Schedule Revision

Hurray for a snow day!

Here's our revised schedule:

Thursday: Test over WH and Romantic Poetry
Friday: MWDS due, Discuss end of Wuthering Heights, get back Dystopia essay/project
Monday: in-class essay on Wuthering Heights
Tuesday: reading day with your play (Bring either Oscan Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest or your Bedford (to read Ibsen's A Doll's House)).

Don't forget about the blog below. No need to copy/paste your conversation, just summarize one aspect of it. If you want to copy part of it for us to see, go for it. Your chats are saved under "chats" right under the "inbox" link in your mail.

Second Semester Week 4: Group Chat Summary

For this week's blog posting, summarize one aspect aspect of your group chat from Tuesday. See the example student chat and summary paragraph below:

Step One: Group Chat on Tale of Two Cities:

Allison: but, the time was not come yet; and every time that wind blew over france shook the rags of the scarecrows in vein, for the birds fine of song and feather, took no worning. book 1, ch 5
Jenny: ok…what does that mean?
Caitlin: the scarecrows are the aristocracy
Lucy: once again the birds are dirty
Caitlin: i think
Jenny: wait a seec
Lucy: no,no,the wind is the scary mean people and the scarccrow are the porr people fighting the revolution
Allison: yeah lucy that’s what I was sayin
Lucy: and rthe poor are scarred away until the revolution comes
Jenny: I think that there were so many times the thwe revolution could have occurred that (wind in vien) that when it actually cam the rich had no idea it was coming

Step Two: Group Summary of Discussion

Although the barbaric human is often mentioned, we feel that the most important thematic issue within animal imagery is how the poor people are referred to as dogs and pigs. But social class differences are also illustrated symbolically by other images, such as the description of the ragged scarecrows (symbolizing the poor), while birds symbolize the upper class.

Note: if you were absent on Tuesday, and did not participate in the group chat, respond to one of the discussion questions passed out in class.

Second Semester Week 3- Required

In an effort to stir Hindley against Heathcliff, Isabella says to Hindley, "Every one knows your sister would have been living now, had it not been for Mr. Heathcliff. After all, it is preferable to be hated than loved by him."

Thinking about the novel as a whole (well, at least what we've read so far), which is the more powerful force: love or hate?

Or maybe something else?

Blog about your thoughts on this issue.

Second Semester Week 2- Required

This week we begin Wuthering Heights!

Type out one quotation from the assigned readings for this week (include the page number). Tell us where the quotation came from and any other information we might need to know. Tell us why you picked the quotation and what you think it suggests. Analyze it, question it, comment on it, etc.

Second Semester Week 1- Required

There are a few people who still need to comment on the Dec 13th Blog. Please do so ASAP.

Okay, welcome back! This semester is shorter than last semester, and we're reading MORE (if you can believe it). That means that it's time to get serious, time to put down the SparksNotes, time to start thinking for yourself, time to start figuring out how to improve, time to start coming for tutoring. Our first novel back will be Bronte's Wuthering Heights, a dark, dark novel of ghosts, death, and the tragedy of passionate love.

But for this week, comment on your choice novel. Any aspect of it. Give me a few sentences at least.

Due, as usual, by midnight on Friday.