English IV
08/31
Anglo-Saxon Poetry Composition; Vocabulary Assignment
Homework: Read pp. 44-50, "Unferth's Taunt" handout; Vocab Homework 2
09/01
Vocab Check; Reading Quiz; Grendel Storyboarding
Homework: Read pp. 51-62
09/02
Grendel Storyboarding cont.; Beowulf film comparison; Vocabulary Review
Homework: Read pp. 51-62
09/03
Reading Quiz; Beowulf film cont.
Homework: Read pp. 76-82
09/04
Vocabulary Quiz; Beowulf film cont.
English 3
08/31
Tracing Symbols and Motifs in TSL
Homework: TSL ch. 10-12
09/01
Reading Quiz; Symbolism cont.; Character in TSL
Homework: TSL ch. 13-15
09/02
SAT Practice; Character cont.; Test Review; TSL Study Guide
Homework: TSL ch. 16-18
09/03
Reading Quiz; TSL Guide cont.
Homework: TSL ch. 19-21
09/04
Vocabulary Quiz; General themes in TSL; Practice commentary
Homework: TSL ch. 22-24
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The Scarlet Letter Test Guide
Part I: For 15 of the following 20 quotes, name the speaker and context and briefly comment on its (thematic, symbolic) significance to the novel as a whole. Number your paper according to the numbering below.
“The founders of the new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
“All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, burst forth the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees.”
“There was no one place so secret, -no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me, -save on this very scaffold!”
“Thou knowest that I was frank with thee! That I felt no love nor feigned any.”
“Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment.”
“She turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes! – these were her realities.”
“It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not, at least, stand on the scaffold by her side. But he will be known!- he will be known!”
“I have sought, I say, to persuade this godly youth, that he should deal with you, here in the face of Heaven, and before these upright rulers…Knowing your natural temper better than I, he could the better judge what arguments to use.”
“The responsibility of this woman’s soul lies greatly with you.”
“Thou hast ascended to the pedestal of infamy on which I found thee. The reason is not far to seek. It was my folly, and thy weakness.”
“Though he were to step down from a high place and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life.”
7. “What should ail me, to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe? The medicine is potent for good: and were it my child, - yea, mine own, as well as thine, I could do no better for it!”
8. “Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and her should be the scene of her earthly punishment.”
9. “Hush, Pearl, hush! Thou must not talk so…He sent us all in this world. He sent even me, thy mother. Them, much more, thee! Or, if not, thy strange and elfish child, whence didst thou come?"
10. “And here, by a sudden impulse, she turned to the young clergyman, Mr. Dimmesdale, at whom, up to this moment, she had seemed hardly so much as once to direct her eyes, - “Speak thou for me!”
“Thou tallest of running a race to a man whose knees are tottering beneath him! I must die here! There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world alone.”
11. “Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the forest; and I wellnigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one.”
“It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life! as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain that all her conceptions assumed its form had carefully wrought out the similitude.”
“This idea was countenanced by the strong interest which the physician ever manifested in the young clergyman; he attached himself to him as a parishioner, and sought to win a friendly regard and confidence from his naturally reserved sensibility.”
13. “Come away mother! Come away or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already!”
14. “Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, tomorrow noontide?”
15. “Nothing was more common, in those days, than to interpret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena, that occurred with less regularity than the rise and set of a sun and mood, as so many revelations from a supernatural source.”
16. “Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
17. “He betrayed me! He has done me more wrong than I did him!”
18. “Hereupon, Pearl broke away from her mother, and, running to the brook, stooped over it, and bathed her forehead, until the unwelcome kiss was quite washed off.”
19. “But in the sunny day, and among all the people, he knows us not; nor must we know him! A strange, sad man is he.”
20. “It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle. Yet one tombstone served for both.”
“The founders of the new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
“All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, burst forth the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees.”
“There was no one place so secret, -no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me, -save on this very scaffold!”
“Thou knowest that I was frank with thee! That I felt no love nor feigned any.”
“Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment.”
“She turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes! – these were her realities.”
“It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not, at least, stand on the scaffold by her side. But he will be known!- he will be known!”
“I have sought, I say, to persuade this godly youth, that he should deal with you, here in the face of Heaven, and before these upright rulers…Knowing your natural temper better than I, he could the better judge what arguments to use.”
“The responsibility of this woman’s soul lies greatly with you.”
“Thou hast ascended to the pedestal of infamy on which I found thee. The reason is not far to seek. It was my folly, and thy weakness.”
“Though he were to step down from a high place and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life.”
7. “What should ail me, to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe? The medicine is potent for good: and were it my child, - yea, mine own, as well as thine, I could do no better for it!”
8. “Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and her should be the scene of her earthly punishment.”
9. “Hush, Pearl, hush! Thou must not talk so…He sent us all in this world. He sent even me, thy mother. Them, much more, thee! Or, if not, thy strange and elfish child, whence didst thou come?"
10. “And here, by a sudden impulse, she turned to the young clergyman, Mr. Dimmesdale, at whom, up to this moment, she had seemed hardly so much as once to direct her eyes, - “Speak thou for me!”
“Thou tallest of running a race to a man whose knees are tottering beneath him! I must die here! There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world alone.”
11. “Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the forest; and I wellnigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one.”
“It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life! as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain that all her conceptions assumed its form had carefully wrought out the similitude.”
“This idea was countenanced by the strong interest which the physician ever manifested in the young clergyman; he attached himself to him as a parishioner, and sought to win a friendly regard and confidence from his naturally reserved sensibility.”
13. “Come away mother! Come away or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already!”
14. “Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, tomorrow noontide?”
15. “Nothing was more common, in those days, than to interpret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena, that occurred with less regularity than the rise and set of a sun and mood, as so many revelations from a supernatural source.”
16. “Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
17. “He betrayed me! He has done me more wrong than I did him!”
18. “Hereupon, Pearl broke away from her mother, and, running to the brook, stooped over it, and bathed her forehead, until the unwelcome kiss was quite washed off.”
19. “But in the sunny day, and among all the people, he knows us not; nor must we know him! A strange, sad man is he.”
20. “It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle. Yet one tombstone served for both.”
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The Week In English Week 1 (08/25-08/28)
English IV
08/25 - Course Introduction
Homework: Read pp. 16-22; complete vocab homework; turn in Student Information Sheet.
08/26 - Vocab Check; Intro to Anglo-Saxon period
Homework: Read pp. 23-29
08/27 - Journals Due; Anglo-Saxon Poetry; Reading Quiz likely; Vocab Review
Homework: Read pp. 34-43
08/28 - Vocab Quiz Week 1; Intro to Beowulf
English 3
08/25 - Summer Reading Quiz; Course Introduction
Homework: Read TSL Introductory; turn in Student Information Sheet
08/26 - Vocabulary Check; SAT Practice; Intro to Close Reading and Commentary; Puritan Poetry
Homework: TSL Chapters 1-3
08/27 - Journals Due; Reading Quiz Likely; Intro to TSL
Homework: TSL Chapters 4-6
08/28 - Vocabulary Quiz 1; TSL cont.
Homework: TSL Chapters 7-9
08/25 - Course Introduction
Homework: Read pp. 16-22; complete vocab homework; turn in Student Information Sheet.
08/26 - Vocab Check; Intro to Anglo-Saxon period
Homework: Read pp. 23-29
08/27 - Journals Due; Anglo-Saxon Poetry; Reading Quiz likely; Vocab Review
Homework: Read pp. 34-43
08/28 - Vocab Quiz Week 1; Intro to Beowulf
English 3
08/25 - Summer Reading Quiz; Course Introduction
Homework: Read TSL Introductory; turn in Student Information Sheet
08/26 - Vocabulary Check; SAT Practice; Intro to Close Reading and Commentary; Puritan Poetry
Homework: TSL Chapters 1-3
08/27 - Journals Due; Reading Quiz Likely; Intro to TSL
Homework: TSL Chapters 4-6
08/28 - Vocabulary Quiz 1; TSL cont.
Homework: TSL Chapters 7-9
Monday, August 24, 2009
English 3 Vocabulary List Week 1 (Quiz 08/28)
You are responsible for the following words as they appear in their context in The Scarlet Letter.
01. disinclined (1)
02. quietude (1)
03. decorous (1)
04. genial (1)
05. prate (1)
06. prolix (2)
07. dilapidated (2)
08. languid (2)
09. edifice (2)
10. truculency (2)
11. multitudinous (3)
12. imperceptibly (3)
13. incommodities (3)
14. venerable (4)
15. slovenliness (4)
16. voluminous (4)
17. decrepit (4)
18. emoluments (5)
19. sensuous (5)
20. progenitor (5)
01. disinclined (1)
02. quietude (1)
03. decorous (1)
04. genial (1)
05. prate (1)
06. prolix (2)
07. dilapidated (2)
08. languid (2)
09. edifice (2)
10. truculency (2)
11. multitudinous (3)
12. imperceptibly (3)
13. incommodities (3)
14. venerable (4)
15. slovenliness (4)
16. voluminous (4)
17. decrepit (4)
18. emoluments (5)
19. sensuous (5)
20. progenitor (5)
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Several times a week I will use this blog to update vocabulary lists for Honors classes, provide links to instructional materials, share news stories pertinent to class activities, and share answers to questions I could not answer in class. As I expect with my students, I refuse to answer questions with, "I don't know." The better answer is, "I'll find out."
I highly recommend students create a google account (it's as simple as signing up for gmail, which you should do anyway) and post questions and comments in the comments section of posts I make. Each time someone comments on this blog, I receive an email alert ensuring a quick response from me. I will also sometimes offer extra credit to students who first reply to a question I pose on this blog.
In short, use this tool to your advantage.
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