- Check Your Focus Q3 Grade for Blanks and/or 0's
- Senior Project Proposal
- CWP Q4 FD: Champion or Satire
- Essay Rewrite
* Begin Rime of the Ancient Mariner
* Be Sure to Check Focus
* Work in Class (Senior Project)
HW: Senior Project
Monday: Extended Musings (of the Poetry Santa Cruz Type)
* Open
* Begin Rime of the Ancient Mariner
* Be Sure to Check Focus
* Work in Class (Senior Project)
HW: Senior Project
* Begin Rime of the Ancient Mariner
* Be Sure to Check Focus
* Work in Class (Senior Project)
HW: Senior Project
18 Centuries of Rewriting: Turnitin is working again
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Mr. S
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Block Day
Open
* Poetry Santa Cruz Contest Details
HW: None
- Please review the info. for in-class essay rewrites before you turn them in.
* Poetry Santa Cruz Contest Details
- Would anyone like a peer edit?
- Quo Vadis: "Austen's Powers" by Jennifer Farrara
- Examples from Wuthering Heights
- Respond: Take up one idea from Farrara's article to expand upon. You may agree, disagree, or consider multiple angles of the idea. Please begin your response with a quotation, then analyze from there. (Please compose one paragraph.)
- OR Show how two fictional characters (besides Darcy and Heathcliff) show two very different visions of ideal love.
HW: None
Tuesday, 3/10/15: Triolet
* Open
HW: Poetry Santa Cruz; Rewrites
- In-Class Essay Rewrites
- If turnitin.com doesn't work (it doesn't right now), your printed copy will suffice for now. If you are leaving on the trip and need to submit electronically and turnitin doesn't work, you may email it to me: marcusschwager@gmail.com (please do not email me with your rewrite if you are not in the trip situation).
- Poetry Submissions: Let's look at your poems on block day. You may submit them after we've worked on them a bit.
- Copy the definition into your terms
- Read all the poems
- Journal: Triolet: Choose any three for your journal response (you do not need to write a triolet yet)
- Mr. Collins's Proposal and The Book of Common Prayer
- Respond: What other reference or allusion to the Book of Common Prayer have we noted in this course?
- Quo Vadis: "Austen's Powers" by Jennifer Farrara
- Examples from Wuthering Heights
- Respond: Cite and explain two men or two women in modern fiction (written or otherwise) who may represent two separate visions of an ideal partner. Have you experienced a maturation of expectation in an ideal partner? How?
HW: Poetry Santa Cruz; Rewrites
Monday, 3/9/15: All Kinds of Glory!
* Open
* Poetry Santa Cruz
HW: Poetry Santa Cruz Work; Rewrites
- “Pride relates to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
- Please read your first foray into Austen literary criticism.
- Answer in your journal: Given your reading, How do you see that "prejudice" and "vanity" have more specific meaning in their original context?
- Calendar
- This Week
- Poetry Santa Cruz
- Chaucer
- Rewrites
- Next Week:
- 1/2 Mark
- Midterm on Block Day, Next Week
- Forms
- Austen
- Romantic Writers and Notes Thus Far
- Joseph Addison's Character's Diary
- Locating the tone is key.
- Internal life is key. See it best in juxtaposition.
- Pettiness: treatment of subordinates.
- The Spectator (March 4, 1712): What kind of work might this be extracted from?
- Notice
- verbs
- pronoun?
- what is he doing?
- winds
- Glory: Grand Vizier and Dreams and Internal Life
- Boswell on Johnson and Addison
- Main issue: "nerveless and feeble" is "very [unjust]."
- Both are praised.
- Johnson is not deprecated (consider the larger context, The Life of Samuel Johnson).
- Devices: parallelism, similes, extended simile or analogy
- What connotations are implied by the similes?
- Glory: that last sentence; qualified and erudite and periodic...just like Johnson.
* Poetry Santa Cruz
HW: Poetry Santa Cruz Work; Rewrites
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