* Pray
* Grammar
* Jane Austen Card (this will have better resolution than the pictures below)
* Perrine's Ch. 11 (Poetry)
* Video
HW: Begin A Tale of Two Cities (March novel; Crime and Punishment will be the April novel).
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Wednesday 2/29: CWP
* Pray
* Perrine's Review
* CWP
Remember: If you are handwriting your CWP, single space. If you are typing your CWP, double space. If you don't do a CWP, your grade is lost in space.
* Submit your CWP to Turnitin.com through Focus
HW: Finish your CWP; Turnitin.com
* Perrine's Review
* CWP
Remember: If you are handwriting your CWP, single space. If you are typing your CWP, double space. If you don't do a CWP, your grade is lost in space.
* Submit your CWP to Turnitin.com through Focus
HW: Finish your CWP; Turnitin.com
Block Day, Week 28: Two ICE's
* Pray
* ICE #1: Austen: Passage-based format
* ICE #2: Austen: Open-prompt format
Per. 1 and 3 will start 5 min. after the tardy bell. Per. 6 may start before the tardy bell but not before the first bell.
How do I get a higher score? For most, provide ample
1. Textual support. Your statements are probably correct, but does each have a specific support from an event or conversation? Let, "for insance," be your motto, even though we won't write those words so often.
2. Development. If you don't get much down on paper, there's less room for you to make a good case.
3. Intelligent word choices and phrases.
4. Sentence variety.
5. Slip in literary elements connected to your thesis and text whenever possible.
Format:
- Pen
- Single space
- Write on the front of each paper
- Plan for 2-4 minutes before your write the essay
- Don't forget your thesis (first sentence or last sentence of first paragraph)
HW: CWP Due on your Next Block Day
* ICE #1: Austen: Passage-based format
* ICE #2: Austen: Open-prompt format
Per. 1 and 3 will start 5 min. after the tardy bell. Per. 6 may start before the tardy bell but not before the first bell.
How do I get a higher score? For most, provide ample
1. Textual support. Your statements are probably correct, but does each have a specific support from an event or conversation? Let, "for insance," be your motto, even though we won't write those words so often.
2. Development. If you don't get much down on paper, there's less room for you to make a good case.
3. Intelligent word choices and phrases.
4. Sentence variety.
5. Slip in literary elements connected to your thesis and text whenever possible.
Format:
- Pen
- Single space
- Write on the front of each paper
- Plan for 2-4 minutes before your write the essay
- Don't forget your thesis (first sentence or last sentence of first paragraph)
HW: CWP Due on your Next Block Day
Wednesday, 2/22: Austen
* Opening Assignment: Compose two example sentences with a semicolon with the subject of good or bad manners.
* Leithart and Austen continued
HW: J35 Choose any Thought Question (from either set of questions) to answer in a well-developed paragraph (10 sentences; sweet punctuation and thought).
* Leithart and Austen continued
HW: J35 Choose any Thought Question (from either set of questions) to answer in a well-developed paragraph (10 sentences; sweet punctuation and thought).
Block Day, Week 27
* Pray
* Collect: J34 (all printed) and your poetry card
* Put your cards out on your desk for me to check while you look over you quiz.
* Quiz
A. Memorization
B. Terms
* Bleakness
HW: Finish reading Austen
* Collect: J34 (all printed) and your poetry card
* Put your cards out on your desk for me to check while you look over you quiz.
* Quiz
A. Memorization
B. Terms
* Bleakness
HW: Finish reading Austen
Perfect Timing for our CWP!
The 19th Annual Santa Cruz County High School Poetry Contest.
- Up to 3 poems.
- See the website for the title and naming format (it's very specific and important to keep the judging somewhat objective).
- You will hear back in April and will get extra credit if you win or are published in the book.
- Be sure to edit your work multiple times.
- Up to 3 poems.
- See the website for the title and naming format (it's very specific and important to keep the judging somewhat objective).
- You will hear back in April and will get extra credit if you win or are published in the book.
- Be sure to edit your work multiple times.
Monday, 2/13: Reading
* Pray
* We need a tea party break for a few weeks. This week has quizzes; next week has essays.
* Course note, this week's journal (and all work following unless otherwise stated) must be handwritten. This is important for three reasons:
1. Some of you have wretched handwriting; I could hardly read some of these last ICE's, so you need practice. Writing is a communication art, and I want you all reasonably artful in this regard. Some are blessed with elegance but all should be able to be clear.
2. I cannot conveniently comment on an emailed document.
3. The mixed work makes grading more chaotic than it need be.
* This week on your block day you will show me your cards (all printed). Your poetry card must include 20 lines of poetry. You must have 10 lines memorized this week.
* This week on your block day you will have a quiz on your terms from the past three weeks (Weeks 25-27; J31-33). This will be a written quiz where I list terms and you provide defintions and examples from literature or rhetoric.
* If you wish to get 1/2 credit for each you missed on the M.C. 2009 46-55, you may write an explanation for the correct answer (at least one full sentence). Turn them in tomorrow at the beginning of class.
* J34: In summary, it's mostly reading, some notes, and one good paragraph on Austen.
1. Terms and introductory notes. Take notes on poetry ch. 10 (tone) and Dr. Leithart pp. 35-45 (see below). You have no story notes and no new terms (you have a quiz on previous terms this week).
2. Shorter Prose: We have finished our Perrine story work for the present. We will return to some short fiction when appropriate, but we have covered the essential story bases. Our short prose reading this week and next is nonfiction. On focus, you will see Dr. Leithart's guide for Pride and Prejudice. Read the first section (pp. 35-35) and answer one of the "Thought" (not the review questions as they are too basic for you) questions in a well-developed paragraph (roughly ten strong sentences).
To get full credit on these paragraphs, you need:
i. Faultless execution of the basics (solid length, titles, commas, spelling, character names)
ii. Ample evidence that you're playing with advanced techniques (semicolon, colon, mature vocabulary, at least one clever turn or insight, at least one rhetorical flourish/element).
iii. Clearly legible penmanship
An "A" covers all. A "B" covers "i." A "C" may fulfill parts of both.
3. Poetry: Ch. 10: Tone. Read the chapter and be prepared for discussion on Wednesday. I will assign no writing assignment this chapter as you have much to do with your cards and memorization.
4. Novel: Austen: (Ahhh, the double colon; thank you Kubla Colon!) Read through ch. 55 (see short prose for you writing assignment). Our focus will center on Austen as we close this novel together.
HW: Quiz corrections; poetry card; all cards printed out; begin a printed J34
* We need a tea party break for a few weeks. This week has quizzes; next week has essays.
* Course note, this week's journal (and all work following unless otherwise stated) must be handwritten. This is important for three reasons:
1. Some of you have wretched handwriting; I could hardly read some of these last ICE's, so you need practice. Writing is a communication art, and I want you all reasonably artful in this regard. Some are blessed with elegance but all should be able to be clear.
2. I cannot conveniently comment on an emailed document.
3. The mixed work makes grading more chaotic than it need be.
* This week on your block day you will show me your cards (all printed). Your poetry card must include 20 lines of poetry. You must have 10 lines memorized this week.
* This week on your block day you will have a quiz on your terms from the past three weeks (Weeks 25-27; J31-33). This will be a written quiz where I list terms and you provide defintions and examples from literature or rhetoric.
* If you wish to get 1/2 credit for each you missed on the M.C. 2009 46-55, you may write an explanation for the correct answer (at least one full sentence). Turn them in tomorrow at the beginning of class.
* J34: In summary, it's mostly reading, some notes, and one good paragraph on Austen.
1. Terms and introductory notes. Take notes on poetry ch. 10 (tone) and Dr. Leithart pp. 35-45 (see below). You have no story notes and no new terms (you have a quiz on previous terms this week).
2. Shorter Prose: We have finished our Perrine story work for the present. We will return to some short fiction when appropriate, but we have covered the essential story bases. Our short prose reading this week and next is nonfiction. On focus, you will see Dr. Leithart's guide for Pride and Prejudice. Read the first section (pp. 35-35) and answer one of the "Thought" (not the review questions as they are too basic for you) questions in a well-developed paragraph (roughly ten strong sentences).
To get full credit on these paragraphs, you need:
i. Faultless execution of the basics (solid length, titles, commas, spelling, character names)
ii. Ample evidence that you're playing with advanced techniques (semicolon, colon, mature vocabulary, at least one clever turn or insight, at least one rhetorical flourish/element).
iii. Clearly legible penmanship
An "A" covers all. A "B" covers "i." A "C" may fulfill parts of both.
3. Poetry: Ch. 10: Tone. Read the chapter and be prepared for discussion on Wednesday. I will assign no writing assignment this chapter as you have much to do with your cards and memorization.
4. Novel: Austen: (Ahhh, the double colon; thank you Kubla Colon!) Read through ch. 55 (see short prose for you writing assignment). Our focus will center on Austen as we close this novel together.
HW: Quiz corrections; poetry card; all cards printed out; begin a printed J34
Block Day, Week 26: Spiritual Emphasis
* Pray: Spiritual Emphasis
* "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." --G.K. Chesterton.
* Make up quizzes
* J26
* Correct Quizzes
* CWP Assignment
* Work on your CWP: Due March 1 or 2 (depending on your block day).
- If you wish, you may enter a writing contest for your CWP. You still have to write three full pages. Your paragraph would be briefly explaining the contest and how your chosen writing fits the parameters.
- The contest link is on the right side under the first set of labels on the blog. I would suggest writing one that you will enter next month or the month after: March, or April. Unless you have a good reason otherwise, choose one that has no entry fee.
HW: Read
* "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." --G.K. Chesterton.
* Make up quizzes
* J26
* Correct Quizzes
* CWP Assignment
* Work on your CWP: Due March 1 or 2 (depending on your block day).
- If you wish, you may enter a writing contest for your CWP. You still have to write three full pages. Your paragraph would be briefly explaining the contest and how your chosen writing fits the parameters.
- The contest link is on the right side under the first set of labels on the blog. I would suggest writing one that you will enter next month or the month after: March, or April. Unless you have a good reason otherwise, choose one that has no entry fee.
HW: Read
Block Day, Week 25
* Pray
* Tea (for some)
* Austen
* Journal
* AP M.C.
* Discussion
* If time, Bleak House
HW: Read
* Tea (for some)
* Austen
* Journal
* AP M.C.
* Discussion
* If time, Bleak House
HW: Read
Monday, 1/30: Reading
* Pray (for babies)
* Journal 32 Reviewed
* This week we will have a M.C. practice test.
* Austen questions will now be oral. You do not need to fill in answers any longer; simply keep up with the reading and look over the guide for what I will be asking.
J32
I. Notes and Terms (don't forget to provide a literary example or sentence for each term defined)
* allusion
* third-person limited point of view
* stream of consciousness
* first-person point of view
* objective (or dramatic) point of view
* epistolary novel (esp. as treats point of view; not in Perrine's or Turco)
Below, see Turco
* logical argument
* a priori or deductive reasoning
* a posteriori or inductive reasoning
* general principle
* premise (major and minor)
* conclusion
* categorical syllogism
* taxonomy
* differentia
II. Story, ch. 5: Point of View: Example story: "The Swimmer" by John Cheever, pg. 607, on Focus.
Response question: In a well-developed paragraph, examine the role of the point of view in supporting the central idea of the story.
III. Poetry, ch. 8: Allusion. I will list the poems and the questions. This will tighten our scope and make your work clearer and easier.
Get the Poetry Foundation app for your iPad, please. The poems are scattered in Perrine's (use the appendix--back of the book--to locate by title or author).
Review and Remember: "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, "Terence, this is stupid stuff" by A.E. Houseman, "Never Again Would Bird's Song be the Same" by Robert Frost
New to consider: "The Destruction of Sennarcherib" by Lord Byron, "Journey of the Magi" by T.S. Eliot, "Nothing Gold can Stay" by Robert Frost, "Kubla Kahn" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats
Optional: "The Abortion" by Anne Sexton
Choose two poems to answer this one question:
1. In a well-developed paragraph, explain how one allusion significantly strengthens the poem in terms of its power (density, intensity), imagery, and central meaning.
IV. Austen: Read 10 chapters (through ch. 35)
HW: Work on J32
* Journal 32 Reviewed
* This week we will have a M.C. practice test.
* Austen questions will now be oral. You do not need to fill in answers any longer; simply keep up with the reading and look over the guide for what I will be asking.
J32
I. Notes and Terms (don't forget to provide a literary example or sentence for each term defined)
* allusion
* third-person limited point of view
* stream of consciousness
* first-person point of view
* objective (or dramatic) point of view
* epistolary novel (esp. as treats point of view; not in Perrine's or Turco)
Below, see Turco
* logical argument
* a priori or deductive reasoning
* a posteriori or inductive reasoning
* general principle
* premise (major and minor)
* conclusion
* categorical syllogism
* taxonomy
* differentia
II. Story, ch. 5: Point of View: Example story: "The Swimmer" by John Cheever, pg. 607, on Focus.
Response question: In a well-developed paragraph, examine the role of the point of view in supporting the central idea of the story.
III. Poetry, ch. 8: Allusion. I will list the poems and the questions. This will tighten our scope and make your work clearer and easier.
Get the Poetry Foundation app for your iPad, please. The poems are scattered in Perrine's (use the appendix--back of the book--to locate by title or author).
Review and Remember: "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, "Terence, this is stupid stuff" by A.E. Houseman, "Never Again Would Bird's Song be the Same" by Robert Frost
New to consider: "The Destruction of Sennarcherib" by Lord Byron, "Journey of the Magi" by T.S. Eliot, "Nothing Gold can Stay" by Robert Frost, "Kubla Kahn" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats
Optional: "The Abortion" by Anne Sexton
Choose two poems to answer this one question:
1. In a well-developed paragraph, explain how one allusion significantly strengthens the poem in terms of its power (density, intensity), imagery, and central meaning.
IV. Austen: Read 10 chapters (through ch. 35)
HW: Work on J32
Block Day, Week 25: ICE
* Pray
* Tea
* Check J31; discussion: "Hunters in the Snow", Heaney, Marvell vs. Herrick, Browning
* ICE
HW: Read
* Tea
* Check J31; discussion: "Hunters in the Snow", Heaney, Marvell vs. Herrick, Browning
* ICE
HW: Read
Wednesday: Writing: Allusion and Chaucer
Prompt: Explain an allusion (or allusions) that supports a major theme from a semester 1 work; do not merely summarize the plot
Austen's Prayers
#1
"Give us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray, as to
deserve to be heard, to address thee with our Hearts, as with our lips. Thou
art every where present, from Thee no secret can be hid. May the knowledge of
this, teach us to fix our Thoughts on Thee, with Reverence and Devotion that we
pray not in vain. Look with Mercy on the Sins we have this day committed, and
in Mercy make us feel them deeply, that our Repentance may be sincere, and our
resolution stedfast of endeavouring against the commission of such in future.
Teach us to understand the sinfulness of our own Hearts, and bring to our
knowledge every fault of Temper and every evil Habit in which we have indulged
to the dis-comfort of our fellow-creatures, and the danger of our own Souls.
May we now, and on each return of night, consider how the past day has been
spent by us, what have been our prevailing Thoughts, Words, and Actions during
it, and how far we can acquit ourselves of Evil. Have we thought irreverently
of Thee, have we disobeyed thy commandments, have we neglected any known duty,
or willingly given pain to any human being? Incline us to ask our Hearts these
questions Oh! God, and save us from deceiving ourselves by Pride or Vanity. Give
us a thankful sense of the Blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of
our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by Discontent or Indifference. Be
gracious to our Necessities, and guard us, and all we love, from Evil this
night. May the sick and afflicted, be now, and ever thy care; and heartily do
we pray for the safety of all that travel by Land or by Sea, for the comfort
and protection of the Orphan and Widow and that thy pity may be shewn upon all
Captives and Prisoners. Above all other blessings Oh! God, for ourselves, and
our fellow-creatures, we implore Thee to quicken our sense of thy Mercy in the
redemption of the World, of the Value of that Holy Religion in which we have
been brought up, that we may not, by our own neglect, throw away the salvation
thou has given us, nor be Christians only in name. Hear us Almighty God, for
His sake who has redeemed us, and taught us thus to pray." (The Lord's
Prayer follows.)
#2
"Father of Heaven! whose goodness has brought us in safety
to the close of this day, dispose our hearts in fervent prayer. Another day is
now gone, and added to those, for which we were before accountable. Teach us
almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may
feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes, and earnestly
strive to make a better use of what thy goodness may yet bestow on us, than we
have done of the time past. Give us grace to endeavour after a truly Christian
spirit to seek to attain that temper of forbearance and patience of which our
blessed saviour has set us the highest example; and which, while it prepares us
for the spiritual happiness of the life to come, will secure to us the best
enjoyment of what this world can give. Incline us oh God! to think humbly of
ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider
our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with
that charity which we would desire from them ourselves. We thank thee with all
our hearts for every gracious dispensation, for all the blessings that have
attended our lives, for every hour of safety, health and peace, of domestic
comfort and innocent enjoyment. We feel that we have been blessed far beyond
any thing that we have deserved; and though we cannot but pray for a
continuance of all these mercies, we acknowledge our unworthiness of them and
implore thee to pardon the presumption of our desires. Keep us oh! Heavenly
Father from evil this night. Bring us in safety to the beginning of another day
and grant that we may rise again with every serious and religious feeling which
now directs us. May thy mercy be extended over all mankind, bringing the
ignorant to the knowledge of thy truth, awakening the impenitent, touching the
hardened. Look with compassion upon the afflicted of every condition, assuage
the pangs of disease, comfort the broken in spirit. More particularly do we
pray for the safety and welfare of our own family and friends wheresoever
dispersed, beseeching thee to avert from them all material and lasting evil of
body or mind; and may we by the assistance of thy holy spirit so conduct
ourselves on earth as to secure an eternity of happiness with each other in thy
heavenly kingdom. Grant this most merciful Father, for the sake of our blessed
saviour in whose holy name and words we further address thee." (The Lord's
Prayer follows.)
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