Lit 12 - Jan. 31

Complete QQ for 5 sections of Beowulf for Thurs., Feb. 1

Text questions + Grendel drawing for Friday, Feb. 2

Eng. 11 - Jan. 31

Complete all 7 questions for "Hills Like White Elephants" - do not consult with others.

LIt 12 - Jan. 30

Complete Anglo Saxon Notes - how does this impact the literature?

All Exams - Eng. 9,10, 11, 12

Bring a pencil for multiple choice and a pen for writing!

Sad News for Lit 12

I forgot to bring my marking home! We will be finishing "Hollow Men" and finding as many literary devices as possible for "Do Not Go Gentle" for Monday's class and going over your essays on Wednesday.

Eng. 10 - Poetic Device Contest

Simile - "herded like cattle" (10,11)
Dramatic irony - we know what is actually happening and she shouldn't be excited
Allusion - Gulliver
Alliteration - "bruise us with bitterness"
Rhyming couplet - "sight/white"
Imagery - "Gulliver scanning the horizon"
Onomatopoeia - "whisper" (17)
Plot - girl evacuated because she is Japanese - has to move - later realizes
Enjambment (run-on line) - "And loved the children and who gave me/ A puzzle to play with on the train" (24,25)
Tone/mood - excited, scared, naïve)
Stanza = one
Denotation - giant = big (Gulliver)
Connotation - "being white" - person, colour
Narrative -tells a story
Metaphor - "bruise us with bitterness" - not an actual bruise - internally (emotionally)
End stopped line - period on line 25
End rhyme - last two lines
Unity - same topic
Purpose - show point of view of Japanese (not dominant culture)
Figures of speech - bruise us with bitterness
Lyric - meaningful, short, and emotional
Exact rhyme - sight/white
Theme - Often, there is a difference between children's perspectives and adults. (dominant and minority cultures)
Conflict - between Japanese and Canadian government
Literal meaning - mountains
Figurative language - bruise us with bitterness
Didactic - teaching a moral lesson
Free verse - no pattern of rhythm or rhyme
Masculine rhyme - sight/white
Point of view - first person
Slant rhyme, eye, sight, -
Personification - bruise us with bitterness

Lit 12 - Jan. 19

Find as many devices for "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" - as you can!

Make sure "The Hollow Men" is masterfully prepared - you will have 10 more minutes in your group next Wednesday.

LIt 12 - Exam Etiquette Etc.

Students must arrive at least 15 minutes early for their provincial exam next week. Students writing in the alternate setting can report straight to the library. Students are required to bring government issued I.D. to provincial exams. Although we know the students, this is a good practice for them to get into as it is definitely required in university.

Students should bring a pencil and eraser for the multiple choice, and a blue or black pen for the written section. Students are required to stay for a minimum of 1 hr, and will not be permitted entry to the exam if they are more than 30 minutes late. The exam is designed to be completed in 2 hours but all students have up to 3 hours to complete the exam without penalty. Only students who receive extra time as an adaptation are permitted to work beyond the 3 hrs. Please tell students that exams will be laid out alphabetically. Once they enter the exam room they must be silent. NO electronics, no hats, nothing on the desk besides pen/pencil, water bottle (no pencil cases on desks). Bags must be at the front of the room, or better yet in their locker.

Students should be advised to create an account at: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/k-12/support/transcripts-and-certificates

Eng. 11 - Jan. 18

Complete questions for "My Papa's Waltz," "My Father Knew," "The Man Who Finds his Son has Become a Thief" and "The Attitude" - We will discuss on Friday and Monday (*** important before the exam)

Make sure you understand all poetic devices in handout (synecdoche and metonymy not included)

Eng. 9 - Jan. 18

Make sure you have given examples of the literary devices in the 6 poems and understood the overall meaning. For extra studying, be familiar with every poetic term and all the poems in the package.

Eng. 10

Make sure all four sheets in your punctuation package are completed.

Complete questions for "Chronology" - poem on p. 4, questions #1-5 on page 18

Eng. 9 - Jan. 17 - Poetry Questions

Complete the first three for Thursday 18; the second three for Friday 19



"Negro Mother" - Nicole, Devin, Claire, Zack
"Democracy" - Arielle, Inez, Marcus, Ian
"Bell Ringing" - Ephron, Anjali, Hudson, Hannah
"Funeral Blues" - Katherine, Shane, Coel, Faith
"Bored" - Orran, Taylor, Mollie, Curtis
"Killer" - Evan, Owen, David, Megan, Charles


Identify Literary Devices

"Negro Mother"

1. Explain the following quote: "Now, through my children, young and free, I realize the blessings denied to me."
2. Where do you think the mother comes from?
3. What is the message of this poem?
- Speaker - not the "poet"
- Composite
- Tone/mood - sad, hardships, becomes more hopeful "out of the darkness… banner out of the dust" - anthem
- Rhyme - rhyming couplets (rhyme scheme - aabbccddee..)
- Rhythm, meter
- Simile - "dark as the night," "like steel in my soul"
- Metaphor - "make of those years a torch for tomorrow/ Make of my past a road to the light"
- Alliteration - "torch for tomorrow," "strong in struggle and strife"
- Hyperbole (an exaggeration) - "sometimes the valley was filled with tears"

- Torch = light and hope
- Light = hope
- Road = experiences
- Figurative language, imagery


"Democracy"

1. What is the tone of this poem?
2. What is the message of this poem?







"I Still Hear the Bell Ringing"

1. Why do you think that's the only advice the speaker remembers.
2. What is the speaker looking for?
3. What is the tone of the poem?
4. What gender is the speaker? How do you know?

"Funeral Blues"

1. Whose point of view is the poem from? How do you know?
2. What is this poem about?
3. What do you think the speaker is thinking or feeling when writing this?
4. Who has died and what is the relationship with the speaker?

"Bored"

1. What literary devices are used in this poem?
2. What do you think is the inspiration for this poem?
3. What is the deeper meaning behind "Bored"?

"Killer"

1. What does the wasp symbolize?
2. How does the wasp die?
3. What kind of emotion is portrayed in this poem?

Studying for Finals - Eng. 9-11

You will be reading a poem and a short story and responding to multiple choice questions. There will be a composition - for grade nines and tens it could refer to the literature we have studied or a personal composition. For Eng. 11 you will respond to the literature in the test. There will also be grammar. To review: study your WRITING IMPROVEMENTS along with class feedback for your writing. Study your literary devices for short stories and poetry. Also, all of your short story notes. A good way to prepare is to read extra poems - grade nines and elevens - read your whole poetry package. For English Ten - read other poems in your text.

Lit. 12 - Jan.11

Make sure you have your two peer editing sheets (from peer editor) stapled to your PERSONAL ESSAY GOOD COPY: Due Fri. 11
Have all three poems - paragraphs and MC completed for Monday, Jan. 15

Tues 16: "Dulce et Decorum Est" - all 6 steps (literary devices and author notes)
Wed. 17: "The Second Coming" - ditto
Thurs. 18: "The Hollow Men"

Mon. 22: Essays back *
Wed. 24: "Do Not Go Gentle into This Good Night"

Lit 12 - Jan. 10

Topic #3: It is Important to Learn from the Past
Poem #3: "Digging"


MAKE SURE YOU BRING THREE ESSAYS TO PEER EDITING

Eng. 11 - Jan. 9 - Power, Betrayal, Greed

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."



Power
Physical power or psychological power
-at beginning not power thirsty: "if chance will have me chance, why chance can crown me king without my stir" (I iii)
- Loses his humanity: "I have forgot the taste of fear" (V v 9)
- Loses his love - he forgets the Lady - she has to look for him - he doesn't tell her about her plan to kill Banquo
- V v 28 "Life's but a walking shadow…"
- Realizes he is his own villain
- The more power he got - the more corrupt he became ("power corrupts…absolute power corrupts absolutely" -
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
- The Thane is introduced as physically strong - "he unseamed him from nave to chaps" I ii (Sergeant says this)
- Power itself can influence what we want - the Thane trusted Banquo ("if you shall cleave to my consent" II i 25)
- Lady's power - she has power to manipulate the Thane - she thinks she'll have more power as queen - she ends up feeling guilty, having no companionship and killing herself
- Power of persuasion - look at I vii - she asks if the Thane is a man: "when you durst do it, then you were a man" (I vii 49)
- He feels he would be cowardly to not act - she emphasizes this
- Believing witches? -
- Who has the real power in this play?
- What is the nature of power?
- Even if witches were truthful, good things did not come from it.

Betrayal
-remember you're giving insights (not just examples)
-play starts off with betrayal: Macdonwald (old Thane of Cawdor) betrayed Scotland by telling Norway its secrets
-betraying Scotland, heart, religion - killing Duncan
-is Macduff a traitor?
-Thane does not want to betray Duncan "our duties are to your throne" (I iv 22)
-Is Lady loyal to the Thane throughout?
-why does Thane betray his belief system?
-do we have priorities when it comes to loyalty
- Thane was trying to stay as loyal to Duncan as possible I vii "he hath honoured my of late, we will proceed no further in this business"
- Thane betrays himself - he is the General in the king's army
- Witches betray Hecate - not supposed to "trade and traffic with Macbeth" (III v 4,5)
- Thane killing Banquo (army buddy) - jealousy, also doesn't want to be found out
- Becomes paranoid after killing Duncan
- Thane is loyal to witches throughout "Thou wast born of woman" - says when kills young Siward- until end- V viii "these fiends that lie like the truth"
- Macduff takes responsibility for his betrayal of his family "sinful Macduff, they were all struck for thee" (IV iii 223, 224)
- Army walks away from the Thane: "now does he feel his title hang loose about him like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief" (V ii 20-22)
- Lady calls on spirits (I v) to "unsex her" - betrayal to original person - we see in II ii when she says "had he not resembled my father as he slept, I'd have done it" - does this mean she couldn't go through with betraying her true self?
- I v - Lady: "Great thane Glamis and Cawdor and both, thou shalt be what thou are promised"
- She convinces her husband to murder - he is loyal to her at this point - she makes him be disloyal to himself, later when he kills Banquo and Macduff's family he does not tell her = disloyal
- Killing herself - disloyal to the Thane
- Title of Cawdor - betrayer
- Is Macduff loyal or traitorous? (the king is called "Scotland" - he betrays a king, but why? He betrays his family and realizes it in IV iii) - his wife thinks he's a traitor - she knows he's gone to England, but he's trying to save Scotland from a tyrant.

TYRANTS OF HISTORY:

Greed
- Corrupts the Thane - blinds him to have any rational thoughts
- Makes him extreme - murdering his friends and innocent people
- Starts by murdering king
- He already had money, property, titles power - wanted more
- Tries to kill Banquo's son to prevent him from becoming king in the future
- Puts his subjects and country at risk
- I iii - witch 76 "stay you imperfect speaker's tell me more…" - he says he does not yearn to be king - he does not have greed at this point - but when he becomes Thane of Cawdor and the first prophecy comes true, suddenly he changes his mind
- "the instruments of darkness tell us truths" - Banquo says this - but he doesn't put much faith into what the witches say
- I iii "I am Thane of Cawdor, if good why do I yield to that suggestion/ Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair" (I iii 134) - he already has thoughts about murdering Duncan
- He was satisfied with being Thane of Glamis - when he becomes Thane of Cawdor -
- I iv "stars hide your fires, let not light see my deep and dark desires" - he wants to hide his desires - greed and power are related
- Wants his intentions kept secret
- When Malcolm is crowned Prince of Cumberland he says "that is a step/On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap" (I iv 48)
- Later he becomes delusional about his power - when the servant tells him there's an army outside his window
What is the difference between greed and ambition? - greed could have malice and treachery
-when Thane gains title of Cawdor - he does this in an acceptable way - sanctioned by king - protecting Scotland from Norway
- Lady the reason the Thane becomes greedy? (What about before I v?)
- Lady represents greed - forces her husband to commit murder
- What does greed do for people? Is it inherently good or bad?
- Personal responsibility - is it greed, Lady, witches?
- *important that Thane has these thoughts before Lady talks to him - what about before the witches talk to him
- What do the witches represent in the modern day world?
- Greed causes his paranoia, regret (V iii 22"My way of life/Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;/And that which should accompany old age…")

Eng. 10 - Jan. 9 - R and J Test

5 marks recognize literary devices
5 marks Shakespearean words
10 marks plot and character questions
20 marks recognize important quotes and explain the significance
10 marks paragraph answers

How to study: make sure you understand the literary/dramatic device sheet and can think of examples.
Make sure go over your questions and know which characters do what and the plot outline.
Pick out major quotes and quiz your friend as to the circumstance/speaker and significance.

Lit 12 - Jan. 9

Topic #2 - "Dreams Take Us on Journeys
Poem # 2 - "Channel Firing" - make sure to write a decent paragraph (mini-essay)

Eng. 11 - Jan. 8

FISHBOWL: Tues. 9
IN-CLASS ESSAY: Wed. 10

Eng. 10 - Jan. 8

ESSAY: Wed. Jan. 10
TEST: Thurs. Jan. 11

Lit 12 - Jan. 8

Topic # 1: "Simple Gifts are the Best"

Poem: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"