List the CHARACTERS - come up with some adjectives for each - try to find a good quote for each - explicate - test your friend with quotes
STRUCTURE: Find a quote for each of the five points of Freytag's Pyramid - what would you say about each - extend through play - test your friend (brainstorm) - read over your handout
THEMES: Make a list of themes that were not part of your fishbowl. Brainstorm what you would say about them. Find essential quotes exhibiting your themes - test your friend
Review your homework and notes
You will be doing a close reading of each quote - making a general statement (topic sentence) then proving (with quotes from the excerpt) then extending your argument through the play - like a tiny keyhole essay.
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
HAMLET: Action vs. Inaction, Appearance vs. Reality, Betrayal vs. Loyalty
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
Advice: look at class notes and your own improvements
-see if you can come up with a topic which fits all three topics
-extend your ideas to show how it connects to our world today
-passion
Action vs. Inaction
-Fortinbras and Hamlet are contrasted (character foils) - "what is a man" (IV iv) soliloquy
- Fortinbras is a man of action [so is Laertes]
- Fortinbras "sharks up a list of resolutes" in Act I - it is reported by Horatio
- Hamlet is an intellectual
- [what do we value as a society? Political parties?]
- Gertrude
- [do nothing principle - when Hamlet does finally take action III iv - how does it work out?]
- Ophelia - passive in her actions? - she's a woman, has less status than Hamlet [interesting that the water/drowning death is seen as the water drowning her - look at gravediggers' scene]
- Claudius - beginning keeps Hamlet around to observe - maybe he doesn't want to kill him - assess the danger
- Hamlet becomes a killer and then he is dangerous - hence why Claudius then wants him put to death
- He ends up being rash when he stabs through a curtain - before that he was thinking (over-thinking?)
- [good to compare to Macbeth]
- Hamlet's soliloquies reveal his morality - he also does not kill Claudius when he thinks he's praying because "he killed my father full of bread" (III iii 80-82)
- Makes up excuses - are these reasonable, or is it procrastination
- [is there a system of law in place?]
- Belief in Heaven and Hell is real and not questioned
- Revenge vs. morals vs. duty [what wins?]
- Gertrude and Hamlet - he threatens to kill her - is it really the ghost or his conscience? [how does actual madness play into this theme] -he's in a frenzy - has just killed someone has "[drunk] hot blood" - but ghost reminds him to speak daggers, though use none
- [what inspires Hamlet to action?]
- What leads to a better outcome, action or inaction - doesn't everyone who takes action die?
- Honorable (think of the soccer goalie who dives to one side) - action LOOKS better
- Laertes comes with a bunch of supporters to take down Denmark - avenge his father's death (but he is easily talked down)
- "Just Lather, That's All" - barber doesn't take action, Captain Torres does - best choice for individual [existential questions]
- [should Hamlet have killed Claudius right after the visit with the ghost?]
- [what other recourse does Hamlet have?]
- [what about our society?]
- [following one character - Ophelia, Gertrude]
- Ophelia is innocent - suicide is hasty [but she's insane - father killed by her ex-boyfriend, her "chaste treasure" was probably opened]
- Abby thinks her actions are planned and peaceful and made a decision
- [do-lally singing around the court]
- Paulo Cohelo - "waiting is painful, forgetting is painful, but not knowing what to do is the worst kind of suffering"
Appearance vs. Reality
-"an antic disposition" (I v 179-180) - this sets off the rising action
-Hamlet would act crazy for Polonius - but not really to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, yes in front of his mother and Ophelia (genuine)
-we question whether the ghost is telling the truth or not - we question whether or not the ghost is really there in III vi
-"fake it 'til you make it" - hard to tell whether Hamlet is faking it or not
-Hamlet sends R and G off to their deaths [ weird that Horatio knows this and then lies about it in V ii]
-what happens between Hamlet and Ophelia? (II i) She describes him as crazy - we don't know what really happened - rape? - does she lose her virginity?
-"forty thousand brothers could never love Ophelia as much as me" (V i)
-look at III i "get thee to a nunnery"
[would be interesting to focus on the appearance and reality of Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship]
- [what do we question in our lives?]
- [how much does spying have to do with this topic]
- [what about Polonius and Laertes' reality - thinking that Ophelia could not possibly marry Hamlet - but Gertrude says "I thought you would have been Hamlet's wife" (V i)
- Ophelia's role in society (the way women are seen)
- Ophelia's in the background - much going on under the surface [also Gertrude] - she's a product of her society - Hamlet is a PRINCE - she seems witty with her brother ("But, good my brother,/Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,/Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven…) I iii 46-48
- Is there any evidence for Gertrude and Hamlet's inappropriate relationship III iv - she doesn't want to hear Hamlet's accusations - she acts out of self interest - "Have you forgot me?"
- III iv = good scene to think about this theme - is it Hamlet's madness that creates the ghost? Gertrude doesn't see it, and it's dressed differently
- IV v 135"But not by him" - Gertrude says when it's revealed that Polonius has been killed
- Gertrude's self-interest - chooses to marry Claudius - she could have stayed queen without him? Or perhaps Hamlet would have become king (that makes more sense when it comes to Gertrude's self-interest) - conveniently ignorant of Claudius' plans and actions
- Polonius = big snoop - also sets off Ophelia's madness and Laertes' revenge
- Are Hamlet's soliloquies private - don't Polonius and Claudius overhear the "get thee to a nunnery speech?" - therefore, wouldn't they have heard the "to be or not to be speech"
- "He that hath kill'd my king and whor'd my mother,/ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes" (V ii 64,65)
- Claudius praying and not repenting
Betrayal and Loyalty
-betrayal seems to lead to death in Shakespeare's plays
-eg. Hamlet sends R and G to death once he realizes they are spying on Claudius' behalf [they really have no choice in this matter]
-SELF INTEREST - "sponges" - like Gertrude - they change with the wind - they side with Claudius when they have to and Hamlet when he's there
-JEALOUSY
- Causes conflict
- What are the priorities for loyalties (dead father?)
- V ii 58-59 "They are not near my conscience: their defeat/ Does by their own insinuation grow."
- When Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius (vengeance vs. morals) - he doesn't want to send Claudius to Heaven when his father was killed "full of bread"
- Ophelia betrays herself more than anything - [what kind of volition does she have?]
- Ophelia has loyalty to Polonius (does she betray Hamlet - she gives his letters - Hamlet reacts badly to this)
- Gertrude's loyalty -
- Does Hamlet deceive Gertrude? Does he just want to scare her in her bedroom (he is in a rage - we lash out at the people we love the most - ironically)
- His mother's betrayal ["frailty thy name is woman!"]
- "all marriages but one" III i
- Hamlet takes out his anger towards his mother on Ophelia
- Betrayal - leads to Ophelia's suicide - she's betrayed by Hamlet at the play! When he kills her father (in the end, he also kills her brother)
-Loyalty to religion?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern quotes:
"We are actors. We are the opposite of people." Player King
"We need an audience." Player King
"Death is what we do best." Player King
"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering - stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling in the knowledge that for all the points of the compass there's only one direction and time is the only measure." - Rosencrantz
Advice: look at class notes and your own improvements
-see if you can come up with a topic which fits all three topics
-extend your ideas to show how it connects to our world today
-passion
Action vs. Inaction
-Fortinbras and Hamlet are contrasted (character foils) - "what is a man" (IV iv) soliloquy
- Fortinbras is a man of action [so is Laertes]
- Fortinbras "sharks up a list of resolutes" in Act I - it is reported by Horatio
- Hamlet is an intellectual
- [what do we value as a society? Political parties?]
- Gertrude
- [do nothing principle - when Hamlet does finally take action III iv - how does it work out?]
- Ophelia - passive in her actions? - she's a woman, has less status than Hamlet [interesting that the water/drowning death is seen as the water drowning her - look at gravediggers' scene]
- Claudius - beginning keeps Hamlet around to observe - maybe he doesn't want to kill him - assess the danger
- Hamlet becomes a killer and then he is dangerous - hence why Claudius then wants him put to death
- He ends up being rash when he stabs through a curtain - before that he was thinking (over-thinking?)
- [good to compare to Macbeth]
- Hamlet's soliloquies reveal his morality - he also does not kill Claudius when he thinks he's praying because "he killed my father full of bread" (III iii 80-82)
- Makes up excuses - are these reasonable, or is it procrastination
- [is there a system of law in place?]
- Belief in Heaven and Hell is real and not questioned
- Revenge vs. morals vs. duty [what wins?]
- Gertrude and Hamlet - he threatens to kill her - is it really the ghost or his conscience? [how does actual madness play into this theme] -he's in a frenzy - has just killed someone has "[drunk] hot blood" - but ghost reminds him to speak daggers, though use none
- [what inspires Hamlet to action?]
- What leads to a better outcome, action or inaction - doesn't everyone who takes action die?
- Honorable (think of the soccer goalie who dives to one side) - action LOOKS better
- Laertes comes with a bunch of supporters to take down Denmark - avenge his father's death (but he is easily talked down)
- "Just Lather, That's All" - barber doesn't take action, Captain Torres does - best choice for individual [existential questions]
- [should Hamlet have killed Claudius right after the visit with the ghost?]
- [what other recourse does Hamlet have?]
- [what about our society?]
- [following one character - Ophelia, Gertrude]
- Ophelia is innocent - suicide is hasty [but she's insane - father killed by her ex-boyfriend, her "chaste treasure" was probably opened]
- Abby thinks her actions are planned and peaceful and made a decision
- [do-lally singing around the court]
- Paulo Cohelo - "waiting is painful, forgetting is painful, but not knowing what to do is the worst kind of suffering"
Appearance vs. Reality
-"an antic disposition" (I v 179-180) - this sets off the rising action
-Hamlet would act crazy for Polonius - but not really to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, yes in front of his mother and Ophelia (genuine)
-we question whether the ghost is telling the truth or not - we question whether or not the ghost is really there in III vi
-"fake it 'til you make it" - hard to tell whether Hamlet is faking it or not
-Hamlet sends R and G off to their deaths [ weird that Horatio knows this and then lies about it in V ii]
-what happens between Hamlet and Ophelia? (II i) She describes him as crazy - we don't know what really happened - rape? - does she lose her virginity?
-"forty thousand brothers could never love Ophelia as much as me" (V i)
-look at III i "get thee to a nunnery"
[would be interesting to focus on the appearance and reality of Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship]
- [what do we question in our lives?]
- [how much does spying have to do with this topic]
- [what about Polonius and Laertes' reality - thinking that Ophelia could not possibly marry Hamlet - but Gertrude says "I thought you would have been Hamlet's wife" (V i)
- Ophelia's role in society (the way women are seen)
- Ophelia's in the background - much going on under the surface [also Gertrude] - she's a product of her society - Hamlet is a PRINCE - she seems witty with her brother ("But, good my brother,/Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,/Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven…) I iii 46-48
- Is there any evidence for Gertrude and Hamlet's inappropriate relationship III iv - she doesn't want to hear Hamlet's accusations - she acts out of self interest - "Have you forgot me?"
- III iv = good scene to think about this theme - is it Hamlet's madness that creates the ghost? Gertrude doesn't see it, and it's dressed differently
- IV v 135"But not by him" - Gertrude says when it's revealed that Polonius has been killed
- Gertrude's self-interest - chooses to marry Claudius - she could have stayed queen without him? Or perhaps Hamlet would have become king (that makes more sense when it comes to Gertrude's self-interest) - conveniently ignorant of Claudius' plans and actions
- Polonius = big snoop - also sets off Ophelia's madness and Laertes' revenge
- Are Hamlet's soliloquies private - don't Polonius and Claudius overhear the "get thee to a nunnery speech?" - therefore, wouldn't they have heard the "to be or not to be speech"
- "He that hath kill'd my king and whor'd my mother,/ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes" (V ii 64,65)
- Claudius praying and not repenting
Betrayal and Loyalty
-betrayal seems to lead to death in Shakespeare's plays
-eg. Hamlet sends R and G to death once he realizes they are spying on Claudius' behalf [they really have no choice in this matter]
-SELF INTEREST - "sponges" - like Gertrude - they change with the wind - they side with Claudius when they have to and Hamlet when he's there
-JEALOUSY
- Causes conflict
- What are the priorities for loyalties (dead father?)
- V ii 58-59 "They are not near my conscience: their defeat/ Does by their own insinuation grow."
- When Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius (vengeance vs. morals) - he doesn't want to send Claudius to Heaven when his father was killed "full of bread"
- Ophelia betrays herself more than anything - [what kind of volition does she have?]
- Ophelia has loyalty to Polonius (does she betray Hamlet - she gives his letters - Hamlet reacts badly to this)
- Gertrude's loyalty -
- Does Hamlet deceive Gertrude? Does he just want to scare her in her bedroom (he is in a rage - we lash out at the people we love the most - ironically)
- His mother's betrayal ["frailty thy name is woman!"]
- "all marriages but one" III i
- Hamlet takes out his anger towards his mother on Ophelia
- Betrayal - leads to Ophelia's suicide - she's betrayed by Hamlet at the play! When he kills her father (in the end, he also kills her brother)
-Loyalty to religion?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern quotes:
"We are actors. We are the opposite of people." Player King
"We need an audience." Player King
"Death is what we do best." Player King
"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering - stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling in the knowledge that for all the points of the compass there's only one direction and time is the only measure." - Rosencrantz
OTHELLO - Manipulation, Jealous, Betrayal vs. Loyalty
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
Advice: look at class notes and your own improvements
-see if you can come up with a topic which fits all three topics
-extend your ideas to show how it connects to our world today
-passion
Manipulation
- Why is it so important to Iago to manipulate?
- Proving something - masculinity - wants to be top of the chain
- Anger, jealousy about the promotion
- [power is addictive]
- [whom does he manipulate?]
- Revenge
- [what does this theme and the treatment of it say about our society?]
- Egotistical
- Does power bring Iago joy?
- Why does Iago manipulate? - he wants something to gain - show Othello - he does end up becoming lieutenant (when Cassio harms Montano)
- Angry at Othello - wants to destroy him - allies - the way to gain them is to manipulate
- Fueled by anger
- Wants to make Othello and Cassio miserable
- [where are the quotes?]
- How would this work in real life - easy to manipulate people - eg. Talk trash about someone that the other person has never met before [remember our role plays]
- [manipulates: Roderigo, Brabantio, Cassio, Emilia, Othello]
- Why does he manipulate Roderigo? - fun, gaining power, flexing muscles, making money
- Iago needs to know what people really want and people's insecurities
- [Othello says "he's rude of speech," he also says he's old - he worries that he won't be enough for Desdemona and Iago taps into this fear]
- Othello is trusting [reminds us of Duncan from Macbeth - nice people get taken advantage of - Duncan was betrayed by the old Thane of Cawdor, and then murdered]
- "the Moor is of a free and open nature" [I iii 306]
- Iago: "I hate the Moor… it's thought betwixt my sheets he has done my office" (I iii 429-433) [is it true that Iago believes this? Or is he just building his anger because it feels good somehow?
- [Human nature]
- Characteristics of Iago that make him successful: thinks on the spot, good with words (charismatic), knows human nature, smart, devious, morals? , understands people's weaknesses and motivations
- How does this topic work with structure? - Emilia stealing the handkerchief is the climax, adds suspense to the play - his manipulation is the play
- II iii 45-47 - Iago talks about Cassio: "If I can fasten but one cup upon him/With that which he hath drunk tonight already,/He'll be as full of quarrel and offense/ As my young mistress' dog"
- Look at Iago's inflammatory language - he says to Brabantio "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe" - this is like when politicians call people "tax payers," rather than " citizens"- one makes people feel selfish
- Iago's first words "'sblood" - worst Shakespearean swearword
- Emilia and Iago do not show any love towards one another - but still, she steals the handkerchief
- [does Iago show affection after she steals the handkerchief]
Jealousy
-who is more jealous - Othello or Iago?
- Iago makes Othello become jealous
- Iago is not a dynamic character, but Othello is - he becomes a "green eyed monster" - we do see him become more himself at the end
- Iago is entirely driven by jealousy
- We see Othello at the beginning being strong and confident - this is take away by careful and malicious manipulation [which one of us could withstand a conscious taking apart of our character?]
- Othello wants proof "ocular proof" - once he sees the handkerchief - he loses all reason and doesn't see Desdemona as she is
- Iago in his "virtue? A fig!" - he isn't rash, he does plan his actions - but he does not control his passions in that his entire life is run by anger and jealousy
- Othello kills his wife over jealousy [but Iago manipulates five people to show their worst - Brabantio dies over heartbreak - his daughter marrying without his consent]
- Circumstantial evidence kills many people
- Why doesn't Othello trust his wife if he loves her so much [there are many quotes in this play about love - look at what Emilia says to Desdemona in Act V]
- Othello's race does make him insecure "I am black and rude of speech"
- Iago slowly sets it up - did you see Cassio paddling Desdemona's hand?
- III iii 165-167 - "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!/It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock/The meat it feeds on."
- All the animal imagery - shows the inhumane side of humans - the jealousy eats people up
- Othello does not believe Desdemona when she says she's not cheating on him - Othello doesn't trust in himself
- He trusts Iago as a military man and a friend and thinks he's honest
- Race - Iago thinks a black man is in charge and he overlooked him - there's many references to Othello's colour and the fact that he's a "Moor" [ the idea that already Othello shouldn't be in charge - and then he shows a lack of judgment]
- [it's important to compare the way the Duke sees Othello - total trust and admiration - this shows us how Iago is viewed by the people with the most power and status versus someone who is lower down - a weasel who gets no credit from anyone]
- How does this work in our life - WHAT IS THE PATHOLOGY OF JEALOUSY - who is jealous and what does it do - look it up
- Jealousy can consume people - one of the "basest" emotions - [the idea of "baseness" is mentioned throughout the play.]
Betrayal and Loyalty
-Which characters demonstrate true loyalty - Desdemona is true to Othello throughout [if you remember Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is actually loyal to Macbeth the whole way]
- [Desdemona also believes Othello is not jealous because she tries to help Cassio and isn't worried about appearances]
- Cassio is loyal
- Desdemona says "when I have spoken of you dispraisingly, he hath taken your part" (III iii 73) - speaking to Othello about Cassio
- Roderigo is loyal to Iago to the end - he tries to back out, but is unable to because Iago is too convincing
- Desdemona gives her life to Othello [and betrays her father - in Brabantio's eyes "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She hath deceived her father, and may thee"(I iii 291-292)
- III iv 105-107 - Emilia is loyal to Desdemona for so long, but in the end chooses her husband - she doesn't fully realize that she betrays Desdemona until almost the end
- "my medicine keeps working" (IV i 45)
- [jealousy causes betrayal - who can remain loyal when someone is actively trying to dismantle loyalty?]
- [how do people prioritize loyalties?]
- [what types of loyalty are there in the play?]
- How are Desdemona and Iago opposing characters? Desdemona is always honest; Iago is called honest, but is not
- Desdemona is questioned, Iago is not
- [to what degree is the fact that Iago's a man cause the other men to trust him - compare how the men view Desdemona, Emilia, Bianca]
- Desdemona is shown to be honest (action)
- Iago is shown to be dishonest (action) - words make people believe he is honest
Advice: look at class notes and your own improvements
-see if you can come up with a topic which fits all three topics
-extend your ideas to show how it connects to our world today
-passion
Manipulation
- Why is it so important to Iago to manipulate?
- Proving something - masculinity - wants to be top of the chain
- Anger, jealousy about the promotion
- [power is addictive]
- [whom does he manipulate?]
- Revenge
- [what does this theme and the treatment of it say about our society?]
- Egotistical
- Does power bring Iago joy?
- Why does Iago manipulate? - he wants something to gain - show Othello - he does end up becoming lieutenant (when Cassio harms Montano)
- Angry at Othello - wants to destroy him - allies - the way to gain them is to manipulate
- Fueled by anger
- Wants to make Othello and Cassio miserable
- [where are the quotes?]
- How would this work in real life - easy to manipulate people - eg. Talk trash about someone that the other person has never met before [remember our role plays]
- [manipulates: Roderigo, Brabantio, Cassio, Emilia, Othello]
- Why does he manipulate Roderigo? - fun, gaining power, flexing muscles, making money
- Iago needs to know what people really want and people's insecurities
- [Othello says "he's rude of speech," he also says he's old - he worries that he won't be enough for Desdemona and Iago taps into this fear]
- Othello is trusting [reminds us of Duncan from Macbeth - nice people get taken advantage of - Duncan was betrayed by the old Thane of Cawdor, and then murdered]
- "the Moor is of a free and open nature" [I iii 306]
- Iago: "I hate the Moor… it's thought betwixt my sheets he has done my office" (I iii 429-433) [is it true that Iago believes this? Or is he just building his anger because it feels good somehow?
- [Human nature]
- Characteristics of Iago that make him successful: thinks on the spot, good with words (charismatic), knows human nature, smart, devious, morals? , understands people's weaknesses and motivations
- How does this topic work with structure? - Emilia stealing the handkerchief is the climax, adds suspense to the play - his manipulation is the play
- II iii 45-47 - Iago talks about Cassio: "If I can fasten but one cup upon him/With that which he hath drunk tonight already,/He'll be as full of quarrel and offense/ As my young mistress' dog"
- Look at Iago's inflammatory language - he says to Brabantio "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe" - this is like when politicians call people "tax payers," rather than " citizens"- one makes people feel selfish
- Iago's first words "'sblood" - worst Shakespearean swearword
- Emilia and Iago do not show any love towards one another - but still, she steals the handkerchief
- [does Iago show affection after she steals the handkerchief]
Jealousy
-who is more jealous - Othello or Iago?
- Iago makes Othello become jealous
- Iago is not a dynamic character, but Othello is - he becomes a "green eyed monster" - we do see him become more himself at the end
- Iago is entirely driven by jealousy
- We see Othello at the beginning being strong and confident - this is take away by careful and malicious manipulation [which one of us could withstand a conscious taking apart of our character?]
- Othello wants proof "ocular proof" - once he sees the handkerchief - he loses all reason and doesn't see Desdemona as she is
- Iago in his "virtue? A fig!" - he isn't rash, he does plan his actions - but he does not control his passions in that his entire life is run by anger and jealousy
- Othello kills his wife over jealousy [but Iago manipulates five people to show their worst - Brabantio dies over heartbreak - his daughter marrying without his consent]
- Circumstantial evidence kills many people
- Why doesn't Othello trust his wife if he loves her so much [there are many quotes in this play about love - look at what Emilia says to Desdemona in Act V]
- Othello's race does make him insecure "I am black and rude of speech"
- Iago slowly sets it up - did you see Cassio paddling Desdemona's hand?
- III iii 165-167 - "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!/It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock/The meat it feeds on."
- All the animal imagery - shows the inhumane side of humans - the jealousy eats people up
- Othello does not believe Desdemona when she says she's not cheating on him - Othello doesn't trust in himself
- He trusts Iago as a military man and a friend and thinks he's honest
- Race - Iago thinks a black man is in charge and he overlooked him - there's many references to Othello's colour and the fact that he's a "Moor" [ the idea that already Othello shouldn't be in charge - and then he shows a lack of judgment]
- [it's important to compare the way the Duke sees Othello - total trust and admiration - this shows us how Iago is viewed by the people with the most power and status versus someone who is lower down - a weasel who gets no credit from anyone]
- How does this work in our life - WHAT IS THE PATHOLOGY OF JEALOUSY - who is jealous and what does it do - look it up
- Jealousy can consume people - one of the "basest" emotions - [the idea of "baseness" is mentioned throughout the play.]
Betrayal and Loyalty
-Which characters demonstrate true loyalty - Desdemona is true to Othello throughout [if you remember Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is actually loyal to Macbeth the whole way]
- [Desdemona also believes Othello is not jealous because she tries to help Cassio and isn't worried about appearances]
- Cassio is loyal
- Desdemona says "when I have spoken of you dispraisingly, he hath taken your part" (III iii 73) - speaking to Othello about Cassio
- Roderigo is loyal to Iago to the end - he tries to back out, but is unable to because Iago is too convincing
- Desdemona gives her life to Othello [and betrays her father - in Brabantio's eyes "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She hath deceived her father, and may thee"(I iii 291-292)
- III iv 105-107 - Emilia is loyal to Desdemona for so long, but in the end chooses her husband - she doesn't fully realize that she betrays Desdemona until almost the end
- "my medicine keeps working" (IV i 45)
- [jealousy causes betrayal - who can remain loyal when someone is actively trying to dismantle loyalty?]
- [how do people prioritize loyalties?]
- [what types of loyalty are there in the play?]
- How are Desdemona and Iago opposing characters? Desdemona is always honest; Iago is called honest, but is not
- Desdemona is questioned, Iago is not
- [to what degree is the fact that Iago's a man cause the other men to trust him - compare how the men view Desdemona, Emilia, Bianca]
- Desdemona is shown to be honest (action)
- Iago is shown to be dishonest (action) - words make people believe he is honest
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Writing 12 - Dec. 13 Workbooks 70., 71, 72, 73, 74
70.Shoplifting
A teen has been caught shoplifting. Write a dialogue between
a) Store detective and teen
b) Teen telling parents
c) Teen telling friends
3 scenes
30 minutes
Register
Age
Gender
Slang
Characterize
71.Teen vs. Parent
l Parents buy teen a car
l Teen has an accident which is minor - he/she pays for damage from part-time job. Accident is his/her fault
l A few months later, he/she rear ends someone - damage is $1000. (rather than pay higher insurance)
Scene 1 - write the parents discussing the situation
Scene 2 - write the dialogue between parents and teen
25 minutes
72. Family Occasion
Write the conversation that could (or maybe already has) happen(ed) at an extended family gathering.
IDEAS: wedding
Funeral
Holiday dinner
List your cast first
See if you can develop your characters quickly
-introducing a boy/girlfriend
-talking about death
-fighting over money problems
-graduation (absent or fighting parents)
-drunk relative advice
-violent card game
-wedding gossip
20 minutes
Partners
73. Two people start a company together from the ground up. It is successful for two years. After much consideration, one partner realizes he/she does 3/4 of the work for 1/2 the money. These two are friends as well as partners. This partner realizes that, in fact, the other person is incapable of pulling his or her weight.
Write the dialogue of this partner discussing this situation with the other.
What is the outcome?
20 minutes
74. Religion or Politics
Give brief cast of characters (4).
Have them discuss a contentious issue.
Develop the characters through their opinions and reactions.
20 minutes
"If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed." - Kate Green
A teen has been caught shoplifting. Write a dialogue between
a) Store detective and teen
b) Teen telling parents
c) Teen telling friends
3 scenes
30 minutes
Register
Age
Gender
Slang
Characterize
71.Teen vs. Parent
l Parents buy teen a car
l Teen has an accident which is minor - he/she pays for damage from part-time job. Accident is his/her fault
l A few months later, he/she rear ends someone - damage is $1000. (rather than pay higher insurance)
Scene 1 - write the parents discussing the situation
Scene 2 - write the dialogue between parents and teen
25 minutes
72. Family Occasion
Write the conversation that could (or maybe already has) happen(ed) at an extended family gathering.
IDEAS: wedding
Funeral
Holiday dinner
List your cast first
See if you can develop your characters quickly
-introducing a boy/girlfriend
-talking about death
-fighting over money problems
-graduation (absent or fighting parents)
-drunk relative advice
-violent card game
-wedding gossip
20 minutes
Partners
73. Two people start a company together from the ground up. It is successful for two years. After much consideration, one partner realizes he/she does 3/4 of the work for 1/2 the money. These two are friends as well as partners. This partner realizes that, in fact, the other person is incapable of pulling his or her weight.
Write the dialogue of this partner discussing this situation with the other.
What is the outcome?
20 minutes
74. Religion or Politics
Give brief cast of characters (4).
Have them discuss a contentious issue.
Develop the characters through their opinions and reactions.
20 minutes
"If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed." - Kate Green
Friday, December 7, 2018
Eng. 12 - Dec. 7
Complete your IV notes.
We will be acting out V on Monday, so please look over your parts. V notes are due on Wednesday.
We will be acting out V on Monday, so please look over your parts. V notes are due on Wednesday.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Lit 12 - Dec. 6
Finish all of IV scene notes - full notes for Vv, Vvii, pick 3 choices for the shorter scenes.
Pay careful attention to CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT - Queen, King, Laertes, Ophelia, Hamlet
Consider the DRAMATIC STRUCTURE - how does IV set up the CONCLUSION?
Friday: we're finishing acting out the play!
Pay careful attention to CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT - Queen, King, Laertes, Ophelia, Hamlet
Consider the DRAMATIC STRUCTURE - how does IV set up the CONCLUSION?
Friday: we're finishing acting out the play!
Monday, December 3, 2018
Eng.12/Lit 12 - Dec. 3
Make sure III iv questions/scene notes are completed.
Warning: Group day - Wednesday you will have half the class for your SOLILOQUY assignments (groups of 3 or 4) and half the class for your SCENE assignments (any number of people)
SOLILOQUY - Tues. Dec. 11
SCENES - Mon. Dec. 17
Warning: Group day - Wednesday you will have half the class for your SOLILOQUY assignments (groups of 3 or 4) and half the class for your SCENE assignments (any number of people)
SOLILOQUY - Tues. Dec. 11
SCENES - Mon. Dec. 17
Monday, November 26, 2018
Eng. 12/Lit 12 - Nov. 26
Look over your II parts for smooth reading tomorrow.
II scene notes are due for Wedesday, Nov. 27
II scene notes are due for Wedesday, Nov. 27
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Writitng 12 - Nov 22 + Questions
Going to Brooksbank: Tues. Nov. 27
POETRY NIGHT - Tues. Dec. 4
1. What is the difference in expectations from audience members between today's movies and movies from the thirties?
2. What are some of the main differences between older movies generally and newer movies?
3. What is the effect of black and white?
4. What is the main theme of You Can't Take it with You?
5. What would be different if this movie were made today?
6. What makes this movie so highly rated among movie buffs?
7. List some quotes that would help illuminate the essence of the movie.
8. Discuss the acting.
POETRY NIGHT - Tues. Dec. 4
1. What is the difference in expectations from audience members between today's movies and movies from the thirties?
2. What are some of the main differences between older movies generally and newer movies?
3. What is the effect of black and white?
4. What is the main theme of You Can't Take it with You?
5. What would be different if this movie were made today?
6. What makes this movie so highly rated among movie buffs?
7. List some quotes that would help illuminate the essence of the movie.
8. Discuss the acting.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
LIt 12/Eng. 12 - Ham/Othello Due Dates
F. 23- Vocab Test - discuss I
M. 26 -Discuss I/Act II
N. 27 - Act II/Discuss II
T. 28 - Discuss II/Act III
T. 29 - Assign Soliloquies
F. 30 - Discuss III
M. 3 - Discuss III - Scene Assignment?
T. 4 - Act out IV
W. 5 - Act out IV/V
T. 6 - Act out IV/V - Discuss IV *
F. 7 - Discuss IV/V
M. 10 - Discuss V
T. 11 - Soliloquy Presentations
W. 12 - Discuss V- themes* for fishbowls
T. 13- movie
F. 14 - movie
M. 17 - scenes
T. 18 - fishbowl
W. 19 - In-class essay
T. 20 - Quote Test
F. 21 - Merry Xmas
M. 26 -Discuss I/Act II
N. 27 - Act II/Discuss II
T. 28 - Discuss II/Act III
T. 29 - Assign Soliloquies
F. 30 - Discuss III
M. 3 - Discuss III - Scene Assignment?
T. 4 - Act out IV
W. 5 - Act out IV/V
T. 6 - Act out IV/V - Discuss IV *
F. 7 - Discuss IV/V
M. 10 - Discuss V
T. 11 - Soliloquy Presentations
W. 12 - Discuss V- themes* for fishbowls
T. 13- movie
F. 14 - movie
M. 17 - scenes
T. 18 - fishbowl
W. 19 - In-class essay
T. 20 - Quote Test
F. 21 - Merry Xmas
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Lit 12 - Nov. 13 - P&P Fishbowl
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
Advice: look at class notes and your own improvements
-see if you can come up with a topic which fits all three topics
-extend your ideas to show how it connects to our world today
-passion
Discuss how Austen uses character as a vehicle to show _______________________ in the novel, Pride and Prejudice.
Society in the 1800's
- First sentence - specifies - man, money is important
- Lizzy is judgmental of Charlotte - are we?
- Charlotte doesn't want to be a burden - money and a good home - she's brave - she knows she's being condemned to Mr. Collins - admirable - she's "not a romantic"
- Love is secondary
- Selfless of Charlotte - Mr. Collins would never be her first choice
- Also, Charlotte's sister can now marry and be accepted into that level of society - mingling with Lady Catherine
- Marrying for love is not all that socially accepted at the time
- Lizzy does care about her family - Fitzwilliam - she knows she can't marry him because of his lack of money - he has class, but no wealth
- Lydia - "the death of your daughter would have been a blessing compared to this" - why would the reputation of the family would have been ruined? - taints the family name
- Mrs. Bennet - allowing her daughters to be "out in society" - (like Lady Catherine says) turns out to be disastrous - 15 year olds can't really be trusted
- Women of this status must be virgins before marriage - if one sister is "promiscuous" - it reflects badly - especially if it's the youngest - as Lady Catherine says, "all of them out? Before the older ones are married?"
- Lydia proves Lady Catherine correct [but not by our rules]
- [how do these rules apply to us today? What does this say about our society?]
- Lady Catherine says they should have a governess - this ends up being correct as well
- Lady Catherine reinforces the rules of the society (159)
- Higher classes look down on those of lower - "Lady Catherine likes to have the distinction of rank preserved" - Collins - of course she would
- [everyone but Lizzy kowtows to Lady Catherine]
- "Is this your mother?" - Lady Catherine's bad manners are accepted [isn't this true somewhat of our famous people?]
- People with the most money - may be the least respectable as people [what about Darcy] - Lady Catherine has status - Austen satirizes this unearned status [think of how royalty - born into it - undeserved status and power]
- Character vs. money (Lizzy has character)
- How similar is our society when it comes to judging/selecting husbands - security? [today women can attain degrees and have power of their own]
- Everyone knows that Collins isn't a catch - but he provides security
- Income affects…marriage
- Charlotte would NOT have married Collins, Jane couldn't have married Bingley if he had no money
- Lizzy turns down two marriage proposals - unheard of [we see that her father supports both of these denials!]
- Lizzy is ahead of her time - the way she talks to Lady Catherine, her wittiness, the way she talks to Darcy… - she calls Lady Catherine out ["I am a gentleman's daughter, so far we are even"(339)]
- Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are contrasted - Mrs. Bennet would have had to secure financial support - he didn't have to do this - he is a "gentleman" meaning he did not have to work and has an income.
Gender Roles
- What gender roles play out - first line of novel - men "must be in want of a wife" - men have control over wives and daughters
- Charlotte Lucas shows how women don't have much of a choice "I'm not a romantic" "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" (21) - later - better to not know the person you marry - they will just be different any way
- Women can't attain their own fortune (Lady Catherine is an exception to the rule)
- Mrs. Bennet (5) "the business of her life was to get her daughters marry, its solace was …news"
- Contrast Jane and Lydia - Jane is the 19th C ideal - quiet, doesn't speak her mind
- Lydia speaks her mind, out of control, runs off with Wickham - the opposite of what women are supposed to be in that society [compare to our society]
- Mary - has trouble interacting - doesn't like balls [tries to play the piano to show herself]
- Social status of men is also controlled - Wickham, Fitzwilliam
- What do women control? - family, daughters, home, reputation of the family
- [so much depends on virginity]
- Women have the power to ruin or make other daughters chances for marriage
- Darcy "going against the wishes of my family and friends" - he has to uphold his own status [the proposal - 180 ish]
- Charlotte does control Collins - go to the garden/ front room - has control over home life
- Primogeniture
- (59) - Mrs. Bennet doesn't understand why Collins can just come in and take the property if Mr. Bennet dies [laws of the land - favouring sons]
- How does Lizzy conform to her own society? - she goes against class, speaks up, throws it away to marry up and gain status - ends up doing what she is supposed to do - counter argument - her plan was to find love and she ends up doing that [kind of a fairy tale for Austen - she herself died alone and unmarried - nice that the woman who goes against her society fares best - the rebel wins!]
- Jane marries Bingley for money or love? - both- she couldn't marry him if he had no money - first meets him and knows he has money - we also don't see much of what Jane thinks - we see how she reacts when the Bingleys go to London and never contact her
- Importance of Mary - [she's who Charlotte would be if Charlotte refused Collins - she shows what happens when a woman is not good looking or wealth]
- Does Lizzy change in her aspirations? Does her mentality change?
- Does Lizzy really change when she sees Pemberly [wasn't this tongue in cheek] -Loi counters this argument - when she hears what the maid says about him - she's impressed - also she has an epiphany when she reads Darcy's letters - she looks within as well - she had been "blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd" (198) - she also realizes what Darcy does with Lydia
- Lizzy is attracted to Wickham - but really understands when he switches affection
Love, marriage, family
- Lydia and Wickham = Mrs. and Mrs. Bennet - base on lust
- Rivalries between who gets married first
- Having them all out at the same time equalizes [but really it's just laziness - Mr. Bennet shows that he's indulgent and perhaps even negligent]
- Different views on marriage - Lizzy is going to marry for love; Jane likes everyone [but she's devastated when the Bingleys leave]
- Most intelligent - Jane and Lizzy
- Sisterly love [interesting when Lizzy doesn't confide in Jane when she finds out that Wickham was trying to debauch Darcy's younger sister - she tries to turn over a new leaf]
- Passion/violent love - how long does this last - are passion and love the same thing?
- Lydia and Wickham's lust - impulsive - won't last - doesn't work - we don't see how it ends, but we can see how Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's marriage - in our society we see these marriages or relationships fizzle and burn (Ariana Grand and Pete Davidson; Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes) - sexual or physique
- [how does this work with Charlotte and Collins?]
- Collins and Charlotte's marriage is the one that lasts - choosing your best option
- Wickham marries Lydia because he is paid to
- Right choice for Charlotte = financial stability (otherwise she would end up dependent on her family) - marries out of love for her family - her father even mentions how her sister benefitted from the connection
- Charlotte and Collins could go up in friendship, love, and happiness
- The way Darcy and Lizzy's relationship works = very contemporary - she is allowed to say no [this is how arranged marriages work these days] - "one word from you will silence me forever" (348)
- In the 1800's women would just say yes to a wealthy man
- Darcy also understands his society's rules - he at first thinks he can just pick and choose (like Collins) - he learns from Lizzy's rebellion - he changes - reassesses - becomes more humble [even though society has given him license for pride] - Miss de Bourgh is supposedly betrothed to Darcy - shows us how intermarriage is acceptable to maintain status [Royal family]
Advice: look at class notes and your own improvements
-see if you can come up with a topic which fits all three topics
-extend your ideas to show how it connects to our world today
-passion
Discuss how Austen uses character as a vehicle to show _______________________ in the novel, Pride and Prejudice.
Society in the 1800's
- First sentence - specifies - man, money is important
- Lizzy is judgmental of Charlotte - are we?
- Charlotte doesn't want to be a burden - money and a good home - she's brave - she knows she's being condemned to Mr. Collins - admirable - she's "not a romantic"
- Love is secondary
- Selfless of Charlotte - Mr. Collins would never be her first choice
- Also, Charlotte's sister can now marry and be accepted into that level of society - mingling with Lady Catherine
- Marrying for love is not all that socially accepted at the time
- Lizzy does care about her family - Fitzwilliam - she knows she can't marry him because of his lack of money - he has class, but no wealth
- Lydia - "the death of your daughter would have been a blessing compared to this" - why would the reputation of the family would have been ruined? - taints the family name
- Mrs. Bennet - allowing her daughters to be "out in society" - (like Lady Catherine says) turns out to be disastrous - 15 year olds can't really be trusted
- Women of this status must be virgins before marriage - if one sister is "promiscuous" - it reflects badly - especially if it's the youngest - as Lady Catherine says, "all of them out? Before the older ones are married?"
- Lydia proves Lady Catherine correct [but not by our rules]
- [how do these rules apply to us today? What does this say about our society?]
- Lady Catherine says they should have a governess - this ends up being correct as well
- Lady Catherine reinforces the rules of the society (159)
- Higher classes look down on those of lower - "Lady Catherine likes to have the distinction of rank preserved" - Collins - of course she would
- [everyone but Lizzy kowtows to Lady Catherine]
- "Is this your mother?" - Lady Catherine's bad manners are accepted [isn't this true somewhat of our famous people?]
- People with the most money - may be the least respectable as people [what about Darcy] - Lady Catherine has status - Austen satirizes this unearned status [think of how royalty - born into it - undeserved status and power]
- Character vs. money (Lizzy has character)
- How similar is our society when it comes to judging/selecting husbands - security? [today women can attain degrees and have power of their own]
- Everyone knows that Collins isn't a catch - but he provides security
- Income affects…marriage
- Charlotte would NOT have married Collins, Jane couldn't have married Bingley if he had no money
- Lizzy turns down two marriage proposals - unheard of [we see that her father supports both of these denials!]
- Lizzy is ahead of her time - the way she talks to Lady Catherine, her wittiness, the way she talks to Darcy… - she calls Lady Catherine out ["I am a gentleman's daughter, so far we are even"(339)]
- Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are contrasted - Mrs. Bennet would have had to secure financial support - he didn't have to do this - he is a "gentleman" meaning he did not have to work and has an income.
Gender Roles
- What gender roles play out - first line of novel - men "must be in want of a wife" - men have control over wives and daughters
- Charlotte Lucas shows how women don't have much of a choice "I'm not a romantic" "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" (21) - later - better to not know the person you marry - they will just be different any way
- Women can't attain their own fortune (Lady Catherine is an exception to the rule)
- Mrs. Bennet (5) "the business of her life was to get her daughters marry, its solace was …news"
- Contrast Jane and Lydia - Jane is the 19th C ideal - quiet, doesn't speak her mind
- Lydia speaks her mind, out of control, runs off with Wickham - the opposite of what women are supposed to be in that society [compare to our society]
- Mary - has trouble interacting - doesn't like balls [tries to play the piano to show herself]
- Social status of men is also controlled - Wickham, Fitzwilliam
- What do women control? - family, daughters, home, reputation of the family
- [so much depends on virginity]
- Women have the power to ruin or make other daughters chances for marriage
- Darcy "going against the wishes of my family and friends" - he has to uphold his own status [the proposal - 180 ish]
- Charlotte does control Collins - go to the garden/ front room - has control over home life
- Primogeniture
- (59) - Mrs. Bennet doesn't understand why Collins can just come in and take the property if Mr. Bennet dies [laws of the land - favouring sons]
- How does Lizzy conform to her own society? - she goes against class, speaks up, throws it away to marry up and gain status - ends up doing what she is supposed to do - counter argument - her plan was to find love and she ends up doing that [kind of a fairy tale for Austen - she herself died alone and unmarried - nice that the woman who goes against her society fares best - the rebel wins!]
- Jane marries Bingley for money or love? - both- she couldn't marry him if he had no money - first meets him and knows he has money - we also don't see much of what Jane thinks - we see how she reacts when the Bingleys go to London and never contact her
- Importance of Mary - [she's who Charlotte would be if Charlotte refused Collins - she shows what happens when a woman is not good looking or wealth]
- Does Lizzy change in her aspirations? Does her mentality change?
- Does Lizzy really change when she sees Pemberly [wasn't this tongue in cheek] -Loi counters this argument - when she hears what the maid says about him - she's impressed - also she has an epiphany when she reads Darcy's letters - she looks within as well - she had been "blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd" (198) - she also realizes what Darcy does with Lydia
- Lizzy is attracted to Wickham - but really understands when he switches affection
Love, marriage, family
- Lydia and Wickham = Mrs. and Mrs. Bennet - base on lust
- Rivalries between who gets married first
- Having them all out at the same time equalizes [but really it's just laziness - Mr. Bennet shows that he's indulgent and perhaps even negligent]
- Different views on marriage - Lizzy is going to marry for love; Jane likes everyone [but she's devastated when the Bingleys leave]
- Most intelligent - Jane and Lizzy
- Sisterly love [interesting when Lizzy doesn't confide in Jane when she finds out that Wickham was trying to debauch Darcy's younger sister - she tries to turn over a new leaf]
- Passion/violent love - how long does this last - are passion and love the same thing?
- Lydia and Wickham's lust - impulsive - won't last - doesn't work - we don't see how it ends, but we can see how Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's marriage - in our society we see these marriages or relationships fizzle and burn (Ariana Grand and Pete Davidson; Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes) - sexual or physique
- [how does this work with Charlotte and Collins?]
- Collins and Charlotte's marriage is the one that lasts - choosing your best option
- Wickham marries Lydia because he is paid to
- Right choice for Charlotte = financial stability (otherwise she would end up dependent on her family) - marries out of love for her family - her father even mentions how her sister benefitted from the connection
- Charlotte and Collins could go up in friendship, love, and happiness
- The way Darcy and Lizzy's relationship works = very contemporary - she is allowed to say no [this is how arranged marriages work these days] - "one word from you will silence me forever" (348)
- In the 1800's women would just say yes to a wealthy man
- Darcy also understands his society's rules - he at first thinks he can just pick and choose (like Collins) - he learns from Lizzy's rebellion - he changes - reassesses - becomes more humble [even though society has given him license for pride] - Miss de Bourgh is supposedly betrothed to Darcy - shows us how intermarriage is acceptable to maintain status [Royal family]
Eng. 12 - Nov. 13 - BNW Fishbowl Notes
Dont' forget to check your class notes and personal feedback
Double sided quote sheet
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
- Look up any secondary quotes about the topic - can quote philosophical quotes on quote sheet (eg. Happiness)
- Freedom, individuality, emotions - do they come up in every topic?
- Focus - could be on Soma
- Think of a thesis which could work with any of the three topics
John the Savage
Individuality - contrast with how there's no individuals in the BNW - how would an individual survive - John shows how this is not a concept in BNW
- John stands out on the reserve and BNW
- No one else is allowed to show different ideas - free will, morals
- "don’t' take that horrible stuff, it's poison" (185)
- Kills himself to maintain his individuality
- Ironic because "community, stability, identity" - not individual identity
Freedom- a lot of stuff BNW can't do - [do they even think about it? - Bernard does]
-ties into happiness - for John - he wants joy, tears
-people in BNW don't know what freedom is - but they're "happy" in their own lives
-freedom and happiness are tied together [for us]
-(186) "Do you like being slaves?"
-contrasting John with BNW
-are people free in the reservation? [there's no real form of government - there's anarchy -good to see how a place with no rules or infrastructure fares]
[always can compare to our world - extend the theme - this novel comments on our world]
Utilitarian Happiness
- (210) - "getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it"-
- Points out that happiness with no contrast isn't worth much
Compare to Pleasantville
-consciousness vs. unconsciousness - Lenina is unconscious - doesn't even think to change
-John is closest to a "real" human being
Ignorance
- Shakespeare - real happiness comes from having unhappiness
Emotion
- Not a range
- John's range of emotions when Linda dies - contrasts with the Nurse making sure the children are conditioned to accept death
- People are disgusted by John's emotions
- [Having no family or even a romantic bond = no unhappiness, sorrow]
- Shakespeare shows the range of emotions - Romeo and Juliet - and Othello - show a range of emotions that people in the BNW don't even know exists
- [Soma takes away emotions - like our drugs, alcohol, and addictive behaviour shelters us from emotions]
- [look up Soma references]
- [Why does John dislike Soma so much?]
[What about religion?]
Science and Technology
- When Linda gets unlimited Soma
- John is disgusted by all the twins - violently retching (139)
Individuality
- Not present - frowned upon in BNW - "if one's different, one's bound to be lonely" (126) [is true in our world?]
- Bernard, Helmholtz, Mustapha Mond and John are all individuals
- Individuality causes unhappiness
- Bernard is isolated - likes to feel emotions
- "when the individual feels, society reels" - Lenina gets mad at Bernard for having emotions - this is one of the mottos of BNW
- Conditioning doesn't have as much as an effect - on alphas
- "I want to look at the sea in peace, it makes me feel more me… not just a cell…" (78) - Bernard says this
- Happiness = having a lack of emotions - BNW is attainted by the absence of love, freedom [think about what having children does - think about any totalitarian regime - threatening people's children makes people do anything - most people aren't willing to sacrifice their kids - in BNW - no one has to make this choice - suffering has ended]
- [today - what is individuality - think of preferences - "likes" on social media]
- "murder kills only an individual, and after all, what is an individual?" (128)
- Everyone's the same
Approach to topic - could talk about three different characters
-[look at Lenina and Fanny - not really individuals - reflect BNW's hypnopaedia, philosophy, conditioning]
-John reflects what individuality can be - BNW is afraid of it because it's a different viewpoint
[would be interesting to contrast to Linda because she has conditioning that she cannot seem to get rid of - can only really remember things to do with her job as a beta (minus?)]
-"Free! Free! Do you like being slaves?" - John
- [what does Soma do for individuality]
- Choose between happiness and what society used to call "high art" - this is Mustapha Mond
- No one is supposed to spend time alone
- John goes to the lighthouse to think and pray and get away from society
- [How can anyone have a thought in their head if they are always with people - answer - they can't]
- BNW think they're happy, but don't know anything about truth and beauty
- Individuals are harder to CONTROL
- "Actual happiness looks squalid" "Happiness is never grand" (Chapter 16)
- Self denial
- "if you had a god, you would have a reason for self denial" - John (Chapter 16)
- [in our society is delaying gratification - most people have trouble with this - but it's been proven people who can delay gratification are more successful]
- [anti progress = stability]
Discuss the irony behind BNW's motto: community, stability, identity.
- Community
- - the world is made up of many communities - BNW - tore them apart to make one GIANT one
- Family is the strongest form of community - but this does not exist in this world
- Love is replaced by sex and drugs (true feeling = love)
- BNW - can't choose one's community - the deltas and epsilons are not socializing with alphas and betas
- Alphas seem to have more community - more awareness of self
- [do people have to have individuality to have true community?]
Identity
-people are mass produced = no identity
-individuality is the biggest part of identity
-no one gets to choose their identity [is this a large part of individuality>]
-[interesting that the controllers get to choose their identity to some extend]
-"the nightmare swarming in indistinguishable sameness"
-mass production = people are made this way as well - Ford is their god
-
Stability
-Soma - fills in the gap - on the outside the BNW seems stable [but they aren't intrinsically stable]
Society gave up suffering (after the Nine Year's War)
-no true happiness, can have contentment
["Happiness is a hard master, especially other people's happiness"]
-"The world is stable now, people are happy now, they get what they want and they never want what they can't have" - Mustapha Mond (194)
-
How does this tie into our world?
-reservation = unstable - fend for yourselves
-can see where government doesn't have much control - things are chaotic [also the other extreme because people want freedom]
- "I don't want comfort, I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want goodness, I want sin" (211) - John the Savage
- [comparing John the Savage to the terms of the motto shows the satire]
- Macbeth - kills the king and the whole country goes into war as a revolt - he is a dictator - doesn't listen to anyone in the end - causes people to revolt
Emotions - 7 deadly sins accompany - greed [doesn't come into play in BNW]
-Indigenous people in Canada - residential school tie in - taking children away = community loss - taking away identity
-Indigenous people lost their identity by government control
- When John enters the novel - he shows how fragile the society is - comfort and stability are suddenly threatened
- Emotions aren't genuine
- Synthetic (Soma) - manufactured
- John is genuine/authentic - has a mother
- The reader sympathizes with John because we identify with him
- John is not programmed to understand the motto - shows how stability may not be a good goal
- One of mottos doesn't work = collapse
Double sided quote sheet
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
- Look up any secondary quotes about the topic - can quote philosophical quotes on quote sheet (eg. Happiness)
- Freedom, individuality, emotions - do they come up in every topic?
- Focus - could be on Soma
- Think of a thesis which could work with any of the three topics
John the Savage
Individuality - contrast with how there's no individuals in the BNW - how would an individual survive - John shows how this is not a concept in BNW
- John stands out on the reserve and BNW
- No one else is allowed to show different ideas - free will, morals
- "don’t' take that horrible stuff, it's poison" (185)
- Kills himself to maintain his individuality
- Ironic because "community, stability, identity" - not individual identity
Freedom- a lot of stuff BNW can't do - [do they even think about it? - Bernard does]
-ties into happiness - for John - he wants joy, tears
-people in BNW don't know what freedom is - but they're "happy" in their own lives
-freedom and happiness are tied together [for us]
-(186) "Do you like being slaves?"
-contrasting John with BNW
-are people free in the reservation? [there's no real form of government - there's anarchy -good to see how a place with no rules or infrastructure fares]
[always can compare to our world - extend the theme - this novel comments on our world]
Utilitarian Happiness
- (210) - "getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it"-
- Points out that happiness with no contrast isn't worth much
Compare to Pleasantville
-consciousness vs. unconsciousness - Lenina is unconscious - doesn't even think to change
-John is closest to a "real" human being
Ignorance
- Shakespeare - real happiness comes from having unhappiness
Emotion
- Not a range
- John's range of emotions when Linda dies - contrasts with the Nurse making sure the children are conditioned to accept death
- People are disgusted by John's emotions
- [Having no family or even a romantic bond = no unhappiness, sorrow]
- Shakespeare shows the range of emotions - Romeo and Juliet - and Othello - show a range of emotions that people in the BNW don't even know exists
- [Soma takes away emotions - like our drugs, alcohol, and addictive behaviour shelters us from emotions]
- [look up Soma references]
- [Why does John dislike Soma so much?]
[What about religion?]
Science and Technology
- When Linda gets unlimited Soma
- John is disgusted by all the twins - violently retching (139)
Individuality
- Not present - frowned upon in BNW - "if one's different, one's bound to be lonely" (126) [is true in our world?]
- Bernard, Helmholtz, Mustapha Mond and John are all individuals
- Individuality causes unhappiness
- Bernard is isolated - likes to feel emotions
- "when the individual feels, society reels" - Lenina gets mad at Bernard for having emotions - this is one of the mottos of BNW
- Conditioning doesn't have as much as an effect - on alphas
- "I want to look at the sea in peace, it makes me feel more me… not just a cell…" (78) - Bernard says this
- Happiness = having a lack of emotions - BNW is attainted by the absence of love, freedom [think about what having children does - think about any totalitarian regime - threatening people's children makes people do anything - most people aren't willing to sacrifice their kids - in BNW - no one has to make this choice - suffering has ended]
- [today - what is individuality - think of preferences - "likes" on social media]
- "murder kills only an individual, and after all, what is an individual?" (128)
- Everyone's the same
Approach to topic - could talk about three different characters
-[look at Lenina and Fanny - not really individuals - reflect BNW's hypnopaedia, philosophy, conditioning]
-John reflects what individuality can be - BNW is afraid of it because it's a different viewpoint
[would be interesting to contrast to Linda because she has conditioning that she cannot seem to get rid of - can only really remember things to do with her job as a beta (minus?)]
-"Free! Free! Do you like being slaves?" - John
- [what does Soma do for individuality]
- Choose between happiness and what society used to call "high art" - this is Mustapha Mond
- No one is supposed to spend time alone
- John goes to the lighthouse to think and pray and get away from society
- [How can anyone have a thought in their head if they are always with people - answer - they can't]
- BNW think they're happy, but don't know anything about truth and beauty
- Individuals are harder to CONTROL
- "Actual happiness looks squalid" "Happiness is never grand" (Chapter 16)
- Self denial
- "if you had a god, you would have a reason for self denial" - John (Chapter 16)
- [in our society is delaying gratification - most people have trouble with this - but it's been proven people who can delay gratification are more successful]
- [anti progress = stability]
Discuss the irony behind BNW's motto: community, stability, identity.
- Community
- - the world is made up of many communities - BNW - tore them apart to make one GIANT one
- Family is the strongest form of community - but this does not exist in this world
- Love is replaced by sex and drugs (true feeling = love)
- BNW - can't choose one's community - the deltas and epsilons are not socializing with alphas and betas
- Alphas seem to have more community - more awareness of self
- [do people have to have individuality to have true community?]
Identity
-people are mass produced = no identity
-individuality is the biggest part of identity
-no one gets to choose their identity [is this a large part of individuality>]
-[interesting that the controllers get to choose their identity to some extend]
-"the nightmare swarming in indistinguishable sameness"
-mass production = people are made this way as well - Ford is their god
-
Stability
-Soma - fills in the gap - on the outside the BNW seems stable [but they aren't intrinsically stable]
Society gave up suffering (after the Nine Year's War)
-no true happiness, can have contentment
["Happiness is a hard master, especially other people's happiness"]
-"The world is stable now, people are happy now, they get what they want and they never want what they can't have" - Mustapha Mond (194)
-
How does this tie into our world?
-reservation = unstable - fend for yourselves
-can see where government doesn't have much control - things are chaotic [also the other extreme because people want freedom]
- "I don't want comfort, I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want goodness, I want sin" (211) - John the Savage
- [comparing John the Savage to the terms of the motto shows the satire]
- Macbeth - kills the king and the whole country goes into war as a revolt - he is a dictator - doesn't listen to anyone in the end - causes people to revolt
Emotions - 7 deadly sins accompany - greed [doesn't come into play in BNW]
-Indigenous people in Canada - residential school tie in - taking children away = community loss - taking away identity
-Indigenous people lost their identity by government control
- When John enters the novel - he shows how fragile the society is - comfort and stability are suddenly threatened
- Emotions aren't genuine
- Synthetic (Soma) - manufactured
- John is genuine/authentic - has a mother
- The reader sympathizes with John because we identify with him
- John is not programmed to understand the motto - shows how stability may not be a good goal
- One of mottos doesn't work = collapse
Friday, November 9, 2018
Quotes from Lit - Nov. 9
1. "Are you so severe upon your own sex as to doubt the possibility of all this?" - Darcy "I never saw such a woman. I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance as you describe, united." -Elizabeth (37)
2. "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." (180)
Abbie, Loi, Claire
"it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (3)
Ashika, Vernadette, Faye
" You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased." (351)
"From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents--your mother will never see you again if you do not marry mr collins and I will never see you again if you do." (107)
"She is a selfish hypocritical women and I have no opinion of her" (6)
"Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudice, absurd." (198)
Clare, Abby, Sarah, Hannah
"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me…" (11)
"She is a selfish and hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her." (6)
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation." (54)
"If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever." (348)
"They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible." (65)
Kay, Kendra, Allie, Kiran
Discuss how Austen uses character as a vehicle to show _______________________ in the novel, Pride and Prejudice.
FISHBOWL CAPTAINS: Clare - Society's Rules
Kay - Gender Roles
Taff - Love Marriage and Family (Sam and Grace are in this group)
You may bring one double sided quote sheet to the in-class essay
For the Fishbowl:
Fishbowl - prepare thesis statements, questions, quotes and notes for the topics. Be prepared to speak.
2. "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." (180)
Abbie, Loi, Claire
"it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (3)
Ashika, Vernadette, Faye
" You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased." (351)
"From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents--your mother will never see you again if you do not marry mr collins and I will never see you again if you do." (107)
"She is a selfish hypocritical women and I have no opinion of her" (6)
"Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudice, absurd." (198)
Clare, Abby, Sarah, Hannah
"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me…" (11)
"She is a selfish and hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her." (6)
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation." (54)
"If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever." (348)
"They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible." (65)
Kay, Kendra, Allie, Kiran
Discuss how Austen uses character as a vehicle to show _______________________ in the novel, Pride and Prejudice.
FISHBOWL CAPTAINS: Clare - Society's Rules
Kay - Gender Roles
Taff - Love Marriage and Family (Sam and Grace are in this group)
You may bring one double sided quote sheet to the in-class essay
For the Fishbowl:
Fishbowl - prepare thesis statements, questions, quotes and notes for the topics. Be prepared to speak.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Eng. 12 - MLA - citing
Here is a reference for MLA style from Ms. Turner
https://libguides.sd44.ca/mla
also:
http://libguides.sd44.ca/novels/bnw
https://libguides.sd44.ca/mla
also:
http://libguides.sd44.ca/novels/bnw
Lit 12 - Nov. 6 - New Dates (because of PSI day!)
Wed. Nov. 7- Part III, 11-19
Thurs. Nov. 8- movie #6
Fri. Nov. 9 - Notes on Elements (Choose fishbowl topics)
Tues. Nov. 13- Fishbowl
Wed. Nov. 14 - In-Class Essay
Thurs. Nov. 15 - Hamlet
Fri. Nov. 16 -Vocab. Festival #2 ***
Mon. Nov. 19 - Project Due
Fri. Nov. 23 - Vocab Test
Thurs. Nov. 8- movie #6
Fri. Nov. 9 - Notes on Elements (Choose fishbowl topics)
Tues. Nov. 13- Fishbowl
Wed. Nov. 14 - In-Class Essay
Thurs. Nov. 15 - Hamlet
Fri. Nov. 16 -Vocab. Festival #2 ***
Mon. Nov. 19 - Project Due
Fri. Nov. 23 - Vocab Test
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Eng. 12 - Nov. 1 - Dates!
Mon. Nov. 4 - Ch. 15, 16
Tues. Nov. 5 - Ch. 17-18
Wed. Nov. 6 - Finish Discussion - tie up loose ends - decide on fishbowl topics
Thurs. Nov. 8 -Movie
Fri. Nov. 9 - Movie
Tues. Nov. 13- Fishbowl
Wed. Nov. 14 - In-Class Essay
Thurs. Nov. 15 - Othello
Fri. Nov. 16 - Vocab Festival #2
Mon. Nov. 19 - Project Due
Fri. Nov. 23 - Vocab Test
Tues. Nov. 5 - Ch. 17-18
Wed. Nov. 6 - Finish Discussion - tie up loose ends - decide on fishbowl topics
Thurs. Nov. 8 -Movie
Fri. Nov. 9 - Movie
Tues. Nov. 13- Fishbowl
Wed. Nov. 14 - In-Class Essay
Thurs. Nov. 15 - Othello
Fri. Nov. 16 - Vocab Festival #2
Mon. Nov. 19 - Project Due
Fri. Nov. 23 - Vocab Test
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Updated - Lit 12 - Oct. 30
Wed. Oct. 31 - Projects/Ch. 16-19 III
Thurs. Nov. 1 - Part III, 1-10
Mon. Nov. 1- movie #5
Tues. Nov. 6- Part III, 11-19
Wed. Nov. 7 - movie #6
Thurs. Nov. 8 - Notes on elements
Fri. Nov. 9 - Vocab Festival #2
Tues. Nov. 13- Fishbowl
Wed. Nov. 14 - In-Class Essay
Thurs. Nov. 15 - Hamlet
Fri. Nov. 16 - Hamlet
Mon. Nov. 19 - Project Due
Fri. Nov. 23 - Vocab Test
Friday, October 26, 2018
Eng. 12 - Oct. 26
For Monday, Oct. 29 - Ch. 10-12
FISHBOWL - Tues. Nov. 13
IN-CLASS ESSAY - Wed. Nov. 14
PROJECT - Mon. Nov. 19
FISHBOWL - Tues. Nov. 13
IN-CLASS ESSAY - Wed. Nov. 14
PROJECT - Mon. Nov. 19
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Writing 12 - Oct. 24
35. A] Think of as many things, people, emotions, food, etc. for the following sensory words:
a) Things that are soft
b) Things that are salty
c) Vinegary
d) Shrill
e) Pungent
f) Shiny
B] Pick three "things" from the above and describe them using similes.
36. Listen to the song "Never Never" - SBTRKT - featuring Sampha 2011
Listen to the song once - take notes
What is it doing?
What kind of music?
How does it build?
What can you compare it to?
Listen again - write a paragraph reviewing it for other teenagers. Describe as much as you can.
a) Things that are soft
b) Things that are salty
c) Vinegary
d) Shrill
e) Pungent
f) Shiny
B] Pick three "things" from the above and describe them using similes.
36. Listen to the song "Never Never" - SBTRKT - featuring Sampha 2011
Listen to the song once - take notes
What is it doing?
What kind of music?
How does it build?
What can you compare it to?
Listen again - write a paragraph reviewing it for other teenagers. Describe as much as you can.
Monday, October 22, 2018
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Eng. 12 & Lit 12
Complete your WRITING IMPROVEMENTS SHEET and complete your editing
Lit - complete your apostrophe sheet!
Lit - complete your apostrophe sheet!
Monday, October 15, 2018
Writers' Fest
Gia, Kay, Tara M, Ghazal, Jacqueline, Hannah, Abby F, Kendra
Meet at 9:15 at the cafe just near the Kid's Only Market at the entrance of the Island.
We will be seeing The Evolution of Man at the Granville Island Stage at 10:00 - we need to be together to get the tickets.
At 1:00 we will be seeing Purely Poetry at Studio 1398 (Cartwright Street)
We will be done at 2:30
See you there!
Meet at 9:15 at the cafe just near the Kid's Only Market at the entrance of the Island.
We will be seeing The Evolution of Man at the Granville Island Stage at 10:00 - we need to be together to get the tickets.
At 1:00 we will be seeing Purely Poetry at Studio 1398 (Cartwright Street)
We will be done at 2:30
See you there!
Eng. 12 - Oct. 15
Complete Ch. 4 QQ for Wed. Oct. 17 - think about character and theme (always)
Ch. 5 for Thurs., Oct. 18
Ch. 6 & 7 for Mon. Oct. 22
Ch. 5 for Thurs., Oct. 18
Ch. 6 & 7 for Mon. Oct. 22
Friday, October 12, 2018
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Lit Pride and Prejudice Dates
P&P Dates
Timeline- 4-5 weeks to read, study, do projects, write essay and watch movie.
There are 61 chapters - 3 parts
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Tues. Oct.9 - Start P&P
Thurs. Oct. 11 - Part I, 1-6
Fri. Oct. 12 - go over sight reading
Mon. Oct. 15 - Part I, 7-15
Tues. Oct. 16 - go over content test
Wed. Oct. 17 - movie #1
Thurs. Oct. 18 - Part I, 16-23
Mon. Oct. 22 - movie #2
Tues. Oct. 23 - Character Part One
Wed. Oct. 24 - Part II, 1-11
Thurs. Oct. 25 - movie #3
Fri. Oct. 26 - Part II, 12-19
Mon. Oct 29 - Character Part Two
Tues. Oct. 30 - movie #4
Wed. Oct. 31 - Part III, 1-10
Thurs. Nov. 1 - movie #5
Mon. Nov. 5- Part III, 11-19
Tues. Nov. 6 - movie #6
Wed. Nov. 7 - Notes on elements
Thurs. Nov. 8 -Notes on elements
Fri. Nov. 9 - Vocab Festival #2
Tues. Nov. 13- Fishbowl
Wed. Nov. 14 - In-Class Essay
Thurs. Nov. 15 - Hamlet
Fri. Nov. 16 - Hamlet
Mon. Nov. 19 - Project Due
Fri. Nov. 23 - Vocab Test
Groups for treats:
Ii Allie, Kiran, Ashika, Faye #1
Iii Abby, Kendra, Maya, Alicia #2
IIi Mike, Grace, Mikayla, Isabella #3
IIii Zach, Claire, Abbie, Kay #4
III i Giulia, Hannah, Clare, Sarah #5
IIIii Sam, Taff, Loi, Vernadette #6
Timeline- 4-5 weeks to read, study, do projects, write essay and watch movie.
There are 61 chapters - 3 parts
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Tues. Oct.9 - Start P&P
Thurs. Oct. 11 - Part I, 1-6
Fri. Oct. 12 - go over sight reading
Mon. Oct. 15 - Part I, 7-15
Tues. Oct. 16 - go over content test
Wed. Oct. 17 - movie #1
Thurs. Oct. 18 - Part I, 16-23
Mon. Oct. 22 - movie #2
Tues. Oct. 23 - Character Part One
Wed. Oct. 24 - Part II, 1-11
Thurs. Oct. 25 - movie #3
Fri. Oct. 26 - Part II, 12-19
Mon. Oct 29 - Character Part Two
Tues. Oct. 30 - movie #4
Wed. Oct. 31 - Part III, 1-10
Thurs. Nov. 1 - movie #5
Mon. Nov. 5- Part III, 11-19
Tues. Nov. 6 - movie #6
Wed. Nov. 7 - Notes on elements
Thurs. Nov. 8 -Notes on elements
Fri. Nov. 9 - Vocab Festival #2
Tues. Nov. 13- Fishbowl
Wed. Nov. 14 - In-Class Essay
Thurs. Nov. 15 - Hamlet
Fri. Nov. 16 - Hamlet
Mon. Nov. 19 - Project Due
Fri. Nov. 23 - Vocab Test
Groups for treats:
Ii Allie, Kiran, Ashika, Faye #1
Iii Abby, Kendra, Maya, Alicia #2
IIi Mike, Grace, Mikayla, Isabella #3
IIii Zach, Claire, Abbie, Kay #4
III i Giulia, Hannah, Clare, Sarah #5
IIIii Sam, Taff, Loi, Vernadette #6
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Sight Reading and Content Tests
Sight Reading Test: you will be reading a short story and applying our knowledge of literary elements. Make sure you are familiar with all: irony, symbol, setting and atmosphere, plot and conflict, emotion and humour, character, point of view and theme. Review the handouts you've been given. If you feel like you don't understand an element - read the chapter in Story and Structure
Content - Prepare page of quotations from the 6 stories we have read.
Lit: "The Japanese Quince," "The Dead Men's Path," "Just Lather, That's All," "The Lottery," "The Destructors," "Paul's Case"
Eng. 12: "The Japanese Quince," "The Rockinghorse Winner," "Just Lather, That's All," "The Lottery," "The Destructors," "Paul's Case"
You may use one double sided piece of paper. No notes. Please have your page numbers.
Review advice I've given about writing - class notes and individual advice.
I will be asking you to refer to three short stories - I will refer to TWO elements. Eg. How does the setting affect the conflict in three of the short stories we have studied. Your job is to come up with a narrow thesis which allows for synthesis and depth of argumetn.
Content - Prepare page of quotations from the 6 stories we have read.
Lit: "The Japanese Quince," "The Dead Men's Path," "Just Lather, That's All," "The Lottery," "The Destructors," "Paul's Case"
Eng. 12: "The Japanese Quince," "The Rockinghorse Winner," "Just Lather, That's All," "The Lottery," "The Destructors," "Paul's Case"
You may use one double sided piece of paper. No notes. Please have your page numbers.
Review advice I've given about writing - class notes and individual advice.
I will be asking you to refer to three short stories - I will refer to TWO elements. Eg. How does the setting affect the conflict in three of the short stories we have studied. Your job is to come up with a narrow thesis which allows for synthesis and depth of argumetn.
Monday, September 24, 2018
Writing 12 - Sept. 24
Read through the PERSUASIVE WRITING package - you will have 30 minutes in class tomorrow to complete the questions on page 6 (workbooks 13 & 14)
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Lit 12 - Sept. 19
For Mon. 24 - Have "Destructors" QQ + 2 text questions of your choice
Tues. 25 - "Destructors" - Read "Paul's Case" - QQ + 2 text questions of your choice
Wed. 26 - "Paul's Case" discussion
Thurs. 27 - "Paul's Case"
Fri. 28
Presentations: Mon. Oct.1/ Tues. Oct. 2
Sight Reading Test: Wed. Oct. 3
Content Test: Thurs. Oct. 4
VOCAB FESTIVAL: Fri. Oct. 5
Tues. 25 - "Destructors" - Read "Paul's Case" - QQ + 2 text questions of your choice
Wed. 26 - "Paul's Case" discussion
Thurs. 27 - "Paul's Case"
Fri. 28
Presentations: Mon. Oct.1/ Tues. Oct. 2
Sight Reading Test: Wed. Oct. 3
Content Test: Thurs. Oct. 4
VOCAB FESTIVAL: Fri. Oct. 5
Eng. 12 - Sept. 19
For Thurs. 20 - In-Class Essay
Mon. 24 - "Just Lather, That's All Debate" - make sure you've done your Q&Q - Do Q&Q for "The Lottery" + 2 questions of your choice from the text
Tues. 25 - Discussion of "Just Lather" and begin discussion of "The Lottery" - make sure Lottery HW is completed
Wed.26 "The Lottery" discussion + video - Read "Paul's Case" for HW - Q&Q + 2 questions of your choice
Thurs.27 - discussion of "Paul's Case"
Fri. 28 - "Paul's Case" discussion
Mon. 1 - Presentations
Tues. 2 - Presentations
Wed. 3 - Sight Reading Test
Thurs. 4 - Content Test
Fri. 5 - Vocab Festival
Mon. 24 - "Just Lather, That's All Debate" - make sure you've done your Q&Q - Do Q&Q for "The Lottery" + 2 questions of your choice from the text
Tues. 25 - Discussion of "Just Lather" and begin discussion of "The Lottery" - make sure Lottery HW is completed
Wed.26 "The Lottery" discussion + video - Read "Paul's Case" for HW - Q&Q + 2 questions of your choice
Thurs.27 - discussion of "Paul's Case"
Fri. 28 - "Paul's Case" discussion
Mon. 1 - Presentations
Tues. 2 - Presentations
Wed. 3 - Sight Reading Test
Thurs. 4 - Content Test
Fri. 5 - Vocab Festival
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Eng. 12 - Sept. 18
Read "Just. Lather, That's All" - do your question and quote - debate Thursday.
In-Class Essay Wed. 19 on "The Destructors"
In-Class Essay Wed. 19 on "The Destructors"
Monday, September 17, 2018
Lit 12 - Sept. 17
Read "Just Lather, That's All" - do QQ - and look over questions - debate tomorrow
Choose your group story. Don't choose "The Destructors," or "Paul's Case"
Choose your group story. Don't choose "The Destructors," or "Paul's Case"
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Eng. 12 - Sept. 13
Read "The Destructors"
Mon. Sept. 17 - Group Day
Presentations: Mon. Oct.1/ Tues. Oct. 2
Sight Reading Test: Wed. Oct. 3
Content Test: Thurs. Oct. 4
VOCAB FESTIVAL: Fri. Oct. 5
Mon. Sept. 17 - Group Day
Presentations: Mon. Oct.1/ Tues. Oct. 2
Sight Reading Test: Wed. Oct. 3
Content Test: Thurs. Oct. 4
VOCAB FESTIVAL: Fri. Oct. 5
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Lit 12 - Sept. 12
Read "The Lottery" - do your QQ and THEN pick two questions from the textbook to answer THOROUGHLY.
Friday: In-class essay
Mon. Sept. 17 - Group Day
Presentations: Mon. Oct.1/ Tues. Oct. 2
Sight Reading Test: Wed. Oct. 3
Content Test: Thurs. Oct. 4
VOCAB FESTIVAL: Fri. Oct. 5
Friday: In-class essay
Mon. Sept. 17 - Group Day
Presentations: Mon. Oct.1/ Tues. Oct. 2
Sight Reading Test: Wed. Oct. 3
Content Test: Thurs. Oct. 4
VOCAB FESTIVAL: Fri. Oct. 5
Monday, September 10, 2018
Friday, September 7, 2018
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Bard on the Beach!
Hey all - meet near the Box Office at Vanier Park (Bard on the Beach) at 6:45!
Don't be Late!
See you there.
We should be out by 10:00 if you want to arrange rides!
Don't be Late!
See you there.
We should be out by 10:00 if you want to arrange rides!
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Student Choice Awards
Student Choice: Best Actor - Morgan, Best Reader - Chris, Person Who Added the Most to the Class - Matt, Best Dancer - Samuel (Not Pictured
And the shirt goes to... Grace!
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Please Bring Back Your Books!
Grade 12
Adventures: Morgan, Samuel, Jack, Dylan
Into the Wild: Chris R
P&P: Samuel, Ella, Mason
S&S: Morgan
Hammy: Samuel
Grade 11:
OFOCN: Alexia, Mason, Liam, Paloma, Aja, Brax
Loi, Vernadette, Jonas, Ayden, Ava
Scottish Play: Brax, Gia, Kay, Gabriela, Hamid, Alexia
Ayden, Mike, Loi, Vernadette
Viewpoints: Liam, Aja
Adventures: Morgan, Samuel, Jack, Dylan
Into the Wild: Chris R
P&P: Samuel, Ella, Mason
S&S: Morgan
Hammy: Samuel
Grade 11:
OFOCN: Alexia, Mason, Liam, Paloma, Aja, Brax
Loi, Vernadette, Jonas, Ayden, Ava
Scottish Play: Brax, Gia, Kay, Gabriela, Hamid, Alexia
Ayden, Mike, Loi, Vernadette
Viewpoints: Liam, Aja
Monday, June 18, 2018
Lit 12 - June 18
Many award winners for Student Choice Awards - All time best student attender goes from English 9, Writing 12, English 11, English 12 and Literature 12 without ever missing a class!
Study hard everyone!
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Nature, Love, Religion
• To study: make your own quote sheet to memorize - I can't guarantee these quotes are word for word, so please check the primary sources
Nature
- Backdrop in all the literature
- Only thing that changes is how humans interact with it
- Restoration = materialistic (eg. Pepys' diary)
- "To a Mouse" - "I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union"
- "Apostrophe to the Ocean" - easy to notice the admiration of ocean - good imagery
- Romantic/Victorian - use nature in different ways
- Romantic = "for as I were a child of thee" ("Ocean") - respect and beauty
- Victorian = "the tide recedes" - "Dover Beach"
- Romantic = wanting to be a part of Nature ("Ode to the West Wind")
- "Apostrophe" = sublime aspect of nature - ocean has been around through the ages "time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow" "oak leviathans tossed like toys"
- Pantheism - god is everywhere - Nature is connected to God ("Ode to a Nightingale")
- "Dulce et Decorum Est" - devoid of nature - "sick as sin" "obscene as cancer, bitter as cud" - war is not concerned with nature
- Modern poems "the rocks ignore" - "Disembarking at Quebec"
- Progression in thought - Beowulf - Grendel represents natural forms - must be killed and dealt with
- Shift through time - as we understand more and become more sophisticated, our relationship with nature changes
- Progression of human evolution
- "The world is too much with us late and soon" - we are killing nature: "little we see in Nature that is ours/ we've given our hearts away"
- Victorian - muted references to nature - going away from us
- Modern - nature and we are alienated
- The nature poem? "O Wind!/ If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
- Appreciating nature
- Childhood joy relating to nature "My Heart Leaps Up," "Wind" "Ocean" "The Lamb"
- Freedom - could be a subtheme
- Social conformity - nature helps work against the idea of having to conform (but in Beowulf conformity is necessary)
- Conformity is an interesting subtheme
- Unknown aspect of nature
- Power of nature
- "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" - promising nature as gifts
- "Whoso" = deer = human (unrequited love) - very human
- "gather ye rosebuds as ye may" = about humans and their plight
- Nature = universal symbol
- "Sir Gawain and the Green Night" - tangles of green he has to fight through to meet the Green Knight
- Any nature in The Canterbury Tales?
- "Rime" = lack of respect for nature = retribution
- Albatross significance? Not appreciated
- Nature could be supernatural (outside of human's scope)
Love
-familial love, eternal love, platonic love, friendship, romantic
- Shakespeare's sonnets -
- Unrequited love vs. requited
- "not falter"
- "If God choose I will love thee better after death" (Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
- "sublunary lovers" - "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" - more than human - conceit of the compass
- "Love alters not with brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom" - Sonnet 116 - the feeling of the unchanging love
- People grow and change -
- Familial love - can wane, but it tends to be unconditional - love between a parent and a child (Hamlet and Gertrude excepted)
- "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" - "curse bless me now" - a child talking to his father about not dying
- Victorian era - "Dover Beach" = "And here we are on this darkling plain/ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight"
- "To the Ladies" - "wife and servant are the same" "Shun, oh! Shun that wretched state/ And all the fawning flatters hate"
- Pride and Prejudice - many different kinds of love - Darcy and Elizabeth = equals; Lydia and Wickham = lust; Mr and Mrs Bennet = lust; Jane and Bingley = friendship; Charlotte and Collins = commerce; the Gardiners = equality and friendship - the custom of the time - commodification of marriage - for the upper class
- Is our perception different now - rather than through the times
- Renaissance = ideal - eternal
- "My Mistress' Eyes" = love you no matter about superficial qualities (Sonnet 130)
- "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" (Sonnet 18) - idealized - better than a summer's day
- Sonnet 29 - "When in Disgrace with Fortune's and Men's Eyes" = "Haply I think on thee, and then my state,/Like to the lark at the break of day arising/"
- "The Hollow Men" - detached - not being loved
- Love of God
- Love of nature
- "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" - love of God does not seem apparent
- Sonnet 43 (interesting to compare to "My Last Duchess" - the Duke openly admits to killing his first wife because she was too open and loving to the world - boughs of cherry blossoms, her white mule - everyone received the same smile - thinking about the commodification of women and marriage and the tyrannical father - like Elizabeth's)
- "I love you with my childhood faith"/ "the breath,/ Smiles, tears, of all my life!" - loving better after death - like Valediction and Sonnet 116
Religion
- Every single era addresses spirituality of religions
- Rise, peak and downfall
- Beowulf - interjected into an originally a Pagan story
- Great combination - "The Burning of Beowulf's Body"
- "God whose love [Grendel] could not know" - excellent starting point
- Grendel is a symbol of the unknown aspects of nature - but also the unknown aspects of religion
- He also represents the other - or could be the devil (Paradise Lost, "The Tiger")
- Satan "perverting" humankind
- Is Paradise Lost the peak
- Canterbury Tales - pointing out the hypocrisy
- Modern times - hard to find - lots of questioning
- Humans need to believe in something other than themselves
- WW I - loss of faith - "The Second Coming," "Dulce et Decorum Est," "The Hollow Men"
- After WW II - "The Destructors," most of your independent novels, "Pretty," "Disembarking"
- "Tiger"/"Lamb" - how could they both be by the same Creator
- "On His Blindness" - the great Taskmaster - how does this compare to "Dover Beach" - the tide of Faith recedes - Milton finds solace in "they also serve those who stand and wait" "Patience replies"
"where ignorant armies clash at night" - "Dover Beach" - no understanding, only confusion - huddled together on a darkling plain
- What about "The Darkling Thrush" - what does the thrush have to sing about on that bleak, January 1st, 1900
- Greek and Roman gods - "have sight of Proteus rising from the sea/ or hear Triton blow his writhed horn" - Pagan gods and humans at that time had more appreciation and more connection to nature
- [Pagan = not of the worlds's religion]
Nature
- Backdrop in all the literature
- Only thing that changes is how humans interact with it
- Restoration = materialistic (eg. Pepys' diary)
- "To a Mouse" - "I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union"
- "Apostrophe to the Ocean" - easy to notice the admiration of ocean - good imagery
- Romantic/Victorian - use nature in different ways
- Romantic = "for as I were a child of thee" ("Ocean") - respect and beauty
- Victorian = "the tide recedes" - "Dover Beach"
- Romantic = wanting to be a part of Nature ("Ode to the West Wind")
- "Apostrophe" = sublime aspect of nature - ocean has been around through the ages "time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow" "oak leviathans tossed like toys"
- Pantheism - god is everywhere - Nature is connected to God ("Ode to a Nightingale")
- "Dulce et Decorum Est" - devoid of nature - "sick as sin" "obscene as cancer, bitter as cud" - war is not concerned with nature
- Modern poems "the rocks ignore" - "Disembarking at Quebec"
- Progression in thought - Beowulf - Grendel represents natural forms - must be killed and dealt with
- Shift through time - as we understand more and become more sophisticated, our relationship with nature changes
- Progression of human evolution
- "The world is too much with us late and soon" - we are killing nature: "little we see in Nature that is ours/ we've given our hearts away"
- Victorian - muted references to nature - going away from us
- Modern - nature and we are alienated
- The nature poem? "O Wind!/ If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
- Appreciating nature
- Childhood joy relating to nature "My Heart Leaps Up," "Wind" "Ocean" "The Lamb"
- Freedom - could be a subtheme
- Social conformity - nature helps work against the idea of having to conform (but in Beowulf conformity is necessary)
- Conformity is an interesting subtheme
- Unknown aspect of nature
- Power of nature
- "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" - promising nature as gifts
- "Whoso" = deer = human (unrequited love) - very human
- "gather ye rosebuds as ye may" = about humans and their plight
- Nature = universal symbol
- "Sir Gawain and the Green Night" - tangles of green he has to fight through to meet the Green Knight
- Any nature in The Canterbury Tales?
- "Rime" = lack of respect for nature = retribution
- Albatross significance? Not appreciated
- Nature could be supernatural (outside of human's scope)
Love
-familial love, eternal love, platonic love, friendship, romantic
- Shakespeare's sonnets -
- Unrequited love vs. requited
- "not falter"
- "If God choose I will love thee better after death" (Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
- "sublunary lovers" - "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" - more than human - conceit of the compass
- "Love alters not with brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom" - Sonnet 116 - the feeling of the unchanging love
- People grow and change -
- Familial love - can wane, but it tends to be unconditional - love between a parent and a child (Hamlet and Gertrude excepted)
- "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" - "curse bless me now" - a child talking to his father about not dying
- Victorian era - "Dover Beach" = "And here we are on this darkling plain/ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight"
- "To the Ladies" - "wife and servant are the same" "Shun, oh! Shun that wretched state/ And all the fawning flatters hate"
- Pride and Prejudice - many different kinds of love - Darcy and Elizabeth = equals; Lydia and Wickham = lust; Mr and Mrs Bennet = lust; Jane and Bingley = friendship; Charlotte and Collins = commerce; the Gardiners = equality and friendship - the custom of the time - commodification of marriage - for the upper class
- Is our perception different now - rather than through the times
- Renaissance = ideal - eternal
- "My Mistress' Eyes" = love you no matter about superficial qualities (Sonnet 130)
- "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" (Sonnet 18) - idealized - better than a summer's day
- Sonnet 29 - "When in Disgrace with Fortune's and Men's Eyes" = "Haply I think on thee, and then my state,/Like to the lark at the break of day arising/"
- "The Hollow Men" - detached - not being loved
- Love of God
- Love of nature
- "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" - love of God does not seem apparent
- Sonnet 43 (interesting to compare to "My Last Duchess" - the Duke openly admits to killing his first wife because she was too open and loving to the world - boughs of cherry blossoms, her white mule - everyone received the same smile - thinking about the commodification of women and marriage and the tyrannical father - like Elizabeth's)
- "I love you with my childhood faith"/ "the breath,/ Smiles, tears, of all my life!" - loving better after death - like Valediction and Sonnet 116
Religion
- Every single era addresses spirituality of religions
- Rise, peak and downfall
- Beowulf - interjected into an originally a Pagan story
- Great combination - "The Burning of Beowulf's Body"
- "God whose love [Grendel] could not know" - excellent starting point
- Grendel is a symbol of the unknown aspects of nature - but also the unknown aspects of religion
- He also represents the other - or could be the devil (Paradise Lost, "The Tiger")
- Satan "perverting" humankind
- Is Paradise Lost the peak
- Canterbury Tales - pointing out the hypocrisy
- Modern times - hard to find - lots of questioning
- Humans need to believe in something other than themselves
- WW I - loss of faith - "The Second Coming," "Dulce et Decorum Est," "The Hollow Men"
- After WW II - "The Destructors," most of your independent novels, "Pretty," "Disembarking"
- "Tiger"/"Lamb" - how could they both be by the same Creator
- "On His Blindness" - the great Taskmaster - how does this compare to "Dover Beach" - the tide of Faith recedes - Milton finds solace in "they also serve those who stand and wait" "Patience replies"
"where ignorant armies clash at night" - "Dover Beach" - no understanding, only confusion - huddled together on a darkling plain
- What about "The Darkling Thrush" - what does the thrush have to sing about on that bleak, January 1st, 1900
- Greek and Roman gods - "have sight of Proteus rising from the sea/ or hear Triton blow his writhed horn" - Pagan gods and humans at that time had more appreciation and more connection to nature
- [Pagan = not of the worlds's religion]
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
"Because," "Dulce et Decorum," "The Second Coming," ":The Hollow Men"
"The Second Coming"
Themes:
Disorder in Society ("The falcon cannot hear the falconer" Line 2)
Religion ("Surely the Second Coming is at hand" Line 10)
Corruption ("Things fall apart" Line 3)
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Religious undertone (allusions)
Overall tone is angry, frustrated, eager for change
Literary Devices
Allusion: "Surely the Second Coming is at hand." (Line 10) & "Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." (Line 22)
Irony: The Second Coming should bring peace
"The Hollow Men"
Theme: unfulfillment, death
Quotes:
“In the last of meeting places/ We grope together/ And avoid speech/ Gathered on this beach of the tumid river” (lines 58-60)
“Shape without form, shade without colour;/ Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;” (lines 11-12) (Oxymoron) (Shapes without form are incapable of movement)
“Those who have crossed/ With direct eyes, to death’s other kingdom/ Remember us - of at all - not as lost/ Violent souls, but only/ As the hollow men”
“Between the idea/ And the reality/ Between the motion/ And the act/ Falls the Shadow”
“This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms” (line 56) (Allusion to Cain striking Abel with a donkey’s broken jaw bone, being cast out of the kingdom)
Notes:
Modern poetry was usually dark, with people having a pessimistic outlook on life due to the war and its effect on the world
This led people to turn away from God (how could God let this happen?) and this is shown in the multiple mentions of the afterlife being referred to as “death’s kingdom” as opposed to “God’s kingdom”
Mentions eyes a lot, in a negative connotation
Apathy a significant emotion
Allusions to Dante’s Paradiso/Inferno, Heart of Darkness, Guy Fawkes, The Lord’s Prayer, & Julius Caesar
Shadow men are in a barren landscape, possibly Fields of Asphodel
People who contrast the Hollow Men died committed and following their purpose, even if that purpose was wrong
“For Thine is the Kingdom” is part of the Bible, separate from the other parts of the poem
Literary Devices
Simile: “Are quiet and meaningless” (line 7)
Oxymoron: “Shape without form, shade without colour;” (line 11)
Cacophony: “Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves” (line 32)
Epigraph: “Mistah Kurtz--he head./ A penny for the Old Guy”
Alliteration: “Prickly pear prickly pear” (line 70)
Allusion: “With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom” (line 14) (Dante’s Inferno)
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
A Victorian Poem
Themes
Death
Time
Afterlife
Literary Devices
Caesura (“at recess – in the Ring -”[10])
alliteration (“gazing grain”[11])
personification (“gazing grain”[11])
meter (8 beats, 6 beats, 8 beats, 6 beats. Iamb) (Stanza four is different)
Distinguishing Characteristics
Death isn't scary, he's charming. Persona accepts death without question.
The speaker pauses before a “house,” as if death is the beginning of a new life with a new home.
Very subdued, disconnected, sombre – Victorian qualities
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
Themes:
Disorder in Society ("The falcon cannot hear the falconer" Line 2)
Religion ("Surely the Second Coming is at hand" Line 10)
Corruption ("Things fall apart" Line 3)
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Religious undertone (allusions)
Overall tone is angry, frustrated, eager for change
Literary Devices
Allusion: "Surely the Second Coming is at hand." (Line 10) & "Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." (Line 22)
Irony: The Second Coming should bring peace
"The Hollow Men"
Theme: unfulfillment, death
Quotes:
“In the last of meeting places/ We grope together/ And avoid speech/ Gathered on this beach of the tumid river” (lines 58-60)
“Shape without form, shade without colour;/ Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;” (lines 11-12) (Oxymoron) (Shapes without form are incapable of movement)
“Those who have crossed/ With direct eyes, to death’s other kingdom/ Remember us - of at all - not as lost/ Violent souls, but only/ As the hollow men”
“Between the idea/ And the reality/ Between the motion/ And the act/ Falls the Shadow”
“This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms” (line 56) (Allusion to Cain striking Abel with a donkey’s broken jaw bone, being cast out of the kingdom)
Notes:
Modern poetry was usually dark, with people having a pessimistic outlook on life due to the war and its effect on the world
This led people to turn away from God (how could God let this happen?) and this is shown in the multiple mentions of the afterlife being referred to as “death’s kingdom” as opposed to “God’s kingdom”
Mentions eyes a lot, in a negative connotation
Apathy a significant emotion
Allusions to Dante’s Paradiso/Inferno, Heart of Darkness, Guy Fawkes, The Lord’s Prayer, & Julius Caesar
Shadow men are in a barren landscape, possibly Fields of Asphodel
People who contrast the Hollow Men died committed and following their purpose, even if that purpose was wrong
“For Thine is the Kingdom” is part of the Bible, separate from the other parts of the poem
Literary Devices
Simile: “Are quiet and meaningless” (line 7)
Oxymoron: “Shape without form, shade without colour;” (line 11)
Cacophony: “Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves” (line 32)
Epigraph: “Mistah Kurtz--he head./ A penny for the Old Guy”
Alliteration: “Prickly pear prickly pear” (line 70)
Allusion: “With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom” (line 14) (Dante’s Inferno)
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
A Victorian Poem
Themes
Death
Time
Afterlife
Literary Devices
Caesura (“at recess – in the Ring -”[10])
alliteration (“gazing grain”[11])
personification (“gazing grain”[11])
meter (8 beats, 6 beats, 8 beats, 6 beats. Iamb) (Stanza four is different)
Distinguishing Characteristics
Death isn't scary, he's charming. Persona accepts death without question.
The speaker pauses before a “house,” as if death is the beginning of a new life with a new home.
Very subdued, disconnected, sombre – Victorian qualities
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
Eng. 11 - June 13
For block one - complete questions for "Scaffolding," "Say, Word?" and "The Attitude" For "Scaffolding," ask your own question and answer it, find literary devices and figure out the theme
If you really want to prepare for the exam, complete the whole poetry package
block four - complete questions for "Attitude," "My Papa's Waltz," "the wundrfulness...," and "Say, Word?"
If you really want to prepare for the exam, complete the whole poetry package
block four - complete questions for "Attitude," "My Papa's Waltz," "the wundrfulness...," and "Say, Word?"
Eng. 11 - Studying for English 11 Exam
Final Exam:
editing - find the mistake in the sentences - study your editing sheets and your sentence corrections - class feedback for writing, punctuation notes.
poetry - review poetic devices - make sure you understand page 4 of the poetry package - practice by going over poems we didn't study in the package - be familiar with all poetic devices
prose - review elements of short fiction (7 sets of notes)
writing - go over your essays, essay notes, essay package and writing improvements - make a note of my individual advice
get a good night's sleep and eat a healthy breakfast and/or lunch
block 1 - D 205 - Wed. 20 at 1:00pm
block 4 - D 206 - Wed. 20 at 1:00 pm
editing - find the mistake in the sentences - study your editing sheets and your sentence corrections - class feedback for writing, punctuation notes.
poetry - review poetic devices - make sure you understand page 4 of the poetry package - practice by going over poems we didn't study in the package - be familiar with all poetic devices
prose - review elements of short fiction (7 sets of notes)
writing - go over your essays, essay notes, essay package and writing improvements - make a note of my individual advice
get a good night's sleep and eat a healthy breakfast and/or lunch
block 1 - D 205 - Wed. 20 at 1:00pm
block 4 - D 206 - Wed. 20 at 1:00 pm
Lit 12 - Breakdown of Exam
Breakdown of Final Exam:
20 marks - identifying 4 quotes - explaining significance in the context of whole work
15 marks - discussing literary techniques of quotes
10 marks - mini essay of specific time period
10 marks - mini - essay question of large topic
15 marks - sight reading poem
30 marks - full essay discussing whole course with a focus on three literary works
100 marks (20% of grade)
DON'T FORGET: Field Trip forms - Bard on the Beach is Thursday, June 21st
Fishbowl : Thursday, June 14 - Religion, Love, Nature (WHICIH GROUP ARE YOU?)
Friday, June 15 is a HUGELY IMPORTANT class for review
20 marks - identifying 4 quotes - explaining significance in the context of whole work
15 marks - discussing literary techniques of quotes
10 marks - mini essay of specific time period
10 marks - mini - essay question of large topic
15 marks - sight reading poem
30 marks - full essay discussing whole course with a focus on three literary works
100 marks (20% of grade)
DON'T FORGET: Field Trip forms - Bard on the Beach is Thursday, June 21st
Fishbowl : Thursday, June 14 - Religion, Love, Nature (WHICIH GROUP ARE YOU?)
Friday, June 15 is a HUGELY IMPORTANT class for review
Monday, June 4, 2018
Betrayal, Morality, Ambition
Betrayal, Morality, Ambition
June 4, 2018
1:45 PM
Bring a quote sheet with no extra notes - make sure you know the Act, scene, and line number, the context, and who is speaking.
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
Betrayal and Loyalty
-play starts with an act of betrayal - Macdonwald betrays Scotland - he is hanged
-Duncan rewards the Thane "absolute trust" - shows how important loyalty is (also that he trusts easily)
-Banquo stays loyal "so I lose none in seeking to augment it" (II i)
- The Thane stays loyal to the witches' prophecy - to his own detriment
- Strange that Fleance doesn't become king
- [witches betray the Thane with "the fiends that lie like the truth" (V)
- [is the Lady loyal?]
- What are the characters' priorities
- Macduff betrays his family and technically the country - it is considered treason (but he is getting rid of a tyrant) - Macduff stays loyal to Duncan and his offspring - convinces Malcolm to come back
- King and country are seen as synonymous (Old Scotland)
- Macduff is loyal to the people of Scotland ("bleed Scotland" IV iii)
- Beginning the Thane defends Scotland - look at I vii to see the Thane's belief
- War hero - risked his life to protect the country
- [how important is loyalty in your own life? What or whom are you loyal to? What happens when someone is disloyal to you?]
- Treatment of his wife and servants are different
- [is loyalty related to morality?]
- Leaves the Lady out of his plans after killing Duncan - he does not share his plan to kill Banquo or Macduff's family
- When is he loyal to himself? Seems like he is only loyal to the prophecy: "Thou wast born of woman!" (V vii)
-Lady stays by her husband's side throughout - fainting when the guards are killed, making excuses for the Thane's reaction to Banquo's ghost
-she doesn't order the deaths of Banquo or Macduff's family - she does know about it - sleep walking scene (V i)
Self interest, personal responsibility
Morality
-knowing the difference between right and wrong = the Thane says "look on it again I dare not" (II ii) - he can't face the scene of Duncan's death again
-compare Macduff's morality with the Thane
-Thane has some moral code - he's a war hero at the beginning [is it okay to murder people in war? Why?]
-"I am in blood stepped so far" III iv
-taking responsibility for actions [does the Thane]
-"the ends justify the means" - it does for Macduff - what he does to save the country - sacrifices his family
-consequences [what is the consequence of the Thane's actions? Does he enjoy being king]
-[what is your moral code]
-Lady sleepwalks - retribution for her guilty conscience
- Never be able to sleep peacefully again: "After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well" - referring to Duncan - III ii
- Does he ever take true responsibility for what he's done (he says "my way of life has fallen into the sear" V iii)
- Banquo doesn't tell everybody - he knows that the Thane had a prophecy - he wants his own prophecy to come true - see III i for his soliloquy
- Lady starts off asking for help from the "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts" (I v) she also says "a little water clears us of this deed" (II ii) but in Vi, "all the Perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand" - does this show that she has morality?
- The Thane says "oh, full of scorpions is my mind" (III ii) after killing Duncan - but after that he has "forgot the taste of fears" (V iii)
- He becomes aware that he has "mouth honour" only, rather than "troops of friends" (V iii)
- Temptation, greed, consequences, rewards, ill-gotten gains
Ambition
- "art not without ambition, but without the illness to attend it" - Lady says this about the Thane in I v - turns out - he does have "the illness to attend it"
- Lady's ambition starts of high to kill Duncan, but diminishes over time
- Goals change over the play -
- [there's no time mentioned in the prophecy - what's the rush? - impatience]
- Banquo has ambition - remains quiet over his own personal interest of his sons becoming king - "last night I dreamed of the three weird sisters, to you they have showed some truth" (II i)
- Banquo's prophecy is less immediate - applies to his sons, but not to him
- [how much ambition is too much ambition?]
- Ambition can drive people away - the Lady and the Thane start off close - but he does so much to protect his power that he drives all friends and family away
- Unchecked ambition
- "let not light see my deep and dark desires" (I iv) - this is when Malcolm is named Prince of Cumberland
- He must have had ambition to become the General of the King's army
- Was the Thane ever happy - he seems to become unhappier as the play develops
- [Bible quotes:
Proverbs 10:2 E
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 1:19
Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors. ]
From
- Are the witches ambitious? Why do they "trade and traffic with Macbeth" - they sabotage him in the end - Hecate thinks they wasted their powers for a "wayward son" (III v 11)
- "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other" (I vii 25-27) - the Thane is interested in gaining power
- If the Lady were so ambitious, wouldn't she have killed Duncan herself? She's ambitious enough to make someone else do her dirty work
- Banquo asks for his prophecy - but doesn't want them - he calls them "instruments of darkness" (I iii)
- Macduff's ambition - to kill the Thane "bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;/ Within my swoard's length set him; if he 'scape,/ Heaven forgive him too: (IV iii 230-233)
June 4, 2018
1:45 PM
Bring a quote sheet with no extra notes - make sure you know the Act, scene, and line number, the context, and who is speaking.
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
Betrayal and Loyalty
-play starts with an act of betrayal - Macdonwald betrays Scotland - he is hanged
-Duncan rewards the Thane "absolute trust" - shows how important loyalty is (also that he trusts easily)
-Banquo stays loyal "so I lose none in seeking to augment it" (II i)
- The Thane stays loyal to the witches' prophecy - to his own detriment
- Strange that Fleance doesn't become king
- [witches betray the Thane with "the fiends that lie like the truth" (V)
- [is the Lady loyal?]
- What are the characters' priorities
- Macduff betrays his family and technically the country - it is considered treason (but he is getting rid of a tyrant) - Macduff stays loyal to Duncan and his offspring - convinces Malcolm to come back
- King and country are seen as synonymous (Old Scotland)
- Macduff is loyal to the people of Scotland ("bleed Scotland" IV iii)
- Beginning the Thane defends Scotland - look at I vii to see the Thane's belief
- War hero - risked his life to protect the country
- [how important is loyalty in your own life? What or whom are you loyal to? What happens when someone is disloyal to you?]
- Treatment of his wife and servants are different
- [is loyalty related to morality?]
- Leaves the Lady out of his plans after killing Duncan - he does not share his plan to kill Banquo or Macduff's family
- When is he loyal to himself? Seems like he is only loyal to the prophecy: "Thou wast born of woman!" (V vii)
-Lady stays by her husband's side throughout - fainting when the guards are killed, making excuses for the Thane's reaction to Banquo's ghost
-she doesn't order the deaths of Banquo or Macduff's family - she does know about it - sleep walking scene (V i)
Self interest, personal responsibility
Morality
-knowing the difference between right and wrong = the Thane says "look on it again I dare not" (II ii) - he can't face the scene of Duncan's death again
-compare Macduff's morality with the Thane
-Thane has some moral code - he's a war hero at the beginning [is it okay to murder people in war? Why?]
-"I am in blood stepped so far" III iv
-taking responsibility for actions [does the Thane]
-"the ends justify the means" - it does for Macduff - what he does to save the country - sacrifices his family
-consequences [what is the consequence of the Thane's actions? Does he enjoy being king]
-[what is your moral code]
-Lady sleepwalks - retribution for her guilty conscience
- Never be able to sleep peacefully again: "After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well" - referring to Duncan - III ii
- Does he ever take true responsibility for what he's done (he says "my way of life has fallen into the sear" V iii)
- Banquo doesn't tell everybody - he knows that the Thane had a prophecy - he wants his own prophecy to come true - see III i for his soliloquy
- Lady starts off asking for help from the "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts" (I v) she also says "a little water clears us of this deed" (II ii) but in Vi, "all the Perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand" - does this show that she has morality?
- The Thane says "oh, full of scorpions is my mind" (III ii) after killing Duncan - but after that he has "forgot the taste of fears" (V iii)
- He becomes aware that he has "mouth honour" only, rather than "troops of friends" (V iii)
- Temptation, greed, consequences, rewards, ill-gotten gains
Ambition
- "art not without ambition, but without the illness to attend it" - Lady says this about the Thane in I v - turns out - he does have "the illness to attend it"
- Lady's ambition starts of high to kill Duncan, but diminishes over time
- Goals change over the play -
- [there's no time mentioned in the prophecy - what's the rush? - impatience]
- Banquo has ambition - remains quiet over his own personal interest of his sons becoming king - "last night I dreamed of the three weird sisters, to you they have showed some truth" (II i)
- Banquo's prophecy is less immediate - applies to his sons, but not to him
- [how much ambition is too much ambition?]
- Ambition can drive people away - the Lady and the Thane start off close - but he does so much to protect his power that he drives all friends and family away
- Unchecked ambition
- "let not light see my deep and dark desires" (I iv) - this is when Malcolm is named Prince of Cumberland
- He must have had ambition to become the General of the King's army
- Was the Thane ever happy - he seems to become unhappier as the play develops
- [Bible quotes:
Proverbs 10:2 E
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 1:19
Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors. ]
From
- Are the witches ambitious? Why do they "trade and traffic with Macbeth" - they sabotage him in the end - Hecate thinks they wasted their powers for a "wayward son" (III v 11)
- "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other" (I vii 25-27) - the Thane is interested in gaining power
- If the Lady were so ambitious, wouldn't she have killed Duncan herself? She's ambitious enough to make someone else do her dirty work
- Banquo asks for his prophecy - but doesn't want them - he calls them "instruments of darkness" (I iii)
- Macduff's ambition - to kill the Thane "bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;/ Within my swoard's length set him; if he 'scape,/ Heaven forgive him too: (IV iii 230-233)
Betrayal, Fate, Morality - June 4
Loyalty, Fate, Morality
May 31, 2018
10:47 AM
Bring a quote sheet with no extra notes - make sure you know the Act, scene, and line number, the context, and who is speaking.
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
Betrayal and Loyalty
- Whom does the Thane betray? His Lady?
- He does not involve her in his plans after killing Duncan (although there is evidence she knows about his troubles - sleep walking)
- Does the Lady betray him? - she gets him to betray his own morals by convincing him to kill Duncan
-the Thane's betrayals start to bother him less and less - why?
-truth in life - things get easier - whether good or bad - we get inured to things "I am in blood stepped so far already" (III iv 137)
- In for a penny in for a pound
- Banquo - doesn't betray the Thane but (III i) it is because the prophecy might become true for him
- "I fear thou play'dst most foully for it" (III i 3-6)
- Macduff betrays the Thane to save Scotland - is he betraying Scotland? - he's committing treason (betraying the king), but he's saving Scotland from a tyrannical leader - betrays his family - picks Scotland over his family
- [what are any person's priorities? What is considered betrayal?]
- "there's daggers in men's smiles" (II iii)
- [could concentrate on just one character]
- [take a truth from life - when are you loyal? - whom are you loyal to? What tests your loyalty?]
- [king and country are synonymous -killing the king is like killing the country]
- "fair is foul and foul is fair" (I i) - the play starts with this parallel - foreshadowing
Self interest [what are some umbrella topics which would encapsulate all three topics]
Fate
-Takes the witches' prophecies too far
"If chance will have me king, why chance will crown me king without my stir" (I iii)
-then Malcolm is crowned Prince of Cumberland - the darkness comes - "stars hide your fires, let not light see my deep and dark desires" (I iv)
-Lady wants the prophecy to come true "Come dark spirits and fill me from crown to toe top full of direst cruelty"
-Banquo also doesn't act against the Thane because of his prophecies
-fate sets up the entire plot
-second meeting between the Thane and the witches sets up the ending
-is fate real? (destiny)
-can we change our fate? (free will)
-[Fleance does not become king - what does this show us about fate?]
-the Thane becomes Thane of Cawdor "without his stir"
-ambition + greed transforms the Thane's initial desire
-he says why he should not kill him (I vii) - he knows what he's doing is wrong - Lady "pricks his ambition"
-[the prophecy doesn't have a time limit - why does the Thane feel compelled to act so quickly?]
-"the instruments of darkness tell us truths" (I iii) - contemplating the witches' first prophecy coming true
-part of the prophecy comes true - so seems real
-"come fate and champion me to the utterance" - challenges fate when planning to kill Banquo - he's trying to change fate - (III i 74-75) - realizes he's killed so that the "seeds of Banquo" will become king
-"The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step I must overcome, or else overleap" (I iv)
[how does fate control or not control us? Do we have any preconceived notions about fate? Do you think there is any kind of employment or university you are destined to have/go to?
time
Moralty
- The principles concerning behaviour between right or wrong - people with morals know the difference
- [at the beginning of the play, the Thane has a set of morals - he betrays them}
-[what are our morals? What would make us betray them? Greed
- The Thane kills and betrays his morals - leads him to not sleep insomnia, insanity, guilt
- The Thane gives into his "deep and dark desires"
- "we'll not fail. Screw your courage to the sticking place" (I vii) - the Lady
- Does the Lady not have morals at the beginning? [she has to call on dark spirits]
- [listening to the witches - like listening to the bad side of our heads - do we have moral compasses? Look at politicians - do they betray any moral code?]
- "I have forgot the taste of fear" (V v) - shows us his degradation
- Killing Banquo - haunted my his ghost (III iv) - shows us the Thane's guilt
- Does the Thane saying "my way of life has fallen into the sear…" (V v) - is this him admitting his guilt and responsibility
- [does the Thane take responsibility from his actions]
- [REMEMBER, THEME AND MORALS ARE DIFFERENT - YOUR JOB ISN'T TO TELL US WHAT THE PLAY TELLS TO DO OR NOT TO DO; IT IS TO SHOW US HOW PEOPLE LIVE (NOT HOW TO LIVE]
- How is this play still relevant?
- Temptation - how often do we give into to it? What are the consequences?
- The Thane loses everything - his life, his status, his friends, his sense of self
- [how soon does the Thane realize it wasn't worth it? "Duncan is in his grave, after life's fitful fever, he sleeps well" (III ii 22-23)
- Pride
- Gets murderers to do his dirty work after killing Duncan - why? What does this tell us about the state of his soul?
- What about the witches' morality? - Hecate gets mad at them for "trading traffic with Macbeth" (III v)
May 31, 2018
10:47 AM
Bring a quote sheet with no extra notes - make sure you know the Act, scene, and line number, the context, and who is speaking.
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
Betrayal and Loyalty
- Whom does the Thane betray? His Lady?
- He does not involve her in his plans after killing Duncan (although there is evidence she knows about his troubles - sleep walking)
- Does the Lady betray him? - she gets him to betray his own morals by convincing him to kill Duncan
-the Thane's betrayals start to bother him less and less - why?
-truth in life - things get easier - whether good or bad - we get inured to things "I am in blood stepped so far already" (III iv 137)
- In for a penny in for a pound
- Banquo - doesn't betray the Thane but (III i) it is because the prophecy might become true for him
- "I fear thou play'dst most foully for it" (III i 3-6)
- Macduff betrays the Thane to save Scotland - is he betraying Scotland? - he's committing treason (betraying the king), but he's saving Scotland from a tyrannical leader - betrays his family - picks Scotland over his family
- [what are any person's priorities? What is considered betrayal?]
- "there's daggers in men's smiles" (II iii)
- [could concentrate on just one character]
- [take a truth from life - when are you loyal? - whom are you loyal to? What tests your loyalty?]
- [king and country are synonymous -killing the king is like killing the country]
- "fair is foul and foul is fair" (I i) - the play starts with this parallel - foreshadowing
Self interest [what are some umbrella topics which would encapsulate all three topics]
Fate
-Takes the witches' prophecies too far
"If chance will have me king, why chance will crown me king without my stir" (I iii)
-then Malcolm is crowned Prince of Cumberland - the darkness comes - "stars hide your fires, let not light see my deep and dark desires" (I iv)
-Lady wants the prophecy to come true "Come dark spirits and fill me from crown to toe top full of direst cruelty"
-Banquo also doesn't act against the Thane because of his prophecies
-fate sets up the entire plot
-second meeting between the Thane and the witches sets up the ending
-is fate real? (destiny)
-can we change our fate? (free will)
-[Fleance does not become king - what does this show us about fate?]
-the Thane becomes Thane of Cawdor "without his stir"
-ambition + greed transforms the Thane's initial desire
-he says why he should not kill him (I vii) - he knows what he's doing is wrong - Lady "pricks his ambition"
-[the prophecy doesn't have a time limit - why does the Thane feel compelled to act so quickly?]
-"the instruments of darkness tell us truths" (I iii) - contemplating the witches' first prophecy coming true
-part of the prophecy comes true - so seems real
-"come fate and champion me to the utterance" - challenges fate when planning to kill Banquo - he's trying to change fate - (III i 74-75) - realizes he's killed so that the "seeds of Banquo" will become king
-"The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step I must overcome, or else overleap" (I iv)
[how does fate control or not control us? Do we have any preconceived notions about fate? Do you think there is any kind of employment or university you are destined to have/go to?
time
Moralty
- The principles concerning behaviour between right or wrong - people with morals know the difference
- [at the beginning of the play, the Thane has a set of morals - he betrays them}
-[what are our morals? What would make us betray them? Greed
- The Thane kills and betrays his morals - leads him to not sleep insomnia, insanity, guilt
- The Thane gives into his "deep and dark desires"
- "we'll not fail. Screw your courage to the sticking place" (I vii) - the Lady
- Does the Lady not have morals at the beginning? [she has to call on dark spirits]
- [listening to the witches - like listening to the bad side of our heads - do we have moral compasses? Look at politicians - do they betray any moral code?]
- "I have forgot the taste of fear" (V v) - shows us his degradation
- Killing Banquo - haunted my his ghost (III iv) - shows us the Thane's guilt
- Does the Thane saying "my way of life has fallen into the sear…" (V v) - is this him admitting his guilt and responsibility
- [does the Thane take responsibility from his actions]
- [REMEMBER, THEME AND MORALS ARE DIFFERENT - YOUR JOB ISN'T TO TELL US WHAT THE PLAY TELLS TO DO OR NOT TO DO; IT IS TO SHOW US HOW PEOPLE LIVE (NOT HOW TO LIVE]
- How is this play still relevant?
- Temptation - how often do we give into to it? What are the consequences?
- The Thane loses everything - his life, his status, his friends, his sense of self
- [how soon does the Thane realize it wasn't worth it? "Duncan is in his grave, after life's fitful fever, he sleeps well" (III ii 22-23)
- Pride
- Gets murderers to do his dirty work after killing Duncan - why? What does this tell us about the state of his soul?
- What about the witches' morality? - Hecate gets mad at them for "trading traffic with Macbeth" (III v)
Eng. 11 - June 4
As time is winding down, please make every effort to attend the in-class essay and test. 0 is an option for consistent non-attenders.
Friday, June 1, 2018
Lit 12 - June 1 - Rough plans
For Monday 4: ROMANTIC ESSAY DUE, "Ulysses"/ "Dover Beach"/ Last chance to hand in Romantic HW or light blue vocab
Tues. 5 - Victorian Notes, "Sonnet 43"
Wed. 6 - "Song"
Thurs. 7 - "Darkling Thrush"/ "My Last Duchess"
Fri. 8 - Figure out Fishbowl topics/ "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Mon. 11 - "Pretty"
Tues. 12 - "Disembarking at Quebec"
Wed. 13 - Review of January poems (Because, Second Coming, Dulce, Hollow Men)
Thurs.14 - Fishbowl
Fri.15 - Relays and Games (Amazing Review - don't miss!)
Mon. 18 - Good-bye
Tues. 19 - FINAL EXAM at 9:35
*student choice awards
*go over Romantic Essays
Tues. 5 - Victorian Notes, "Sonnet 43"
Wed. 6 - "Song"
Thurs. 7 - "Darkling Thrush"/ "My Last Duchess"
Fri. 8 - Figure out Fishbowl topics/ "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Mon. 11 - "Pretty"
Tues. 12 - "Disembarking at Quebec"
Wed. 13 - Review of January poems (Because, Second Coming, Dulce, Hollow Men)
Thurs.14 - Fishbowl
Fri.15 - Relays and Games (Amazing Review - don't miss!)
Mon. 18 - Good-bye
Tues. 19 - FINAL EXAM at 9:35
*student choice awards
*go over Romantic Essays
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Eng. 11 - May 31
Blocks 1 and 4: we will only be having ONE final discussion for all of Acts IV and V - TOMORROW and tomorrow and tomorrow, I will give you any marks you are missing for homework TOMORROW - so have them done!
FISHBOWL: Monday, June 4 - block 1: Betrayal/Loyalty, Morality, Fate
block 4 - Betrayal/Loyalty, Morality, Ambition
IN-CLASS ESSAY: Tuesday, June 5
MACTEST: Wednesday, June 6
How to Study for the MacTest:
- make sure you understand the dramatic terms and the structure of the play
- make sure you know each character and the plot points of the play
- study your questions
-write down what you think are the major/important quotes in the play, consider their significance, who says them and what's going on - 25 marks are devoted to this - test your friends and study together!
Breakdown - 5 marks dramatic terms
15 marks - plot/short answers
10 marks - character
25 marks - quotes - identify, tell the circumstance and the significance
15 marks - 3 paragraphs (one about the movie) - larger concerns
TOTAL: 70 marks
FISHBOWL: Monday, June 4 - block 1: Betrayal/Loyalty, Morality, Fate
block 4 - Betrayal/Loyalty, Morality, Ambition
IN-CLASS ESSAY: Tuesday, June 5
MACTEST: Wednesday, June 6
How to Study for the MacTest:
- make sure you understand the dramatic terms and the structure of the play
- make sure you know each character and the plot points of the play
- study your questions
-write down what you think are the major/important quotes in the play, consider their significance, who says them and what's going on - 25 marks are devoted to this - test your friends and study together!
Breakdown - 5 marks dramatic terms
15 marks - plot/short answers
10 marks - character
25 marks - quotes - identify, tell the circumstance and the significance
15 marks - 3 paragraphs (one about the movie) - larger concerns
TOTAL: 70 marks
Monday, May 28, 2018
Friday, May 25, 2018
Eng. 11 - May 25
Have ALL questions completed for our final discussion:
block 1 - Mon. 28 (also, think of THEMES)
block 4 - Wed. 30
SCENE DAY: Tues. 29
block 1 - Mon. 28 (also, think of THEMES)
block 4 - Wed. 30
SCENE DAY: Tues. 29
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Eng. 11 - May 23 - June Dates
Tues. 29 - SCENES
Wed./Thurs 30, 31 - MOVIE
Fri. - Final Discussion
Mon. 4 - Fishbowl
Tues. 5 - IN-CLASS ESSAY
Tues. 6 - TEST!
These people need to complete their self assessment: Imran Ahamed, Naya Akkad, Shivani Bhatt, Ava Bovill, Danielle David, Jonas Fischer, Michael Partridge, Vernadette Tinao, Tuari Treadwell.
These two have not even completed a draft: Ayden Law and JJ Pistawka.
This is a government document and must be completed!
Wed./Thurs 30, 31 - MOVIE
Fri. - Final Discussion
Mon. 4 - Fishbowl
Tues. 5 - IN-CLASS ESSAY
Tues. 6 - TEST!
These people need to complete their self assessment: Imran Ahamed, Naya Akkad, Shivani Bhatt, Ava Bovill, Danielle David, Jonas Fischer, Michael Partridge, Vernadette Tinao, Tuari Treadwell.
These two have not even completed a draft: Ayden Law and JJ Pistawka.
This is a government document and must be completed!
Lit 12 - May 23- June 1
Thurs. 24: 3 x QQ, text for "Rime"
Fri. 25: 2 x QQ + "the order" for "Ocean"
Mon. 28: 2 xQQ et al. for "Wind"
Tues. 29: 2 x QQ etc. for "Nightingale"
Wed. 30: "Fears" (only 1 QQ + everything
Thurs. 31: ROMANTIC TEST
Fri. 1: ROMANTIC ESSAY
Fri. 25: 2 x QQ + "the order" for "Ocean"
Mon. 28: 2 xQQ et al. for "Wind"
Tues. 29: 2 x QQ etc. for "Nightingale"
Wed. 30: "Fears" (only 1 QQ + everything
Thurs. 31: ROMANTIC TEST
Fri. 1: ROMANTIC ESSAY
Friday, May 18, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Eng. 11 - May 17
Tomorrow (Friday) is GROUP DAY - we are getting into groups for our scenes which will happen Monday, May 28!
All of III questions are due for Tuesday, May 22
All of III questions are due for Tuesday, May 22
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Eng. 11 - May 15
For article: underline interesting points, points you disagree with and points you agree with. When you are finished reading the article, respond to your initial reaction. Did you learn anything? What?
Make sure ALL OF ACT II is completed. Think about your roles for III
Make sure ALL OF ACT II is completed. Think about your roles for III
Lit 12 - May 15
Complete "The World is Too Much With Us" and "My Heart Leaps Up" - Wordsworth notes, QQ, text questions, poetic devices
Make sure your Romantic Notes are completed
ROMANTIC ESSAY: due June 1
Make sure your Romantic Notes are completed
ROMANTIC ESSAY: due June 1
Monday, May 14, 2018
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Eng. 11 - block 4 - May 10h
Have Editing sheet and II i, ii for Monday.
Meet at bus out front at 12:35!
Meet at bus out front at 12:35!
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Eng. 11 - May 8
block 4 - JJ, Ayden and Loi - you must complete your SELF ASSESSMENT at home.
also, everyone: BRING YOUR FIELD TRIP FORMS BY WEDNESDAY FOR FRIDAY'S FIELD TRIP.
also, everyone: BRING YOUR FIELD TRIP FORMS BY WEDNESDAY FOR FRIDAY'S FIELD TRIP.
Friday, May 4, 2018
Lit 12 - May 4
For Tues. May 8: "To A Mouse" QQ, author, poetic devices, text (always expected)
Wed. May 9: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": QQx2, text etc. - we will be getting into groups for a group presentation due Friday - 6 groups of 3, one group of 4
Thurs. May 10: "Tyger"/"Lamb" - QQ for each, author, text, poetic devices
Fri. May 11: "Elegy" presentations
Netflix movies: "I am not an Easy Man" - men and women flip roles (French with English subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFHdkzqSZA
"Where to Invade Next"Michael More's documentary on other country's benefits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQhgnJv1P1Y
Wed. May 9: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": QQx2, text etc. - we will be getting into groups for a group presentation due Friday - 6 groups of 3, one group of 4
Thurs. May 10: "Tyger"/"Lamb" - QQ for each, author, text, poetic devices
Fri. May 11: "Elegy" presentations
Netflix movies: "I am not an Easy Man" - men and women flip roles (French with English subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFHdkzqSZA
"Where to Invade Next"Michael More's documentary on other country's benefits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQhgnJv1P1Y
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Lit 12 - May 3
Have light pink Vocab sheet completed.
We will be discussing "A Modest Proposal" Fri. May 4
We will be discussing "A Modest Proposal" Fri. May 4
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Lit 12 - May 1
Have "Modest Proposal" completed for Thurs. May 2 - pay extra attention to text questions
Monday, April 30, 2018
Eng. 11 - April 30
Vocab Test: Friday, May 4
Studying for Vocab (make sure your sheet is complete) - Thursday, May 3
Studying for Vocab (make sure your sheet is complete) - Thursday, May 3
Lit 12 - April 30
"Rape of the Lock" - QQ for each Canto, text, examples of
ZEUGMA
JUXTAPOSITION
APHORISM
SATIRE
METAPHORS FOR SCISSORS
ALLUSIONS
MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES
FUNNY NAMES
ALLITERATION
for Wednesday
Challenge Mock Epic: Tuesday, May 1
ZEUGMA
JUXTAPOSITION
APHORISM
SATIRE
METAPHORS FOR SCISSORS
ALLUSIONS
MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES
FUNNY NAMES
ALLITERATION
for Wednesday
Challenge Mock Epic: Tuesday, May 1
Friday, April 27, 2018
Eng. 11 - block 1 - April 27
If you missed the test or the essay - I will be holding an extra exam period after school on Monday, April 30
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Eng. 11 - April 25
Bring a sheet with quotes - include page numbers
Purpose of an essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
Make sure you are discussing what One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest shows us about human nature and the topic of the essay.
Does this novel show us anything about how systems work? Politics? Rebellions generally (think countries or even schools)
Approaches - use symbols to show aspects of these themes or use characters.
Come up with a statement - eg. "In order to effect change in any system, society needs a rebel."
Could have a secondary quote about any of these topics - but make sure to cite it properly.
Can you compare Mack's actions to any other protesters? (Gandhi, MLK, Jesus?)
Umbrella topics (power can also be a topic for gender stereotypes and racism)
Don't forget to go over your class feedback and personal feedback (blue sheets and greensheets)
Rebellion, Freedom & Hope
- Symbol of fog
- Mack is a symbol of hope - things might change
- "maybe the combine is not controlling things"(305) - Chief realizes he's in control of his own life
- Control panel - Chief's fog starts to fade - Mack gives everyone hope
- Chief's control panel - Chief is in control of his own mind - future - he feels "as big as a mountain"
- Proves to himself that he can do it
- Hope - makes all the patients feel better [what about Cheswick, Billy]
- Harding says they're "sick men now, not rabbits" - shows progress
- Control of self and actions
- In the hospital - feel like prisoners
- Mack seems to choose the ward rather than prison (so is freer in the ward)
- Rebellion leads to hope - hope leads to freedom
- Mack breaking the glass is a form of rebellion
- Mack singing in the shower - uses his masculinity to make the Nurse feel weak - intimidates her
Power, Volition, Control
-Chief raising his hand - he realizes he's an individual and he has power - this shows his volition
"Big Nurse recognizes this power and knows how to put it to use…. Or you'll end up over on that side" (18)
- Big Nurse uses her book - manipulates people
- Uses their weaknesses - Billy Bibbit's mother [ended up with him killing himself]
- Log book = symbol of power
- Bird = chief ["one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
- Chief acting as though he's deaf and dumb = giving up his volition/power
- Power switch - Mack thinks he has power until he finds out he's committed
- Nurse Ratched - says "if you're committed, you're under the jurisdiction of the staff"
- Other patients got power from Mack - when he resists fighting - they lose power
- Nurse's uniform - shows us at the beginning - starched - can't see her shape - later - her less starched shirt shows she has less or more power? Is she embracing her femininity?
- Harding stands up to Nurse - voluntary patients leave - they have their own volition
- Nurse has to change her style - she is "exposed" can't go back to the same way
- Chief thinks he's small - at the end he feels "as big as a mountain"
- Beginning - Chief's hand feels like it's "swelling up" (25) when he meets Mack - before he thinks the Nurse is swelling up "as big as a tractor"
- He also refers to his mother becoming "twice the size" of his father - his mom feels more powerful than his dad who sold the tribal land and then became an alcoholic
- "you grew half a foot already" - Mack says to Chief - this builds Chief up
- Does Mack use Chief - or is he compassionate? - in the end Chief has improved immeasurably
- Chief raising his hand - thinks Mack does it - but then realizes he does it on his own
- Baseball game - sit in [peaceful protest]
Society's Stigmas, Gender, Racial Stereotypes
- Combine - ward is a place where "they" send people to fix mistakes
- Machinery = systems (Chief is schizophrenic - his tribal lands/natural place is taken over by the dam - machinery)
- Nurse reinforces fear - keeps her power
- Nurse wants people to conform
- Mack represents rebellion
- Wheat = wolves chaff = rabbits - combine sorts
- "something bigger is making all this mess" - Mack? Society rather than the nurse [can't see the forest for the trees]
- Chief's father knows the government will never respect tribal decisions - decides not to fight [Chief doesn't want Mack to fight near the beginning]
- Billy
- Mack is confused why people are "voluntary" - Harding feels different - [the "shameful finger of society"
- Harding knowing he's gay and society says it's wrong - causes psychological disruption
- Nurse talks about Candy (314) - feels better than Candy since she's a nurse and Candy's a prostitute - Kesey has powerful women (Harding's wife, the Nurse, Billy's mom, Chief's mom) being terrible - prostitute, who is powerless, is nice
- "society decides who's sane and who isn't"
- [fishing trip = manhood]
- Mack has more power when it comes to gender - example of the towel scene
- Chief thinks the Nurse is bitter about having big breasts (women can't be powerful and be feminine)
- We just find out that Mack was in jail for raping a 15 year old - then Nurse is confronted by Mack in a towel (this would make any woman feel powerless, mad, upset…)
- Nurse lives in a society when men feel proud of what they've done to women ["she was plenty willing"]
Purpose of an essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today."
Make sure you are discussing what One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest shows us about human nature and the topic of the essay.
Does this novel show us anything about how systems work? Politics? Rebellions generally (think countries or even schools)
Approaches - use symbols to show aspects of these themes or use characters.
Come up with a statement - eg. "In order to effect change in any system, society needs a rebel."
Could have a secondary quote about any of these topics - but make sure to cite it properly.
Can you compare Mack's actions to any other protesters? (Gandhi, MLK, Jesus?)
Umbrella topics (power can also be a topic for gender stereotypes and racism)
Don't forget to go over your class feedback and personal feedback (blue sheets and greensheets)
Rebellion, Freedom & Hope
- Symbol of fog
- Mack is a symbol of hope - things might change
- "maybe the combine is not controlling things"(305) - Chief realizes he's in control of his own life
- Control panel - Chief's fog starts to fade - Mack gives everyone hope
- Chief's control panel - Chief is in control of his own mind - future - he feels "as big as a mountain"
- Proves to himself that he can do it
- Hope - makes all the patients feel better [what about Cheswick, Billy]
- Harding says they're "sick men now, not rabbits" - shows progress
- Control of self and actions
- In the hospital - feel like prisoners
- Mack seems to choose the ward rather than prison (so is freer in the ward)
- Rebellion leads to hope - hope leads to freedom
- Mack breaking the glass is a form of rebellion
- Mack singing in the shower - uses his masculinity to make the Nurse feel weak - intimidates her
Power, Volition, Control
-Chief raising his hand - he realizes he's an individual and he has power - this shows his volition
"Big Nurse recognizes this power and knows how to put it to use…. Or you'll end up over on that side" (18)
- Big Nurse uses her book - manipulates people
- Uses their weaknesses - Billy Bibbit's mother [ended up with him killing himself]
- Log book = symbol of power
- Bird = chief ["one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
- Chief acting as though he's deaf and dumb = giving up his volition/power
- Power switch - Mack thinks he has power until he finds out he's committed
- Nurse Ratched - says "if you're committed, you're under the jurisdiction of the staff"
- Other patients got power from Mack - when he resists fighting - they lose power
- Nurse's uniform - shows us at the beginning - starched - can't see her shape - later - her less starched shirt shows she has less or more power? Is she embracing her femininity?
- Harding stands up to Nurse - voluntary patients leave - they have their own volition
- Nurse has to change her style - she is "exposed" can't go back to the same way
- Chief thinks he's small - at the end he feels "as big as a mountain"
- Beginning - Chief's hand feels like it's "swelling up" (25) when he meets Mack - before he thinks the Nurse is swelling up "as big as a tractor"
- He also refers to his mother becoming "twice the size" of his father - his mom feels more powerful than his dad who sold the tribal land and then became an alcoholic
- "you grew half a foot already" - Mack says to Chief - this builds Chief up
- Does Mack use Chief - or is he compassionate? - in the end Chief has improved immeasurably
- Chief raising his hand - thinks Mack does it - but then realizes he does it on his own
- Baseball game - sit in [peaceful protest]
Society's Stigmas, Gender, Racial Stereotypes
- Combine - ward is a place where "they" send people to fix mistakes
- Machinery = systems (Chief is schizophrenic - his tribal lands/natural place is taken over by the dam - machinery)
- Nurse reinforces fear - keeps her power
- Nurse wants people to conform
- Mack represents rebellion
- Wheat = wolves chaff = rabbits - combine sorts
- "something bigger is making all this mess" - Mack? Society rather than the nurse [can't see the forest for the trees]
- Chief's father knows the government will never respect tribal decisions - decides not to fight [Chief doesn't want Mack to fight near the beginning]
- Billy
- Mack is confused why people are "voluntary" - Harding feels different - [the "shameful finger of society"
- Harding knowing he's gay and society says it's wrong - causes psychological disruption
- Nurse talks about Candy (314) - feels better than Candy since she's a nurse and Candy's a prostitute - Kesey has powerful women (Harding's wife, the Nurse, Billy's mom, Chief's mom) being terrible - prostitute, who is powerless, is nice
- "society decides who's sane and who isn't"
- [fishing trip = manhood]
- Mack has more power when it comes to gender - example of the towel scene
- Chief thinks the Nurse is bitter about having big breasts (women can't be powerful and be feminine)
- We just find out that Mack was in jail for raping a 15 year old - then Nurse is confronted by Mack in a towel (this would make any woman feel powerless, mad, upset…)
- Nurse lives in a society when men feel proud of what they've done to women ["she was plenty willing"]
Friday, April 13, 2018
Eng. 11 - block 1 - April 13
Bring notes/ quotes on your character's symptoms for our library class on Mon. 16 - all novel read - SPOILERS
PRESENTATION: Wed. 18
LAST CLASS DISCUSSION: Thurs. 19
FISHBOWL: Wed. 25
IN-CLASS ESSAY: Thurs. 26
TEST: Fri. 27
PRESENTATION: Wed. 18
LAST CLASS DISCUSSION: Thurs. 19
FISHBOWL: Wed. 25
IN-CLASS ESSAY: Thurs. 26
TEST: Fri. 27
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