Ch. 10 #1,2,3,5 due Mon. 1
Character Sketch: Tues. May 2
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Power, Fear and Volition - block 2
My notes are in square brackets/italics
Make sure your quote sheet has page numbers!
Power
- Goals and conflicts between Nurse and Mack - show power
- "What worries me, Billy, is how your mother is going to take this." - Nurse wants to punish Mack by saying this to Billy [near end of the novel]
- "Who's the bully goose loony around here" - Mack tries to assert his dominance right away [near beginning of novel]
- "And as far as the Nurse riding you like this…" [Chief in Chapter 15 talks about the power Billy doesn't have - Chief can't give Billy power]
- Nurse tries to control the patients with EST threats and lobotomies
- Nurse cares about power more than patients well being [is this true?] - what are the Nurse's real intentions? Is she really cruel
- What is Mack's real goal throughout the novel?
- What is Nurse's goal throughout the novel?
- How does Nurse gain power - using fear
- [think about how power works generally, what does this novel tell us about power in our world - power structures - how is the ward a microcosm of how power works]
- Cigarettes - major symbol - goal of patients - rebellion
- Mack gives up - Cheswick kills himself [hangs all his hopes on Mack and he lets them down]
- Chief, who has no volition through most of the novel, finds self power - control panel is a symbol of power
- Fishing trip - Mack has real power - is really in control [does the fishing trip give everyone power?]
- [does this novel show us any differences between female power versus male?]
- EST - is it a treatment if Nurse uses it as a punishment
- [what about when Nurse uses "therapy" to tell on each other - even to decide a punishment or treatmentI]
- Lobotomy is the ultimate scare tactic ["you'll end up over on that side!"
- Music = Nurse's overwhelming presence - Mack wants it gone, but she turns up the volume - even when she's not there, the music is
- Music affects everyone in the ward - Mack wants men to converse - Nurse says it's for the older folk who have problems hearing and enjoy it -
- Wolves and rabbits
- Harding [at end of novel says "we're not rabbits any more, we're men now"]
- Medication - Nurse doesn't want to tell patients what medications they're taking
- Lithium makes patients groggy and heavy
- Dilantin helps one thing, but hurts another (bleeding gums)
- Distortion of time - Chief thinks the Nurse is so powerful that she can control time [thinks she's omnipotent]
Fear
- Nurse uses patients' fears "she recognizes this fear and knows how to put it to use" (18)
- Nurse uses EST and lobotomy as a fear tactic
- [how does fear exist in our society]
- Nurse is like a disease of fear and Mack is the antidote
- When Mack arrives, the patients become more confidence in themselves
- "All I know is this, nobody is very big in the first place" [this is Mack - see sheet]
- [Mack realizes that it's something bigger - remember he has an epiphany that it's not just the Nurse - it's society]
- Nurse fearful of ward being taken over by men
- She knows she cannot use power (natural for men at that time) she uses fear to make up for it
- Is Mack a hero? He also has a fear - he fears staying in the ward forever, he fears going back to the work farm
- [what was his childhood like]
- Harding's fear is people finding out he's gay - he gets a wife
- The role of society - ["shame"]
- "the finger of society pointing at me" - Harding is ashamed [society makes him feel that way]
- Difference between wolves and rabbits - all patients except Mack are rabbits [until the end when Harding realizes that he's a man]
- Billy is afraid of his mom's judgment
- They are all afraid of outside judgment
- "people laughing at you? I'm not big and tough" - Billy Bibbit talking to Mack about society's judgment
- Nurse has so much power that even the doctor is afraid of her
- [big connection between power and fear - what's the best way to gain power? What's the connection between fear and power?]
- Nurse is friends with the hospital administrator (also Billy's mom)
- Chief hides in the fog - this is a manifestation of his fear
- "Nobody complains about the fog… you can slip back in and be safe… that's what Mack doesn't understand" (Chief)
- Chief's fog goes away as he progresses through Mack's friendship
- [look at each character's progression - what happens to each character at the end of the novel]
- "they're still sick men" - not rabbits any more - Mack helps them with confidence - fear resides
- Mack empowers the men - that's why he gets so tired
- Know something is wrong with them but not be afraid of other people
- Mack says for the patients to be proud of who they are - fishing trip - he has the patients embrace their own mental illness
- Chief creates a barrier by acting deaf and mute
- "That's one fear hiding behind another" - Chief doesn't want to deal with his fears directly - the idea of him being gay is a distraction (not the real fear)
- Fear - used as a system of control
- Mack - as a politician - gets trust of patients not through fear
- Cheswick's fear (killing himself) - Nurse's power - thinks the ward is hopeless - afraid of outside world
Volition
- Compared to the beginning of the novel - how does the patients' volition increase?
- [what does that tell us? Comparing the ending to the beginning shows us Kesey's purpose]
- Chief starts talking and leaves the fog - near the end he says "never again!" referring to the fog
- Chief putting his hand up and voting shows us volition - he realizes he chose to do it himself - no one else was telling him to do that [does voting have anything to do with our own volition?]
- Turning point - Chief has free will
- Selfless act - Mack
- During the vote - the patients' big act against the Nurse - staring at the blank TV screen [symbol?] - gives them volition and hope
- Mack has a more therapeutic influence than the Nurse [but then again, Cheswick and Billy Bibbit might not have died if Mack had never come]
- Difference between a democracy and a monarchy (tyranny)
- Nurse shut down the voting since she "likes a rigged game" - she involves the chronics in the count [do the chronics represent anything in our society - people who aren't counted?]
- After Chief votes - he starts to see the real world - can see outside the windows - instead of the TV screen for the first time
- Mack has an infectious personality - confident in himself - shakes everyone's hands
- Has a rebellious attitude
- No one would have changed their ways without Mack
- Mack wanted to hear what people had to say - example of talking Martini through the monopoly game to see through his hallucinations
- Control panel = key to freedom - Chief has the will to leave the ward - the will to pick up the control panel - he could lift it the whole time [which Mack actually knows] always saw himself as small - realizes he's big enough, through Mack's help
- Volition and power inverse throughout the novel - charisma of Mack - symbol of volition
- Chief takes control of himself [symbolized through lifting the control panel]
- Hope + volition
- Size of everyone - Mack is seen as the biggest (has the most will) - almost always in a good mood, by end of novel people are the same size - or at least bigger
- Chief equates size to free will (Nurse is seen "blowing up as big as a tractor")
- After the fishing trip - Chief felt like he had grown 10 inches (gained confidence) - grown as a person
- Nurse didn't want them to go outside
- [does the fishing trip tell us anything about men in general? Big Nurse doesn't want them to go]
- Mack tells them to be proud of their mental illnesses - in the outside world
- Fishing trip -first time no one is telling them what to do - no rules - drink, laugh
- How to act around other people
- [could judgment be a theme that ties all these themes together, what about perspective, personal growth, mental illness generally]
- [think about the fact that Harding's "illness" is being gay - think about how society's judgment caused him to be anxious and depressed - think about how we don't see this as an illness today - is there an "illness" we are currently stigmatizing people with today that soon we will see as in the spectrum of "normal"]
Make sure your quote sheet has page numbers!
Power
- Goals and conflicts between Nurse and Mack - show power
- "What worries me, Billy, is how your mother is going to take this." - Nurse wants to punish Mack by saying this to Billy [near end of the novel]
- "Who's the bully goose loony around here" - Mack tries to assert his dominance right away [near beginning of novel]
- "And as far as the Nurse riding you like this…" [Chief in Chapter 15 talks about the power Billy doesn't have - Chief can't give Billy power]
- Nurse tries to control the patients with EST threats and lobotomies
- Nurse cares about power more than patients well being [is this true?] - what are the Nurse's real intentions? Is she really cruel
- What is Mack's real goal throughout the novel?
- What is Nurse's goal throughout the novel?
- How does Nurse gain power - using fear
- [think about how power works generally, what does this novel tell us about power in our world - power structures - how is the ward a microcosm of how power works]
- Cigarettes - major symbol - goal of patients - rebellion
- Mack gives up - Cheswick kills himself [hangs all his hopes on Mack and he lets them down]
- Chief, who has no volition through most of the novel, finds self power - control panel is a symbol of power
- Fishing trip - Mack has real power - is really in control [does the fishing trip give everyone power?]
- [does this novel show us any differences between female power versus male?]
- EST - is it a treatment if Nurse uses it as a punishment
- [what about when Nurse uses "therapy" to tell on each other - even to decide a punishment or treatmentI]
- Lobotomy is the ultimate scare tactic ["you'll end up over on that side!"
- Music = Nurse's overwhelming presence - Mack wants it gone, but she turns up the volume - even when she's not there, the music is
- Music affects everyone in the ward - Mack wants men to converse - Nurse says it's for the older folk who have problems hearing and enjoy it -
- Wolves and rabbits
- Harding [at end of novel says "we're not rabbits any more, we're men now"]
- Medication - Nurse doesn't want to tell patients what medications they're taking
- Lithium makes patients groggy and heavy
- Dilantin helps one thing, but hurts another (bleeding gums)
- Distortion of time - Chief thinks the Nurse is so powerful that she can control time [thinks she's omnipotent]
Fear
- Nurse uses patients' fears "she recognizes this fear and knows how to put it to use" (18)
- Nurse uses EST and lobotomy as a fear tactic
- [how does fear exist in our society]
- Nurse is like a disease of fear and Mack is the antidote
- When Mack arrives, the patients become more confidence in themselves
- "All I know is this, nobody is very big in the first place" [this is Mack - see sheet]
- [Mack realizes that it's something bigger - remember he has an epiphany that it's not just the Nurse - it's society]
- Nurse fearful of ward being taken over by men
- She knows she cannot use power (natural for men at that time) she uses fear to make up for it
- Is Mack a hero? He also has a fear - he fears staying in the ward forever, he fears going back to the work farm
- [what was his childhood like]
- Harding's fear is people finding out he's gay - he gets a wife
- The role of society - ["shame"]
- "the finger of society pointing at me" - Harding is ashamed [society makes him feel that way]
- Difference between wolves and rabbits - all patients except Mack are rabbits [until the end when Harding realizes that he's a man]
- Billy is afraid of his mom's judgment
- They are all afraid of outside judgment
- "people laughing at you? I'm not big and tough" - Billy Bibbit talking to Mack about society's judgment
- Nurse has so much power that even the doctor is afraid of her
- [big connection between power and fear - what's the best way to gain power? What's the connection between fear and power?]
- Nurse is friends with the hospital administrator (also Billy's mom)
- Chief hides in the fog - this is a manifestation of his fear
- "Nobody complains about the fog… you can slip back in and be safe… that's what Mack doesn't understand" (Chief)
- Chief's fog goes away as he progresses through Mack's friendship
- [look at each character's progression - what happens to each character at the end of the novel]
- "they're still sick men" - not rabbits any more - Mack helps them with confidence - fear resides
- Mack empowers the men - that's why he gets so tired
- Know something is wrong with them but not be afraid of other people
- Mack says for the patients to be proud of who they are - fishing trip - he has the patients embrace their own mental illness
- Chief creates a barrier by acting deaf and mute
- "That's one fear hiding behind another" - Chief doesn't want to deal with his fears directly - the idea of him being gay is a distraction (not the real fear)
- Fear - used as a system of control
- Mack - as a politician - gets trust of patients not through fear
- Cheswick's fear (killing himself) - Nurse's power - thinks the ward is hopeless - afraid of outside world
Volition
- Compared to the beginning of the novel - how does the patients' volition increase?
- [what does that tell us? Comparing the ending to the beginning shows us Kesey's purpose]
- Chief starts talking and leaves the fog - near the end he says "never again!" referring to the fog
- Chief putting his hand up and voting shows us volition - he realizes he chose to do it himself - no one else was telling him to do that [does voting have anything to do with our own volition?]
- Turning point - Chief has free will
- Selfless act - Mack
- During the vote - the patients' big act against the Nurse - staring at the blank TV screen [symbol?] - gives them volition and hope
- Mack has a more therapeutic influence than the Nurse [but then again, Cheswick and Billy Bibbit might not have died if Mack had never come]
- Difference between a democracy and a monarchy (tyranny)
- Nurse shut down the voting since she "likes a rigged game" - she involves the chronics in the count [do the chronics represent anything in our society - people who aren't counted?]
- After Chief votes - he starts to see the real world - can see outside the windows - instead of the TV screen for the first time
- Mack has an infectious personality - confident in himself - shakes everyone's hands
- Has a rebellious attitude
- No one would have changed their ways without Mack
- Mack wanted to hear what people had to say - example of talking Martini through the monopoly game to see through his hallucinations
- Control panel = key to freedom - Chief has the will to leave the ward - the will to pick up the control panel - he could lift it the whole time [which Mack actually knows] always saw himself as small - realizes he's big enough, through Mack's help
- Volition and power inverse throughout the novel - charisma of Mack - symbol of volition
- Chief takes control of himself [symbolized through lifting the control panel]
- Hope + volition
- Size of everyone - Mack is seen as the biggest (has the most will) - almost always in a good mood, by end of novel people are the same size - or at least bigger
- Chief equates size to free will (Nurse is seen "blowing up as big as a tractor")
- After the fishing trip - Chief felt like he had grown 10 inches (gained confidence) - grown as a person
- Nurse didn't want them to go outside
- [does the fishing trip tell us anything about men in general? Big Nurse doesn't want them to go]
- Mack tells them to be proud of their mental illnesses - in the outside world
- Fishing trip -first time no one is telling them what to do - no rules - drink, laugh
- How to act around other people
- [could judgment be a theme that ties all these themes together, what about perspective, personal growth, mental illness generally]
- [think about the fact that Harding's "illness" is being gay - think about how society's judgment caused him to be anxious and depressed - think about how we don't see this as an illness today - is there an "illness" we are currently stigmatizing people with today that soon we will see as in the spectrum of "normal"]
Fear, Power, Hope - block one (Eng. 11)
My thoughts are in square bracket, italics
Make sure your quotes sheets have page numbers for every quote
Fear
-nurse imposes fear to get control - Mack fights it and helps patients fight their own fear
- Nurse "knows how to put fear to use...that side" (Ch. 3 - see questions)
- Doctors are scared of Big Nurse ("ammonia" quote)
- "you may need a month of bed pans" - Nurse controls aides, doctors, patients, other nurses
- Chief - fears combine, "I was a lot bigger in those days"
- [how does the fear connect to our world and our lives, what bigger statement is OFOCN making about society generally?]
- Mack has a sense of fear when he sees the EST bed - to what extent does he fear Nurse?
- [what role does fear play generally in our lives?
- [what is the nature of fear?]
- Symbol - Billy Bibbit's stutter gets worse around the nurse
- Symbols - wolves and rabbits, (wolves - Mack and Nurse, rabbits - rest of patients)
- [look at each patient's progression - Harding says "we're not rabbits anymore, we're men]
- Movie shows Cheswick fearing violence - anyone hitting each other or being loud
- Chief's fear goes away as his friendship with Mack grows
- Insanity and fear are related [how]
- [how do the topics - power and hope relate to fear]
- How does using fear help control?
- Less work to get people to fear - otherwise keeping track of everyone's needs
- Easy to lose control - Mack teaches patients not to fear and Nurse loses her power
- "That's one fear hiding behind another" - takes Chief some time to realize his problems - this problem isn't relevant - is covering up what he's really afraid of - same as fog
- Short choppy chapters = fog
- Chapters become longer represents Chief coming out of the fog
- As Chief gains control of himself - fog goes away
- Chief steps out of his comfort zone and gains more control of himself
- People gain power as fear loses its hold
- Big Nurse - likes to keep everything in order - this shows her fear (diagnosis of OCD)
- Chief - PTSD - fear of outside world and people with power
- [look at Chief's experience with tribe, Dad, government]
- [symbolism of Chief's deaf and mute status]
Power
- Chief shakes Mack's hand at the beginning of the novel - he feels a power surge
- Chief's interactions with Mack help him take steps to leave the fog
- Mack's influence in general
- Power and control is shown through Mack and Nurse's influence
- [what about society? Where is the power? How does this novel connect our society to the characters' experience of power]
- [microcosm of ward - represents the power structures of the world]
- [the Nurse controls the black attendants - but it's doubtful she picked them the way Chief interprets it - he says that one of the attendants stopped growing at age 5]
- "We need a good strong wolf like the Nurse" - patients are willing to relinquish their power - they want to be told what to do - they are mentally ill
- [do we need leaders? What is their purpose?]
- Group therapy sessions as a "pecking party" (51 ish)
- Nurse uses the staff to bolster her power
- Mack also manipulates the patients - but he does use his power to build people up
- [Mack actually cheats them out of their money since he knew Chief could lift the control panel - it was a fixed bet]
- [Mack - not perfect - are any of us?]
- Mack loses power when he realizes he's committed (scene at the pool)
- [Cheswick's suicide]
- Combine compared to society [Combine symbol = making everyone the same - one of Chief's biggest fear - think of First Nations people losing power to government and assimilation]
- Cards symbolize power, also cigarettes (self power)
- [what is our own power - what about Chief voting]
- Music is a symbol of power - Mack can't change - she controls it and the volume
- Cigarettes = self power - Cheswick loses them and then commits suicide [coincidence?]
- Fear and power are connected
- Hallucinations
- [you can discuss lack of power]
- Mack brings everyone else up - party shows everyone (opening the window - "what was to stop us from doing it again?" near the end of the novel
- [another symbol - windows - Chief finally sees clearly out the window - he also breaks out through the window - could he have just walked out the door]
- Volition -
- Lobotomy is a symbol of power - Nurse's biggest weapon - admits that she cannot outlast Mack
- Does Mack win? He dies, but she doesn't even want him to move wards earlier in the novel
- [look at the ending - look at what each character does]
Hope
- Mack and Nurse have power [who provides hope?]
- Mack "what do you think you are, crazy of something? You're no crazier than the average [a-holes] out there."
- [are power and hope connected?]
- Patients are able to give hope to each other - symbolized by Chief voting
- When Mack temporarily gives up hope after finding out he's committed, causes Cheswick's death
- Billy commits suicide as well -ward drains hope
- Hope focuses on Mack - when Mack loses his hope, they lose theirs
- Mack gives hope to Chief - Chief starts to leave the fog - [starts to recover]
- [again, look to the end - who has hope, what is the function of hope, what does this novel show us about hope generally, what is the nature of hope, what does the novel show us about hope in our society?]
- Mack gives up getting the cigarettes for Cheswick - makes Cheswick give up hope (suicide)
- Fishing trip gives patients hope - realize they are okay to go out in society
- Control panel - Mack tries to lift it "at least I tried, goddamnit, at least I tried." [this is hope]
- Could represent Mack trying to lift other people's spirits - Chief lifting it in the end shows how everyone has to do it on their own [mental health is ultimately each person's personal battle]
- What's the relationship with Chief's own hope…
- Before Mack arrives on the ward - things were the same every day - patients are shown - fishing trip, card games, laughing - all of these events provide hope [and alleviate fear]
- Is hope dangerous to have - hope provides expectations - but if they are not met, it can be devastating
- Cheswick, Billy Bibbit
- [contrast Cheswick and Billy Bibbit to Harding and Chief]
- Realistic hopes are good -but unrealistic [hanging all hopes on one person rather than self]
- ["Maybe it's not the Nurse, maybe it's something bigger" - Mack realizes it's not the Nurse causing all the suffering - remember - not seeing the forest for the trees]
- [What does Mack's death tell us about hope?]
- "haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door"
- [does laughter provide hope?]
Make sure your quotes sheets have page numbers for every quote
Fear
-nurse imposes fear to get control - Mack fights it and helps patients fight their own fear
- Nurse "knows how to put fear to use...that side" (Ch. 3 - see questions)
- Doctors are scared of Big Nurse ("ammonia" quote)
- "you may need a month of bed pans" - Nurse controls aides, doctors, patients, other nurses
- Chief - fears combine, "I was a lot bigger in those days"
- [how does the fear connect to our world and our lives, what bigger statement is OFOCN making about society generally?]
- Mack has a sense of fear when he sees the EST bed - to what extent does he fear Nurse?
- [what role does fear play generally in our lives?
- [what is the nature of fear?]
- Symbol - Billy Bibbit's stutter gets worse around the nurse
- Symbols - wolves and rabbits, (wolves - Mack and Nurse, rabbits - rest of patients)
- [look at each patient's progression - Harding says "we're not rabbits anymore, we're men]
- Movie shows Cheswick fearing violence - anyone hitting each other or being loud
- Chief's fear goes away as his friendship with Mack grows
- Insanity and fear are related [how]
- [how do the topics - power and hope relate to fear]
- How does using fear help control?
- Less work to get people to fear - otherwise keeping track of everyone's needs
- Easy to lose control - Mack teaches patients not to fear and Nurse loses her power
- "That's one fear hiding behind another" - takes Chief some time to realize his problems - this problem isn't relevant - is covering up what he's really afraid of - same as fog
- Short choppy chapters = fog
- Chapters become longer represents Chief coming out of the fog
- As Chief gains control of himself - fog goes away
- Chief steps out of his comfort zone and gains more control of himself
- People gain power as fear loses its hold
- Big Nurse - likes to keep everything in order - this shows her fear (diagnosis of OCD)
- Chief - PTSD - fear of outside world and people with power
- [look at Chief's experience with tribe, Dad, government]
- [symbolism of Chief's deaf and mute status]
Power
- Chief shakes Mack's hand at the beginning of the novel - he feels a power surge
- Chief's interactions with Mack help him take steps to leave the fog
- Mack's influence in general
- Power and control is shown through Mack and Nurse's influence
- [what about society? Where is the power? How does this novel connect our society to the characters' experience of power]
- [microcosm of ward - represents the power structures of the world]
- [the Nurse controls the black attendants - but it's doubtful she picked them the way Chief interprets it - he says that one of the attendants stopped growing at age 5]
- "We need a good strong wolf like the Nurse" - patients are willing to relinquish their power - they want to be told what to do - they are mentally ill
- [do we need leaders? What is their purpose?]
- Group therapy sessions as a "pecking party" (51 ish)
- Nurse uses the staff to bolster her power
- Mack also manipulates the patients - but he does use his power to build people up
- [Mack actually cheats them out of their money since he knew Chief could lift the control panel - it was a fixed bet]
- [Mack - not perfect - are any of us?]
- Mack loses power when he realizes he's committed (scene at the pool)
- [Cheswick's suicide]
- Combine compared to society [Combine symbol = making everyone the same - one of Chief's biggest fear - think of First Nations people losing power to government and assimilation]
- Cards symbolize power, also cigarettes (self power)
- [what is our own power - what about Chief voting]
- Music is a symbol of power - Mack can't change - she controls it and the volume
- Cigarettes = self power - Cheswick loses them and then commits suicide [coincidence?]
- Fear and power are connected
- Hallucinations
- [you can discuss lack of power]
- Mack brings everyone else up - party shows everyone (opening the window - "what was to stop us from doing it again?" near the end of the novel
- [another symbol - windows - Chief finally sees clearly out the window - he also breaks out through the window - could he have just walked out the door]
- Volition -
- Lobotomy is a symbol of power - Nurse's biggest weapon - admits that she cannot outlast Mack
- Does Mack win? He dies, but she doesn't even want him to move wards earlier in the novel
- [look at the ending - look at what each character does]
Hope
- Mack and Nurse have power [who provides hope?]
- Mack "what do you think you are, crazy of something? You're no crazier than the average [a-holes] out there."
- [are power and hope connected?]
- Patients are able to give hope to each other - symbolized by Chief voting
- When Mack temporarily gives up hope after finding out he's committed, causes Cheswick's death
- Billy commits suicide as well -ward drains hope
- Hope focuses on Mack - when Mack loses his hope, they lose theirs
- Mack gives hope to Chief - Chief starts to leave the fog - [starts to recover]
- [again, look to the end - who has hope, what is the function of hope, what does this novel show us about hope generally, what is the nature of hope, what does the novel show us about hope in our society?]
- Mack gives up getting the cigarettes for Cheswick - makes Cheswick give up hope (suicide)
- Fishing trip gives patients hope - realize they are okay to go out in society
- Control panel - Mack tries to lift it "at least I tried, goddamnit, at least I tried." [this is hope]
- Could represent Mack trying to lift other people's spirits - Chief lifting it in the end shows how everyone has to do it on their own [mental health is ultimately each person's personal battle]
- What's the relationship with Chief's own hope…
- Before Mack arrives on the ward - things were the same every day - patients are shown - fishing trip, card games, laughing - all of these events provide hope [and alleviate fear]
- Is hope dangerous to have - hope provides expectations - but if they are not met, it can be devastating
- Cheswick, Billy Bibbit
- [contrast Cheswick and Billy Bibbit to Harding and Chief]
- Realistic hopes are good -but unrealistic [hanging all hopes on one person rather than self]
- ["Maybe it's not the Nurse, maybe it's something bigger" - Mack realizes it's not the Nurse causing all the suffering - remember - not seeing the forest for the trees]
- [What does Mack's death tell us about hope?]
- "haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door"
- [does laughter provide hope?]
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Eng. 9 - April 26 - Character Sketch
Write a three paragraph composition describing the characteristics of ONE of the following: Sam Wood, Bill Gillespie or Virgil Tibbs.
Answer the following questions in the context of your composition:
a) What is this character like?
b) Is he likeable?
c) Is he believable?
Include:
· A title page (worth 5 marks)
· A supporting quote
Make sure:
· You use your editing checklist
· Double space
· Use pen not pencil (if it's hand written) 20 marks (writing) 5 marks (title page)
Due: Tuesday, May 2
Answer the following questions in the context of your composition:
a) What is this character like?
b) Is he likeable?
c) Is he believable?
Include:
· A title page (worth 5 marks)
· A supporting quote
Make sure:
· You use your editing checklist
· Double space
· Use pen not pencil (if it's hand written) 20 marks (writing) 5 marks (title page)
Due: Tuesday, May 2
RENAISSANCE TEST - changed to Tues. May 2 (Whoso-On His Blindness)
For Thursday, April 27 - Restoration Notes, and QQ for "To the Ladies"
Will the following people please bring their $22 TOMMORROW: Giacomo, Ivan, Emma B, Sevgi, Sam, Stefanie, Megan (Please nag each other) I have to hand the money in on MONDAY!!!
For Thursday, April 27 - Restoration Notes, and QQ for "To the Ladies"
Will the following people please bring their $22 TOMMORROW: Giacomo, Ivan, Emma B, Sevgi, Sam, Stefanie, Megan (Please nag each other) I have to hand the money in on MONDAY!!!
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Friday, April 21, 2017
Lit 12 - April 21
Prepare for your debate (both sides) - Is Satan a hero?
Acrostic poem IX, 500
Make sure you have book and line numbers for quotes
Prepare both sides, you do not know which side you will be arguing
You may use any of Paradise Lost or The Bible for your argument - but no literary websites..
Mon 24: Debate
Tues 25: In-Class Essay
Warning - RENAISSANCE TEST coming very soon!
Acrostic poem IX, 500
Make sure you have book and line numbers for quotes
Prepare both sides, you do not know which side you will be arguing
You may use any of Paradise Lost or The Bible for your argument - but no literary websites..
Mon 24: Debate
Tues 25: In-Class Essay
Warning - RENAISSANCE TEST coming very soon!
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Eng. 11 - April 19
Presentations: Mon. 24
Movie: Tues. 25
Movie: Wed. 26
Fishbowl: Thurs. 27
In-Class Essay: Mon. 1
Test: Tues. 2
Movie: Tues. 25
Movie: Wed. 26
Fishbowl: Thurs. 27
In-Class Essay: Mon. 1
Test: Tues. 2
Lit 12 - April 19
3 x QQ for Paradise Lost
Text questions: Thurs. 20
Fri. 21: Reading Book IX
Mon. 24: DEBATE
Tues. 25: In-Class Essay - page of quotes allowed
Text questions: Thurs. 20
Fri. 21: Reading Book IX
Mon. 24: DEBATE
Tues. 25: In-Class Essay - page of quotes allowed
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Eng. 11 - April 13
Have your quotes ready for your characters - group project - library day on Tues. April 18
People who were away: Vocab Tests after school on Tuesday
People who were away: Vocab Tests after school on Tuesday
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Eng. 11 - Dates! - April 11
VOCAB TEST: Thursday, April 13
Ch. 16-19 - W.12
Ch. 20-23 - Th. 13
Ch. 24-26 - Tues. 18
27-end 0 Thurs. 20
Library Day - character quotes - Tues. 18
Ch. 16-19 - W.12
Ch. 20-23 - Th. 13
Ch. 24-26 - Tues. 18
27-end 0 Thurs. 20
Library Day - character quotes - Tues. 18
Lit 12 - April 11
Prepare: "To the Virgins"
and "On His Blindness"
Do GRAD SPEECHES
Bring Bard money!
and "On His Blindness"
Do GRAD SPEECHES
Bring Bard money!
Monday, April 10, 2017
Lit. 12 - April 10
Prepare Donne's "Holy Sonnet 6" and "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
Do grad speech!
Bard money and forms!
Do grad speech!
Bard money and forms!
Friday, April 7, 2017
Eng. 11 - April 7
Complete chapters 11-14
Study for Vocab.
Make sure your vocab sheets are complete for Wednesday's class
Vocab Test: Thursday, April 13
Study for Vocab.
Make sure your vocab sheets are complete for Wednesday's class
Vocab Test: Thursday, April 13
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Eng. 11 - April 4 and beyond
Read and complete questions for Ch. 5-7 for Wed. April 5
Ch. 8-10 for Fri. April 7 (make sure Vocab sheet is complete)
VOCAB TEST: Thursday, April 13
Ch. 8-10 for Fri. April 7 (make sure Vocab sheet is complete)
VOCAB TEST: Thursday, April 13
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