Homework for Monday 5.3.10

Please read through this packet:

AP Binder packet # 1

Though we do not meet as a class, I would like you to post 10 different introductions by Monday @ noon. List the prompt year, followed by your introduction. You must use five different books.

At this point, this is really to 'prep' you for the exam--you should really try and put yourself in the exam mindset when completing this assignment.

(You may include as many introductions as possible in each post.)

Agenda for week of 4.26.10

Joan Mitchell's "Ladybug" (1957). Image found in The New York Times archive February 12, 2006.

4.26.10: Monday, Day 6: SRD on Jane Eyre, volumes 2 and 3. All blog posts due.
4.27.10: Tuesday, Day 5: SRD on Nina Schwartz's "No Place Like Home: The Logic of the Supplement in Jane Eyre." pgs. 549-564.
4.28.10: Wednesday, Day 4 (Long Block): SRD on Elsie Michie's "White Chimpanzees and Oriental Despots: Racial Stereotyping and Edward Rochester." pgs. 584-597.
4.29.10: Thursday, Day 3: Putting it all together, test prep for Question 3 style prompt.
4.30.10: Friday, Day 2: In-class Question 3 style prompt on Jane Eyre.

Volume 1: Jane Eyre discussion questions

Volume 1: Jane Eyre

You should be able to discuss any and all items with references to text. I recommend using post-it notes to mark your text and jot down reminders. We will not be able to cover all of this in class if your conversation probes text with appropriate depth, insight, and analysis.

You can obviously reference things not on this list—these are obvious things in the novel, but I would be happy to hear about things you would like to comment on, especially if they garner intellectual thought.

Monday, April 12^th, 2010. Late Entry, Long Block:

• In class: SLD, Volume 1, Preface & Chapters 1-9 (p.1-91)
• Homework Due: Prep for SLD, chapter questions.

Chapter 1

• Analyze how each character is described – Jane, Mrs. Reed, John, Georgiana, Eliza.
• Analyze the exchange between John and Jane when John attacks Jane for her ‘imprudence’ at the end of the chapter. Examine this scene on as many literary levels as possible—character analysis, symbols, allusions, significance to plot, etc.

Chapter 2

• Analyze how each character is described – Bessie, Abbot.
• Examine the “Red Room” on as many literary levels as possible. A close reading of passage here would be helpful.

Chapter 3

• Analyze how each character is described – Mr. Lloyd.
• What is the most important paragraph in this chapter from the narrator? Why?

Chapter 4

• Analyze how each character is described – Mr. Brocklehurst.
• Examine the exchange he has with Jane. Examine this scene on as many literary levels as possible.
• Examine the following symbols throughout the novel so far. Locate and trace the evolution of these symbols from chapter 1 through 4: Books, The Color Red, Bird Imagery, Nature (as it represents Jane’s mind). Continue to examine any of these symbols as they appear throughout the novel.

Chapter 5

• Analyze how each character is described – Miss Temple?
• Analyze the significance of “Let your light shine so before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.”—St. Matt. V. 16.

Chapter 6

• Analyze how each character is described – Miss Scatcherd, Helen Burns.

Chapter 7

• Analyze how each character is described – Julia Severn, Mr. Brocklehurst.

Chapter 8

• Analyze how each character is described – Miss Temple.

Chapter 9

• Analyze how each character is described – Mary Ann Wilson.
• Analyze the significance of “Her grave is in Brocklebridge Churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a gray marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word ‘Resurgam’.”

Tuesday, April 13^th, 2010 – Wednesday, April 14^th, 2010. Day 3 & Day 2:

• In class: SLD, Volume 1, Chapters 10-15 (p. 91-156)
• Homework Due: Prep for SLD, chapters 10 – 15, terms listed below.
1. What is Romanticism? What is a Romantic Character?
2. What is a Byronic Hero?
3. What is Gothic? What is a Gothic novel?

Agenda 4.12.10 - 4.16.10

4.12.10. Monday late entry, long block: SRD Jane Eyre Volume I (p. 1-91)
4.13.10. Tuesday: SRD Jane Eyre Volume I (p. 91-134)
4.14.10. Wednesday: SRD Jane Eyre Volume I (p. 134-156) 4.15.10. Thursday: no class 4.16.10. Friday: Art Research Paper due.

Agenda for 4.5.10 - 4.9.10

4.5.10. Monday: Poetry Research Paper Analysis Rewrites due. Hamlet Notebook Due. 4.6.10. Tuesday: No class.
4.7.10, Wednesday: Annotated Bibliographies due for Art Research Paper—25 sources (max of 5 from internet, unless you were given permission for a different variation.)
4.8.10. Thursday: continue to work on research and / or read Jane Eyre. Nothing due in class.
4.9.10. Friday: 70 research cards, 2 page biography & thesis, outline due.

3rd Quarter ends at 2:15. on Friday April 9th, 2010.

Tom Phillips: Explicating *A Humument* (Step 1)

You will be explicating a page from Tom Phillips' A Humument. Click the link and visit this fascinating website--you could spend days in the world he creates. There are links on the site that introduce the work and give Tom Phillips' biography. There are essays on the work and plenty of stuff to read up on. All of it will be great background knowledge. None of it will end up in your essay.

• When you've found the page IN THE GALLERY you are going to explicate, post the page number in this comment section of this post to claim it. SORRY, NO REPEATS AND IT IS ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE BASIS.
• Also, I would like you to hyperlink your title to the image you pick. Below is a mini-lesson on how to do this.
  

Kevin Ta 5 said...
Alright, here’s my quick mini lesson on how to hyperlink in comment boxes. Say you want to make a link like this. All you have to do is type the following into the comment box:

<"a href=http://www.google.com">"this"<"/a">

and get rid of the quotation marks. When you publish it, it will look like:

this

Replace the URL (making sure you have the http:// part) and the “this” and it’s as simple as that.

Remember that the Preview button is your friend. Hope that helps.

Agenda for Weeks of 1.4.10 & 1.11.10

image: Oyster Bar, Counter, NY (c) 2008
photo / photo-collage by Raissa Venables.

Hello all. Hope you are all well-rested and ready to go for next week.

Here's the schedule of events that will take us to the end of the quarter:

1.4.10: in-class work on Question 3 with your Indie reading Notes for book #2, in groups. Turn in notes.
1.5.10: Poem practice, "It's a Woman's World" Eavan Boland.
1.6.10: TBD, something poetry related, also explain assignments due for next week.
1.7.10: (long block) Begin Poetry Research Project, introduce
1.8.10: Poetry Out Loud class competitions, meet in the cafe to support Sandy!

1.11.10: no class, work on Independent Reading book # 3 and Poetry assignments due Wednesday.
1.12.10: no class, work on Independent Reading book # 3 and Poetry assignments due Wednesday.
1.13.10: Homework assignments: explication on Tom Phillips, assignment TBD & something else blog related, assignment TBD. In class: Poetry madness, TBD.
1.14.10: In class: Poetry madness, TBD.
1.15.10: In class: Poetry madness, TBD.

Midterm: Wednesday 1.20.10

1.22.10: (Friday) Last day of quarter: 50 post-its due in 3rd independent reading book. Question 3 on either of the last two indie reading titles.

When we return for 3rd quarter, we will focus primarily on completing your first research paper before February break. You will also have an independent reading assignment for February.

After February break: Hamlet, 2nd Research Paper & Jane Eyre (three of my favorite things) with a healthy dose of lit. crit.