Macbeth Links

VISUAL MACBETH!

http://www.classicalcomics.com/images/samples/PDFs/Macbeth_PlainText.pdf

Graphic Novel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clG8ha2D26g

Roman Polanski’s Witches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjDqPCJOaI

Movie-1971?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-PKotyoxys

Thug Notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkBp-2fAbiU

Off the Comic Cliff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFtCYESosDw

Stickman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyytzE13iV4
The Rap

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.

"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.

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?

Take This...and this...and this

Surfeit

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

"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.

J. Alfred???

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

A.     Summarize stanzas 7, 8, and 9

7-

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.

Quiz Chapters 22-34: Huck Finn

22-"Why the Lynching Bee Failed": Why does the lynching fail?
23-"The Orneriness of Kings": What very personal guilt does Jim share with Huck?
24-"The King Turns Parson"- What does Jim disguise himself as?
25- "All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle"  What is 'Flapdoodle'?
26- "I Steal the King's Plunder" How does Huck find the "Kings Plunder"?
27- "Dead Peter Has His Gold"  Why does he have his gold?
28-"Overreaching Don't Pay" Who overreaches?  Why doesn't it pay?
29-"I Light Out in the Storm" What are the King and the Duke accused of?
30- "The Gold Saves the Theives" What is the conflict in this chapter and how is it resolved?
31-"You Can't Pray a Lie" What has happened to Jim?
32-"I Have a New Name"- Which old character arrives in this chapter?
33-"The Pitiful Ending of Royalty"- What deeper understanding about the world does Huck realize?
34- "We Cheer Jim Up" For what specific reason is JIm cheered up?

April 17

Summarize the chapters, separately, that you read for homework (26-29).  Add those summaries to your Google doc.

Read up to the end of chapter 34 in  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for homework.  Be sure that you have completed this by our class on Monday.

April 16

Read and summarize chapters 24 and 25 in class to add to your Google doc.

Read Chapters 26-29 for homework- see you tomorrow.

April 15

Summarize each of the chapters that you read last night (22-23) for homework, separately, in the last Google doc that you shared with me on Chapters 16-21

Civilization????

CHAPTERS 16-20

Answer the following questions- use support from the novel as evidence for your claims.

Chapter 16  

What does Huck have a sense of guilt for?  Why does he feel this way?  Explain the external cause for his inner turmoil.

What does Jim say to intensify this guilt? What political issue of the time does this comment introduce?

How does this conflict lead to a cultural/ historical understanding of the setting of the novel?

Ultimately, how does Huck show what he has decided to do about his nagging guilt? Why does he make this decision?

What happens to the raft?  How is this event a plot device for the future chapters?

Chapter 17

Who are the Grangerfords?  How are they and their household characterized?  How are Huck's observations of their family and home an explanation of the historical / cultural setting of the novel?

Chapter 18 

Explain the characterization of the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons. What is Buck's opinion of the Shepherdsons?

What is his explanation of how the feud started?  What does this explain about the general quality of feuds?

What event in the chapter complicates the conflict between the two families?  How is this event similar to one tragic classic drama?  In what way does Twain parody the earlier classic text?  Also, by referring to this earlier text, what comment is Twain making about human behavior?

Chapter 19

Who are the Duke and the Dauphin?   How are the actions of these two characters on the raft symbolic of the rhetoric if slavery in the South?

Chapter 20

What do the Duke and the Dauphin represent in Southern society from before and after the Civil War?

Overview- Chapters 16-20

1.  Make a list of the negative aspects that originate from the civilization on the land. What comment does Twain's satire make about civilization?  Be sure to select at least one aspect from each chapter.

2.  What does the river represent in relation to the land's civilization?

3.  How does Twain's evaluation of Nature and Civilization connect to earlier literary texts and even movements that we have studied this year?

You read Chapter 12, right?

Chapter 12

Where are Huck and Jim hiding?  What are they discussing?

Explain at least three of the exceptional characteristics of Huck and Jim’s Raft.

What major city do they pass as they travel on the river?  How can they tell what it is?

How does Huckleberry get supplies for Jim and himself?

On the fifth night below St. Louis, what do they discover?  Explain the situation as thoroughly as you are able.

What do Jim and Huck decide to do about the “situation”?

What predicament are they left in, at the close of the chapter?
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Take notes on chapters 13 and 14- include analysis

Homework- Read chapter 15.

Quiz tomorrow- chapters 9-15 (essay)

Chapter's 9-11

Chapter 9

A.      Find the paragraph and write the beginning sentence of that paragraph for the following items in Chapter 9:

1.       Cave described as a man-made architecture.

2.       Poetic description of the storm

3.       Companionship of Huck and Jim

4.       Nature as a companion

B.      After you have located these passages, explain the significance of the passage to the themes we have explored so far in the novel

C.      Explain the discovery that Huck and Jim make in chapter 9- include at least 5 details about this discovery.

Chapter 10

List at least three things in chapter 10 that, generally, bring bad luck.  Also, include what the specific consequences are for these things that bring bad luck.

What happens to Jim in this chapter?

What is the size of the fish that Huck and Jim catch?

What does Huck decide to do, near the end of the chapter? Why?

Where does he stop, on his way?

Chapter 11

Who is Mrs. Judith Loftis- how is she characterized?  Make a list of at least three details to support your evaluation of her character.

What information does Huck get from Mrs.  Judith Loftis?

What does Huck discover, concerning Jim?

Where does Huck go after meeting with Loftis?

Homework- due Monday (March 30)- read Chapter 12 and take notes

Chapters 6-8: Transition

In a new document on Huckleberry Finn, called "transition", answer the questions for chapter 6.  Then, read chapters 7 and 8, for homework, and add those to your document.

Chapter 6

What is Huck’s new way of life?  How does he feel about this transition? Give examples to support your answer.

What are his plans?  How do these plans define him as a character?

Identify at least one of Pap’s arguments against the government; how does this displeasure define his character?

Chapter 7

What important event/useful acquisition takes place, at the beginning of this chapter?  Why is it crucial to the plot of Chapters 7 and 8?

What does Huckleberry make people believe?  How does he do it?  How does this add to the development of his character in the novel?

Where does he go?  What does he do?

Chapter 8

Why is there a cannon being fired at the beginning of this chapter?

What does Huckleberry discover in his new home?  What is his reaction to this discovery?

Who does Huckleberry discover?  Summarize the events relayed by his “new friend”.

What “investment” has his new acquaintance made?  List them.

How do we understand this character by the information he has given to Huckleberry?

Overview- Explain the world that the three focal characters of these chapters live in.  What are their rules, values and qualities that enable them to survive?  Define what at least two of these characters share and concisely identify the environment that these three characters in habit.  In doing so, what comment and/ or conclusion does our author, Mark Twain, make about human nature?

Jim's Hairball???

Chapters 3-5

Huckleberry Finn

English 11

Mr. Buyce

Chapter 3

What does prayer accomplish, according to Miss Watson?

What does Huck pray for?

According to Miss Watson, what should you pray for?

How long has it been since Huckleberry has seen his father?

What do they think has happened to Huck’s father?

What is the “gang’s” first mission?

Explain Tom Sawyer’s reference to Don Quixote.

Who are their enemies, according to Tom Sawyer?  What do these enemies create?  What do these creations do?

Why do we find Huck out in the woods, rubbing an iron ring and old tin lamp, at the close of the chapter?

Chapter 4

Why does Huck sleep in the woods?

What does the widow admit to Huckleberry?

Why does Huck feel “worried and shaky”?

What does Huckleberry notice in the new snow?

Why does Huck go to see Judge Thatcher?

What is so special about Jim’s hairball?

Explain Huck’s future, according to Jim?

Chapter 5

What “visitor” does Huck discover in his room?

From the visitor’s description, summarize his appearance in no more than two sentences.

What does the visitor observe, concerning Huckleberry?

What does the visitor tell Huck, concerning school?  Why?

What does the visitor ask Huck, concerning money?

What happens to Huck’s father?

What promise does Huck’s father make?  To whom does he make this promise?  Does he keep this promise?

What does the new Judge decide, concerning Huckleberry’s father?

Chapter 2

Chapter 2- Huckleberry Finn

English 11

Mr. Buyce

From your reading for homework, answer the following questions.  Answer what you able to without your novel; use the book for the questions you cannot answer.  Be sure to be accurate in your responses.  Please work alone, as you will be evaluated on an individual basis.

Chapter 2

1.       Who hears Huck and Tom?

2.       What uncomfortable thing happens to Huck?

3.       What does Tom Sawyer do?

4.       How does Jim explain his hat being taken?

5.       Explain the stories Jim tells?

6.       How do other slaves react to Jim’s stories?

7.       How are Jim’s fellow slaves characterized?

8.       What kind of status has Jim set himself up with, to his fellows?  How has he done that?

9.       Why is Jim “ruined for a servant”?

10.   Who does Huck and Tom find?

11.   Where do the boys go?

12.   What do they do once they are there?  What do they call it?

13.   Explain the oath of Sawyer’s gang?

14.   What do the boy’s decide about Huckleberry’s family?

15.   What is the function of Sawyer’s gang?  For what reason?

16.   What is the gang’s understanding of “ransom”?

17.   What does the gang treat women? Why?

18.   What do Tom and the gang plan to do in a week?

19.   What happens to Huckleberry’s clothes?

20.   Write a paragraph on the cultural understanding of Jim, his fellow slaves and the boys in this chapter.  How are each defined- what are they representations of?  What comment is Twain making on each of these type of characters?

Beginning Huckleberry Finn!!!

Welcome to the Wild World of HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Answer these questions below.

A. Comprehension
1.  What other book did Mark Twain write?

2.  What does the speaker of this passage tell us about Twain's handling of the truth?

3.  Why does our speaker leave the widow's house and then return?

4.  What does the widow do before meals?

5.  Why is the speaker not concerned with Moses?

6.  What habits do the speaker and the widow have?

7.  What place does miss Watson tell our narrator about?How does he feel about this place?

8.  Why doesn't our narrator want to go to the good place?

9.  What bad sign does our narrator receive?

10.  What does our narrator do to protect himself?

11.  Where does the narrator go?  How does he get there?  Who is waiting for him there?

B. Analysis

12.  What is our speaker's education?  Support your response with proof from the text.

13.  What does our narrator's observation about the author explain about writers?

14.  How does our narrator feel about "civilized" life?  Explain your answer with proof from the text.

15.  How does the speaker feel about religion- Christianity?

16.  How does he feel about the supernatural? Support your response with reference to the text.

C. Literary Element- Characterization
In a paragraph, explain how our narrator is characterized in this first chapter.  Explain at least three different aspects of his personality, using evidence from the text to support your observations.

An Occurrence and Civil War Nonfiction

Period 1: finish reading the civil war non fiction texts on the front board. Then read the non fiction text on "Gettysburg". On a piece of loose leaf paper, summarize each nonfiction text, write an analysis of each speaker and write a paragraph on the purpose of each text. Turn this in by the end of the period. It will be graded.

Period 8: finish reading " An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".  Summarize the events of the tale from Farquhar's perspective. Then, explain how a union soldier who was present at the bridge would perceive the events of the tale. Be sure to write this on a piece of loose leaf paper that you will turn in by the end of the period.