Response to "I Died for Beauty"

Please read "I Died for Beauty" by Emily Dickinson - located in your packet. Use as reference "Literary Analysis - Poetry" worksheet, Section "Structure" and "Thinking about Structure on Paper".

First, identify all structural elements: rhyme scheme, stanzas, meter, etc...

Next, blog an answer to the following prompt: How does Dickinson employ structure to help establish meaning?

 

Template

If you prefer, you may go to the following website and type in the information then print.

www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizer/printables/48390.html

Reading Log/Dialectical Journal

Instructions for Reading Log:

1.You will create two columns on a sheet of paper: one labeled "Quotes" and one labeled "Responses".

2.Next, you will need to find and quote two passages that you find interesting, don't understand, comedic, supports the theme, wish to discuss, etc...  Basically, passages that stand out to you.

3.Quote the passage in the left column citing Act, Scene, and Line numbers.  Write your questions, observations, or responses in the right column. (You only need one response per quote.)

4.The second half of the journal requires that you identify two passages that contain a literary element or sound device.

5.Quote the passage in the left column citing Act, Scene, and Line numbers.  Identify and explain the author's usage of the element.  For example, if you locate a metaphor, explain what is being compared and why the author would use a metaphor at this point in the drama.

**A passage may be as short as one line.

Timed Writing

You have 40 minutes in which to complete the following timed essay.  Please begin your time with your first reading of the prompt.

The following open ended question was taken from the 2010 AP Literature and Composition Exam.

BEGIN TIME - 40 minutes

"In the following soliloquy from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II, King Henry laments his inability to sleep.  In a well-organized essay, briefly summarize the King's thoughts and analyze how the diction, imagery, and syntax help to convey his state of mind."

How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep!  O sleep!  O gentle sleep!
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down,
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?                   (5)
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
And hush'd with buzzing in night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,                        (10)
And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast                (15)
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them   (20)
With deaf'ning clamour in the slippery clouds,
That with the hurly death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude
And in the calmest and most stillest night,              (25)
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a King? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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huts
not impartial

Words to Know Week 6

epitome
pragmatic
laconic
languid

Words to Know Week 5

myopic
conundrum
paradoxical
oblivious

Words to Know Week 4

antiquity
superficial
disconcerting
trepidation

The Canterbury Tales: Symbolism

Please discuss the following three symbols from "The Prologue": springtime, clothing, and physiognomy.

Questions to consider for springtime:
     1. What does Spring represent?
     2. What does Spring have in common with a pilgrimage?
     3. Why is this time of year particularly suited to a journey?

Questions to consider for clothing:
     1. Why did Chaucer spend time describing what each pilgrim was wearing?
     2. What do our clothes symbolize?

Information you need to know for physiognomy:
     1. In Chaucer's day people believed that members of a particular social class
         shared the same physical features.

This should be three separate paragraphs.

       

I apologize for the quality of this video. Listen as best you can and take notes.  I will want to see them.

Tone/Close Reading Practice for Tuesday September 3rd

Please use your Attitude Word handout pg. 59 to determine the tone of the following passages. More than one tone might apply.

Next, choose either  passage 1 or 4 and apply the Close Reading techniques you learned from the video. Write a well written paragraph on your analysis.


1. "...I don't miss them now - don't get me wrong. But I do, just sometimes, miss the time when the place I called home had so much wrong with it that what kept it from falling apart was the joke all around it.  And I do, just sometimes, miss my state of mind, an easier dimension then, that allowed me to laugh at the thought of gigantic, mutant roaches living in my linen closet..."

2. "Jim Foxx, who convinced millions of the benefits of exercise in his book running, died a few months ago while jogging in Vermont."

3. "They sued him on trumped-up charges and convicted him in a kangaroo court, and they burned his home to the ground while the fire department stood around watching the flames consume the night.  Was this justice?  No. It was racism."

4. "I returned to Rainy Mountain in July.  My grandmother had died in the spring, and I wanted to be at her grave... My grandmother had a reverence for the sun, a holy regard that is now all but gone out of mankind... I remember her most at prayer.  She was the strength of the family.  She had at last succeeded to that holy ground."

Close Reading Part 2

Close Reading Part 1

Words to Know Week 2

ostentatious
pedagogy
surreptitious
ascetic
beguile

Heart of Darkness Syntax and Tone

Briefly explain Joseph Conrad's tone in The Heart of Darkness.  You will need to examine and analyze his syntax (sentence structure) and diction (word usage) in order to get an accurate picture of the tone. You will need to include at least two quotes to substantiate your answer.  The quotes do not have to be complete sentences.  You may quote phrases.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Words to Know Week 1

pretentious
elusive
metaphysical
pedantic

Heart of Darkness

Welcome to our first blog.  Please read all the information below and comment with a well thought out paragraph by Friday, August 23rd. One paragraph per part.

Part I:  In The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad attempts to bring to light the evils of imperialism, specifically those promulgated by British society. We experience the motivations behind imperialism from several different perspectives, albeit through the eyes of one man, Marlow, our protagonist.  We are also privy to the realizations of each view; what really happens in the real world.  For example, we learn that Marlow's aunt belongs to a "help the savages type of society" which sends Englishmen to Africa with the goal of "civilizing" the people.  While this "help" might be well intentioned, it nonetheless strips the natives of their own culture and forces an unknown culture upon them, often times in a very brutal fashion.

Choose a character from the novel that represents one of the following groups:


The Company


Company workers - this includes all Steamboat workers


Idealists


Write a paragraph explaining the Imperialistic motivations for this character.  Were they self-serving motivations, were they altruistic, etc...?  Did they change their beliefs once experiencing Africa?  If yes, why?  If no, why?

Part II:  Why would Conrad write a novel concerning imperialism during this particular time in England's history?  This might require you to do a little research.  You only have to write one paragraph, so do not spend a lot of time researching.  You just need to get the basic facts.