Proverb: Do you see a man skilled in his labor?

He will serve before kings, not before obscure men.

Biking

Dancing

King Lear

Author: William Shakespeare

Title: The Tragedy of King Lear (underlined when handwritten)

Opening question(s):

• Have you ever been deeply misunderstood or misjudged by a parent (or both)?  What happened?  How did you respond?  Was there eventual resolution?  Do you need to forgive now?  
• This is the opening context for King Lear, and it is tragic.

Thursday, 11/10: Quizzing

* Pray

* Vocabulary Quiz 51-70

* Lear M.C.: 30 Questions

HW: Outside Reading, CWP

Wednesday, 11/9: Lear Essay

AP Lear Essay

Choose one from the three below. Be sure to respond to the prompt and not merely summarize the plot. Be sure to take a position and defend it using specific examples.

1. Trace the theme of sight and insight, blindness and vision in King Lear. Consider how this theme relates to the idea of reality and appearance.

2. Trace the theme of "nothing" in King Lear.

3. Evaluate the following statement from Lear. Take a position and defend it: "I am a man/ more sinned against than sinning" (III.ii).

Single space.
Write in pen.
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A Hike with My Son

My sophomores read "The Wing of Dalua" by Hilare Belloc. It is a modern, first-person faery adventure in the Pyrenees Mountains. Belloc hiked througout Europe. Lucan and I went into the Ventana wilderness on Saturday.

http://theoldthatisstrong.blogspot.com/2011/11/ventana-adventure-11511.html