Posted: November 28, 2011
We started the Elizabethan Era today...
Make sure your narrative ballads are in.
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Posted: November 28, 2011
Please get your questions on "Mirror Image" ready for tomorrow. We will hopefully be finishing the Short Story unit by the end of this week...
Posted: November 23, 2011
You have your test to study for. Also, see Nov. 18th's post about your narrative poem!
Posted: November 21, 2011
Test coming on Wednesday and Thursday! See ppt below for notes you may have missed!
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Posted: November 18, 2011
Period 3:
Write a narrative poem (200-500 words) in rhyming couplets. There are no set stanzas, but break between main ideas as you would in a short story. You must try to keep uniform line length. You may use forced rhyme.
Topics:
The Greatest Christmas (or Day) I Ever Had
Bringing Peace to Christmas (or to Humanity)
The Real Meaning of Christmas (or Friendship/Family or Giving)
A topic of your choice
Due: Nov. 24th.
*The Christmas topics will have a chance to be submitted to a contest The Times & Transcripts is running.
Posted: November 18, 2011
Due Monday: Your alternate ending to LOTF. (Min. 250 words.)
Test on Monday: LOTF.
Posted: November 17, 2011
Period 3 class: Finish the 10 questions on "The Miller's Tale" for tomorrow.
Unit test on the Middle English Period: next Wednesday!
Posted: November 17, 2011
You have some things to do for Monday:
1. Study for your LofF test! It's scheduled for Monday. Know the novel, H.O.T.S. questioning and rationale, novel elements, etc.
2. Golding ends LotF with a deus ex machina: an unlikely (and unsatisfactory) ending. You've said it yourself! So, fix it! You are to backtrack to where Ralph is being hunted...and rewrite the ending of the novel to one that is satifsfying for you. You may not use a deus ex machina or a cliff hanger. You need to take the role of narrator. It needs to be fitting to this classic; don't be cheap! If it means you write an extra chapter or two...do so! Min. 2 pages.
Posted: November 15, 2011
We are ready to begin our fabliau tomorrow.
Your unit test on the Middle English period will be next week. It's never to early to begin studying! Also, don't forget to go back and reflect on the ASaxon period to compare the two in literary aspects!
Posted: November 15, 2011
Read the rest of LotF tonight. Be prepared to discuss the final 2 chapters tomorrow. Heads up: test is coming up on Friday!
Posted: November 14, 2011
Your essays were due today!!!
Tonight, please read and complete the questions for ch. 9 & 10 in LOTF.
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Posted: November 14, 2011
Complete the 3 questions on The Pardoner's Tale.
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Posted: November 10, 2011
We are still working on the character outlines from the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. We should finish them on Monday.
Over the weekend, please read The Pardoner's Tale in Our Literary Heritage (or online). Answer the following two questions:
1. Briefly summarize this tale.
2. How does this poem fit the classification of a moral exemplum?
We will be looking further into this tale next week. Why is it so ironic that it's the Pardoner who tells this tale?
Posted: November 10, 2011
The final draft of your essay should be finished for Monday. Please make sure that you look at the rubric and FIX your essay before you hand it in to be marked by me. We have spent a lot of time in class working on thesis, supporting details, etc. You have edited; you have shared editing with a peer. When I get the result of all this...it should be excellent!
Your final essay should include:
Your final rubric (with your score) A peer will also give it a final scores before you hand it in.
Your final essay.
All other pieces of rough drafts and the other two rubrics you've used. I want to see the evidence of your writing process & metacognitive process!
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Posted: November 7, 2011
Complete the exercise on the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales for tomorrow's class. (Figure out the description for the characters listed in the Prologue. Was Chaucer being sarcastic about them, or did he paint them in a favorable manner?)