Friday, December 20, 2019
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Eng. 9 - Dec. 18
Complete all questions for IV and V
AMSND Test: Wed. Jan. 8
AMSND Project: Thurs. Jan. 9
Final Exam: Tues. Jan. 21 - 12:50-2:55
AMSND Test: Wed. Jan. 8
AMSND Project: Thurs. Jan. 9
Final Exam: Tues. Jan. 21 - 12:50-2:55
Eng. 12 - Dec. 18
Read and take notes on the following poems:
"Rewind"
2."Mending Wall"
3."When You Are Old"
4."Kindly Unhitch That Star"
5."Crowed Over"
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2] 1."Love: A Study in Black and White"
2. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
3. "Bored"
4. "The Snowman"
5. "Sad Daughter"
3. Write 2 questions and answer them.
4. Write 2 quotes and analyze them.
5. Use your poetic devices sheet to try to identify as many different examples of devices as you can. Quote the examples and explain their use. Try to find an example for all the devices that are more challenging such as litote, metonymy, synecdoche…
6. Comment on what you like and do not like about the poems.
7. What is the overall meaning/impression of the poem?
Personal Essay Due: Friday, Jan. 10
Final Exam: Mon, Jan. 20 - 8:30-10:25 *
"Rewind"
2."Mending Wall"
3."When You Are Old"
4."Kindly Unhitch That Star"
5."Crowed Over"
________________________________________________________
2] 1."Love: A Study in Black and White"
2. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
3. "Bored"
4. "The Snowman"
5. "Sad Daughter"
3. Write 2 questions and answer them.
4. Write 2 quotes and analyze them.
5. Use your poetic devices sheet to try to identify as many different examples of devices as you can. Quote the examples and explain their use. Try to find an example for all the devices that are more challenging such as litote, metonymy, synecdoche…
6. Comment on what you like and do not like about the poems.
7. What is the overall meaning/impression of the poem?
Personal Essay Due: Friday, Jan. 10
Final Exam: Mon, Jan. 20 - 8:30-10:25 *
Character Notes #2 - Dec. 18
Caroline -
Adjectives: jealous, spiteful, envious, supercilious, vain, privileged, conceited, intimidated/intimidating, vigilant??
Sins: envy, greed, anger, lust, pride
Virtues: NONE, maybe love for Darcy but for bad reasons
Purpose: she represents upper class, foil for elizabeth, conflict towards elizabeth and darcy relationship
Quotes: "Convinced as Elizabeth now was, that Miss Bingley's dislike for her had orginated in jealousy, she could not help feeling how very unwelcome her appearance at Pemberly must be to her"
"How very ill Eliza Bennet looks this morning, Mr. Darcy," she cried; "I never in my life saW ANY ONE SO MUCH ALTERED AS SHE IS SINCE the winter. She is grown so brown and coarse! Louis and I were agreeing that we should not have known her again" pg.257
Mary-
Adjectives:plain, impertenent, self confident, useless, inappropriate, disagreeable
Sins:pride
Virtues: temperance
Purpose: opposite of a ideal woman of the time, comic relief
Quotes:''Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how"(7)
"she seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all"(21)
Lady Catherine
Adjectives: nosey, entitled, rude, old-fashioned, demanding, critical self-righteous
Sins: pride
Virtues: charity
Purpose: demonstrate the societal expectations and norms at the time and her character is used to explore themes of gender roles, class and societal norms - pinnacle of society - enforcing the rules, leadership- inverse relationship between rank and "class"/character
Quotes: "I would've been a great proficient if only if I had learned." "She likes to distinction of rank preserved." "I suppose you had no opportunity, your mother should've taken you into town every spring for the benefit of masters."
Collins
Adjectives: absurd, ignorant, careless, rude, unkind
Sins: pride
Virtues: prudent
Purpose: To be a foil to Darcy and to show how powerful men are in this society. Also comic relief.
Quotes: "Mr. Collins was not sensible man and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society." (66)
"The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this." (282)
Darcy
Adjectives: pride, wealthy, handsome, rude, misjudged, stoic, gentleman, fair, suspicious, taciturn, introverted, imperious, "above being pleased," stand-offish, witty, fastidious, haughty Sins: pride,
Virtues: charity, temperance, prudence, love, fortitude
Purpose: Represents pride personified, male lead attracts female readers, shows Elizabeth how she is blinded by pride and prejudice.
Exposes theme of importance of wealth, status, and society's expectations.
"She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me." (11)
"Yes vanity is a weakness indeed; but pride - where there is a real superiority of mind,
Pride will be always under good regulations." (54)
"Yes but that was only when I first knew her, for it has been months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance." (258)
Adjectives: jealous, spiteful, envious, supercilious, vain, privileged, conceited, intimidated/intimidating, vigilant??
Sins: envy, greed, anger, lust, pride
Virtues: NONE, maybe love for Darcy but for bad reasons
Purpose: she represents upper class, foil for elizabeth, conflict towards elizabeth and darcy relationship
Quotes: "Convinced as Elizabeth now was, that Miss Bingley's dislike for her had orginated in jealousy, she could not help feeling how very unwelcome her appearance at Pemberly must be to her"
"How very ill Eliza Bennet looks this morning, Mr. Darcy," she cried; "I never in my life saW ANY ONE SO MUCH ALTERED AS SHE IS SINCE the winter. She is grown so brown and coarse! Louis and I were agreeing that we should not have known her again" pg.257
Mary-
Adjectives:plain, impertenent, self confident, useless, inappropriate, disagreeable
Sins:pride
Virtues: temperance
Purpose: opposite of a ideal woman of the time, comic relief
Quotes:''Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how"(7)
"she seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all"(21)
Lady Catherine
Adjectives: nosey, entitled, rude, old-fashioned, demanding, critical self-righteous
Sins: pride
Virtues: charity
Purpose: demonstrate the societal expectations and norms at the time and her character is used to explore themes of gender roles, class and societal norms - pinnacle of society - enforcing the rules, leadership- inverse relationship between rank and "class"/character
Quotes: "I would've been a great proficient if only if I had learned." "She likes to distinction of rank preserved." "I suppose you had no opportunity, your mother should've taken you into town every spring for the benefit of masters."
Collins
Adjectives: absurd, ignorant, careless, rude, unkind
Sins: pride
Virtues: prudent
Purpose: To be a foil to Darcy and to show how powerful men are in this society. Also comic relief.
Quotes: "Mr. Collins was not sensible man and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society." (66)
"The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this." (282)
Darcy
Adjectives: pride, wealthy, handsome, rude, misjudged, stoic, gentleman, fair, suspicious, taciturn, introverted, imperious, "above being pleased," stand-offish, witty, fastidious, haughty Sins: pride,
Virtues: charity, temperance, prudence, love, fortitude
Purpose: Represents pride personified, male lead attracts female readers, shows Elizabeth how she is blinded by pride and prejudice.
Exposes theme of importance of wealth, status, and society's expectations.
"She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me." (11)
"Yes vanity is a weakness indeed; but pride - where there is a real superiority of mind,
Pride will be always under good regulations." (54)
"Yes but that was only when I first knew her, for it has been months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance." (258)
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Eng. 11 - Dec. 17
Complete all V questions for Wed. Dec. 18 - final discussion day!
SCENES: Thursday, Dec. 19
Movie: Mon/Tues, Jan.6, 7
Fishbowl: Wed. Jan. 8
In-Class Essay: Thurs. Jan. 9
MacTest: Fri. Jan. 10
FINAL EXAM: Wed. Jan. 22 - 12:50-2:55
SCENES: Thursday, Dec. 19
Movie: Mon/Tues, Jan.6, 7
Fishbowl: Wed. Jan. 8
In-Class Essay: Thurs. Jan. 9
MacTest: Fri. Jan. 10
FINAL EXAM: Wed. Jan. 22 - 12:50-2:55
Eng. 12 - Dec. 17
Read your entire Poetry Package. Rank the poems 1 - 10 (1 being your favourite)
PERSONAL ESSAY: Jan. 10
FINAL EXAM - Jan. 20 - 8:30 am rm. D205
PERSONAL ESSAY: Jan. 10
FINAL EXAM - Jan. 20 - 8:30 am rm. D205
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Eng. 11 - Dec. 12
Complete IV questions for Mon. 16
Acting: Tues.
SCENES: Thursday, Dec. 19
Movie: Mon/Tues, Jan.6, 7
Fishbowl: Wed. Jan. 8
In-Class Essay: Thurs. Jan. 9
MacTest: Fri. Jan. 10
Acting: Tues.
SCENES: Thursday, Dec. 19
Movie: Mon/Tues, Jan.6, 7
Fishbowl: Wed. Jan. 8
In-Class Essay: Thurs. Jan. 9
MacTest: Fri. Jan. 10
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Manipulation, Jealousy, Prejudice in Othello
Bring a sheet with quotes - include Act, scene, line #
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 Othello shows us about human nature and the topic of the essay. Narrow your topic. Don't just give examples of existence of the topics. Feel free to look up famous quotes from secondary sources (but credit the source).
Writing Improvements, class notes
Manipulation
Iago: Now I will question Bianca… strumpet… beguile (IV i)
- Emilia is manipulative but doesn't really act upon it - men chew us up and belch us out (she acts on this in V, but she is killed - she faces her death when Desdemona dies
- She knows about the handkerchief in progressive degrees - she knows Iago has wanted it for a long time
"Virtue a fig" - he talks about manipulating his own mind - but he does plant seeds in other people's heads
-"gasses" people up (Roderigo)
-knows people's insecurities and plays on them
-eg when Othello says "I am rude of speech" and "I am black" "into the vale of years"
-plays on people's prejudice: "a black ram is tupping your white ewe"
-Iago does switch register when he's talking to different people - very rough with Roderigo
-terrible to Emilia (check how he treats her in front of others)
-knows Cassio can't handle his alcohol - so pressures him to drink - then sets it up so Roderigo fights him
-would Iago be able to get away with this today? - Lucas says people just need to communicate - for example, Iago is not honest
-Othello could have talked to Desdemona [but PRIDE is in the way!]
-people CAN be manipulated because of EGO and SELF DOUBT
-"the handkerchief" seems incontrovertible
- Most people don't directly confront people so openly (like on a sit-com)
- [social media often obfuscates issues]
- [interesting that Othello is seen as a hero by the Duke and other people with status - but he has so much self doubt]
- People generally do lead people astray to get what they want
- Desdemona tries to manipulate Othello in order to reinstate Cassio (or is this just influencing or giving a favour)
- Intent is important (not for the common good - think about Macbeth - kills for himself vs. Macduff leaves his family to save Scotland) - compare Iago to Macbeth and Macduff
- Did Iago intend for everyone to die?
- Happy when Othello says "I'll tear her to pieces"
- I iii 18-46 "The Turkish preparation.." - Parallelism - mislead people in order to gain
Prejudice
- What is Shakespeare's motive/significance of using racial prejudice - what if Othello were white - there would not be as much of an issue with Brabantio - he wouldn't be the "other," he wouldn't have the self doubt - perhaps Desdemona would not have deceived him if he were white
- Would be harder for Iago to manipulate Othello or Brabantio (look at all the animalistic words - barbary horse, "beast with two backs,")
- Brabantio used to have Othello in his house (however, it's different when it's your daughter - he would have wanted to choose a husband)
- Feminism - how is it different today? What do we see that is the same or different?
- Do we still see men controlling their wives?
- (I i 88-89) - calling Othello a "black ram" - very visual (size difference + verb)
- Black and white; dark and light - Desdemona is seen as virginal, light, pure - Othello has "ruined her" - someone says she risked so much to be with him
- Emilia says "if wives do fall" - it's the husband's fault - this is sexist for more than one reason - she's being spiteful because she's bitter about Iago - this is also why it's such an insult to be "cuckholded" - men have all the power, so if a weak woman cheats - it makes the man look doubly weak
- More status = more structure - more rules; but look at the hierarchy between the women: Bianca, Emilia, Desdemona (also a form of prejudice)
- (could compare Cassio to Othello - Cassio wide-eyed)
- Emilia doesn't defend herself when Iago treats her poorly - compare with Desdemona - defends herself against her father
Jealousy
- Other than Othello and Iago - who else? Roderigo was more and more jealous of Othello's relationship with Desdemona
- Brabantio is jealous that Desdemona wants to be with Othello (she's moving on, but also didn't consult him) - my daughter is leaving me - more covert jealousy
- Iago's jealousy (again - ironic, given that he warns Othello about the "green eyed monster" and also that he thinks he can tend his own "garden" - "Virtue? A fig!"
- (III iv) - jealousy is borne of itself - eats of itself
- Is every person jealous? Do we learn jealousy from people around us? Can jealousy ever be an agent of good? How can we turn jealousy into a positive force?
- Iago could have admired Cassio, but instead he tries to take him down
- Can move jealousy to motivation - but this doesn't happen in this play - interesting that Shakespeare doesn't show this for contrast (he contrasts Macbeth with Macduff; also Lady Macbeth with Lady Macduff)
- Will jealousy ever disappear?
- (thinks about how Brave New World deals with the emotion of jealousy - even in that world it still existed - Lenina wants John the Savage for herself; Bernard is jealous of all the other alphas)
- Iago is motivated by low self esteem - he cannot grasp why Cassio was promoted above him (but look at the rough way he speaks in front of superiors)
- Iago DOES make plans, whereas Othello acts in the moment
- (does everyone know Brabantio dies? - Othello, Desdemona, Emilia)
- Is Othello weak? Is Iago mentally strong? (wouldn't he be able to overcome his own jealousy)
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 Othello shows us about human nature and the topic of the essay. Narrow your topic. Don't just give examples of existence of the topics. Feel free to look up famous quotes from secondary sources (but credit the source).
Writing Improvements, class notes
Manipulation
Iago: Now I will question Bianca… strumpet… beguile (IV i)
- Emilia is manipulative but doesn't really act upon it - men chew us up and belch us out (she acts on this in V, but she is killed - she faces her death when Desdemona dies
- She knows about the handkerchief in progressive degrees - she knows Iago has wanted it for a long time
"Virtue a fig" - he talks about manipulating his own mind - but he does plant seeds in other people's heads
-"gasses" people up (Roderigo)
-knows people's insecurities and plays on them
-eg when Othello says "I am rude of speech" and "I am black" "into the vale of years"
-plays on people's prejudice: "a black ram is tupping your white ewe"
-Iago does switch register when he's talking to different people - very rough with Roderigo
-terrible to Emilia (check how he treats her in front of others)
-knows Cassio can't handle his alcohol - so pressures him to drink - then sets it up so Roderigo fights him
-would Iago be able to get away with this today? - Lucas says people just need to communicate - for example, Iago is not honest
-Othello could have talked to Desdemona [but PRIDE is in the way!]
-people CAN be manipulated because of EGO and SELF DOUBT
-"the handkerchief" seems incontrovertible
- Most people don't directly confront people so openly (like on a sit-com)
- [social media often obfuscates issues]
- [interesting that Othello is seen as a hero by the Duke and other people with status - but he has so much self doubt]
- People generally do lead people astray to get what they want
- Desdemona tries to manipulate Othello in order to reinstate Cassio (or is this just influencing or giving a favour)
- Intent is important (not for the common good - think about Macbeth - kills for himself vs. Macduff leaves his family to save Scotland) - compare Iago to Macbeth and Macduff
- Did Iago intend for everyone to die?
- Happy when Othello says "I'll tear her to pieces"
- I iii 18-46 "The Turkish preparation.." - Parallelism - mislead people in order to gain
Prejudice
- What is Shakespeare's motive/significance of using racial prejudice - what if Othello were white - there would not be as much of an issue with Brabantio - he wouldn't be the "other," he wouldn't have the self doubt - perhaps Desdemona would not have deceived him if he were white
- Would be harder for Iago to manipulate Othello or Brabantio (look at all the animalistic words - barbary horse, "beast with two backs,")
- Brabantio used to have Othello in his house (however, it's different when it's your daughter - he would have wanted to choose a husband)
- Feminism - how is it different today? What do we see that is the same or different?
- Do we still see men controlling their wives?
- (I i 88-89) - calling Othello a "black ram" - very visual (size difference + verb)
- Black and white; dark and light - Desdemona is seen as virginal, light, pure - Othello has "ruined her" - someone says she risked so much to be with him
- Emilia says "if wives do fall" - it's the husband's fault - this is sexist for more than one reason - she's being spiteful because she's bitter about Iago - this is also why it's such an insult to be "cuckholded" - men have all the power, so if a weak woman cheats - it makes the man look doubly weak
- More status = more structure - more rules; but look at the hierarchy between the women: Bianca, Emilia, Desdemona (also a form of prejudice)
- (could compare Cassio to Othello - Cassio wide-eyed)
- Emilia doesn't defend herself when Iago treats her poorly - compare with Desdemona - defends herself against her father
Jealousy
- Other than Othello and Iago - who else? Roderigo was more and more jealous of Othello's relationship with Desdemona
- Brabantio is jealous that Desdemona wants to be with Othello (she's moving on, but also didn't consult him) - my daughter is leaving me - more covert jealousy
- Iago's jealousy (again - ironic, given that he warns Othello about the "green eyed monster" and also that he thinks he can tend his own "garden" - "Virtue? A fig!"
- (III iv) - jealousy is borne of itself - eats of itself
- Is every person jealous? Do we learn jealousy from people around us? Can jealousy ever be an agent of good? How can we turn jealousy into a positive force?
- Iago could have admired Cassio, but instead he tries to take him down
- Can move jealousy to motivation - but this doesn't happen in this play - interesting that Shakespeare doesn't show this for contrast (he contrasts Macbeth with Macduff; also Lady Macbeth with Lady Macduff)
- Will jealousy ever disappear?
- (thinks about how Brave New World deals with the emotion of jealousy - even in that world it still existed - Lenina wants John the Savage for herself; Bernard is jealous of all the other alphas)
- Iago is motivated by low self esteem - he cannot grasp why Cassio was promoted above him (but look at the rough way he speaks in front of superiors)
- Iago DOES make plans, whereas Othello acts in the moment
- (does everyone know Brabantio dies? - Othello, Desdemona, Emilia)
- Is Othello weak? Is Iago mentally strong? (wouldn't he be able to overcome his own jealousy)
Friday, December 6, 2019
Eng. 11 - Dec. 11
Complete questions for all of III!
Group Day: Thursday, Dec.12
SCENES: Thursday, Dec. 19
Movie: Mon/Tues, Jan.6, 7
Fishbowl: Wed. Jan. 8
In-Class Essay: Thurs. Jan. 9
MacTest: Fri. Jan. 10
Group Day: Thursday, Dec.12
SCENES: Thursday, Dec. 19
Movie: Mon/Tues, Jan.6, 7
Fishbowl: Wed. Jan. 8
In-Class Essay: Thurs. Jan. 9
MacTest: Fri. Jan. 10
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Eng. 9 - Dec. 5
Complete all of II questions
Vocab - 35 (hint: AMSND has many modern words you may not already know!)
Vocab - 35 (hint: AMSND has many modern words you may not already know!)
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Eng. 11 - Dec. 4
Complete all of I questions for The Scottish Play for Thurs. Dec. 5
We will be acting on Dec. 6 - read over your parts.
We will be acting on Dec. 6 - read over your parts.
Monday, December 2, 2019
Eng. 11 - Dec. 2
Make sure your opening Scottish Play questions are completed
Complete Editing Checklist, Writing Improvements and Editing Sentences
Complete Editing Checklist, Writing Improvements and Editing Sentences
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