Comment on some aspect of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. You can ask questions, discuss meaningful quotations or symbols, comment on your experiences reading the novel, etc. Note: this is not a forum for your complaints.
I want to encourage you to respond to your classmates and help them understand this very complex novel. Build upon what others have already said.
You must post at least once before Friday, March 6th for credit. You may, of course, continue to post after that date as we continue to discuss this novel. Use this as your sounding board for ideas we didn't cover in class.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Second Semester Required- Week 6
This week we are revising our WH essays.
Comment on any aspect of your revision process. Here are some ideas:
Describe what happened during the in class write (the first time around).
Describe what influenced your revisions.
What are the biggest differences between your in class essay and your revised essay?
How did you revise? How did you decide what changes needed to be made?
How did you decide how to change certain parts?
What part of the essay still could be better? What part do you feel fairly confident with?
On Friday, turn in both the original essay and the revised copy. Your dramatic monologue is also due on Friday. We will read these in class!
Comment on any aspect of your revision process. Here are some ideas:
Describe what happened during the in class write (the first time around).
Describe what influenced your revisions.
What are the biggest differences between your in class essay and your revised essay?
How did you revise? How did you decide what changes needed to be made?
How did you decide how to change certain parts?
What part of the essay still could be better? What part do you feel fairly confident with?
On Friday, turn in both the original essay and the revised copy. Your dramatic monologue is also due on Friday. We will read these in class!
Friday, February 6, 2009
FYI
From Mr. Moody:
IF YOU WISH TO TAKE (OR RE-TAKE) THE 11TH GRADE AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION EXAM IN MAY, YOU MUST PERSONALLY SEE MR. MOODY BEFORE THURSDAY, 2/12/09.
IF YOU WISH TO TAKE (OR RE-TAKE) THE 11TH GRADE AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION EXAM IN MAY, YOU MUST PERSONALLY SEE MR. MOODY BEFORE THURSDAY, 2/12/09.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Second Semester Required- Week 5
We are halfway through the nine weeks!
Choose a quote from your play (A Doll House or IOBE), type it out, and comment on why it is significant. Make sure it is one that no one else has already posted.
Post early so someone else does not take your quote!
Do not just summarize where the quote came from, but instead discuss what it might mean, reveal, symbolize, emphasize, foreshadow, etc. In other words, analyze!
Choose a quote from your play (A Doll House or IOBE), type it out, and comment on why it is significant. Make sure it is one that no one else has already posted.
Post early so someone else does not take your quote!
Do not just summarize where the quote came from, but instead discuss what it might mean, reveal, symbolize, emphasize, foreshadow, etc. In other words, analyze!
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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.
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.
Monday, January 26, 2009
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.
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.
Monday, January 19, 2009
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.
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.
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