Thursday, 8/29 - Essay to the Essay

  • P&P
  • Finish presentation (if any)
  • To discuss essay structure and literary analysis, please follow these instructions:
    • Go to Focus 
    • Online Course 
    • Select the PDF on "Essay Structure"
    • Open in Notability
    • Put it in your English 400 folder
  • Go around to the different posters and fill out your handwritten notes to prepare for your ICE on Tuesday.
  • Enjoy your senior retreat tomorrow! No class. Go have a wonderful time
HW: prepare your notes for an ICE on Tuesday. REMINDER: no school on Monday; it's Labor Day ; )  

 

Wednesday, 8/28 - Hey Essay!

  • P&P
  • Groups to share their posters
  • Hey essay! Let's talk essay structure today. Tomorrow will be a note taking day as you gather goodies from all the posters hanging from the walls.  

Tuesday, 8/27 - Werkday!

  • P&P
  • Work on your TGD posters. They are due tomorrow at the beginning of class. Please take them home with you today if you're not quite finished.
HW: (due Wednesday at the beginning of class)
  • TGD Poster. See yesterday's post for details. 

The Great Divorce Project: Great Art Inspires (Great?) Art

  • The image to the right is the cover art from Gungor's Ghosts upon the Earth, their latest album partially inspired by Lewis' novella. Now it's your turn to churn out a little art, accompanied, of course, by some fine critical work. Check out the requirements below.
  • TGD Presentation (use Keynote, Prezi, or a professional presentation platform of your choice)
    • Slide 1: Your names, chapter number
    • Slide 2: A very basic outline of chapter content (just give a quick overview of the basic plot and main characters involved)
    • Slide 3: Three quotes - these should encapsulate the chapter
    • Slide 4: Transfiguration - explain how Lewis inverts "normal" (traditional/conventional) conceptions of heaven or hell in your chapter. 
      • You may focus on any of the Lit Terms from this unit:
        • convention, setting, dream vision, imagery
      • Also try to explain why Lewis does this. 
    • Slide 5: Artwork - Finally, draw a scene (or images) that best represent(s) the content of your group's assigned chapter(s), and include, if you desire, additional art based on memorable imagery from your chapter. If you cannot draw, then consider another medium, like a collage.
      • This artistic element you will photograph and import into your presentation so we can all admire its profundity and prettiness. 

DUE DATE: We will begin presentations next Tuesday (8/25).   

Block, 8/22-23 - This is only a Test

  • P & P
  • Discuss plagiarism
  • Star Testing 
  • Continue TGD . . .

STAR Testing Instructions below

Wednesday, 8/21 - Houston, We Have a Touchdown . . . and a Problem.

One of the first pictures returned by the Mars Polar Lander
  • P&P
  • Binder check
    • 3 ring
    • loose leaf college ruled paper
    • dividers (at least four)
  • TGD - Chapters 
    1.  Hell - Grey Town
    2. Tousle-Headed Poet (Communist), Intelligent-Looking Man (Capitalist-Materialist), Apostate Bishop (Spiritualist)
    3. Landing in the Foothills, the Bright People . . .
    4. The Big Man ("I want my rights, see?")
      1. Sin - self-sufficiency,  
    5. Lions playing. The Apostate Episcopal Bishop ("honest academic inquiry!")  
      1. Sin - apostasy (elevating ideas over Reality . . . God)
    6. River walking and the apple tree and the Intelligent-Looking Man, a materialist-Capitalist. Waterfall angel.
      1. Sin - greed 
    7. Hard-Bitten Ghost (the conspiracy theorist)
      1. Sin - cynicism 
    8. Whimpering Ghost
      1. Sin - self-loathing (an inverted vanity)
    9.  
    

Tuesday, 8/19 - TGD Ch 1-2

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Gather 'round Uncle Jack for a fan-tasty story, children.
  • P&P
  • Pull up a chair and get ready to discuss chapters 1 and 2 of TGD. Please take more notes as we go. Any handwritten notes you take can be used on your ICE (In Class Essay). 

HW: Don't forget to bring a three ring binder, college ruled paper (loose leaf) and dividers to class on Wednesday. 

Monday, 8/19 - Before the Face, Pre-face

But finding a London call box in 1952 could be a hazard. The great smog of 1952 killed 4,000 people.
Grey Town?
  • P&P
    • App-endectomy
      • Period 2: Pages
      • 3: Keynote
      • 4: iMovie
      • Advisory: Digital Footprint 
      • 5: Notability
    • Pass back TGD (The Great Divorce) journals. I merely graded for completion. A check means full credit. A check plus means a tad extra. Numeric scores are self-explanatory.
    • Let's begin discussing Lewis' work from the Preface. Let's read it together. 
      • Now, in groups of three, write out the sentence(s) in Lewis' Preface you think most important for understanding the novel, and have a justification for your answer.   
    HW: remember to bring three ring binder, college ruled paper, and dividers to class on Wednesday 

    Caedmon's Call's The High Countries

    A bus station, in the steam from the rain
    In this line of pale strangers, should I go or stay?
    The whole field of vision, fades beneath me now
    And the houses spread for a million miles, in this gray town

    And the weight of glory, if you held it in your hand
    It would pass right through you, so now's your chance
    Would you fall to pieces? Would you fall to pieces?
    Would you fall to pieces in the high countries?

    We are just pilgrims of the great divorce
    I am witness to the light and I am captive to my own remorse

    And the weight of glory, if you held it in your hand
    It would pass right through you, so now's your chance
    Would you fall to pieces? Would you fall to pieces?
    Would you fall to pieces in the high countries?

    You drink the cup to the bottom, but it burns in your hands
    The cup was poured out on the Maker instead

    Out on the green plains, I am but a ghost
    Bound up with all that I call mine still the light grows

    Would you fall to pieces? Would you fall to pieces?
    Would you fall to pieces in the high countries?
    Would you fall to pieces? Would you fall to pieces?
    Would you fall to pieces in the high countries?
    In the high countries in the high countries

    Friday, 8/16 - Introductions Cont'd

    Dante's Dream (Dante Gabriel Rosetti 1879)
    • P&P

      • Explain the blog
        • Remember to get a three ring binder, college ruled paper, and dividers. 
      • What is your favorite quoted passage from your journal? 
      • First Lit Term - Dream or vision: A literary device wherein a dream or vision is presented for a literary purpose.  Consider Daniel and Revelation, The Divine Comedy by Dante, and Perle.  Notice how the dream or vision brings wisdom or clarity to the waking world.