Check out The Great Gatsby.
Homework: read Gatsby. No page requirement, but finish chapter two for Monday (37 pages).
Take notes on Fitzgerald's style.
Take notes on Hemingway's style.
The Iceberg Effect
The short, short story genre.
Here's Hemingway's story: "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."
Now, write your own short, short story. Remember, it needs a beginning, and middle, and an end and must have a controlling idea. Keep in mind that fiction deals with life themes, such as loss, redemption, the quest for knowledge, etc.
Here are some examples: Short, Short Stories
We will submit these stories to INK for publication. Make them good.
Due tomorrow. Typed. Feel free to hand in three or four of them.
Here's a google doc of the Fitzgerald Rewrite assignment. Take note of changes made at the end. I think I've clarified the way you should write the analysis.
Fitzgerald Rewrite
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
February 25
Grapes of Wrath
Christian symbolism
Noah's Flood--"the grapes of wrath"
Moses
Christ in the manger
The female principle saves the day.
Finish 15 quotes.
Homework: type 3/4 page double-spaced explaining the significance of one of your quotes.
(relate your quote to a theme in the book, obviously)
Due tomorrow.
}:-} He he he
Hemingway Code Hero.
Discuss "In Another Country," by Ernest Hemingway
Answer question 10 from page 726 (discuss in groups, share)
Discuss what you found concerning "the way that the form and content of the story reflect the uncertainty of modern life" (page 721)
Nihilism--the "ism" of nothing
Christian symbolism
Noah's Flood--"the grapes of wrath"
Moses
Christ in the manger
The female principle saves the day.
Finish 15 quotes.
Homework: type 3/4 page double-spaced explaining the significance of one of your quotes.
(relate your quote to a theme in the book, obviously)
Due tomorrow.
}:-} He he he
Hemingway Code Hero.
Discuss "In Another Country," by Ernest Hemingway
Answer question 10 from page 726 (discuss in groups, share)
Discuss what you found concerning "the way that the form and content of the story reflect the uncertainty of modern life" (page 721)
Nihilism--the "ism" of nothing
Monday, February 24, 2014
Monday, February 24
Grapes of Wrath
Finish 15 quotes.
Homework: type 3/4 page double-spaced explaining the significance of one of your quotes.
Discuss "In Another Country," by Ernest Hemingway
Answer question 10 from page 726 (discuss in groups, share)
Discuss what you found concerning "the way that the form and content of the story reflect the uncertainty of modern life" (page 721)
Nihilism--the "ism" of nothing
"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
Finish 15 quotes.
Homework: type 3/4 page double-spaced explaining the significance of one of your quotes.
Discuss "In Another Country," by Ernest Hemingway
Answer question 10 from page 726 (discuss in groups, share)
Discuss what you found concerning "the way that the form and content of the story reflect the uncertainty of modern life" (page 721)
Nihilism--the "ism" of nothing
"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Modernism
The Modern period spans the time between World War I and World War II (1915-1946)
As with all periods in intellectual history, it builds upon what came before.
Romanticim (1776-1848): An idealized view of the world wherein deeper meaning can be found for those who transcend life's struggles. Focus on beauty, deeper truth, and powerful human experience
Realism (1848-1914): A realistic view of real life and its challenges. Life is harsh and bitter, and yet meaning can be found for those who engage with real people rather than retreating into the dreamy, unrealistic world. Think Huck vs. Tom
Modernism (1915-1946) You will figure out just what Modernism is today and tomorrow, and the majority of the books you will read from here on out fit within this time period.
Watch The Grapes of Wrath
Write down significant quotes from the movie
Homework: Find the red anthology you checked out for this course, The American Experience.
Read pages 693-708
As you read, write 12 quiz questions for a game we will play tomorrow. That's one question for each full page you read (although you don't have to write one question per page, that's the approximate spacing).
Homework: Read Hemingway's "In Another Country," page 721. Be prepared to answer question 10 at the end in class tomorrow.
As with all periods in intellectual history, it builds upon what came before.
Romanticim (1776-1848): An idealized view of the world wherein deeper meaning can be found for those who transcend life's struggles. Focus on beauty, deeper truth, and powerful human experience
Realism (1848-1914): A realistic view of real life and its challenges. Life is harsh and bitter, and yet meaning can be found for those who engage with real people rather than retreating into the dreamy, unrealistic world. Think Huck vs. Tom
Modernism (1915-1946) You will figure out just what Modernism is today and tomorrow, and the majority of the books you will read from here on out fit within this time period.
Watch The Grapes of Wrath
Write down significant quotes from the movie
Homework: Find the red anthology you checked out for this course, The American Experience.
Read pages 693-708
As you read, write 12 quiz questions for a game we will play tomorrow. That's one question for each full page you read (although you don't have to write one question per page, that's the approximate spacing).
Homework: Read Hemingway's "In Another Country," page 721. Be prepared to answer question 10 at the end in class tomorrow.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Valentine's Day
Lovey dovey poems for your Valentine's sweethearts. Trust me, they work. I know!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Shakespeare's sonnet 18
Neruda's sonnet 17 (so awesome you might want to wait until later in life!)
Neruda: I crave you
Guang Do Sheng: A Poem of You and Me
Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty
Jon Donne: The Good Morrow
Thursday, February 13, 2014
2/13/14 Is the American Dream dead?
Is the American Dream dead?
The American Dream: Anyone can achieve greatness--own your own house with a white picket fence, be a "self-made man," achieve not only financial "success" but affluence, if you're ambitious; not be beholden to others--independent
John Steinbeck
Realist--more pessimistic
Lawrence Ferlinghetti--"I Am Waiting"
John Keats--"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Robert Browning--"Childe Roland to a Dark Tower"
The American Dream: Anyone can achieve greatness--own your own house with a white picket fence, be a "self-made man," achieve not only financial "success" but affluence, if you're ambitious; not be beholden to others--independent
John Steinbeck
Realist--more pessimistic
Lawrence Ferlinghetti--"I Am Waiting"
John Keats--"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Robert Browning--"Childe Roland to a Dark Tower"
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
2/12/14
Of Mice and Men
Take Quiz over the novella
Discuss
Watch The Grapes of Wrath on Netflix Watch Instantly
Take notes--15 significant quotes from the novel/movie, at least 6 from Jim Casey
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