Vocabulary for Friday: SAT vocab 547 SAT Terms "prattle" - "odium"
Write a vocabulary story using five of this week's words in context.
Of Mice and Men TEST Monday.
HOMEWORK: Finish Winter Dreams by Fitzgerald and In Another Country by Hemingway
Hemingway's In Another Country
HEMINGWAY. How does Hemingway Write?
What is the effect of the author's use of literary devices--how does the hand of the artist paint the picture that ultimately leads to theme
The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty
--imagery The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty
Visual imagery.
--word choice "stiff"=dead--rigor mortis "empty" =soullessness of modern man/disillusionment
fall (impending death) war cold dark, wind blew, stiff, empty
H. likes short, simple words. His words tend to focus more on physical details rather than intellectual connotations.
Types of details are physical details. H. is a physical guy.
--metaphor The deer is a metaphor of . . .
--Narrator's voice
--Types of sentences
--metaphor
FITZGERALD. How does Fitzgerald Write?
Winter Dreams online text found here: Winter Dreams
Homework: finish Winter Dreams and In Another Country
What is the effect of the author's use of literary devices--how does the hand of the artist paint the picture that ultimately leads to theme?
Some of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father . . .
--imagery
Types of details
--word choice neurasthenic=weak, tired. Challenging, very specific words that deal with concepts. The
--metaphor
--simile "poor as sin" Fitzgerald's narration requires an intelligent reader. What does "poor as sin" mean?
The narrator mentally processes what is going on.
--Types of sentences
minimalistic
--Narrator's voice
With H. you have to rely upon the physical description and simple dialogue and find the ideas for yourself.
Vocabulary for Friday: SAT vocab 547 SAT Terms "Prattle" - "odium"
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Fitzgerald
Of Mice and Men TEST Monday.
HOMEWORK: Finish Winter Dreams by Fitzgerald and In Another Country by Hemingway
Hemingway's In Another Country
HEMINGWAY. How does Hemingway Write?
What is the effect of the author's use of literary devices--how does the hand of the artist paint the picture that ultimately leads to theme
The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty
--imagery The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty
Visual imagery.
--word choice "stiff"=dead--rigor mortis "empty" =soullessness of modern man/disillusionment
fall (impending death) war cold dark, wind blew, stiff, empty
H. likes short, simple words. His words tend to focus more on physical details rather than intellectual connotations.
Types of details are physical details. H. is a physical guy.
--metaphor The deer is a metaphor of . . .
--Narrator's voice
--Types of sentences
--metaphor
FITZGERALD. How does Fitzgerald Write?
Winter Dreams online text found here: Winter Dreams
Homework: finish Winter Dreams and In Another Country
What is the effect of the author's use of literary devices--how does the hand of the artist paint the picture that ultimately leads to theme?
--imagery
Types of details
--word choice
--metaphor
--Types of sentences
minimalistic
--Narrator's voice
With H. you have to rely upon the physical description and simple dialogue and find the ideas for yourself.
Vocabulary for Friday: SAT vocab 547 SAT Terms "Prattle" - "odium"
HOMEWORK: Finish Winter Dreams by Fitzgerald and In Another Country by Hemingway
Hemingway's In Another Country
HEMINGWAY. How does Hemingway Write?
What is the effect of the author's use of literary devices--how does the hand of the artist paint the picture that ultimately leads to theme
The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty
--imagery The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty
Visual imagery.
--word choice "stiff"=dead--rigor mortis "empty" =soullessness of modern man/disillusionment
fall (impending death) war cold dark, wind blew, stiff, empty
H. likes short, simple words. His words tend to focus more on physical details rather than intellectual connotations.
Types of details are physical details. H. is a physical guy.
--metaphor The deer is a metaphor of . . .
--Narrator's voice
--Types of sentences
--metaphor
FITZGERALD. How does Fitzgerald Write?
Winter Dreams online text found here: Winter Dreams
Homework: finish Winter Dreams and In Another Country
What is the effect of the author's use of literary devices--how does the hand of the artist paint the picture that ultimately leads to theme?
--imagery
Types of details
--word choice
--metaphor
--Types of sentences
minimalistic
--Narrator's voice
With H. you have to rely upon the physical description and simple dialogue and find the ideas for yourself.
Vocabulary for Friday: SAT vocab 547 SAT Terms "Prattle" - "odium"
Monday, February 23, 2015
Monday
Of Mice and Men
Why do people consider euthanizing a pet "the right thing to do" but feel that it is morally wrong to euthanize a human? Need I explain the connection to the novel?
Homework: Read Is it Ethical to Euthanize Your Dog from Psychology Today
(Note: you may, or may not, have a short reading quiz on any assignments like this that I give you as homework)
Read Euthanasia: Top 10 Pros and Cons for Euthanasia (for Humans)
Vocabulary for Friday: SAT vocab 547 SAT Terms "Prattle" - "odium"
Homework: Read Hemingway's In Another Country Be ready for a reading quiz (or not)
Why do people consider euthanizing a pet "the right thing to do" but feel that it is morally wrong to euthanize a human? Need I explain the connection to the novel?
Homework: Read Is it Ethical to Euthanize Your Dog from Psychology Today
(Note: you may, or may not, have a short reading quiz on any assignments like this that I give you as homework)
Read Euthanasia: Top 10 Pros and Cons for Euthanasia (for Humans)
Vocabulary for Friday: SAT vocab 547 SAT Terms "Prattle" - "odium"
Homework: Read Hemingway's In Another Country Be ready for a reading quiz (or not)
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
George and Lennie
Read Modernism intro in Red Book (the official title, in case you didn't know)--pages 693-707
Reading quiz over those pages
Of Mice and Men
Discuss page 26, 40,
Discussion tomorrow: Why do people consider euthanizing a pet "the right thing to do" but feel that it is morally wrong to euthanize a human? Need I explain the connection to the novel?
Homework: Read Is it Ethical to Euthanize Your Dog from Psychology Today
(Note: you may, or may not, have a short reading quiz on any assignments like this that I give you as homework)
Read Euthanasia: Top 10 Pros and Cons for Euthanasia (for Humans)
Here are some interesting articles and charts for your general amusement and edification:
Buying a house for $600? House prices in 1930
What is That in Today's Dollars? Measuring Worth (another What is that Worth)
How many minutes do you have to work to buy a gallon of milk, pint of beer, litre of petrol
Reading quiz over those pages
Of Mice and Men
Discuss page 26, 40,
Discussion tomorrow: Why do people consider euthanizing a pet "the right thing to do" but feel that it is morally wrong to euthanize a human? Need I explain the connection to the novel?
Homework: Read Is it Ethical to Euthanize Your Dog from Psychology Today
(Note: you may, or may not, have a short reading quiz on any assignments like this that I give you as homework)
Read Euthanasia: Top 10 Pros and Cons for Euthanasia (for Humans)
Here are some interesting articles and charts for your general amusement and edification:
Buying a house for $600? House prices in 1930
What is That in Today's Dollars? Measuring Worth (another What is that Worth)
How many minutes do you have to work to buy a gallon of milk, pint of beer, litre of petrol
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
To a Mouse
To a Mouse--Robert Burns
On a sheet of paper, I would like you to jot down ten words or so that help you understand one of Steinbeck's themes in Of Mice and Men
Now, write bullet points explaining to me whether or not you think that George did the right thing by killing Lennie at the end of the book.
On a sheet of paper, I would like you to jot down ten words or so that help you understand one of Steinbeck's themes in Of Mice and Men
Now, write bullet points explaining to me whether or not you think that George did the right thing by killing Lennie at the end of the book.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Tuesday
Love poems that could come in handy this weekend ; )
Pablo Neruda: Love Sonnet 17
HOMEWORK: For Tuesday, Read Of Mice and Men to the end.
Pablo Neruda: Love Sonnet 17
HOMEWORK: For Tuesday, Read Of Mice and Men to the end.
HOMEWORK: For Friday, memorize one of the Robert Frost poems found below
IN CLASS TODAY: Commentary on the first two pages of the novel Of Mice and Men.
Strong commentaries will be two full handwritten pages. Some people may go onto a third.
IN CLASS TODAY: Commentary on the first two pages of the novel Of Mice and Men.
Strong commentaries will be two full handwritten pages. Some people may go onto a third.
The Road Not Taken (+1 e.c.)
by Robert Frost
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Dust of Snow (too easy)
depressed philosophical pensive overwhelmed frustrated mildly hopeful melancholy pessimistic optimistic irritated |
Friday, February 6, 2015
Moon day
HOMEWORK: For Wednesday, Read Of Mice and Men to page 66
HOMEWORK: For Thursday, memorize one of the Robert Frost poems found below
IN CLASS TODAY: Commentary on the first two pages of the novel Of Mice and Men
Strong commentaries will be two full handwritten pages. Some people may go onto a third.
Sycamore--Now THAT's one treey tree
IN CLASS TODAY: Commentary on the first two pages of the novel Of Mice and Men
Strong commentaries will be two full handwritten pages. Some people may go onto a third.
Sycamore--Now THAT's one treey tree
by Robert Frost
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Monday, February 2, 2015
Vocabulary for Friday's quiz: Quizlet SAT "adage"-"coy"
Words you have to know:
Hackneyed
Vitiate
Edify
Livid
Amorphous
Consort (verb form)
Chary
Whet
Relegate
Hone (verb form)
Coy
and you should have a basic knowledge of the others
To His Coy Mistress
Northern Exposure Episode 7, Season 2--The Search for American Myth
Words you have to know:
Hackneyed
Vitiate
Edify
Livid
Amorphous
Consort (verb form)
Chary
Whet
Relegate
Hone (verb form)
Coy
and you should have a basic knowledge of the others
To His Coy Mistress
Northern Exposure Episode 7, Season 2--The Search for American Myth
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