For those parents who wanted to purchase novels for their students and never got the form we sent home, here are the novels we will read this year:
MacBeth by William Shakespeare (coming up soon!)
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (in textbook, but you may want to have your own copy)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Night by Elie Wiesel
1984 by George Orwell
Friday, September 30, 2005
American Studies: Vocabulary
Your next Vocab. Test will be on Friday, October 21st. Vocabulary Lesson 2 is on my website. Learn the roots, prefixes and suffixes as well as the words.
American Studies: Novels
It's always a good idea to have your own copies of the novels we read in class. That way you can practice your critical reading skills and prepare much more easily for class discussion, papers and tests. The novels we will be reading this year are:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
We will also read The Crucible, which is in our textbook.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
We will also read The Crucible, which is in our textbook.
American Studies: Independent Reading
Independent Reading choices for first Semester:
Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Have your novel read when you return from Winter Break on January 3rd and be prepared to write an in-class essay about your novel. The prompt will ask you to relate the novel to our studies in class in some way. The essay test will be open book. Happy Reading!
Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Have your novel read when you return from Winter Break on January 3rd and be prepared to write an in-class essay about your novel. The prompt will ask you to relate the novel to our studies in class in some way. The essay test will be open book. Happy Reading!
Thursday, September 29, 2005
American Studies: Thanatopsis, 9/29
Poetry packets were handed out today. Save this because you will use it throughout the year. Journal entry: Predict what the poem Thanatopsis will be about based on the meaning of the Greek words which made up its title: Thanatos (death) plus Opsis (seeing).
Review of Romanticism Introduction, and notes added to author chart on William Cullen Bryant.
Tomorrow: Vocabulary Test 1
Monday: Draft of Personal Essay is due; bring Lit. Books to class (one for every 2 people please)
Review of Romanticism Introduction, and notes added to author chart on William Cullen Bryant.
Tomorrow: Vocabulary Test 1
Monday: Draft of Personal Essay is due; bring Lit. Books to class (one for every 2 people please)
American Studies Extra Credit Opportunities
Seattle Art Museum (downtown)
Exhibit: The American Landscape's "Quieter Spirit": Early paintings by Frederic Edwin Church
The exhibit runs until October 16th.
To earn extra credit (20 pts. in English and History) you need to visit the exhibit, take notes on what you see, save your ticket stub, and write a one page minimum review of the exhibit, making connections to both American Romanticism and to Lewis and Clark and the westward movement. Turn in notes, review and ticket stub. Full credit will be given to those who do a good job on the notes and review.
Intiman Theater
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck runs from October 7 to November 13. Tickets for age 25 and under are only $10. Go to the play, save your ticket stub, go home and write a one page minimum review which explains what you learned about the Great Depression and about the novel, Grapes of Wrath, and explains what you liked or didn't like about the play. Full credit will be given to those who do a good job on the review and turn in both review and ticket stub
Exhibit: The American Landscape's "Quieter Spirit": Early paintings by Frederic Edwin Church
The exhibit runs until October 16th.
To earn extra credit (20 pts. in English and History) you need to visit the exhibit, take notes on what you see, save your ticket stub, and write a one page minimum review of the exhibit, making connections to both American Romanticism and to Lewis and Clark and the westward movement. Turn in notes, review and ticket stub. Full credit will be given to those who do a good job on the notes and review.
Intiman Theater
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck runs from October 7 to November 13. Tickets for age 25 and under are only $10. Go to the play, save your ticket stub, go home and write a one page minimum review which explains what you learned about the Great Depression and about the novel, Grapes of Wrath, and explains what you liked or didn't like about the play. Full credit will be given to those who do a good job on the review and turn in both review and ticket stub
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
American Studies 9/27
Homework: Read pages 138-150 (Romanticism) in your lit. book. If you were absent today, you'll need to get the Romanticism video worksheet and get notes from a classmate for the part you missed.
Journal Make Up: Read the following poem and write a reflection on it.
Opinion, by Baron Wormser
Halfway to work and Merriman already has told me
What he thinks about the balanced budget, the Mets’
Lack of starting pitching, the dangers of displaced
Soviet nuclear engineers, soy products, and diesel cars.
I look out the window and hope I'll see a swan.
I hear they’re bad-tempered but I love their necks
And how they glide along so sovereignly.
I never take the time to drive to a pond
And spend an hour watching swans. What
Would happen if I heeded the admonitions of beauty?
When I look over at Merriman, he's telling Driscoll
That the President doesn't know what he's doing
With China. "China," I say out loud but softly.
I go back to the window. It's started snowing.
What is going on in the poem? Who is the speaker? What is the situation? What is being thought of and/ or discussed? What is the major conflict presented in this poem? Who do you relate more to, the "I" or Merriman. Why?
Journal Make Up: Read the following poem and write a reflection on it.
Opinion, by Baron Wormser
Halfway to work and Merriman already has told me
What he thinks about the balanced budget, the Mets’
Lack of starting pitching, the dangers of displaced
Soviet nuclear engineers, soy products, and diesel cars.
I look out the window and hope I'll see a swan.
I hear they’re bad-tempered but I love their necks
And how they glide along so sovereignly.
I never take the time to drive to a pond
And spend an hour watching swans. What
Would happen if I heeded the admonitions of beauty?
When I look over at Merriman, he's telling Driscoll
That the President doesn't know what he's doing
With China. "China," I say out loud but softly.
I go back to the window. It's started snowing.
What is going on in the poem? Who is the speaker? What is the situation? What is being thought of and/ or discussed? What is the major conflict presented in this poem? Who do you relate more to, the "I" or Merriman. Why?
Monday, September 26, 2005
European Fishbowl Make-Up
Write a one-page (minimum) typed, double-spaced response to four of the fishbowl questions using evidence from the readings and from history class. (You'll turn in a minimum of four pages.) Due by Monday the 3rd.
Questions:
Should strong measures be taken to end the alleged corruption in the Church?
Does the Social Structure of the Middle Ages apply to CT?
The status of women in society
The understanding/interpretation of the code of chivalry
Does Chaucer have a positive or negative view of society?What view of love or romance is portrayed in CT?
Questions:
Should strong measures be taken to end the alleged corruption in the Church?
Does the Social Structure of the Middle Ages apply to CT?
The status of women in society
The understanding/interpretation of the code of chivalry
Does Chaucer have a positive or negative view of society?What view of love or romance is portrayed in CT?
American Studies
What's up next....
Tuesday: Intro. to Romanticism
Wednesday: Thanatopsis
Thursday: Thanatopsis
Friday: Vocabulary Test
Tuesday: Intro. to Romanticism
Wednesday: Thanatopsis
Thursday: Thanatopsis
Friday: Vocabulary Test
European Studies
What's coming up:
Tuesday: Middle Ages Exam
Wednesday: Vocabulary Quiz 9/28; Middle Ages HWP due; turn in your journal
Thursday and Friday: Petrarch and Italian sonnets...va bene!
Tuesday: Middle Ages Exam
Wednesday: Vocabulary Quiz 9/28; Middle Ages HWP due; turn in your journal
Thursday and Friday: Petrarch and Italian sonnets...va bene!
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