Thursday, 3/28 - Let us Bunbury this day

The effects of Bunburying? . . . romance and . . . responsibility.

• P&P

• Time for Bunburying! Continue Wilde . . .

HW: 

1. We will finish Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest  when we return. Try to be up to date with your quotes and vocab words so you're not overwhelmed when you return. Everything will probably be due Tuesday or Wednesday after Easter Vacation. He is risen! He is risen indeed!   

Wednesday, 3/27 - "It's awfully hard work doing nothing"

"Algy" (left) and Jack, discussing how to be Earnest

• P&P

• Let us lounge around and  languish in the wonderfully meaningful nothingness that is this Wilde comedy.

HW: In addition to the quotes, students should also select, define, and use (in a complete sentence) five new vocab words from each act, for a total of fifteen. Both assignments (quotes and vocab) will be due the day of return from Easter Break.

Block, 3/21-22 - P&P ICE

• P&P 

• If you have not yet taken the P&P exam, you must see me asap.

• ICE requirements - your five paragraph ICE must consist of the following:
• introduction
• a hook of some sort
• underlined title of Austen's novel
• underlined thesis
• underlined preview of your main points
• Three body paragraphs - for each paragraph you must have . . .
• an underlined topic sentence
• three supporting details from the text
• with one of those supporting details being a properly integrated quote with correct MLA formatting
• commentary on the supporting details
• concluding sentence that ties the back into the TS (topic sentence)
• Conclusion 
• restatement of the thesis
• tell us what's so important about your thesis 

HW: take a break

Wednesday, 3/20 - Riting a payper that is gud & stuf

• P&P

• Today we will read a number of examples of pretty darn good THICEs. Although each one has a weakness or two, they are all very well-written. Let's read them in order from 1-3 and discuss each one's strengths and weaknesses. At the end, we will vote on the best. The winner gets an all expenses paid vacation home today! 

HW:  

1. If you have a hard copy (paper) of P&P, may I borrow it?
2. Read P&P if you have not yet. Based on the exam scores, I'd venture to say a good majority either did not read or did not comprehend. Some of you have been doing a fine job though! Be ready for a day of writing on block day. 

Sample Essay - Don John and Satan (3)

John Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing contain two characters that are satanically similar - Satan and Don John respectively.

Throughout Shakespeare's drama and Milton's epic, each fights to defeat their own

doubts and drawbacks. During this process, they desire to corrupt humankind and bring

all of those around them down to their perilous level. Being illegitimate heirs to a

throne, Don John and Satan both exhibit similar motives, words, and attitudes as they

austerely hate anyone who is joyful and desire to bring revenge upon the world around

them.

Sample Essay - Don John and Satan (2)

The idea of evil is a recurring motif in literature. Nearly every antagonist is depicted as evil in some way, albeit to varying degrees. However, it is rare to find a character that is pure evil, who does bad things for the sake of doing bad things. The characters of Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost and Don John is Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing are very interesting characters to examine because they both depict the face of evil in its purest form. Looking at the attitudes, motives, and actions of these characters exemplifies how fundamentally similar they are, and thus offers valuable insights into the nature of evil itself.

Sample Essay - Don John and Satan (1)

To be a servant in Heaven or a ruler in Hell? That is the question. In Milton's
Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Satan and Don Jon share
many perverted, and inverted ideas about submitting to higher-power. These two
characters practically mirror each other in their attempts to overthrow higher power, their
wills to suffer and rule, and their plots to convert good to evil.

Tuesday, 3/19 - Wheat and chaff

• P&P

• Exam - P&P

• When finished, please remain quiet and study your Hopkins poem.

HW:  

1. Remember that you have senior class picture tomorrow in the stadium. HERE is a note from Mrs. B.
2.  If you have not yet read P&P, then I suggest you do since we will be doing an ICE on it this block day. 

Monday, 3/18 - Everbody get ready!

• P&P

• Check P&P quotes and commentary and discuss

• Talk about P&P test tomorrow

HW: Prepare for your P&P examination. How?  

• The exam will be multiple choice and will include some passage based interpretation questions. 

• Review all your characters
• identities, motives, relationships, quotes, superhero outfit

• Consider the P&P Nails
• Irony, free indirect discourse (speech), themes, etc.

 

Block, 3/14-15 - Pay-Per-View: Lizzy vs Lady C de B

• P&P

• Discuss quotes from Chapters 53-54 (3.11-12)

• Continue reading in class

HW: finish reading the novel over the weekend!  

1. Do a quote and commentary for each remaining chapter (55-61 or 3. 13-19).
2. Be ready for a P&P test on Tuesday and an ICE sometime soon. 

Wednesday, 3/13 - Things is gettin' spicy

• P&P

• Check quotes for P&P chapters 51-52 (3.9-10), Discuss and continue reading.

HW: 

1. Read Chapters 53-54 (or 3.11-12).
2. Select your favorite quote from each chapter and explain why it's delectable. 
1.  Be ready to discuss the quotes' contexts and any questions I might fire your way. Please do not merely select a quote without reading and/or understanding. Also, please do not copy to get credit. I reserve the right to reserve credit if you have no idea what's going on.
2. Enjoy your reading.
3. If you don't enjoy the reading, at least fake it ; ) 

Senior Class Photo note from Mrs. B

Seniors:  Plan now to be here for the senior photo on the field next Wednesday the 20^th.  You will go directly to the field instead of to the ASB speeches.  We will see you down on the field for the class photos and the “Together since 6^th” photo.  Please pass the word to all of your friends.

Tuesday, 3/12 - Extended Chapel Schedule

• P&P

• Today we have Greg Speck with us again for chapel. HERE is a link to the extended chapel schedule for your navigation.

• Let's discuss P&P and have you do a little response to a question or two to see how conversant you are with our text ; ) 

 HW: 

1. Read two chapters 51-52 or Bk 3, Chapters 9-10
2. For each chapter, write down your favorite quote and explain what you love about it. 

Monday, 3/11 - Reading, grading

• P&P

• Today you read P&P while we finalize grades 
• You should be starting Book 3 Chapter 7 (or Chapter 49) today

HW: Read two chapters (Bk 3 Chapters 7-8 or Chapters 49-50)

Thursday, 3/7 - To Pemberly and beyond!

• P&P

• Check HW

• Continue reading P&P from Book 3 (or Chapter 43).

HW: read through Chapter 48 in P&P or (Book 3 Chapter 6)  

Schwager's Journal 11

Somehow...I hadn't assigned this to my lucky seniors. 

Your journal 11 will be in response to today's reading: "The Victorian Period."  After you read the assignment and take notes, respond to the  following prompt.

* The Victorians, and every generation since, have been simultaneously blessed and cursed by industrialization.  We work to minimize the negative consequences of our mechanical conveniences and shortcuts.  London no longer suffers under the black skies of its factory smokestacks.  Los Angeles today has cleaner air than it did in the past.  Modern crop spraying techniques keeps sprayed chemicals closer to the area intended.  But all is not well.  Where do you think your generation should concentrate its energy, money, and other resources to make our environment healthier for your children and grandchildren?

- Length 1/2 to 1 page.
- Due date: Tomorrow (at binder check)

Wednesday, 3/6 - The Victorian Period

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

• P&P (new poem - Hopkins' "God's Grandeur")

• Read Intro to the Victorian Period and take notes in your binder

HW: Victorian notes 

Tuesday, 3/5 - Romanticism Quiz

• P&P
• Take the quiz
• When you finish, begin reading Intro to the Victorian Era

HW: None

MLA Formatting Video

Click HERE to watch how I want you to format your essays.

Monday, 3/4 - The End of Romanticism

• P&P

• Poetry recitation

• Prepare for quiz
• Remember several things concerning the Romantics and what fascinated them: 
• The sublime - terrifying beauty
• Romantic orientalism - the mysteriousness of the east
• Ancient ruins - man's fleeting grandeur surpassed by Nature's permanence
• The subjective, inner life of the poet
• Mortality, mystery, supernaturalism 

HW: 

1. Binder check  (Whenever I collect it)
2. Romanticism Quiz (Tues)
1. P&P
2. Romantic Era
3. Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats
4. Bedford - 34, 36, 8
5. Lit terms - see blog
6. Vocab - see blog
7. Usage - see blog