11: Room with a View introduction slideshow

11: Bible help

Literature often has references to the Bible with which you may not be very familiar. The Brick Testament is fun to read and accurate.

11: Frost on Modern American Poetry

Here's the entry for Robert Frost on the Modern American Poetry site.

10: Pride and Prejudice discussion questions, ch. 35-38

Pride and Prejudice discussion questions, ch. 35-38

What to discuss as a class or in small groups and put into your notes:

11: sample planning for 3 Sisters essay

This is the practice we did in class, developing a thesis for a Three Sisters essay.

10: Pride and Prejudice links

Sparknotes summaries

etext of the novel

a hypertext of the novel, with loads of other ways of accessing the novel

For those who want a little more action in the novel, check out this new book:

11: lecture notes for Mother Courage intro.

1. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1955); German political playwright, exiled in 1933

2. Brecht: ‘How can theatre be entertaining and at the same time instructive? How can it be taken out of the traffic in intellectual drugs and transformed from a place of illusion to a place of insight?’

3.Epic, non-Aristotelian or dialectic theatre

4. alienation effects :

• titles


• fragmentation of scenes


• music


• staging: minimalist, but with the texture of reality


• language


• acting style

5. Brecht: ‘What is a performance of Mother Courage & Her Children primarily meant to show?
That in wartime big profits are not made by little people. That war, which is a continuation of business by other means, makes the human virtues fatal even to their possessors. That no sacrifice is too great for the struggle against war.’ (xvii)

6. The Thirty Years War (1618-1648):
Imperial Catholic Germanic states
vs.
Protestant Germanic / Scandinavian states

7. Philosophical position of communism

• dialectic


• minimalism of individuality


• need for action

11A1: The Three Sisters reviews

When studying a play, it can be useful to read reviews of productions of that play. Here are a few I found:

• a NYT review of a 2001 production.


• a nytheatre.com review of a 2009 production

9: Caged Bird map

Here is a map of the locations of the book around the United States. Click the link below to zoom in and see street-level views.

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11: Three Sisters act I movie on YouTube

11: 10 things to know before studying The Three Sisters

12 standard: paper 2 planning

Here's the question we worked with on Wed. 11.3.09:

“What happens in fiction is what distinguishes it…” Using at least two works, show how far your interest in novels and short stories has been based on the events and how much of your interest has been in other aspects?

Here are the notes preparing a thesis statement:

See the great London race!

10: reader response essay

The goal of this essay is to explain how you experienced reading the play relative to specific techniques and elements of the play. In a reader response essay, you may refer to yourself as a reader, (using ‘I’ or ‘we’), explaining how specific elements of the play affected your emotional and intellectual response. You should not express your attitude about the quality of the play: it should analyze the way the author uses the text to have an effect on a specific reader, namely yourself or a reader just like you.

Basically, you are linking technique to the impact it has on the reader, instead of theme. Your thesis statement will identify the specific effect the identified techniques or features have on your reading of the play.

Choose one of the following prompts below: I have listed them in order of increasing difficulty. Again, please choose wisely.

Uploading London photos

I've created a Picasaweb site for our London pictures. Here's the link to see photos.

Here's how to upload photos:

Let's celebrate!

For the week of 23 February - 1 March.

Let's celebrate!

For the week of February 9-15.

London trip

I've created a Google map for the grade 10 London trip. Check it out!

Here is also a pdf of the trip information.

Map for London trip

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Much Ado About Nothing act III quotations

For 2 (TWO) 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.

10A: Due Tuesday10 February.

10B: Due Wednesday 11 February.

"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps." (III, i)

"If I see anything tonight why I should not marry her tomorrow, in the congregation where I should wed, there will I shame her." (III, ii)

"Yet Benedick was such another, and now is he become a man. He swore he would never marry; and yet now in despite of his heart he eats his meat without grudging. And how you may be converted I know not; but methinks you look with your eyes as other women do." (III, v)