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

Wednesday: Writing, CWP

* Pray: Spiritual Emphasis

* No ICE tomorrow as I'm still catching up on your last essay. We will focus on the CWP for now.

* Work on your CWP: Due March 1 or 2 (depending on your block day).
  Or work on your J33.

* Has anyone else missed last week's M.C.?  Take it tomorrow during block, please. 

* Questions?

HW: Finish J33

Tuesday 2/7: Trading G for J

* Pray

* More Journal time this week

* If ahead, work on your CWP

* If I can get through all our grading, then we will have a CWP #2 on our block day.  If not, then we will have more CWP and Bleak House time on our block day.  

HW: Work on your journal; work on your cards

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