"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

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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.

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?