Monday, 2/6/12: Reading

* Pray

* Sign up if you wish a tea party this week.

* This Week Block: ICE #2; Next Week Block: Terms Quiz,

* Drumroll...(many of) the cards are finally uploaded into the blog. If you hit the "Card" label, you will see them. Time to update your cards. Please be sure you have cards for:

Lewis
Beowulf
Chaucer
Dante, Pearl, or Gawain
Lear
Tempest
Drama of Your Choice

Next card: Poet of your choice: Biographical information; poetic style, elements, and themes. Memorize 20 or more lines of verse. Each line should be roughly 10 syllables. If there are fewer syllables per line on average, then you must increase your line count accourdingly. Due next block day. I will quiz you on 10 lines next week.

8 cards total so far

Memorization: 50 or more words per card (except the poet; that is by line)

Please print out your cards (even if you have electronic versions).
I will be checking all cards printed (sans Austen), not this week but next.

* Extra Credit: If I use your work for the blog in any way, I will be awarding your extra credit.

* Review J33

1. Notes (Story ch. 6; Poetry ch. 9) and Terms:

* symbol
* allegory
* fantasy
* total meaning
* prose meaning
* sprung rhythm

Turco on argument
* hypothetical syllogism
* disjunctive syllogism
* enthymeme (EN-thuh-meem)
* tautology
* adage
* empiricism
* textual support
* validity
* artistic proofs (list and describe)
* inartistic proofs (list and describe)

2. Story: Perrine's ch. 6 (pg. 291 ff): Read "Young Goodman Brown" (pg. 316 ff) by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Respond in one, well-developed paragraph: Explain the allegory of this story (there is more than one possibility; you choose one and go with it). Examine at least fifteen significant details that support your interpretaiton.

3. Poetry: Perrine's ch. 9 (pp. 862-878): Meaning and Idea. This chapter is important to read in its entirety and in the order of the poems presented. Notice how the poems form sets of two for comparison. Your assignment is to answer the questions for the last two poems of the chapter (by G.M. Hopkins).

4. Novel: Austen: Ch. 36-45 (Vol III, ch. 3).

Jane Austen's humble writing desk.  I remember hearing that she forbade others from oiling the hinges on a certain door so that she would know when people were nearing and could quietly cover or remove her work.  

HW: Begin Journal 33