8: protest song essay
For the essay assignment, go here.
For the sample essay, go here.
For a YouTube collection of commentaries on protest songs, go here.
8: Gawain movie letter assignment
The assignment document is here.
The sample letter is here.
A list of transitions is here. (also in the right sidebar.)
Dates
Thurs. 26 November: paragraph planning for body paragraphs 2 & 3
Wednesday, 2 December: letter drafts
Thursday, 3 December: published letters. Moodle them using the file name last name + letter. Mine would be called kilmerletter.docx
Our class notes from Thursday:
10: war poetry presentations
Here is the assignment.
Here are some poems students have presented on in the past.
Here are some other websites:
8: Gawain part 1 assignment
1. Make a detailed drawing of a scene or character from the first section of the poem.
2. Identify at least ten important details in your drawing from the text, using line numbers to show where you got those details.
3. Write a few sentences about how details about the scene or character identify chivalric values.
This will be marked 10 points criteria A for Content and 5 points C for Language.
DUE: Wednesday 4 November
11: comparative essay
Write an essay comparing an aspect of one or more poems by Frost and Millay. You may not use a poem about which you have already written.
Choose a specific theme or technique on which to focus.
DUE Monday 26 October by 4:30. Moodle it using the file name last name + comp. Mine would be called kilmercomp.docx.
Here is a link to 'Carpe Diem' by Robert Frost.
Here are the notes from today's lecture:
11: Millay essay
Here's the intro. I showed in class:
The essay is about one of these three sonnets:
Moodle it by Monday 19 October.
File name should be last name + millay, so mine would be kilmermillay.docx.
The essay is about one of these three sonnets:
'What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why'
'I, being born a woman and distressed'
'Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink'
Moodle it by Monday 19 October.
File name should be last name + millay, so mine would be kilmermillay.docx.
about Dan Brown
From The Telegraph: Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences. Here's a taste:
10. The Da Vinci Code, chapter 4: Five months ago, the kaleidoscope of power had been shaken, and Aringarosa was still reeling from the blow.
Did they hit him with the kaleidoscope?
That article has a link to The Dan Brown Code by Geoffrey Pullum:
Brown's writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad. In some passages scarcely a word or phrase seems to have been carefully selected or compared with alternatives.
It's worth a read.
12: personal statements
Here is a sample I wrote few years ago. Look at the style rather than the content.
If you want me to look at a draft of your statement, the date is Wednesday, October 7.
11: 'Mending Wall' essay
Write a 600-1000 word essay in which you identify the theme of the poem and analyze how the poet uses specific poetic techniques to develop that theme.
Due through Moodle Monday, 5 October. File name will be last name + wall.
Here the notes I gave on the assignment:
I wrote a short sample essay about 'Nothing Gold Can Stay.' Check it out.
And if you want to read the Catcher essay I wrote, it is here.
10: responding to a text assignment
Here's the information on how to respond to a text, plus a text with which we will practice together.
Here's an example of a response to a text.
Here are the success texts, to one of which you will write a response paragraph.
Bring an electronic copy to class on Wednesday.
8: Outsiders paragraphs assignment
Check out the paragraphs assignment. (T-shirt not included.)
Here is the sample we did together in class today:
Can children suffer because they are given everything?
12SL: commentary sample
Here is a bit of commentary I wrote on a single line from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, just to give you a flavor of what a commentary looks like.
There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her. They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them. (I, i)
Leonato provides exposition for the relationship between Benedick and Beatrice and one of the conflicts of the play, and sets the tone for that conflict. Leonato's use of war as a metaphor is apt since Benedick is a soldier, and foreshadows the contrast between being a soldier and a lover as discussed later in the play. The paradox of a 'merry war' sums up a view of love: that it is competitive, but at the same time light. This sets the context for the relationship between the two characters and lets the audience know that their respective jibes are not to be taken seriously. Beatrice has already made insulting comments regarding Benedick (contrasting the praise the messenger has heaped on him), and so the audience sees her as a shrew, but Leonato's explanation contextualizes her behaviour and makes it less threatening. Leonato follows this exposition with the further explanation that they engage in a 'skirmish of wit' when they meet, and Beatrice’s play on words on the lost wits of Benedick illustrate her use of wit. This is contrasted in the scene with Hero's lack of verbal interaction generally, encouraging the audience to see Hero and Beatrice as foils.
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How to submit work via Moodle
To submit your work for my classes, you will upload a file rather than putting the content of the assignment in a Moodle message. Follow these directions.
1. Complete your assignment using a standard word processing program.
2. You need to use a file name so that both you and I can recognize what it is. Your file name will be your last name followed by a word or abbreviation of the assignment. For instance, if I wrote an essay about Macbeth, I would name my essay file 'kilmermacbeth.doc.' On each assignment, I will tell you how to name your assignment.
3. Log on to Moodle, using your user name and password.
4. From the *My courses' box on the left sidebar, choose your English class.
5. Find the essay assignment posted there and click the link.
6. Here you need to upload the essay document. Click 'Browse...' to allow Moodle to find the essay on your computer drive or a USB device, choose the properly named file, then click 'Upload this file.'
7. I will read your essay and sen
1. Complete your assignment using a standard word processing program.
2. You need to use a file name so that both you and I can recognize what it is. Your file name will be your last name followed by a word or abbreviation of the assignment. For instance, if I wrote an essay about Macbeth, I would name my essay file 'kilmermacbeth.doc.' On each assignment, I will tell you how to name your assignment.
3. Log on to Moodle, using your user name and password.
4. From the *My courses' box on the left sidebar, choose your English class.
5. Find the essay assignment posted there and click the link.
6. Here you need to upload the essay document. Click 'Browse...' to allow Moodle to find the essay on your computer drive or a USB device, choose the properly named file, then click 'Upload this file.'
7. I will read your essay and sen
11: hero's journey
We talked about the journey as an archetype of literature we could use to understand aspects of Catcher. On the site where I got the handout, he goes through The Matrix as a hero's journey. Skim down a little to find it.
8: The Outsiders movie
Someone has put the entire 1983 movie of The Outsiders on YouTube. I can't vouch for its quality or age appropriateness -- it was rated PG-13 in the USA, and K-16 in Finland.
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