze how Shakespeare uses repetition, sound devices, figures of speech, and syntax to convey Macbeth’s state of mind. Organize the supporting information as follows:
1. Determine Macbeth’s state of Mind
2. Write down supporting words, phrases, sentences
3. Identify the Language device
4. Give an explanation of how the language device conveys meaning about a story element or produces a certain effect.
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Start checking for scenes and speeches to memorize for Thursday.
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I conjure you, by that which you profess,
Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:
Though you untie the winds and let them fight
Against the churches; though the yesty waves
Confound and swallow navigation up;
Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;
Though castles topple on their warders' heads;
Though palaces and pyramids do slope
Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
Of nature's germens tumble all together,
Even till destruction sicken; answer me
To what I ask you.
1- Scan the passage for meter use ( put \ or above each syllable or one-syllable word.
2- Describe the tone of the passage. Support your answer.
3- Examine the rhythm and sentence structure of the passage. What effect do they create? How does that effect add to your understanding of Macbeth at this point in the play?
Other questions:
How does the mirder of Macduff's family differ the murder of Duncan? of Banquo?
What dramatic purpose is served by the short scene between Lady Macduff and her son?
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Read Act 4
Applied Practice-2 passages
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For Friday 12/3
Study for quiz Acts 1-3
Finish vocabulary column 3
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For Thursday 12/2
Read Act III then do the following:
I. Paraphrase the following passages:
- Act 3, Sc. 1, lines 52-77
- Act 3, Sc. 2 , lines 15-29
II. Chose one of the above and identify at least 2 figures of speech. Why is it effective?
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Do the vocabulary column 1 and 2
List supernatural/unnatural occurrences in and of nature in Act 2
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Read all Act 2 carefully:
Do the following:
I.Compare and contrast the way in which Macbeth and Lady Macbeth react before, during and immediately after the murder of Duncan. Support your explanation with evidence from the text. Confine your discussion to acts one and two.
II. Analyze the conversation in Act 2, Scene 4 between the old man and Ross.
What information (explicit or implied) does it provide? Why is it important?
IIL. Paraphrase the following passages:
- All lines of Malcolm and Donalbain in Act 2, Scene 3.
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Wednesday's Homework:
Three's a charm: submit your papers to TurnItIn.
Read through Act 1 Scenes 1-6 of Macbeth. What are your first impressions of Lady Macbeth?
Do the following:
Look at Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy (1,5, 1-33) in response to the letter.
1. Paraphrase the passage (see below).
2. Identify the 4 sets of antitheses (opposite opinions) in the passage and explain which of Macbeth’s character traits is suggested by each.
3. What does Lady Macbeth’s plan tell us about her?
Steps to Effective Paraphrasing
- Reread the original passage until you understand its full meaning.
- Set the original aside, and write your paraphrase on a note card.
- Jot down a few words below your paraphrase to remind you later how you envision using this material. At the top of the note card, write a key word or phrase to indicate the subject of your paraphrase.
- Check your rendition with the original to make sure that your version accurately expresses all the essential information in a new form.
- Use quotation marks to identify any unique term or phraseology you have borrowed exactly from the source.
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Class IDs for the TURNITIN website. Submit your papers. Note new IDs and PWs.
Class ID period 1 AP Lit 3653888 PW: APLIT1 (note caps)
Class ID period 2 AP Lit 3653890 PW: APLIT2 (note caps)
Read over Act 1, scenes 1-3. Make a list of words and phrases which characterize Macbeth even before he appears. Your list should be long. Example: "worthy gentleman"
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Please be sure to read the material in Sound and Sense. Check this site out it should be very helpful:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/poetry-explication.html
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*See Special Assignment Page with requirements and due date for Things Fall Apart.
Make sure you read the explication preparation.
You will write a poem explication and turn it in to TurnItIn.Com before Monday. You will bring a printed copy of the explication along with an attached copy of the poem with the lines numbered to class on Monday.
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Class ID period 1 AP 3515513
Class ID period 2 AP 3515522
Monday's Homework
Read below and in Sound and Sense about how to write an explication. A sample of one is included in the reading.
The ultimate purpose of an explication is to provide insight into the meaning or experience of the poem by exploring the poet’s methods of conveying that experience. In short, you should show how the poem works, not just what the poem says. The thesis, therefore, should be a statement as to the main idea and an indication of how you will approach the analysis. The introduction should include the title, author and some basic information about the poem. Information such as the form and identification of speaker, person addressed and occasion might be included in the introduction or handled in the body of the essay. Be careful to avoid a mere listing of figures of speech or a paraphrasing of each line. Logically, before you deal with method, you have to deal with content—what the poem is about. Be sure you support your opinion with the words and phrases of the poem and that you deal with the poem as a whole., not just as a collection of details or stanzas. The reader should not be left perplexed about difficult lines in the poem or wondering how you arrived at your conclusions about it.
Reminder:
Make sure your quotations are smoothly and accurately integrated into your sentence and that the sentence can stand by itself as a grammatical entity.
*Also: Please read over Section III, pp. 305-306 (Two Basic Approaches), Section VII, pp. 314-315 Section (introducing Quotations IX, pp. 329-331 (Stance and Style) and Section XI, pp. 336-338 (Writing Sample on Explication only) in Sound and Sense.
Choice of poems:
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand" p. 405
On the sonnet p. 155
America p. 254
Yet Do I Marvel p. 140
"the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" p. 355
Shakespeare's Sonnet 55, 65 or 71
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Print out Poems
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
by Christopher Marlowe
1599
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields
Woods or steepy mountain yields
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flower, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold
With buckles of the purest gold;
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.
The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
by Sir Walter Raleigh
1600
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.
Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold;
And Philomel becometh dumb;
The rest complain of cares to come.
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields;
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy bed of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.
But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.
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1. What means of persuasion does the Shepherd offer the nymph in Marlowe's poem to be his love? Characterize his perspective on their lives together
2. How does Raleigh's poem' speaker, he Nymph, answer the Shepherd in Marlowe' s poem?
Characterize her attitude toward life in the poem.
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Sonnet due Friday.
In preparation for your sonnet writing, please read the link below. There's also a good review of Shakespeare's sonnets in the explanations.
burton.byu.edu/sonnets/Sonnets-How-to-write2.pdf
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Prepare the poem you were assigned in class for oral explication. Everyone should read all the poems over since you will be responsible for them on the test to follow which will include the Shakespeare sonnets and the Sidney sonnets. (Per 1 absentees: Amanda, Katrina and Zack will prep John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" in Sound and Sense. Stephanie and Dan will prep Sonnet 29, by Shakespeare; It's available on line, just google it. I'll have copies for the class.)
What you have to do follows. I will give 10 minutes in class for groups to organize.
Write a sonnet of your own is now due on Friday.
I will collect your essays.
Lead the class in an oral explication of the poem:
1. Read the poem twice effectively
2. Paraphrase the poem
3. Answer the following questions:
· Who’s the speaker?
· Who is the speaker addressing?
· What is the settling and/or occasion of the poem?
· What is the experience the poem conveys?
4. Identify the Tone
5. Clarify difficult vocabulary
6. Point out examples of effective word choice
7. Identify Sound devices . Be sure to link each to meaning and effect
8. Identify Figures of speech. Be sure to link each to meaning and effect
9. Identify rhetorical devices. Be sure to link each to meaning and effect
10. Ask one interpretive question of the class related to the poem
11. Answer any questions
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Read Sonnet 31 and sonnet 39 by Sir Phillip Sidney. Print out the poems.
Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet XXXI |
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With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!
What! may it be that even in heavenly place
That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes
Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case:
I read it in thy looks; thy languished grace,
To me that feel the like, thy state descries.
Then even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me,
Is constant love deemed there but want of wit?
Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Do they above love to be loved, and yet
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Astrophel and Stella: XXXIX
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Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low.
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw:
O make in me those civil wars to cease;
I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.
Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light,
A rosy garland and a weary head:
And if these things, as being thine by right,
Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,
Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
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For each poem answer the following:
1. What is the problem the speaker is addressing in the poem?
2. What is the resolution?
Support ideas.
3. Briefly support a characterization of the speaker in each poem.Support your ideas.
4. Identify a prominent literary or rhetorical device in each poem and explain its purpose and effectiveness in communicating the poem's experience.
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Read "When My Love Swears" p.44 and "That Time of Year p.247
For each poem summarize the problem or issue in the first set of quatrains and the resolution offered in the couplet. Answer vocabulary questions only in the questions that follow the poems.
For Thursday,
"My Mistress' Eyes" p.169 and "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" p.402
Look over the questions.
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For Monday, Nov. 1:
1. Prepare for Vocabulary Quiz Unit 4 .
2. Comparison Contrast essay on Paired Reading due Monday, November 8
3. Read Shakespeare's sonnets on pages 12 and 44 of Sound and Sense and answer the questions which follow both poems.
When you read poetry, keep in mind that a poem should be read many times before analyzing it and unfamiliar words should be looked up. The following is a guide to analyzing poetry.
The following questions may help you to analyze the poetry.
1) What is the situation of the poem? Before you “leap to conclusions,” it is helpful to consider what happens (objectively) in the poem. Answer this by outlining the poem so as to show its structure and development and by summarize the events of the poem. Paraphrase the poem line by line.
2) Who is the speaker? What kind of person is he/she? What is his/her distance on the subject? How reliable is the persona (narrator, speaker, voice)?
3) To whom is the speaker speaking? What can be inferred about that person?
4) What is the occasion?
5) What is the setting: time, place an atmosphere of the events?
6) State the central theme of the poem in a sentence.
7) Discuss the tone of the poem? How is it achieved?
8) Discuss the diction of the poem. Look up any words with which you are unfamiliar and point out words which are particularly well chosen, explaining why.
9) Discuss the imagery of the poem. What types of imagery are used? What is the cumulative effect of this imagery in terms of the tone and theme?
10) Point out examples of figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, metonymy, synecdoche) and explain their appropriateness.
11) Point out and explain any symbols. If the poem is allegorical, explain the allegory.
12) Point out and explain any examples of paradox, hyperbole, understatement, and irony. What is their function?
13) Point out and explain any allusions. What is their function?
14) Point out significant examples of sound repetition and explain their function.
15) What (if any) is the meter of the poem? Scan the poem for mater..
16) Discuss the adaptation of sound to sense.
17) Describe the form or pattern of the poem.
18) Evaluate the quality of the poem. Was the poet successful in conveying the experience?
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OLD HOMEWORK
Writing Effective Comparison or Contrast Essays
Read about the organization methods in the link below. Read the material and assignment following it.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/CompAnalysis.html
A simplified summary follows.
A Comparison or Contrast essay is an essay in which you either compare
something or contrast something. A comparison essay is an essay in which you
emphasize the similarities, and a contrast essay is an essay in which you
emphasize the differences. We use comparison and contrast thinking when
deciding which university to attend, which car to buy, or whether to drive a
car or take a bus or an airplane to a vacation site.
In this section, two classic organizational patterns of a comparison or
contrast essay will be discussed. One is called block arrangement of ideas;
the other is called point-by-point or alternating arrangement of ideas.
Suppose you are interested in showing the differences between vacationing in
the mountains and vacationing at the beach. You will then write a contrast
composition. One way to arrange your material is to use the block arrangement
which is to write about vacationing in the mountains in one paragraph and
vacationing at the beach in the next. If you mention a particular point in
the mountains paragraph, you must mention the same point in the beach
paragraph, and in the same order. Study the following outline, which shows
this kind of organization. The introductory paragraph is followed by the
mountains paragraph, the beach paragraph, then the conclusion; the fully
developed essay is just four paragraphs.
Block Arrangement (four paragraphs)
I. Introduction in which you state your purpose which is to discuss the
differences between vacationing in the mountains or at the beach
II. Mountain
A. Climate
B. Types of Activities
C. Location
III. Beach
A. Climate
B. Types of Activities
C. Location
IV. Conclusion
A second way to organize this material is to discuss a particular point about
vacationing in the mountains and then immediately to discuss the same point
about vacationing at the beach. This is called point-by-point or alternating
arrangement. An outline of this organization follows.
Point-by-Point or Alternating Arrangement (five paragraphs)
I. Introduction in which you state your purpose which is to discuss
differences between vacationing in the mountains or at the beach
II. First difference between mountains and beaches is climate
A. Mountains
B. Beach
III. Second difference between mountains and beaches are types of activities
A. Mountains
B. Beach
IV. Third difference between mountains and beaches is the location
A. Mountains
B. Beach
V. Conclusion
Start brainstorming ideas for a comparison/contrast essay on your outsiding reading novel and Brave New World, Never let Me Go or Ragtime. What do the two works have in common? For instance, your topic would not merely compare, say, John the savage to your protagonist but would compare John to your protagonist as victims of oppression or outsiders, or you might compare governments in the two novels as authoritarian regimes. This is the frame of reference! Remember there should be a starting similarity between the two subjects and your essay should concentrate on enlightening the reader on the differences and similarities between the two. Start sketching out an outline. Write a thesis statement.
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Rewrite a paragraph from your test essay using ONLY action verbs in the active voice
Write a theme statement (must be a general declarative sentence about the novel's message) for Brave New World.
Complete the worksheet on active vs. passive voice
Vocab #4
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Write a well-organized, well-developed essay on the following:
Why does John, the savage, commit suicide? In developing your answer, explain the motivation for the act and express your view of the act as one of escape, rebellion, defiance, bravery or some other characteristic.
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William Astor
Andrew Carnegie
Sigmund Freud
Henry Clay Frick
William Jay Gaynor
Charles Dana Gibson
Emma Goldman
Winslow Homer
Harry Houdini
The Luisitania
J.P. Morgan
Evelyn Nesbit
Robin Edwin Perry
Jacob August Riis
John Philips Sousa
Tammany Hall
Tom Thumb and lavinia Warren
Pancho Villa
Booker T. Washington
Ragtime music
The Bread and Roses Riot
Big Bill Haywood
Something or someone in the text not in the above list
A Hanging
- It was in Burma, a morning of the rains.
The morning was sodden.
- A sickly light was slanting over the walls into the jail yard.
The light was like yellow tinfoil.
The walls were high.
- We were waiting outside the condemned cells.
The cells were a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages.
- Each cell measured about ten feet by ten.
Each cell was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water.
- In some of them men were squatting at the inner bars.
The men were brown.
The men were silent.
The men were squatting with their blankets draped round them.
- These were the condemned men.
They were due to be hanged within the next week or two.
- One prisoner had been brought out of his cell.
- He was a Hindu.
He was a puny wisp of a man.
He was a man with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes.
- He had a moustache, absurdly too big for his body, rather like the moustache of a comic man on the films.
The moustache was thick.
The moustache was sprouting.
- Six Indian warders were guarding him.
The warders were tall.
The warders were getting him ready for the gallows.
- Two of them stood by with rifles and fixed bayonets.
The others handcuffed him.
The others passed a chain through his handcuffs and fixed it to their belts.
The others lashed his arms tight to his sides.
- They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him, as though all the while feeling him.
Their hands were always on him in a careful, caressing grip.
They were feeling him to make sure that he was there.
- It was like men handling a fish.
The fish is still alive and may jump back into the water.
- But he stood quite unresisting.
He yielded his arms limply to the ropes.
It was as though he hardly noticed what was happening.
- Eight o'clock struck and a bugle call, thin in the air, floated from the barracks.
The bugle call was desolately thin.
The air was wet.
The barracks were distant.
- The superintendent of the jail raised his head at the sound.
The superintendent was standing apart from the rest of us.
The superintendent was moodily prodding the gravel with his stick.
- He was an army doctor.
He had a grey toothbrush moustache.
He had a gruff voice.
- "For God's sake hurry up, Francis," he said irritably.
- "The man ought to have been dead by this time. Aren't you ready yet?"