Assignment for Monday 3/30

Read Act I, Scenes I and II of Hamlet and post responses to the following questions. These will be recorded as homework grades...15 pts. each if you do them reasonable well, 0 if you have not posted by the beginning of class Monday.

1. What portents appear in Act I Scene I? What does Horatio think these signs mean? What portents appeared in Moby-Dick? Do you think Shakespeare influneced Melville in this regard? Why or why not?

2. In his soliloquy, Hamlet uses the image of an unweeded garden. What is Hamlet comparing to a garden? What are the weeds? Who is responsible for tending the garden? If Hamlet were the chief gardener, how do you think he would go about restoring the garden?

Week 29

Reading: Perrine's The Elements of Drama, Ch 1. pp 1027-1030; Ch. 3 pp. 1209-1216; Oedipus Rex through Scene 1 (pp. 1216-1231)

M: MC Practcie

T - Th: Watch Moby-Dick, discuss reading

F: CPS Quiz on reading (15 pts.)

HW: finish Oedipus Rex

Week 28

Papers due Friday!

M & T - MC Practice

Tues. HW: Review Ahab and Starbuck quotes/charatcer analyses from blog.

W - AP Prompt Essay (in library comp lab. e-mail to me when done.)

Th - Essay Day...I will BRIEFLY read over and comment on any drafts brought to class.

F - Papers Due; AP Prompt Samples

Week 27

Papers will be due WEDNESDAY 3/11 instead of Monday 3/9...hopefully this will give you more time to revise and re-write!

Notecard Assignment (you will have the rest of the week to work on this assignment and/or your paper!)

Each of you will need to post three "notecards" on the blog by the end of the period Friday. Individual assignments are below, but each of you need to do one character card for Ahab that includes:

1. A one-paragraph character analysis.
2. A list of adjectives describing Ahab.
3. At least three quotes from Ishmael (or Bildad or Peleg or Starbuck) that reveal Ahab's unique character and fate.
4. At least three quotes from Ahab himself that reveal his "monomania" and his complex/ambiguous personality.

You also each need to do a symbol card (be prepared to do a symbol encyclopedia of you choose the White Whale!) that includes:

1. A one-paragraph analysis of the symbol and its role in the novel.
2. At least one quote by Ishmael refering to the symbols and its importance.
3. At least one quote by another character refering to the symbol and its importance.


Individual character card assignments are below. These need to follow the same format as the Ahab cards, but you need only use two quotes from your character and two from Ishmael or Ahab.

Tatum - Queequeg
Kyle - Father Mapple
Emily - Elijah
Whitmore - Bildad
Megan - Peleg
Julia Bambla - Starbuck
Sammy - Stubb
Luke - Flask
Colleen - Pip
Sarah - The Carpenter
Kailtyn - Steelkilt
Jessica - Fedallah
Kelsey - Ishmael (you won't find any quotes about him, so use four quotes by him.)

Week 26

You should have the book finished by Tuesday 3/2!

Monday 2/23 - Reading Day

Tuesday 2/24 - Vocab exercise; discuss M-D paper topics

Wednesday 2/25 - The Writer's Craft lecture 1

Thursday 2/26 - CPS Quiz, pp 305-367; M-D Vocab #3 (due Tuesday 3/3)

Friday 2/27 - 20-minute timed-writing exercise

Week 24

By the time we get back from break, you need to have read through "Queequeg in his Coffin," pp. 367. We will have a CPS quiz on the chapters btn. pp 254 and 367 first thing Tuesday!

Monday 2/9 - Pan samples.

Tuesday 2/10 - CPS quiz (The Mast-Head-The Jeoboam); Vocab #2

Wednesday 2/11 - 20 minute timed-writing; work on vocab.

Thursday 2/12 - 20 minute timed-writing, discuss M-D paper topics, vocab due.

Week 23

For Monday 2/9: Read through The Cassock (p. 325)

Monday 2/2 - Melville papers due; M-D reading day

Tuesday 2/3 - CPS quiz M-D chs. 1-35; discsuss vocab #1

Wednesday 2/4 - 20-minute passage response in composition book

Thursday 2/5 - AP-prompt essay ("open" question set up for Pan)

Friday 2/6 - AP Exam Prep session with Mrs. Filak