Description of E. Dickinson’s “Twas a Maelstrom…” poem Let’s start with the form of the poem. It is written (as almost all of Dickinson’s poems) in ballad stanza – a traditional poetic form. Many great extended works of literature are written in this form, including Coleridge’s The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. Lots of 19th…
The Round House as banned… The Round House could be considered a “dangerous book” because of how openly Erdrich speaks about rape survival. The topic of rape is very sensitive and can be very difficult to talk about, especially for someone who has been raped or sexually assaulted. Erdrich goes into detail about the imagery…
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Between now and our second meeting of next week (Thursday), please review the “Diction and Syntax” document that I emailed out to you all earlier today. Please email me with any questions that you have… Explaining diction and syntax can be a challenging task. Such explanations (mine included) often come across as being complicated and…
Choice-read update 2 writing prompt: Harking back to what you discussed with one another in small groups today in class, decide upon (if you haven’t already done so) one of the five AP “open” essay prompts to utilize as your stepping-off point for updating me on your choice reading and how it’s progressing. In case…
So… in lieu of the apparent internet and email ultra-slowness (according to one news report, there was widespread issues along these lines throughout Harris County) that caused our class this morning to stall out from pretty much the get go… what follows are some guidelines for what I would like for you do to between…
Please makes sure that you received the email/doc from me containing four examples from some of your peers IW’s “Choice-Reading Update”… Please read over each of these particularly excellent pieces of writing and absorb their thoughts, ideas, creativity, and analysis… All four are really first-rate models of the kind of writing and thinking about your…
Ok all… thanks for sticking with me today through our brief foray into the sonnet form. I know that we covered some of this material back in the fall, but I thought it would be a good “low impact” segue back into the minutiae of literary analysis and close reading. We’ll do some more work…
So, please make sure that you got the email from me in which was attached the document on the sonnet form… If you did not receive this email, please let me know so that i can send it to you directly. Please read and work through this handout and be ready to ask questions and…
What I would like for you to do over the next few days is two-fold… First get started on your choice reads… and stay on top of it… And second, do some background reading that bears some relation to the book(s) you have selected. Here is a selection of the background readings available online… (a)…
1. Ok, good and excellent people, here we are, thrust all together into the distance learning inferno. Let’s make the most of it. And be sane, calm, and ready to be very adaptable and and creative. 2. First of all some basics. Our most important tool for touching base and scheduling assignments is THIS BLOG-SITE.…
Final task before Break… If you’re planning on being in class tomorrow, you may complete this assignment in class. If you’re not planning on being in class tomorrow, please do this task before you leave… For this final IW before break, I want you to practice working with a big over-riding topic, one that like…
Based on your understanding of MacBeth and of the title character himself and of the most immediate “bad” news he’s just received, write a defense of the soliloquy’s rather obsessive and haunted and repetitive use of the conjunction “and” – why is it the “conjunction” of choice in this passage, why is it in fact…
For our IW on symbolism. We wrote in class about the candle/lamp/light symbol in ACT V scene i of MacBeth. Now for the IW, let’s complete the work in terms of what the item that Lady MacBeth is carrying with her as she sleepwalks means and signifies. Please flesh this out and, along with the writing…
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