10: P&P essay

Choose one of the prompts below. Write a 4-5 paragraph essay (600-1000 words) on that topic.

1. How does the author use foils in the novel? Use two or three examples in your analysis.


2. Discuss why and how a novelist would use caricatures, using some examples from this novel.


3. Discuss the use of the letter as a plot device and its unique function in a novel, as applied to Pride and Prejudice.


4. How does the author hold the readers’ interest in the novel? Focus on one technique or a few related techniques.


5. Discuss the point of view, or narrative voice, of the novel, and how the author uses it to affect the way we read the novel.

Draft due: Friday 7 May

Essay Moodled in: Monday 10 May

Name your file last name + pride. Mine would be called kilmerpride.docx.

Here's the sample we wrote together in class on Wednesday:

Why are details of setting important in the novel?

setting as reflection of character

Authors often provide information about settings for their novels, and those descriptions add to the mood of the novel and a sense of realism. However, one reason to provide setting details is to provide a sense of characterization for those associated with that setting. Because of the limited third person point of view and the thematic significance of perspective in Pride and Prejudice, the narration does not allow the reader to perceive characters in an objective manner, and that objective view is important to the foreshadowing and the readers' expectations. Therefore, Austen uses the details of specific settings to give information about characters that bypass Elizabeth's perspective of those characters or suggests an outcome of which Elizabeth herself is not aware.

topic sentence:

One example of this is Pemberly.

Because Elizabeth's perspective is so significant to the novel, if Austen wants to develop characterization that disagrees with that perspective, she can use details from a setting associated with the character to do so.

If you remember, we started with a fairly simple idea and found more and more complexity as we explored the possiblke examples. Notice the bad topic sentence and the better topic sentence.

8: Midsummer act III paragraph

Due Thursday 6 May. Moodle it in.

Here's a sample we wrote together today:

8: writing assignment

8: Midsummer fairies assignment

Do a search for images of fairies from Midsummer Night's Dream. Use Google images and use terms like 'midsummer', 'fairy,' 'Puck,' 'Oberon' and 'Titania.'

Choose two images from your search. For each one, identify whether or not you think it is a good way of portraying the fairies generally or the character specifically. Write an explanation of why, using lines from act II as a way of explaining what you think of the images.

Make sure you reference the play correctly: (II.i.83) = Act, Scene, Line number

Due on Moodle by Thursday 29.4.

8: help with Midsummer Night's Dream

(try to identify all of these characters from act I scene i.)

an annotated version of the play

No Fear Shakespeare: the original text and a modern 'translation' side by side

A charming 1935 film version of the play

10: different ways of punctuating a quote

Some alternative ways of presenting a quotation from the text:

Elizabeth doesn’t want to go to Pemberley. When Mrs. Gardiner suggests it, she thinks, ‘It would be dreadful!’ (p. 186)

Notice the use of the comma after 'thinks' because the phrase before is a fragment.

When Mrs. Gardiner suggests it, she rejects the idea: ‘It would be dreadful!’ (p. 186)

Here the colon works because 'she rejects the idea' is an independent clause.

When Mrs. Gardiner suggests it, she says that ‘[i]t would be dreadful’ (p. 186).

This is the integration of the quotation into your own sentence: the square brackets indicate a change from the original text.

Elizabeth finds Mrs. Gardiner’s suggestion to go to Pemberly ‘dreadful’ (p. 816).

This, in many ways, is the best choice. It doesn't say anything less than the others and allows you as a writer to move on to other ideas. The more targeted the evidence, the better.

Prufrock

fixity and flux

11: World literature assignment

Here are the notes on the aspects in the tree world literature works:



The wiki for signing up for a World Literature 1 topic is available on Moodle. It opens Monday 19 April at 16:30 and closes Wednesday 21 April at 21:00.

8: Homecoming / Jane Eyre essay

the assignment

the passage from Jane Eyre

the introduction template

11: aspects in Mother Courage

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12: getting ready for study leave

meter handout

link to literary terms (Sparknotes)

reading for paper 1

planning for paper 2

sample paper 2 planning

intro to Huck Finn

intro to 1984

intro to Hour of the Star

11: Mother Courage YouTube clips

Actress Meryl Streep talks about playing Mother Courage.

11: Much Ado commentary

Here is the commentary assignment.

11: 3 Sisters notes

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8: Homecoming big ideas

Here's the lecture we watched about developing self reliance in children:

8: the big ideas of Homecoming

11: 3 Sisters, act 1

8: intro to Homecoming

For a Google map of where the novel takes place, go here.

For a conversion of miles to kilometers, go here.

For a short biography of the author go here.

Here is her Wikipedia entry.

11: intro to 3 Sisters

intro to Homecoming

Much Ado About Nothing act III quotations

For the quotations below, explain the significance of each passage. Relate it to a theme, the development of character or the development of conflict.

For each passage, you must cover the needed analysis in less than 200 words.

Due Friday 19 February. Moodle it with the file name last name + ma3.

Here are the quotes:

10: MA act 2 assignment

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For each of the quotations below, explain the significance of each passage. Relate it to a theme, the development of character, the use of techniques and/or the development of conflict.

For each passage, you must cover the needed analysis in less than 200 words.

Moodle the assignment. Name the file last name + ma2. Mine would be called kilmerma2.docx.

DUE by Friday 12.2

Here are the passages:

12: paper 2 planning

Look at the slide show and think and plan your way through one of the prompts that we looked at last week Thursday as a preparation for a full paper 2 practice on Thursday.

How to use a semicolon

from The Oatmeal.

Much Ado About Nothing act 1 quotations

For each of the quotations below, explain the significance of each passage. Relate it to a theme, the development of character or the development of conflict.

For each passage, you must cover the needed analysis in less than 200 words. Plan carefully what you will include and consider the criteria.

"Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none; and the fine is (for the which I may go the finer), I will live a bachelor." (I, i)

"Claudio: Can the world buy such a jewel?

Benedick: Yea, and a case to put it into." (I, i)

Due Monday 1 February

Sample paragraph:

London Race Movie

race.mov

11: choosing an aspect for an Antigone essay

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8: An Inspector Calls sample paragraph

The paragraph we did in class today:

In the play An Inspector Calls, Edna, the maid, is described on page 2 as ‘walking with a pronounced limp.’ The author does this in order to identify her as working class, emphasize her weakness and create a sense of sympathy from the audience. The limp emphasizes her working class status because of all of the middle class characters, none of them limp, and in fact they show their confidence by the way they stand and walk. For instance, on page 5 Mr. Birling … By having these two descriptions, the author emphasizes the differences between the two characters. In addition, the limp emphasizes her weakness. ...

12: HS powerpoint, modernism handout

A detailed list of aspects of Modernism (pdf)

The Existential Primer: Definitions

12: The Hour of the Star links

An Introduction to Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star

Babelguides: The Hour of the Star

Words Are Living Tissue: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

Crackling Embers II: The Hour of the Star

10: Much Ado help

Here's a link to the side-by-side version of the play from No Fear Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's Globe has a website called Playing Shakespeare about aspects of their production of Much Ado About Nothing. Interesting and useful, I think.

10: Much Ado help

11: introduction to Greek drama

1. Watch this film, taking notes on what it says about the origins of tragedy in the Greek world:


2. Add to your notes from this slide show:


3. Read about Classical Unities and Aristotle's unities.

4. Read the story of Oedipus and his crazy family. Make a family tree in your notes.

8: detective stories

If you liked the story we watched today, here are more Poirot stories.

Keep looking for those things we expect in detective stories.

8: some notes on protest song essays

Don't forget to check the assignment sheet!

10: advertising analysis assignment

Here's the assignment.

Here's a sample paragraph:

11: Earnest essay and oral

The essay is here.

The oral is here.

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: protest song essays

8: more protest songs

10: intro to advertising

11: for your musical edification

12: reading for paper 1

10: War presentation music videos

8: protest songs

11: Earnest movie

8: protest songs

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:

12: intro to Huck Finn

11: intro to Earnest

8: end of Gawain notes

8: conflict lecture notes

11: Year of the Hare essay/oral

Here is the essay assignment.

Here is the oral assignment.

8: Gawain section 3 assignment

Here is the assignment.

10: war poetry presentations

Here is the assignment.

Here are some poems students have presented on in the past.

Here are some other websites:

• British War Poets (WWI)


• Poems about war


• Poems of war and remembrance


• Six writers and editors on poems of war

12: Hamlet review

I made this last year. Enjoy.

11: Hare discussion questions

Discussion questions for chapters 1-7 and chapters 8-12.

8: Gawain 2 assignment

(a wodwos and a dragon)

Here's the assignment.

10: meter handout

Here it is.

8: notes on Gawain's shield

Here they are: