Monday, 12/7/15: Week 17

* Open

• Paragon (noun): a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.
• Etymology: paragone ‘touchstone used to discriminate good from bad gold,’ from medieval Greek parakonē ‘whetstone.’
• Your reputation precedes (not proceeds) you, Sir Gawain, as you are a paragon of knightly honor.
• Mutinous 

* The Plan

* The Calm before the Tempest or a Storm in a Teapot?

* Work on the Terms in Your Study Guide

• Term Definitions: Dr. Wheeler

* Essay Extravaganza

• Read and Respond
• We will read Sample Student Work Tomorrow

* Terms 

HW: Essay Practice #1

Final Exam, Semester I

Multiple Choice:

• History and Literature
• Except for The Tempest, these will almost exclusively be questions that you've already seen on previous quizzes and tests.  
• History: Anglo-Saxon Times, Middle Ages, Renaissance 
• Literature and notes: Caedmon's Hymn, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Tempest (review your Tempest guide)
  
• Grammar: Punctuation (apostrophe, semicolon, colon, comma, dash), Usage (red words), MLA, sentence types
• Vocabulary: The Tempest 

Essay:

• Analysis
• Review analysis essay writing and, specifically, thesis composition. 
• Passage Examples:
• Gonzalo's utopia
• Caliban's description of the island
• Prospero's epilogue
• Open Examples:
• Examine how one character's perspective of and pursuit of freedom supports a central theme of The Tempest. 
• Examine how forgiveness plays a central role in the The Tempest. 

Extra Credit:

• More than 5 Lines of Your Quarter 4 Memorization
• Caedmon's Hymn

Mandatory Cuteness

Block Day, Week 16

* Open

• Week 16, Last Word

* Renaissance Poetry

• Memorization: Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 

• Copy one poem into your notes, if you have not already

* Work in class; The Tempest

• Act IV

HW: Act IV and Questions

Wednesday, 12/2/15

The Twenty Most Beautiful Bookstore in the World.

I visited #11 this summer (below).




* Open

• Go to Wondrous Words Above
• Work on the next two vocabulary words for week 16

* Review Act II

* Begin Act III

HW: Act III Reading and Study Guide Responses 

Extra Credit Opportunity (due by block day next week); I will probably not remind you

Short Writing Assignment: Out of Classroom Experience

1.  Listen to Brittany Marshall read her award-winning story:

• 7-8 PM, 88.1 FM, KZSC (also probably available thereafter on their website)

The following are only for professional level work.  Make sure you carefully edit your previously composed poems.  You are competing with adults.  The deadline is tonight:

 

2. Porter Gulch Review (Cabrillo College)
Send up to 5 pieces (poems, short stories, novel excerpts, screenplays, plays, artworks) to dasulliv@yahoo.com.

3. The Homestead Review (Hartnell College)

Reading periods are March. 1- June 1 for the online fall issue, Sept. 1- Dec. 1 for the spring online/print issue. We currently accept only electronic submissions. Submit 3-5 unpublished poems, short fiction (1000 words or less) or artwork in electronic format to thehomesteadreview@gmail.com including SUBMISSION/GENRE and your last name in the subject line. Include a brief third person biographical sketch, email and mailing addresses. Submissions may be sent as a single Word file attachment or pasted into the message body. Work should be left justified, single spaced, Times Roman 12 pt. font.

4. Fourteen Hills (San Francisco State University)
Submit online up to 3 poems (maximum 7 pages): https://fourteenhills.submittable.com/submit

Tuesday, 12/1/15

* Open

•  Vocabulary: View the Wondrous Words
• 1. Assigned Vocabulary:
• Go to Week 16
• Work on Your First Two Words
• Word, part of speech (not given in the .pdf)
• Definition
• Example Sentence of Yours (with usage)
• 2. (AP Only) For your outside vocabulary words, you will only need to define (you do not need a sentence, etc.) 10 extra words by the end of the next week.  You may simply annotate the .pdf or write them in your journal. 

* The Tempest

HW: Act II

Monday, 11/30/15

* Open

• Answer in your journal: How do the holy days taste to you?

* The Tempest

• The Tempest Guide As a .pdf
• The Tempest Guide As a Google Document

* Work in Class

* Review the Week

* Memorization

HW: Act I

Mr. Schwager's Favorite Sentence

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."  -- G. K. Chesterton

It comes from a chapter 6, "The Age of the Crusades," of his book A Short History of England.

(Sorry MLA, G. K. C. lived before your semicolon rules.)

The Tempest

We left off at minute 36 in class.

I'm sorry that there is no free version with closed captioning.  If you can, rent it from Amazon or Netflix so that you can read it as you watch.  If that's not possible, I understand.  Please watch the rest of the movie regardless.

Thank you,

Mr. S