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English IV Agenda for the week of September 6 to 9
Overview:
Wed blog7 due: pick a book you read/reread this year,
Thur blog8 due on 'Coy Mistress' pick a line or investigate structure
Thur: short quiz, read P&P to p.117, to p.150 by Monday
Mon blog12 due: first paragraph of first essay
Essay: examine how influenced the individual is by society, both in Austen's and your world. (You may include History of Love and/or poems, as well).
Start on Tuesday on page 98 of Austen. Ask questions.
Wed blog7 due: pick a book you read/reread this year,
Thur blog8 due on 'Coy Mistress' pick a line or investigate structure
Thur: short quiz, read P&P to p.117, to p.150 by Monday
Mon blog12 due: first paragraph of first essay
Essay: examine how influenced the individual is by society, both in Austen's and your world. (You may include History of Love and/or poems, as well).
Start on Tuesday on page 98 of Austen. Ask questions.
Review the syllabus:
· Late essays penalized
· Plagiarism (even unintentional), works cited, print when you surf the web, guidelines for parents and tutors helping students write
· Check, check plus
· Goals: writing and reading
· Working printer at home
· Tardies affect participation grade
· No cell phones
· No laptops or ipads except when the instructor allows it
Blogging: due Wed, Thu, and Monday
· Add photos from Google images
· Add page tab called ‘What I’m Working On’ for grammar and writing goals
· Blog names: Blog7sep, Blog8sep, Blog12sep
· Blog7 Due Wed Sept. 7: Pick an outside reading book to read or reread this year and why?
· Blog8 Due Thu. Sept. 8: Marvell’s ‘Coy Mistress’
· Blog12 Due Mon. Sept. 12: first paragraph of your essay on individual identity (or idealizing) with working thesis
Daily Journal: Read, Write, Think Discuss (Repeat Daily)
Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
· Who uses sarcasm the most? Mr Bennet? Liz? Caroline Bingley? Darcy? Or the narrator? Is there a difference in how they all use it? Are any more clever? Any more mean?
· Mr Collins proposal: What’s funny about it? How do women seem disempowered and without a voice? Is that funny or a nightmare?
· Analyze family life at the Bennet’s, Lucas’s, the Darcy’s.
· Read to p.150 by Mon Sept. 12
· Read to p.220 by Thur. Sept. 15 (or at least by Mon. Sept. 19 before Senior Retreat)
List of characters in Austen:
· Mr and Mrs Bennet, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Lydia, Kitty (Catherine)
· Sir Wm. and Lady Lucas, Charlotte
· Charles Bingley, Caroline Bingley (sis), Mr and Mrs Hurst
· Darcy, Georgiana (sis), Lady Catherine de Bourgh (aunt), Anne de Bourgh (niece)
· Mr and Mrs Gardiner (Liz’s aunt)
· Wickham
· Mrs Phillips (Mrs Bennet’s sis)
· Mr Collins
History of Love
· p.8 Leo writing his first book then second book
· 11 Leo’s childhood
· 13 Alma Mereminski pregnant in America
· 15 Leo modeling for art classes
· 20-26 Leo as locksmith again, seeing his son’s book
· 33 Leo mailing his second book to Isaac, his son
· 44 Alma learns about edible plants
· 55 Jacob Marcus (Isaac?) pays Alma’s mother to translate book from Spanish
· 57 text of The History of Love (the original novel by Gursky)
· 70 Zvi Litvinoff
Poem: Coy Mistress (blogging and journaling)
First essay assignment: Individual Identity or Idealizing
· Due date: 1st paragraph and working thesis due in blog by Mon. Sept. 12
· Due date: first draft due to Turnitin.com by Monday, Sept. 19 midnight
· Due date: Final 3 to 5 page essay due to Turnitin.com by Sunday October 2
· Works to write about: History of Love (optional), Pride and Prejudice, optional: any poem we cover
· Individual vs. Society
o How do individuals conflict with society? How do they stick to their own values when society’s conflict? How will you?
o How does individual identity get lost in group society? At Buckley? In Los Angeles? In your peer group?
o Possible examples: Leo Gursky, Alma Singer, Elizabeth Bennet, Charlotte Lucas, Darcy, Prufrock, Coy Mistress, you!
· Ideal vs. Actual
o How does the idealized idea interfere with our actual experience
o Marriage proposals and love/marriage: Leo Gursky, Alma’s mother, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Prufrock, Coy Mistress, you!
o Senior year and College admissions & college
How to write a college essay
· Writing process: Invention à Drafting à Revision
· 5-paragraph essay limitations
· College demands ideas
· Using rubrics (online, in College Reader)
· Rank sample essays (with reasons from rubrics)
Jago textbook:
· Close Reading p.19 small details, what and how, tone, Athlete Dying
· Annotation p.35: talk back, first impressions, keeps you awake, note shifts, pose questions, try ‘When, in disgrace’ p.36
· MLA guidelines p.1473
o Works Cited page: book with one author, websites,
o Parenthetical citations (Smith 22).
o Proper punctuation
o Formatting essays (header, titles, etc.)
· Grammar errors
o Fragment
o Comma splice
o ‘s
o Non-agreement
· Lit terms p.1479-1483
o Give examples from what we’ve read
o Alliteration
o Allusion
o Annotation
o Antagonist
o Assonance
o Atmosphere
o Blank verse
o Caesura
o Caricature
o Carpe Diem
o Catharsis
o Character (flat, round, secondary, stock)
o Characterization (direct/tell, indirect/show)
· Quiz Thursday: Austen, terms, MLA, grammar errors,
