11: Year of the Hare introduction

It's here.

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

8: Gawain notes

When we meet Gawain, what chivalric virtues does he display?

12: Sassoon & Owen poetry intro

8: Gawain cartoon

We will watch this in class, but if you misss something, you can watch the story here.

10: AQWF essay

Here's the assignment.

Here are the notes from class today:

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:

8: movie about knights

See the clips here.

8: movie about knights

11: Millay essay

Here's the intro. I showed in class:



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.

8: Talking in Whispers speeches

Here is the assignment. Speech day is Thursday.

12: rhetoric devices

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

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.

10: leaders fighting it out

I mentioned this in class in reference to chapter 2 of AQWF:

8: Talking in Whispers assignment

Here is the assignment.

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.

11: Frost slideshow

10: Henry V

10: Streetcar questions

short answer questions

Answer all of these, briefly.