Wednesday 1/25 – Paideia Discussion A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Thursday 1/26 – Pan reading day
Friday 1/27 – First-draft peer-editing day (in 508 Comp Lab, so you can work on papers for the second half of the period)
Monday 1/30 – Pan reading day
Tuesday 1/31 – Pan reading day
Wednesday 2/1 – Pan Reading Quiz (CPS 25 pts.), marked-copies due (50 pts.)
Thursday 2/2 – Paper word day (508 Comp Lab)
Friday 2/3 – Second-draft peer-editing day (in 508 Comp Lab, so you can work on papers for the second half of the period)
Monday 2/6 – AP-Prompt Essay over Pan (25 pts.)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Paper Timeline
Friday 1/13 - Work Day #1 508 Computer Lab/Library. At the end of the period, e-mail me and tell me which question you have chosen and what you accomplished during the period.
Friday 1/20 - Work Day #2 508 Computer Lab/Library.
Friday January 27 - Peer-editing of first drafts. Partners are:
Jack-Michael
Kat-Cayce
Eddie-Eric
Nathan-Sarah
Maddie-Shelby
Friday February 3 - Peer-editing of second drafts.
Friday February 10 - Papers Due.
Friday 1/20 - Work Day #2 508 Computer Lab/Library.
Friday January 27 - Peer-editing of first drafts. Partners are:
Jack-Michael
Kat-Cayce
Eddie-Eric
Nathan-Sarah
Maddie-Shelby
Friday February 3 - Peer-editing of second drafts.
Friday February 10 - Papers Due.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Short Fiction Unit Itinerary
Week 10 -
The Elements of Fiction Ch. 1
Stories: The Most Dangerous Game & Hunter's in the Snow
Reading Quiz Thursday 10/27
Week 11 -
The Elements of Fiction Ch. 2
Stories: The Destructors, How I Met My Husband, & Interpreter of Maladies
Reading Quiz Friday 11/4
Week 12/13 -
Chapter 3 "Characterization"
Stories: Night Roamers, Sin, Everyday Use, Miss Brill, Xingu
Reading Quiz Thursday 11/17
Paper - The Ladies of Xingu: A Study in Characterization. Due (typed, double-spaced, no more than 1,500 words) Tuesday 11/22. Peer-editing schedule to follow.
Week 14 -
Chapter 4 "Theme"
Stories: A Fragment of Life, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Worn Path
The Elements of Fiction Ch. 1
Stories: The Most Dangerous Game & Hunter's in the Snow
Reading Quiz Thursday 10/27
Week 11 -
The Elements of Fiction Ch. 2
Stories: The Destructors, How I Met My Husband, & Interpreter of Maladies
Reading Quiz Friday 11/4
Week 12/13 -
Chapter 3 "Characterization"
Stories: Night Roamers, Sin, Everyday Use, Miss Brill, Xingu
Reading Quiz Thursday 11/17
Paper - The Ladies of Xingu: A Study in Characterization. Due (typed, double-spaced, no more than 1,500 words) Tuesday 11/22. Peer-editing schedule to follow.
Week 14 -
Chapter 4 "Theme"
Stories: A Fragment of Life, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Worn Path
Monday, October 3, 2011
Week 7 Itinerary
Monday 10/3: Peer-edit second drafts
HW: Blackberry-picking and questions!
Tuesday 10/4: Discuss Quizzes and begin DQs for The Misanthrope
HW: work on paper!
Wednesday 10/5: Discuss Blackberry-picking and finish DQs for The Misanthrope
HW: finish paper!
Thursday 10/6: Dante Papers due (100 pts.)
Misanthrope discussion
NO HOMEWORK!
HW: Blackberry-picking and questions!
Tuesday 10/4: Discuss Quizzes and begin DQs for The Misanthrope
HW: work on paper!
Wednesday 10/5: Discuss Blackberry-picking and finish DQs for The Misanthrope
HW: finish paper!
Thursday 10/6: Dante Papers due (100 pts.)
Misanthrope discussion
NO HOMEWORK!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Quiz Review
We will have our second poetry quiz tomorrow (50 pts.). This will be mainly a multiple choice exercise, and you will need to know the following terms to do well on it:
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Paradox
Assonance
Alliteration
Synesthesia
Onomatopoeia
Ceasura
Rhyme
Meter
Tone
Consonance
The link I posted earlier will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1635 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters 10-13 won't hurt either.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Paradox
Assonance
Alliteration
Synesthesia
Onomatopoeia
Ceasura
Rhyme
Meter
Tone
Consonance
The link I posted earlier will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1635 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters 10-13 won't hurt either.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Poetry Paper I
Option A: Dante’s Inferno.
1. Dante's vision of hell has a very carefully worked out structure, which not only indicates punishments for particular crimes but which also ranks sins according to their seriousness. Discuss the importance of this structure of punishments, paying particular attention to what it reveals about Dante's vision of the individual, society, and the various ways these can become corrupt.
2. Dante presents a ranking of failures of moral virtue. Why, according to this ranking, are the sins of malice and fraud more severely punished than those of sensual appetite?
3. Select a single, short passage of Dante's Inferno (maximum about twenty lines), and write a critical analysis of two different translations of the passage. The essay should focus on the differences between the versions as English poetry. Do not, unless you are fluent in Italian, consider the question of the adequacy of the rendition of the original language. Pay very close attention to how the different phrases, images, rhymes, and so forth affect your response to the passage. How are the passages different? You might want to base the essay on a statement expressing a clear preference. Please include copies of the two passages you are comparing.
4. Select a single incident in the Inferno, and, by a detailed discussion of what happens in that incident (both to the sinners and to the onlookers and to the reader), explore the significance of that episode. What does it contribute to the total effect of the poem? Does the incident raise any challenging questions about or provide important insights into main features of the poem?
5. In what sense is Dante's Inferno a voyage of discovery about the poet-narrator's own self and culture, a necessary descent before he can attain proper spiritual insight? What does Dante (the character in the poem) learn as a result of his trip to hell?
6. The inferno (hell), we are told at the very opening of Canto III, is a place constructed by Divine Justice, Omnipotence, and Love. What problems, if any, does this raise? Can you defend Dante's poem from the charge that it makes God appear appallingly cruel?
Option B: Compare and Contrast: Theme, Tone, Figurative Devices, Etc.
Using the suggestions on page 8 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper comparing and contrasting any two poems in the poetry section of the text. (pp 647-1024) Although neither is a comparison/contrast essay, reading the sample papers on pp 46-52 might be helpful.
This paper should be a minimum of 500 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:
Poems and/or topic of paper e-mailed to me – Wednesday 9/21
Work-day in Computer Lab – Friday 9/23
First draft of paper – Monday 9/26
Second draft – Monday 10/3
Final draft – Wednesday 10/5
1. Dante's vision of hell has a very carefully worked out structure, which not only indicates punishments for particular crimes but which also ranks sins according to their seriousness. Discuss the importance of this structure of punishments, paying particular attention to what it reveals about Dante's vision of the individual, society, and the various ways these can become corrupt.
2. Dante presents a ranking of failures of moral virtue. Why, according to this ranking, are the sins of malice and fraud more severely punished than those of sensual appetite?
3. Select a single, short passage of Dante's Inferno (maximum about twenty lines), and write a critical analysis of two different translations of the passage. The essay should focus on the differences between the versions as English poetry. Do not, unless you are fluent in Italian, consider the question of the adequacy of the rendition of the original language. Pay very close attention to how the different phrases, images, rhymes, and so forth affect your response to the passage. How are the passages different? You might want to base the essay on a statement expressing a clear preference. Please include copies of the two passages you are comparing.
4. Select a single incident in the Inferno, and, by a detailed discussion of what happens in that incident (both to the sinners and to the onlookers and to the reader), explore the significance of that episode. What does it contribute to the total effect of the poem? Does the incident raise any challenging questions about or provide important insights into main features of the poem?
5. In what sense is Dante's Inferno a voyage of discovery about the poet-narrator's own self and culture, a necessary descent before he can attain proper spiritual insight? What does Dante (the character in the poem) learn as a result of his trip to hell?
6. The inferno (hell), we are told at the very opening of Canto III, is a place constructed by Divine Justice, Omnipotence, and Love. What problems, if any, does this raise? Can you defend Dante's poem from the charge that it makes God appear appallingly cruel?
Option B: Compare and Contrast: Theme, Tone, Figurative Devices, Etc.
Using the suggestions on page 8 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper comparing and contrasting any two poems in the poetry section of the text. (pp 647-1024) Although neither is a comparison/contrast essay, reading the sample papers on pp 46-52 might be helpful.
This paper should be a minimum of 500 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:
Poems and/or topic of paper e-mailed to me – Wednesday 9/21
Work-day in Computer Lab – Friday 9/23
First draft of paper – Monday 9/26
Second draft – Monday 10/3
Final draft – Wednesday 10/5
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Poetry Unit Reading Assignment
The poetry section of Perrine's begins on page 655 (645 for those of you with the older edition) and is divided into 16 chapters. Each of those chapters consists of anywhere from 3-9 pages of introductory/explanatory narrative (with a few poems included as examples), a textbox with the heading "REVIEWING CHAPTER ____", and several pages of poems and critical reading questions. By Wednesday September 28 you need to have read the narrative parts of each of those chapters. You should read and consider the poems included as examples, but you do not need to answer the questions or read any of the poems that appear at the end of the respective chapters.
On Friday 9/30 we will have a poetry quiz very similar to the disgnostic one we just took, only this one will count!
On Friday 9/30 we will have a poetry quiz very similar to the disgnostic one we just took, only this one will count!
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