As an ending to the entire novel, I simply want you to respond to the following prompt:
"What do you believe to be Hemingway's overall theme of the novel? What gave you this impression? Give examples from the text to support your stance."
Please answer the question entirely, as for length, this will be up to you, but must be proficient and up to expectations.
Choose one peer to respond to by Monday, April 25th @ 3pm. Discuss whether or not you agree with their stance and explain.
**Because I am giving you the extra time, I expect a top-notch discussion being that it is the last of the year!**
Have a great break, enjoy your family, and remember that Christ is risen and He is the reason we are free~
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
A Farewell to Arms 8-10
Respond to the following discussion questions and react to at least two of your classmates.
Initial postings should be up by Monday, April 11th @ midnight and reactions should be up by Tuesday, April 12th @ midnight.
1. What do you think is the purpose of the the St. Anthony that Catherine gives Henry? How does Henry view the gift?
2. Discuss why you think Hemingway ends his chapters so abruptly. See page 45 for reference.
3. In chapter 9, Henry has a conversation about the war with other soldiers. What does he undestand about the war that the others do not? Expliain.
4. What does the conversation about the war reveal about how the soldiers feel about the war?
5. Re-read the passage beginning on page 54-55 describing Henry's encounter with an attack. Why is this section so powerful? Describe what Henry is feeling--why does he show no emotion? How much time elapses between the shelling and when he is finally picked up (this will take you through page 56)
Initial postings should be up by Monday, April 11th @ midnight and reactions should be up by Tuesday, April 12th @ midnight.
1. What do you think is the purpose of the the St. Anthony that Catherine gives Henry? How does Henry view the gift?
2. Discuss why you think Hemingway ends his chapters so abruptly. See page 45 for reference.
3. In chapter 9, Henry has a conversation about the war with other soldiers. What does he undestand about the war that the others do not? Expliain.
4. What does the conversation about the war reveal about how the soldiers feel about the war?
5. Re-read the passage beginning on page 54-55 describing Henry's encounter with an attack. Why is this section so powerful? Describe what Henry is feeling--why does he show no emotion? How much time elapses between the shelling and when he is finally picked up (this will take you through page 56)
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Othello Assignment--Due Sunday, March 27th
Here are you discussion questions for Act I and Act II. Please complete by Sunday evening at midnight. You will need to not only respond to the question, but respond to at least two of your peers in discussion.
Act I
Act I Scene 3 lines 248-259
1. Analyze the passage below. How do these lines give the first glimpse of tension between Othello's responsibility as a general, and as a husband? How is Desdamona conflicted? Do you anticipate any further conflict?
"That I did love the Moor to live with him,
My downright violence and storm of fortunes
May trumpet to the world. My heart's subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honors and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
So that, dear lords, if I be left behind
A moth of peace and he go to the war,
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear absence. Let me go with him."
2. Act I Scene 3 lines 293-198
Discuss how these lines may exhibit foreshadowing within the play.
3. Act I Scene 3 lines 319-331
Analyze Iago's metaphor. What does he mean? What message is he trying to convey to Roderigo? Give examples and support
ACT II
4. Discuss how Iago "grows into" being the villian in this play. Do you think he is the ultimate villian? Why/why not?
Act I
Act I Scene 3 lines 248-259
1. Analyze the passage below. How do these lines give the first glimpse of tension between Othello's responsibility as a general, and as a husband? How is Desdamona conflicted? Do you anticipate any further conflict?
"That I did love the Moor to live with him,
My downright violence and storm of fortunes
May trumpet to the world. My heart's subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honors and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
So that, dear lords, if I be left behind
A moth of peace and he go to the war,
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear absence. Let me go with him."
2. Act I Scene 3 lines 293-198
Discuss how these lines may exhibit foreshadowing within the play.
3. Act I Scene 3 lines 319-331
Analyze Iago's metaphor. What does he mean? What message is he trying to convey to Roderigo? Give examples and support
ACT II
4. Discuss how Iago "grows into" being the villian in this play. Do you think he is the ultimate villian? Why/why not?
Monday, March 21, 2011
Act II--Othello
Hey all!
I hope your spring break has been restful. I will have Act I and II discussion questions up by Wednesday. You will need to respond to the discussion questions and at least TWO of your peers by Sunday @ midnight.
Get some rest!
I hope your spring break has been restful. I will have Act I and II discussion questions up by Wednesday. You will need to respond to the discussion questions and at least TWO of your peers by Sunday @ midnight.
Get some rest!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Chap 13, 14, 15
Here are your questions for chapters 13-15. Please respond online, and to at least two of your peers by Sunday, March 13th at midnight
Chapter 13
1. What are the differences between Holmes and Stapleton? Similarities? Based on what you know of each character, are their reactions to Selden's death expected? Explain.
2. How do you feel about Holmes' reaction to the discovery that Selden was the dead man? Do you think less of his character becasue of this? Why or why not?
Chapter 14
1. How has Stapleton manipulated his wife and Mrs. Lyons? Does it seem that anyone who is capable of using love against someone can actually love? Does Stapleton actually love his wife? Why or why not?
2. Discuss how love is turned against people in this novel. Does it seem that all love is doomed to be expoloited in this story? explain
Chapter 15
1. Do you believe that concealing the hound for so long was an effective measure of suspense? Why/why not? Would you have brought the hound in earlier? Describe some of the hints that the hound was not actually supernatural.
Chapter 13
1. What are the differences between Holmes and Stapleton? Similarities? Based on what you know of each character, are their reactions to Selden's death expected? Explain.
2. How do you feel about Holmes' reaction to the discovery that Selden was the dead man? Do you think less of his character becasue of this? Why or why not?
Chapter 14
1. How has Stapleton manipulated his wife and Mrs. Lyons? Does it seem that anyone who is capable of using love against someone can actually love? Does Stapleton actually love his wife? Why or why not?
2. Discuss how love is turned against people in this novel. Does it seem that all love is doomed to be expoloited in this story? explain
Chapter 15
1. Do you believe that concealing the hound for so long was an effective measure of suspense? Why/why not? Would you have brought the hound in earlier? Describe some of the hints that the hound was not actually supernatural.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Chp 9 & 10 Discussion Questions
Respond to the following questions--responses are due in class tomorrow, Tuesday, March 8th
Chap 9
1. What is a red herring? Who or what is the red herring in this story? Why was it introduced? What did it add to the story?
2. How do Watson's morals affect the story? What is the purpose of making Watson unable to shoot the convict?
Chap 10
1. Why does Sir Henry agree to leave Selden alone? Is Barrymore's outrage more to do with his own personal feelings or for his wife's sake? Explain?
2. What literary purpose is there to parallel the weather with the characters? How does it add to the suspense and tension of the novel?
Chap 9
1. What is a red herring? Who or what is the red herring in this story? Why was it introduced? What did it add to the story?
2. How do Watson's morals affect the story? What is the purpose of making Watson unable to shoot the convict?
Chap 10
1. Why does Sir Henry agree to leave Selden alone? Is Barrymore's outrage more to do with his own personal feelings or for his wife's sake? Explain?
2. What literary purpose is there to parallel the weather with the characters? How does it add to the suspense and tension of the novel?
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Chapter 7- Discussion
Do you believe the Barrymores or the Stapletons are more suspicious? Why? What is your proof? Who should Holmes/Watson focus on? Why?
Make your case, and respond to at least one peer of the opposite side in which you argue your point.
Due Wednesday, March 2nd.
Make your case, and respond to at least one peer of the opposite side in which you argue your point.
Due Wednesday, March 2nd.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Hound of the Baskervilles-Chapter 2
After completing chapter 2 this evening, please respond to the following discussion questions. You may type or hand write your responses. Be sure to answer the questions entirely, and be ready to discuss tomorrow.
1. What are the supernatural elements contained in the Baskerville legend?
2. How does it have any bearing on Sir Charles' death? How does it have any bearing on the supposed violent deaths of other Baskerville men?
3. Does it appear that Dr. Mortimer is trying to prove the legend to be true or false? How can you tell?
4. Do you think less of Dr. Mortimer's apparent unease with the story? How is this at odds with his scientific training?
1. What are the supernatural elements contained in the Baskerville legend?
2. How does it have any bearing on Sir Charles' death? How does it have any bearing on the supposed violent deaths of other Baskerville men?
3. Does it appear that Dr. Mortimer is trying to prove the legend to be true or false? How can you tell?
4. Do you think less of Dr. Mortimer's apparent unease with the story? How is this at odds with his scientific training?
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
"Ode to the West Wind"
Locate devices in the following poems
Read the poem through once to get an idea for form and sound.
Start with what you know:
Distinguish what you know and what you don’t know (perhaps highlight or underline what you do not understand)
Look for patterns
Look for changes
Tone, focus, narrator, structure, voice, patterns
Check for new understanding
Re-read the poem
Annotate /paraphrase each stanza
What devices are used?
How do they add to the understanding of the poem?
How do they add to the flow/rhythm/rhyme of the poem?
Discuss how the poet’s diction and syntax are exhibited through the devices and why you believe he/she chose to use those words.
**Complete a 5 paragraph essay discussing how the devices and diction compliment the poem’s meaning.**
Read the poem through once to get an idea for form and sound.
Start with what you know:
Distinguish what you know and what you don’t know (perhaps highlight or underline what you do not understand)
Look for patterns
Look for changes
Tone, focus, narrator, structure, voice, patterns
Check for new understanding
Re-read the poem
Annotate /paraphrase each stanza
What devices are used?
How do they add to the understanding of the poem?
How do they add to the flow/rhythm/rhyme of the poem?
Discuss how the poet’s diction and syntax are exhibited through the devices and why you believe he/she chose to use those words.
**Complete a 5 paragraph essay discussing how the devices and diction compliment the poem’s meaning.**
Friday, January 21, 2011
"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost
Please annotate and paraphrase Frost's "Mending Wall". You should focus on tone, diction, and syntax. Keep in mind that you should decipher a specific purpose/theme and how the poet communicates the theme effectively through diction, syntax, and tone.
Your essay is due Monday at the beginning of class. DO NOT RESEARCH FOR YOUR ESSAY. Approach your essay as if it were an AP test question.
Post your responses to the poem by Saturday, January 22nd @ midnight. Your responses should discuss your essay. You must respond to two of your peers by Sunday, January 23rd @ midnight.
In case you lost the poem, here is a copy:
Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Your essay is due Monday at the beginning of class. DO NOT RESEARCH FOR YOUR ESSAY. Approach your essay as if it were an AP test question.
Post your responses to the poem by Saturday, January 22nd @ midnight. Your responses should discuss your essay. You must respond to two of your peers by Sunday, January 23rd @ midnight.
In case you lost the poem, here is a copy:
Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
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