Friday, February 28

Click the link, and let's read a few of the assignments.

Creative Writing Examples

Wednesday's class...for Friday's Class

Once again...https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qxiZB_6TtltyCVdD05eQhWyWuxbwNa0dKs8bXJD86CY/edit?usp=sharing

Your assignment for Friday, November 1

Read, "The Quarter-Deck" and do the following,

Choose a character-Ahab or Starbuck

What is that character's motivation for being on the whale ship, Pequod? answer this question in a chunk.

The Quarter Deck

Your assignment

Here is the assignment

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qxiZB_6TtltyCVdD05eQhWyWuxbwNa0dKs8bXJD86CY/edit?usp=sharing

A few helpful videos....for your exam

A Modest Proposal summary video
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Macbeth summary video

Monday, May 13

What is power? What makes a powerful person? Answer both questions in a digital collage (use google drawing) showing scenes of power and powerful people for Wednesday May 15. 

Evaluation & Assignment for Monday, 4/29

Click it and fill it out

http://bit.ly/2uSM40u


For Monday, April 29

--Make a visual advertisement for war that highlights at least 2 of Goldstein's reasons for and advantages of war. 

--Explain how your advertisement shows Goldstein's points in a paragraph. 

For Friday, April 12

Choose a thought. Either agree with it or disagree with it. Make a four slide powerpoint presentation that proves your view with several pieces of evidence. Use events from the novel, contemporary equivalents and any other thoughts as evidence.

1. The surveillance of its constituents by the Party is necessary for its self-preservation because it affords the Party the ability to eliminate potential subversion early on. It is the most important element of the Party's tools.

2. The Party wants to control people's thoughts. Language limits thought, and thought is dependent on language. Indeed, no thought can be had without the right words with which to express it. Therefore, the Party's ambitions are attainable.

3. 1984 has many flaws. One of them is Winston Smith being the only character that can escape the effects of the Party's manipulation and control of information. Yet 1984 fails to explain his distinctive qualities as justification for his different nature.

4. Winston explores his memory in an attempt to reconnect with the past because he believes the past holds the answers to the Party's rise to power in the present. He therefore agrees with the Party's theory that to control the past is to control the future.

5.  It is necessary for Oceanians to believe that Oceania is in a constant state of warfare with the other superpowers, because the presence of a common enemy prevents internal conflict.

email completed presentations to sweidenaar@rcsnm.org on or before Friday, April 12

a few articles showing contemporary equivalents

Standing with the Venezuelan Revolution

Six Things Women in Saudi Arabia still can’t do

How Americanism are killing the English language

Trade War Imperils Amazon Rainforest, experts warn

Mass Immigration and Climate Change Doublethink

Amazon Alexa user receives 1,700 audio recordings of a stranger through ‘human error’

Watching interpretations on Monday, March 4

Here are a few really great videos

https://youtu.be/ciJkKS4vp24

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For Wednesday, January 23

Word Journal assignments for Act II are due.  5 entries from Act II.  If you do not recall the specifics of the word journal assignment see the previous post where the word journal page is attached.  Do this assignment on a separate sheet of paper. 

There will also be a vocabulary quiz over list 18. This is a tough way to start the week, but you are tough.  The quiz will be over definitions.

For Wednesday, January 16

Vocab Quiz--over definitions...list 17. Be ready.

Vocab list 17

Assignment for January 14

Your assignment is to complete four word journal entries.  They are explained on the paper whose link is below. 

Word Journal Act I

Exam....

Here is your exam review sheet.  Turning in a completed review sheet will get you several points of extra credit on the exam.

Midterm Review Sheet

December 10's class

Check out a few of these awesome illustrations!

Sonnet 2

sonnet 65

Sonnet 106

Wednesday, December 5 and beyond

On Wednesday, December 5 we shall work through our poetry focus statements.  Then you need to complete the sonnet project that is attached below. 

sonnet project

here is an example sonnet project (it's not that great), you can do much better.  This will get your started.

Sonnet 29

Monday's class and assignment for Wednesday

There are two types of sonnets--we took some notes on each type.  We took the notes on the attached page, you can refer to page 312-313 for most of the notes about Shakespearean sonnets.

Your assignment is to read sonnet 73 & 116 on pages 318 & 319 and to answer the questions and write poetry focus statements for both sonnets.

Here is what a poetry focus statement is and consists of:

Definition-a one sentence summary of a poem that can serve as a thesis

1. Expresses the title and the author
2. Expresses the narrative/situation (what is happening in the poem).
3. Expresses the figurative & thematic levels of the poem and the poem's meaning (the poetic techniques).
4. Expresses the tones of the poem.

the two types of sonnets

sonnet 73 & 116

vocab list 15

Here's an example focus statement,

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 wonders what a fitting comparison is for his beloved, the sonnet shows the joy the poet has for his love and how summer is not a fitting comparison this is a metaphor; in the end the only this that would fit his love is a poem. 

Wednesday, November 28

We started writing a sonnet and paraphrased another. Here what we did on this sheet.

writing a sonnet

For Friday, November 16

1.  The animal(s) the lord hunts are symbolic of Sir Gawain.  Please attempt to depict or present the symbolic connection(s) between Gawain and the Fox.  You may do this any way you like, but make the connection obvious with explanations and copious textual references.  Copious textual references means you should provide either quoted moments of chapter 3 or write the lines that show this moment.  

2.  Read chapter 4 of Sir Gawain-one is attached below.

3. There will be a quiz on Friday. The quiz will be mostly reading and comprehension questions over chapter 4, but there will be a few questions about Gawain's knighthood and character.  Please read and look over the notes about the middle age romance. 

sir gawain part 4

For Wednesday, November 14

1. . The animal(s) the lord hunts are symbolic of Sir Gawain.  Please attempt to depict or present the symbolic connection(s) for the boar.  You may do this any way you like, but make the connection obvious with explanations and copious textual references.  Copious textual references means you should provide either quoted moments of chapter 3 or write the lines that show this moment.  

2.  Read page 60-71 (the rest of chapter 3) and answer the rest of the reading questions. 


You have a vocabulary quiz--#13 here is a new list if you need it.

vocab list 13