Tuesday 3/8 - Passage analysis #1 due (30 pts.)
Work on vocab
Wednesday 3/9 - Vocab (pp 18-146)
HW: Read through Part III, Chapter II ( p. 180)
Thursday 3/10 - Reading day
HW: Read through Part III, Chapter VI (p. 208)
Friday 3/11 - Passage analysis #2 (In-class, 30 pts.)
HW: finish the novel.
M-W 3/14-16 - Work on questions. Pick any 10 from the original list.
Thursday 3/17 - Questions due (100 pts.)
Final vocab/discussion day.
Friday 3/18 - AP Prompt Essay over Madame Bovary (9 pts.)
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Madame Bovary Questions
1. Find three passages spread over the first 75 pages that illustrate Flaubert as a master of realistic detail at work. Explain and defend your choices.
2. How does the point of view in the novel work, and how does it affect your impressions of the main characters? Pick a passage in which you find the point of view striking, and analyze why it interests you.
3. How essential is the setting to the story? Could the story have taken place anywhere else?
4. What is the role of women in the text? How are mothers represented? What about single/independent women? Could Emma ever have survived as a single woman?
5. Do you consider this novel a work of feminist literature?
6. What are the conflicts in Madame Bovary? What types of conflict (physical, moral, intellectual, or emotional) are in the novel?
7. What is the central/primary purpose of the story? Is the purpose important or meaningful?
8. What are some symbols in Madame Bovary? How do they relate to the plot and characters?
9. How would you describe the tone of the book? Does it change?
10. Discuss how Emma's fascination with romantic (and Romantic) ideals affects her life.
11. Images of machines reappear at intervals; what ideas do these images call up?
12. Describe how Flaubert portrays basic bourgeois behavior and attitudes. How do these compare with the aristocrats; does either group come out ahead?
13. How does socio-economic class figure in Bovary? How would a Marxist analyze the book?
14. Why begin and end with Charles? How does this place Emma in perspective?
15. Is Emma's fate tragic? Is the novel tragic? Why or why not?
2. How does the point of view in the novel work, and how does it affect your impressions of the main characters? Pick a passage in which you find the point of view striking, and analyze why it interests you.
3. How essential is the setting to the story? Could the story have taken place anywhere else?
4. What is the role of women in the text? How are mothers represented? What about single/independent women? Could Emma ever have survived as a single woman?
5. Do you consider this novel a work of feminist literature?
6. What are the conflicts in Madame Bovary? What types of conflict (physical, moral, intellectual, or emotional) are in the novel?
7. What is the central/primary purpose of the story? Is the purpose important or meaningful?
8. What are some symbols in Madame Bovary? How do they relate to the plot and characters?
9. How would you describe the tone of the book? Does it change?
10. Discuss how Emma's fascination with romantic (and Romantic) ideals affects her life.
11. Images of machines reappear at intervals; what ideas do these images call up?
12. Describe how Flaubert portrays basic bourgeois behavior and attitudes. How do these compare with the aristocrats; does either group come out ahead?
13. How does socio-economic class figure in Bovary? How would a Marxist analyze the book?
14. Why begin and end with Charles? How does this place Emma in perspective?
15. Is Emma's fate tragic? Is the novel tragic? Why or why not?
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
DQs for Wednesday 2/23
1. What is the film about?
2. What are the major symbols in the film and how are they used? What is the overall message of the film?
9 – Compare the parents of Kazuo, Ishmael, Hatuse, and Karl Heine, Jr. How do they shape the values of their children and reflect the prejudices of their community?
24. What is the significance of the climate changes (the rain, the blizzard) throughout the film?
28. Why do you think Ishmael finally decided to help Kabuo Miyamoto in his trial, despite his hatred for the Japanese and his bitterness towards Hatsue for leaving him?
33. Snow Falling on Cedars opens in the middle of Kabuo Miyamoto's trial. What effect does the film create by withholding background information of the trial and introducing it in the form of flashbacks? Where else are critical revelations postponed?
2. What are the major symbols in the film and how are they used? What is the overall message of the film?
9 – Compare the parents of Kazuo, Ishmael, Hatuse, and Karl Heine, Jr. How do they shape the values of their children and reflect the prejudices of their community?
24. What is the significance of the climate changes (the rain, the blizzard) throughout the film?
28. Why do you think Ishmael finally decided to help Kabuo Miyamoto in his trial, despite his hatred for the Japanese and his bitterness towards Hatsue for leaving him?
33. Snow Falling on Cedars opens in the middle of Kabuo Miyamoto's trial. What effect does the film create by withholding background information of the trial and introducing it in the form of flashbacks? Where else are critical revelations postponed?
Friday, February 18, 2011
Snow Falling on Cedars DQs
Come up with a minimum of 5 discussion questions over the film and post them to the blog sometime before class on Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Pan Itinerary
I will give you time in class over the next three days to read Knut Hmasun's novella, Pan. We will begin each class with a brief discusion or Q/A session, but you can count on at least 45 minutes to read each day.
Wednesday 2/2 - Pan reading day.
Thursday 2/3 - Pan reading day.
Friday 2/4 – Pan reading day.
Monday 2/6 - CPS Pan Quiz (50 pts.); annotated copy of Pan due. (50 pts.)
Tuesday 2/7 – AP Prompt essay (9 pts.)
Wednesday 2/2 - Pan reading day.
Thursday 2/3 - Pan reading day.
Friday 2/4 – Pan reading day.
Monday 2/6 - CPS Pan Quiz (50 pts.); annotated copy of Pan due. (50 pts.)
Tuesday 2/7 – AP Prompt essay (9 pts.)
Monday, January 24, 2011
Short Story Paper Assignment
Write a 1500-word essay on a topic and story/stories of your choice. You may want to spend some time reading the “Choosing a Topic” chapter in Perrine’s (pp 7-11), and you will definitely want to review the chapters on “Introducing Quotations” and “Documentation” (pp 16-32).
Some possible topics might include:
- A study of the three stories by Knut Hamsun, focusing on devices and strategies the author employs to create differences in tone and theme
- A comparison and contrast of stories in Angela Carter’s book
- An in-depth study of The Bloody Chamber
- An in-depth study of Paul’s Case
- The use of symbol in Miss Brill, The Rocking Horse Winner, and Young Goodman Brown
Tomorrow (Tuesday 1/25) will be a work day in the 508 Computer Lab. By the end of class, please e-mail a précis of your paper topic.
First drafts should be completed by Friday 1/28 which will be a peer-editing day.
Final drafts are due Wednesday 2/2.
Some possible topics might include:
- A study of the three stories by Knut Hamsun, focusing on devices and strategies the author employs to create differences in tone and theme
- A comparison and contrast of stories in Angela Carter’s book
- An in-depth study of The Bloody Chamber
- An in-depth study of Paul’s Case
- The use of symbol in Miss Brill, The Rocking Horse Winner, and Young Goodman Brown
Tomorrow (Tuesday 1/25) will be a work day in the 508 Computer Lab. By the end of class, please e-mail a précis of your paper topic.
First drafts should be completed by Friday 1/28 which will be a peer-editing day.
Final drafts are due Wednesday 2/2.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Short Fiction Itinerary #4
Week 13 -
Chapter 4 "Theme"
Stories: A Fragment of Life, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Worn Path
CPS Story Quiz Friday 11/13
Chapter 4 "Theme"
Stories: A Fragment of Life, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Worn Path
CPS Story Quiz Friday 11/13
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