Saul Landau Article on The Quiet American

is here.

Answer the following:

1. Why did Miramax take The Quiet American film off the market?
2. According to the author, what has happened to Americans' ability to disagree with the government?
3. What technique does Landau use when he says, "Long live Disneyland and the Super Bowl!"?
4. Why would Sylvester Stallone make a better "Quiet American" than Brendan Fraser?
5. Why are current times considered the "Noisy American" period?
6. What writer in The Quiet American fits the description of the intellectuals like William Safire and Thomas Friedman?
7. By 1973, how many bombs were dropped in Vietnam as compared to WWII?
8. Landau compares Pyle's bombing to what terrorist act of the modern era?
9. In his last paragraph, does Landau support or object to the invasion of Iraq?
10. What is the overall TONE of this article?

Words to Describe Tone

apathetic
arrogant
bantering
candid
challenging
clinical
condescending
confused
critical
detached
didactic
pretentious
fanciful
threatening
wistful
indifferent
irate
patronizing
flippant
straightforward
outraged
humorous
nostalgic
indignant
sentimental
ambiguous
silly
reflective
learned
mock-heroic
regretful
scholarly
perplexed
amused
remorseful
pedantic
ironic
happy
apologetic
moralistic
tongue-in-cheek
ecstatic
inspirational
sarcastic
effusive
contentious
respectful
sardonic
contented
inflammatory
reverent
mocking
disappointed
shocking
sympathetic
irreverent
sad
dramatic
compassionate
disdainful
elegiac
passionate
interested
contemptuous
melancholic
restrained
urgent
caustic
depressing
impartial
serious
biting
mournful
objective
ominous
cynical
poignant
apprehensive
skeptical
somber
factual
foreboding
whimsical
wry

Homework Due December 17

CP 11:

Read Chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men
Vocabulary Homework Due (Quiz 12/19)

Honors 11:

Read through Catch-22 Chapter 9
Vocabulary Quiz 12/19

CP 12:
Read through The Quiet American p. 82
Vocabulary Quiz 12/19
The Quiet American Paper due 01/08

CP English 12 Paper Assignment

The Quiet American Paper Assignment

For your final test grade, you will be required to write a 500-750 word paper addressing the following:

Trace the characterization and development of two characters in the novel as they relate to one another. How does this relationship help develop a major theme of the novel?

Your paper must follow the MLA format as outlined in the following web site:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
While I do not expect you to have any sources beyond the text itself, if you find yourself using another source, create a works cited page and be sure to use in-text citation. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism and will be met with a zero on the assignment and an office referral.

The scoring rubric will be as follows:

Thesis – 10 Introduction – 10 Character Development – 20
Theme – 20 Supporting Details – 20 Organization – 10
Usage and Grammar – 10 MLA Formatting – 10

NCSU Oral Presentation Rubric

is here.

Honors English 11 Vocabulary List Week 16 (Quiz 12/19)

The first number designates the Catch-22 chapter. The second designates the page number from the Scribner Paperback Fiction edition.

01. putrescent (2 - 26)
02. vehemently (29)
03. enumerated (29)
04. retrospective (adj.) (29)
05. ravenously (30)
06. succulent (30)
07. spatulate (30)
08. tittered (3 - 31)
09. interminably (31)
10. disaffiliated (32)
11. incandescent (33)
12. populously (33)
13. rumpus (33)
14. reprovingly (33)
15. lecherous (33)
16. dissipated (33)
17. avid (33)
18. bonanza (34)
19. multitudinous (34)
20. jurisdictional (35)

Homework Due December 15

CP 11:

Study Guides Chapters 16-42 due
Unit Test V 12/16

Honors 11:

Read through Catch-22 Chapter 2

CP 12:
Read through The Quiet American p. 33

CP 12 Vietnam Webquest

Here is a basic webquest directing you toward the essential facts of the conflict in Vietnam. The links are broken, so look for answers here, here, here, here, and here.

Homework Due December 9

CP 11:
Read through chapter 38 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vocabulary Homework Due
Vocab Quiz 12/11
Unit Test V 12/12

Honors 11:
Read through the entirety of Their Eyes Were Watching God
Study Vocabulary
Vocab Quiz 12/12
Unit Test V 12/11
Secure a Copy of Catch-22 by Friday 12/12

CP 12:
Read through "On Spring" and A Modest Proposal (592-597 and 612-622)
Vocabulary Homework
Vocab Quiz 12/12
Unit Test V 12/11

Honors English 11 Vocabulary List Week 15 (Quiz 12/12)

This week's words come from the first and second chapters of Catch-22.

01. modifiers (1)
02. proscribing
03. salutations
04. ethereal
05. echelon
06. stifling
07. tepid
08. expurgating
09. insignia
10. ecstatically
11. diffident
12. beamed
13. conciliating
14. glutinous
15. vortex
16. pedantic
17. derogated
18. epitome
19. infundibuliform (2)
20. apoplectic

Language in Hurston

Let's look at some of those mysterious phrases in Their Eyes Were Watching God.

A. Look up the terms "signifying" and "playing the dozens."Define these terms on a sheet of paper and give me an example of both from Their Eyes. What folk or cultural groups share these phenomena? What anthropological term describes these forms of speech?

B. For each phrase below, copy the phrase onto a sheet of paper and find it in the text. Using context clues, write what the phrase means. If you recognize a specific literary technique (simile, metaphor, allusion, etc.), be sure to mention that. We'll take a look at these today and tomorrow in class.

01. "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board" (1).
02. "These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day" (1).
03. "...the way Joe spoke out...took the bloom off of things" (43).
04. "...he's de wind and we'se de grass" (49).
05. "The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in" (71).
06. "She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her" (72).
07. "The years took all the fight out of Janie's face" (76).
08. "She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boilded down to a drop" (76).
09. "For the first tiem she could see a man's head naked of its skull" (77).
10. "Well, if she must eat out of a long-handled spoon, she must" (81).
11. "...that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West" (84).
12. "It was like beating a bass drum in a hen-house" (86).
13. "Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil" (88).
14. "Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead" (106).
15. "Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees" (106).

Zora Neale Hurston links

General Links
Proposed Recording Expedition into the Floridas
Ethnic and Cultural Groups Recorded by the WPA in Florida
Mules and Men