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"Lo , this only have I found , that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions" (Ecclesiastes 7:29).

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel (1563)

•  Greeting and Seating

• Note Card (fill in the info.; make it look cool; glue on a little picture or draw a picture of yourself)
• Your name (make your first name the one you prefer to be addressed as)
• Address
• Phone number (for calling your parents or you at home)
• Email address
• Favorite things to do
• What should I know about you as a student to help me teach you better this year?   

• Course Overview
• AP Literature Syllabus
• Course Calendar
• Turn It In Course Codes
• Course Plan
• AP Literature College Board Page: Wednesday, May 6, 8:00 am
• Summer Reading
• Your Journal
• Questions? 

• HW (homework): read Genesis chapter 11:1-9; make your note card awesome; bring your reading responses; hunt for a composition book (needed Monday)

Monday, 5/21/12: Last Readings

* Pray

* Return Papers.  Any makeup or correction work must be turned in by Wednesday, 2:00 pm.

* Esolen and Lewis

* Note the finals post

* Did you turn in your exit form to student services?  Did you turn in your addressed, stamped envelope for your final transcript request?

* You may vote for the graduation name readers: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X6DRS8L 

HW: Review

Allusions in _That Hideous Strength_

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Quotations and Allusions

in C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

compiled by Arend Smilde (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

...I consider a happy ending appropriate to the light, holiday kind of fiction I was attempting. The Professor has mis­taken the ‘poetic justice’ of romance for an ethical theo­rem.

–– C. S. Lewis on J. B. S. Haldane’s critique of That Hideous Strength

...it appears confused only so long as we are trying to get out of it what it never intended to give. It becomes intelligible and delightful as soon as we take it for what it is – a holiday work, a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high spirits, a revel of debate, paradox, comedy and (above all) of invention, which starts many hares and kills none. ... There is a thread of serious thought running through it, an abundance of daring suggestions, several back-handed blows at European institutions ... But he does not keep our noses to the grind­stone. He says many things for the fun of them, surrendering himself to the sheer pleasure of imagined geography, imagined language, and imagined insti­tutions. That is what readers whose interests are rigidly political do not understand: but everyone who has ever made an imaginary map responds at once.

–– C. S. Lewis on Thomas More’s Utopia

ICE Examples from THS

Good opening:





Another good opening:





Good thoughts on Jane:




Interesting thoughts on vision:

Week 3 Block Day: The Eighth Wonder of the World

1. Review M.C. Testing Strategy

2. THS Discussion: Venus at St. Anne's
J6: Write out one discussion-worthy comment.







3. The Eighth Wonder of the World: Download G.K. Chesterton's Eugenics and Other Evils from iBooks. Review together.








4. Download Literature of the World .pdf into iBooks.

Read Book pp. 354 (369 on .pdf)- 362.

5. Download Gummere's Translation of Beowulf from iBooks. Also download the other free edition of the text there, which will show the Old English.

HW: Read through the battle with Grendel; you will have no reading from the Elements this weekend. We will cover a section together next week.

More Medical Meddling

How about Giving People a Disease, then Not Treating it?

They Break Their Tools; Wednesday, 8/31: Writing, Terms;

They Break Their Tools (discussion)

1. Introduction of our Terms List and Vocabulary List. 

2. College Essay Examples: See Focus

3. Work on your CWP (due near the end of the quarter)

HW: Work on your CWP

Tuesday, 8/30: Grammar, THS

(For Advisory: Go to mvcs.org/eslr)

1. TAL and THS review.
Myself in the Gaze of Another (only for the philosophers)
Questions and clarifications from Elements III-IV.






2. THS Memorization Card.






No work is complete without, yes, memorization. We make cards for each major work. You study them, and I quiz you on them. Memorize your card for your next block day.

Monday, 8/29: "Mistakes Were Made"

[Per. 1 AP M.C. Score Overview]

1. Smile!

2. Make a button.

3. Collect rewrites.

4. Aristotle (et al): Art imitates life. Oscar Wilde: Life imitates art.

5. Finish Segment from This American Life
"Mistakes Were Made"

6. Discuss: Where did Bob Nelson go wrong? Are such impulses alive today? If it did "work," would it be ethically right to do it? Where does this mirror THS?

HW: Review THS and Elements III-IV

Per. 6 ICE

Characters' views of themselves and others is a central subject in C.S. Lewis' _That Hideous Strength_. Choose a character and examine how that characer's view of self and others reinforces a major theme in the novel.









Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen


Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.

HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_

St. Anne's
Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons


The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Mark Studdock
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik

ICE: _That Hideous Strength_

1. Review Essay Structure and Style

2. "Mistakes Were Made": This American Life and the Awkward Evil of Cryonics.



3. 40 min. ICE

4. Turn in your essay and your college application RD to the table in the middle.

HW: Read _The Elements of Style_ III-IV

Per. 1, 3 ICE

How does Jane's remark over furniture and wardrobes support a major theme in _That Hideous Strength_ that relates directly to Jane's own transformation?

End time: 11:33



Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen


Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.

HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_

St. Anne's
Mark and Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons


The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik

Elasticity, Writing

1. J5 THS: Elasticity. Explain Jane's dilemma. How is her dilemma like many we will meet?

2. Load Bulfinch into iBooks for practice.

3. CWP Writing

4. Essay writing (Strunk and White). Examples.

5. Upcoming: ICE: Closed note, closed book.

HW: Review THS 8-11; Arthur III-IV

Writing with Better Syle; Bulfinch

1. J4: Can places, materials, things be sacred? Explain.
*BCP: The Solemnization of Marriage

2. Strunk and White I-II

3. Bulfinch. Apologies; I had the short link up on accident. Here is the full link, and it should take you right to Arthur.

4. 5. Note, tomorrow is the last day for opening lateness grace. After tomorrow, see the binder policy.


HW: Review Bulfinch's Mythology: Arthur parts I-II.

In the event of a crash, oxygen masks will fall to distract you

1. J3: Why do you think Lewis chose the setting he did for _THS_?

2. Binder

3. Emergency procedures 

4. Substitute (planned and unplanned)

5. BCP

HW: Review THS 1-3; The Book of Common Prayer

That Hideous Strength Card

Lewis' Hideous Strength Example Card

Hideous Strength Card Example

AP Literature, Summer Reading

AP English Literature and Composition (Senior Course, English IV AP)

Summer Reading