Tuesday, 4/30 - Fiddling while Rome burns?

• P&P

• While I check your J13, please take a minute and complete this survey concerning your commencement exercises. When you finish, please make sure your Nails, Lit Terms, Vocab, and Usage are all updated. If they are, please work on your resume or Hopkins poem.

• Discuss J13

• Over the next two days we will be reading the stories below. Please feel free to take notes, jot down questions, record ideas, and ask yourself, "How is this story 'modern'?"

The Battle of London's aftermath

• The Little Rascals, The Sandlot, you know the gangs you tried to start or joined when you were a kid . . . last year. Well, get ready for something (a gang) that's motivated by nothing (we'll explain later) by reading Graham Greene's (bio) "The Destructors" 

• "Should I stay or should I go?" Though England's punk band sent these sounds over the radio several decades ago, James Joyce's Evelin was asking the question long before. See what she ends up choosing as you read "Eveline" by James Joyce (bio)

• Ah, a fairy tale unlike any you've read before . . . unless you've read some of the original Brothers Grimm. Consider the moral of "Once upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer (bio)

 HW:  

1. CWP Q4 - Resume (block) 
1. Please turn in a hard copy on the due date and also submit a soft copy to turnitin.com 

Monday, 4/29 - That's "Paw," not "Pa"

A scary story by W. W. Jacobs

• P&P

• Today is an extended chapel schedule due to the academic awards ceremony, which means slightly shortened periods. Since you have a rather extended journal due tomorrow and your CWP Q4 Resume due this coming block, work on J13 on your own in class . . . quietly . . . unless you must scream. Enjoy!

HW: 

Academic Awards Schedule

1. J13 - Pair-o-normal stories (Tues)
2. CWP Q4 (Block) - Resume   

 

Block, 4-24, 25 - Pair-o-normal Stories . . . and a Third

• P&P

• Oh yah! Let's read some funky-fresh short stories today and then wash 'em down with a journal



D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

• "The Open Window" - H. H. "Saki" Munro (1870-1916), from his book of short stories Beasts and Super-Beasts. Dig the link if you dig the story. "Sredni Vashtar" is another really enjoyable one. Brutal. 

• "The Rocking-Horse Winner" - D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

• "The Monkey's Paw" or if that link doesn't work, try this one - W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943)

HW: (due Tuesday) J13 - Pair-o-normal Stories and a Third

1. In another one of his stories ("Sredni Vashtar") Saki writes, "One of these days [the little boy] supposed he would succumb to the mastering pressure of wearisome necessary things--such as illnesses and coddling restrictions and drawn-out dullness. Without his imagination, which was rampant under the  spur of loneliness, he would have succumbed long ago." How does this quote provide a key to understanding "The Open Window" (OW)? Explain your answer by supporting it with details from the text.
2. How is Lawrence's "Rocking-Horse Winner" (RHW) like a fairy tale? How is it quite different?
3. What produces the voices in the house?
4. How would you characterize Paul's father? How does he, as a character, affect Paul's relationship with his mother?
5. What does the final sentence of the story mean? 
6. How is RHW like OW? 
7. Consider a common theme they both develop.  
8. Are the respective tones (attitudes) of each story very different? Answer by selecting two adjectives to describe the tone of each story (Choosing two descriptive words will allow you to to nuance your answer, such as a story that might be both ironic and spiteful, rather than ironic and humorous).
9. How would you characterize the tone of "The Monkey's Paw"? Support your answer with details from the text.
10. Modernist literature is often reactionary, protest literature. Considering your historical background reading on the Twentieth century, explain how each story is "Modern" by considering what it is reacting against in society.
11. Finally, what ties these three stories together? 

Tuesday, 4/23 - Exam? Just be cool as a cucumber sandwich

• P&P

• Be sure you have your fifteen vocab words written out on a sheet of paper

• Take Victorian Period test

• When you finish, please use the remaining time to work quietly on your resume. Below are some links to help you generate ideas:
• High School Graduate Resume 
• Teen Resume Tips

HW: work on resume. Due date? May 2nd and 3rd (next week)   

Monday, 4/22 - After resume? Resume Victorian Period . . . with a test

• P&P

• CWP Q4 - Resume Writing

 Student Example:
 



Teacher Example
 
HW: study for Victorian Period test (Tues)

1. Intro to Victorian Period
2. The Importance of Being Ernest
1. characters
2. plot
3. ironies 
3. Victorian Period poets
1. Tennyson
2. Housman
3. Hopkins
4. Lit Terms, your vocab words from TIBE assignment
1. Please bring your 15 vocab words to class on a sheet of paper. I only want the words, not the definitions. You will be using some of them in a short essay on TIBE. You will not know which ones I'll ask you to use, so please know them all.