Friday, May 29, 2015

Macbeth Links

VISUAL MACBETH!


Graphic Novel

Roman Polanski’s Witches
Movie-1971?
Thug Notes
Off the Comic Cliff

Stickman

Access the links above and respond to each link in your Google Document for Macbeth. Then, make two suggestions for other visual links for Macbeth.

You may watch these together but you must all put your responses in your individual Google Docs that you have shared with me.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

"Rhetorical Devices"

Literary techniques and elements are the writerly tools most of you are familiar with.  Some of the essays and/or speeches that you will have to analyze for Part 3 of the Common Core Regents exam, however, make use of the what is referred to in the directions as "Rhetorical Devices".  We have studied these and applied them but you have not made use of them in your analysis of the Part 3 question.  You are trying to rely mostly on the other writerly tools that are referred to as literary.  Refer to the directions in Part 3 of the Common Core exams on the website- nysedregents.org/hsela

You will find that the writing samples that the exam selects to use can be more easily analyzed and responded to by identifying the following techniques that writers use:

Compare/Contrast
Classification/Division
Process Analysis
Definition
Description
Narration
Exemplification
Cause/ Effect

In some cases, the writers of the selections on the exam do not use literary elements/techniques- trying to analyze the text that way is difficult and time consuming.

In a google document that you created to explain the phrase "distinguish your claim....", define each of these above.  Then, look at the Part 3 selected texts on the Common Core exam website to identify at least one of the above terms in each of the Part 3 questions from the three different test dates on the website.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Imagery is Everything in Act IV of Macbeth!!!

Write your responses to these questions into your Google Document.


  1. Find three examples of vivid imagery in Act IV, explain what the imagery suggests.
  2. In Act IV, scene 1 and 2, find images that show children and babies are in danger.  Why is Macbeth at war with children and babies?
  3. Find two passages in Act IV, sc 3 with images of sickness- how do these images relate to the rising conflict between Macbeth and Malcolm?
  4. Identify two images that describe Scotland, the country.
  5. Identify three patterns of imagery- a series of related images- that occur throughout Act IV.
  6. Explain how the patterns of imagery that you identified in 5 relates to an important theme- an insight on life or comment on life.

Homework- Finish Macbeth and answer the following questions.

Act V Questions

  1. What does the doctor see in the sleepwalking scene and what does he speculate about what he sees?
  2. Explain how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have reversed roles- find support.
  3. Explain how Macbeth makes a comment on his relationship with Lady Macbeth.
  4. What comment does Macbeth make concerning the witches and why?
  5. What is Macbeth’s state of mind in the final battle? Support your response with evidence from the text.
  6. What occurs in Act V, scene 8, lines 35-75?

Friday, May 1, 2015

MLK!!!!

Open the link below and read the first three pages of the Letter.   After you have read the Letter, identify the techniques below that MLK uses.

MLKJr Letter

TECHNIQUES
A. Appeals
1. Logos
2. Pathos
3. Ethos
B. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
1. Thesis
2. Appeals?
3. Rhetorical Techniques
a) Example
1. historical
a. biblical
b. philosophers
c. revolutionaries
2. everyday life
b) Cause and Effect
c) Classification/ Division
d) Definition
e) Process Analysis

Thursday, April 30, 2015

"The Story of an Hour", "Richard Cory", appearances and expressive techniques

Write your responses to both of the following writing tasks in the Google document that you created and shared with me yesterday (if this is unclear, look at the previous post- from yesterday).

You must finish both of these writing tasks, below, by the end of this period.

A. Write a well-developed paragraph in which you use ideas from both "The Story of an Hour" (628-) and "Richard Cory" (644) to establish a controlling idea about appearances. Develop your controlling idea using specific examples and details from both poems.

B. Choose a specific literary element (e.g., theme, characterization, structure, point of view, etc.) or literary technique (e.g., symbolism, irony, figurative language, etc.) used by one of the poets. Using specific details from either “The Story of an Hour" or "Richard Cory”, in a well-developed paragraph, show how the author uses that element or technique to develop the passage.


Homework- Read Martin Luther King Jr.s "from Letter from Birmingham Jail" (p 1109-1112) and answer the questions that follow.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

J. Alfred???

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

A.     Summarize stanzas 7, 8, and 9
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8-



9-



*What common point do all of these stanzas share?


B.     After listening to a reading of the poem locate the literary elements that support the different aspects of the work; find at least three images that express each of the ideas below.  Be sure to identify three images for each idea.

Speaker rejected by women




Speaker attracted to feminine beauty





Speaker feeling unimportant, having no effect upon his environment





Speaker feeling misunderstood or reduced to lesser than he understands himself






Speaker’s indecision






Speaker’s sense of over self consciousness







C.     Answer questions 2, 3 and the Big Question (p 712)








D.  e.e.  cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (p 781)
1.  Answer questions 4-6 (p 782) and 2. explain the meaning of the poem with support from the poem itself.