Lit terms to review

Review these Lit terms from the back of our textbook
pages 1484-1487
climax
collquial language
connotation (vs. denotation)
diction
dramatic monologue
end-stopped line
enjambment
epiphany

More Austen pages to study carefully

            CHARLOTTE’S MARRIAGE

85 Charlotte’s engagment

87 Liz confronts Charlotte about marrying Collins

93 Discussing it with Jane

100  Charlotte’s wedding

            WICKHAM AND MISS KING

98-9 Mrs. Gardiner warns Liz about Wickham

103, 105 Liz’s reactions to Miss King and Wickham

            ROSINGS with Darcy and Charlotte

109 Collins

113 Lady Catherine: Liz talks back

119 Darcy and Liz sparring

125-6 Col. Fitzwilliam: second sons can’t marry poor

            DARCY’S PROPOSAL and the AFTERMATH

129-31 Darcy’s self-centered proposal: “inferiority” “degradation”

134 Darcy’s letter of explanation: ‘three young sisters, occasionally even your father’

  Jane’s “indifference”;  Wickham eloped with Georgiana (15) for her fortune

139 Liz re-reading (and re-evaluating) Darcy’s letter

141 Till this moment I never knew myself

   Liz’s epiphany: she sees her own blind spot: ‘prided myself on discernment’

144 Bad Dad ‘would never exert himself to restrain the giddiness of the daughters’

148 uglier hats --Lydia

152 Liz’s confession ‘I meant to be uncommonly clever’ taking a dislike to Darcy

            LYDIA TO BRIGHTON?

155 lamentations resounding (sounds, hyperbole, satire on the regiment leaving Meryton

156 Dad’s big mistake: he says no to Liz (sarcastically), yes to Lydia ‘expose herself’

159-60 Liz sees her parents’ marriage problems: Bad Dad

            AT PEMBERLEY

163 Pemberley: Mrs Reynolds praises Darcy

168 Darcy appears! How embarrassing!

174 Georgiana Darcy

180-1 Caroline Bingley gossips about Liz: ‘great loss for your family’; ‘self-sufficiency which is intolerable’

            BENNET FAMILY CRISIS ABOUT LYDIA

182 Jane’s letter is a crisis; ‘my father bears it better’; W. never intended to marry Lydia;

185 How Darcy reacts to Liz’s crisis: ‘Good God, what is the matter!’

189 Bad Dad

192 Wedding Clothes? At a time like this?

197 What does it mean to “ruin”?

199 Collin’s ‘reassurances’ are really gloating

200 Dad blames himself (for a moment)

208 Do they ever refer to sex?

            LYDIA TIES THE KNOT

212 Lydia brags about getting married

214 Lydia reveals the secret of who was at her wedding (can you guess?)

216 Bad Dad

220 Liz tortures Wickham

Substance or Style?

Good discussion in class today about substance vs. style. Some of you appreciate nicely written sentences, good flow, and the author's voice coming through the writing. Others appreciate solid, point-by-point, easy to follow, logical thinking written in plain English. Others feel you can't have one without the other and that the two go hand in hand. What's your preference? [Feel free to comment.]

This week's homework updated and revised (a little)

Be sure to check the 'Homework Page' tab every week for updates and revisions. Here is an overview for this week:

█3^rd week: Pride and Prejudice, Comp, Blog, Poem, + problems with 5 paragraph essays + Revision   (updated and revised!)    

Compare two POEMS about basketball: Slam, Dunk, Hook p41 + Fast Break p49

BLOGS DUE:

Due BY MON 9/12 first paragraph of your essay

Due BY WED 9/14 blog14 due Wed: Rank three SAMPLE essays using rubric. (new!)

Due BY THUR 9/15 Two paragraphs of your essay (at least two)  (new!)

Due BY MON. 9/19 FIRST DRAFT OF YOUR ESSAY TO TURNITIN.COM (not a blog)

MonSep12 Blog12 due (see above)   

-HW: P&P to p.175 + no blogs due Tuesdays

TuSep13 Composing essays and Revising them (see samples and rubrics)

-HW due 9/14: P&P to p.202 + blog14 due Wed: Rank essays using rubric. (new!)

 (updated and revised!)

WSep14 Blog14 BRING YOUR LAPTOP (if you can)

-LAPTOPS: WRITE FIRST DRAFT OF ESSAY

-HW due 9/15: P&P p.220 + blog15 due Thu: Two paragraphs of your essay (new!)

ThSep15 Blog15 BRING YOUR LAPTOP (if you can)

Short Quiz on lit terms 1484-1487 (climax thru epiphany + examples) + simple grammar errors/P&P        

-LAPTOPS: WRITE FIRST DRAFT OF ESSAY (updated and revised!)

-HW due 9/20: P&P catch up to p.220 (even though no class meeting)

                                                                                          Hw: Annotate P&P to p. 220

█4^th week                                Read Pride and Prejudice to p. 220

Mon Sep 19 First draft of you essay on Individual vs. Society should be uploaded no later than midnight on Monday, Sept. 19 (you won’t come to school this day because instructors are renewing their CPR training)

First Essay: Individuality vs. Society

Read, Write, Think

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT on Individual vs. Society     Name _____________

Due date: 1^st paragraph and working thesis due in your blog by Mon. Sept. 12

Due date: 1^st polished draft uploaded to Turnitin.com before midnight on Mon. Sept. 19

Due date: Final 3-5 page proofread essay uploaded by midnight to Turnitin Sun. Oct. 2

Essay Question:

To what extent should individuality be compromised for the larger needs of the group and society?

You must use examples from Pride and Prejudice to illustrate your main idea. You must have a clear but nuanced idea or argument that is clear and clearly explained and explored throughout your essay. You may also include examples from The History of Love, the poetry we are reading, other short works assigned, and, as well, from your own contemporary society. Write a 3 to 5 page essay with a strong thesis.

   Questions to help you think about your topic:

·         Since we are social beings, shouldn’t we take into account the needs of the whole group and the pressure to fit in? What advantage do we get and what price do we pay when we fit in with the group? What happens to who we are when we change groups (e.g. move to another country or go to college)?

·         Since our individual values define who we are, shouldn’t we stand up for them even if they go against the crowd? What price do we pay when we don’t fit in? Is it always black and white, fit in or not fit in? Are there areas where we can compromise without undermining who we are?

·         Are Elizabeth and Charlotte the most extreme examples of individuality vs. socialization? Or is Charlotte acting in her own interests, rather than for the good of the whole? How do we define individual vs. society’s interests?

·         Give examples from Austen, History of Love, and your own society where individual values conflict with the normative pressures of the group. Explore the details of such examples and what they tell us about this topic.

·         How can individuality get lost in group society? At Buckley? At college? When is the personal price worth it? When is it not?

·         Explore examples from Leo Gursky, Alma Singer, Darcy, Prufrock, Coy Mistress, your own family, and your peer group.

·         Alternative topic: How does the idealized idea we hold sometimes interfere with the actual or real experience? Consider marriage, proposals, adolescence, families, senior year, college admissions, etc. What do these examples tell you about the ideal vs. the actual? How do we get confused and/or deal with the difference? Explore examples from Austen and HhHHHistory of Love, as well.

PLAN BEFORE YOU WRITE

Use your time effectively by beginning here:

[] 0. Start Early! Don’t begin the day before. Work a little every day. Make a plan, an outline, and a rough draft. Go to the Writing Lab for feedback.

[] 1. Choose your main topic about individuality vs. society.

[] 2. Find representative examples.

 [] 3. Craft a title and a thesis statement. Experiment with the following format: “While at first it might appear that ___, close examination reveals that _____.”  Consider tacking on a very short second thesis to clarify the long one that begins “In short, _____.”

[] 4. Begin writing your outline, introduction, and topic sentences so that when you sit down to type, you are well begun.

[] 5. As you continue writing, look at how each example can do more than just supply evidence, but rather can help you develop new insights that develop your thesis claim.

[] 6. Save plenty of time to proofread, use proper MLA documentation, change words.

Notes on writing essays:

1. Opening: Be direct. Introduce your topic quickly. Catch our interest.
2. In your thesis say something surprising.
3. Analyze quotes, don’t just quote them. Integrate quotes into your prose
4. MLA header: No page number on page 1, last name, space, page number starting page two in the header
5. Use a two-part title with a catchy phrase, a colon, and the name of the work or author mentioned. Give away your best idea in the title, your main point.
6. Don’t underline or italicize your title, only the novel’s.
7. Use proper MLA punctuation” (Smith 22). Period after parenthesis, quote marks before, no comma or “p” before page number.
8. Develop your main idea: don’t just repeat it and give examples of it. Say more about your ideas as the examples are discussed.
9. Narrow your topic or main idea: cover less territory in 3-5 pages, but more in depth.
10. Topic sentences: first sentence of paragraph makes a claim (not an example) that predicts the main topic for the entire paragraph.
11. Use paragraphing effectively.
12. Make closing sentences of paragraphs sum up the paragraph’s main idea or link back to the developing thesis idea or transition to the next paragraph’s idea.
13. Write a conclusion that reminds us of your best ideas and examples but also goes beyond, hinting at some of the implications of what you’ve shown us.
14. Avoid comma splices, they join two sentences by a comma.
15. Agreement (of noun and verb, or noun and pronoun: reader/their)
16. A sentence fragment.
17. Don’t space differently between paragraphs
18. Don’t use a comma between subject and verb.
19. Ellipsis is made by spaced periods. . . .
20. Period after page number” (27).
21. Use two hyphens--to make a dash.
22. Try this structure: “At first it would appear, but. . .”
23. Shorten your quotes: only use the words from the text you need to repeat.

How to Tell a Strong Thesis Sentence from a Weak One

Create a strong, arguable Thesis Statement; it is your essay’s claim, main point, or argument. Don’t write an over-general thesis statement. Instead, write an interesting and debatable claim—that is specific, not vague or general. Avoid the shotgun approach of listing several possible topics or merely announcing the topic. Narrow the focus and revise the thesis to fit what you say in the body of the essay

  Show your conclusions about a subject in your thesis. (Don’t save your concluding ideas for the end.) a. A strong thesis takes some sort of stand. b. A strong thesis justifies discussion. C. A strong thesis expresses one main idea.

Readers need to be able to see that your paper has one main point. If your thesis expresses more than one idea, then you might confuse your readers about the subject of your paper. d. A strong thesis statement is specific. A thesis statement should show exactly what your paper will be about, and will help you keep your paper to a manageable topic.  (See www.indiana.edu)

PLAGIARISM: Always remember: Browsing the internet or Spark Notes or Wikipedia for an overview of your text or topic can lead to intentional or unintentional plagiarism, which are treated the same way. Be careful when “[h]aving someone help you write a paper (peers, a writing lab, tutor). Not knowing the correct way to attribute sources is not an excuse for submitting improperly cited papers.” (from USC’s website)

Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"

            Had we but world enough, and time,
            This coyness, lady, were no crime.
            We would sit down and think which way
            To walk, and pass our long love's day;
            Thou by the Indian Ganges' side                      5
            Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
            Of Humber would complain. I would
            Love you ten years before the Flood;
            And you should, if you please, refuse
            Till the conversion of the Jews.                       10
            My vegetable love should grow
            Vaster than empires, and more slow.
            An hundred years should go to praise
            Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
            Two hundred to adore each breast,                  15
            But thirty thousand to the rest;
            An age at least to every part,
            And the last age should show your heart.
            For, lady, you deserve this state,
            Nor would I love at lower rate.                                    20
                        But at my back I always hear
            Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
            And yonder all before us lie
            Deserts of vast eternity.
            Thy beauty shall no more be found,                25
            Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
            My echoing song; then worms shall try
            That long preserv'd virginity,
            And your quaint honour turn to dust,
            And into ashes all my lust.                               30
            The grave's a fine and private place,
            But none I think do there embrace.
                        Now therefore, while the youthful hue
            Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
            And while thy willing soul transpires               35
            At every pore with instant fires,
            Now let us sport us while we may;
            And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
            Rather at once our time devour,
            Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.       40
            Let us roll all our strength, and all
            Our sweetness, up into one ball;
            And tear our pleasures with rough strife
            Thorough the iron gates of life.
            Thus, though we cannot make our sun                        45
            Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Sept. 6 Week's agenda for English IV

Plan ahead!

       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.

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: 1^st 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,