Greetings APEs!
Thanks to those who came for the mock exam on Saturday. I appreciate your extra effort. And for those who did not, do not think this means you cannot learn from the March session that reviews the exam. I expect to see more of you there.
Keep reading The Turn of the Screw at home, and be prepared for a discussion session and essay on that text. Also, complete a MWDS on the novella and upload it to Moodle by Jan. 21. In the interim, we will delve more deeply into poetry, beginning with a discussion of the play W;t. It may seem odd to start a study of poetry with a play, but trust me, it is not. The play revolves around a professor of 17th c. poetry, specifically John Donne's Holy Sonnets, and her epiphanic (yes, that is a word) understanding of them, not as a teacher of poetry, but as a student of life...and death.
I will be giving a list of poetry to read at home for discussion in class. Be prepared. Don't come cold...I will know.
Next week we will resume our vocabulary quizzes.
See you in class!
Mrs. SO
Monday, January 9, 2012
Sunday, January 8, 2012
ENGLISH 12: December 9-13, 2012
Greetings Seniors!
This marks our first full week of our last semester! Boy time sure does fly!
As I told you last week, we are now studying Renaissance Literature, which includes such authors as Donne, Shakespeare, and Marlowe, among many others. This was a of rebirth of knowledge and technology. Changes in the church and the end of the Feudal system are reflected in the literature of the period. This is a period rich in a plethora of new literature, and while we cannot possibly read all of it, I hope we can get a good overview of the period.
To begin our study, we will read the play Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Pay attention and participate in discussion because you WILL be expected to write an essay on this play. I will post topics and upload dates on my Moodle next week.
Also, we will have a vocabulary quiz on Thursday on lesson 12.
See you in class!
Mrs. SO
This marks our first full week of our last semester! Boy time sure does fly!
As I told you last week, we are now studying Renaissance Literature, which includes such authors as Donne, Shakespeare, and Marlowe, among many others. This was a of rebirth of knowledge and technology. Changes in the church and the end of the Feudal system are reflected in the literature of the period. This is a period rich in a plethora of new literature, and while we cannot possibly read all of it, I hope we can get a good overview of the period.
To begin our study, we will read the play Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Pay attention and participate in discussion because you WILL be expected to write an essay on this play. I will post topics and upload dates on my Moodle next week.
Also, we will have a vocabulary quiz on Thursday on lesson 12.
See you in class!
Mrs. SO
English 10: Jan 9-13, 2012
Greetings Sophomores!
This marks your first full week of the semester. This week we will continue our look at Puritan literature, contemporaries of Puritans and literature about Puritans. To begin our week, we will analyze the poetry of Edward Taylor. Taylor is interesting in that he only published one stanza from one of his poems during his lifetime. The rest were found over 100 years later and published posthumously. Two poems by Taylor that we will examine are "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold" and "Huswifery," the latter of which is in your textbook. "Huswifery" is a more complex conceit than the one "The Author to Her Book," so it will take a bit more effort on your parts to unravel its mystery.
We will also read excerpts from an infamous Puritan sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," by Jonathan Edwards. You will be expected to recognize the imagery in this sermon and discuss it as a form of persuasive writing/speaking. What sorts of appeals does Edwards make? How effective are they?
Also, we will examine and discuss testimony recorded by Cotton Mather in his book The Wonders of the Invisible World from an actual witch trial, the trial of Martha Carrier. You will be expected to judge the validity of the testimony and recognize instances of bias.
On Friday you will take a quiz on Lesson 13 Vocabulary, and we will review Lesson 14 words. We will also review commonly confused words and learn to differentiate between them.
See you in Class!
Table of contents for Wonders of the Invisible World
Mrs. SO
This marks your first full week of the semester. This week we will continue our look at Puritan literature, contemporaries of Puritans and literature about Puritans. To begin our week, we will analyze the poetry of Edward Taylor. Taylor is interesting in that he only published one stanza from one of his poems during his lifetime. The rest were found over 100 years later and published posthumously. Two poems by Taylor that we will examine are "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold" and "Huswifery," the latter of which is in your textbook. "Huswifery" is a more complex conceit than the one "The Author to Her Book," so it will take a bit more effort on your parts to unravel its mystery.
We will also read excerpts from an infamous Puritan sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," by Jonathan Edwards. You will be expected to recognize the imagery in this sermon and discuss it as a form of persuasive writing/speaking. What sorts of appeals does Edwards make? How effective are they?
Also, we will examine and discuss testimony recorded by Cotton Mather in his book The Wonders of the Invisible World from an actual witch trial, the trial of Martha Carrier. You will be expected to judge the validity of the testimony and recognize instances of bias.
On Friday you will take a quiz on Lesson 13 Vocabulary, and we will review Lesson 14 words. We will also review commonly confused words and learn to differentiate between them.
See you in Class!
Table of contents for Wonders of the Invisible World
Mrs. SO
Friday, January 6, 2012
PreAPEnglsh 10: January 9-13, 2012
Greetings young APEs!
We have so much to do and so little time!
This week we will continue out study of Puritans and their literature. Last week we looked at the poetry of Anne Brastreet and discussed how to complete a Major Works Data Sheet. This week we will revisit one of Bradstreet's poems and compare and contrast it will that of a non Puritan poem by Sor Juana on a similar thematic topic to see if we can differentiate between them based on style or content.
We will also read and discuss two poems by Edward Taylor, "Huswifery" and "Upon a Wasp Chilled With Cold," and further discuss and analyze the use of conceit in poetry. Should time permit, we will read and illustrate the imagery in the infamous sermon by Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Don't forget to upload your MWDS on The Scarlet Letter on or before January 21. There is a link to a blank MWDS on my moodle as well. We will also be writing an in-class essay on the novel in class in the coming days. And don't forget to study your Lesson 11 vocabulary for a quiz this week.
Like I said...so much to do....so little time!
See you in class!
Mrs. SO
We have so much to do and so little time!
This week we will continue out study of Puritans and their literature. Last week we looked at the poetry of Anne Brastreet and discussed how to complete a Major Works Data Sheet. This week we will revisit one of Bradstreet's poems and compare and contrast it will that of a non Puritan poem by Sor Juana on a similar thematic topic to see if we can differentiate between them based on style or content.
We will also read and discuss two poems by Edward Taylor, "Huswifery" and "Upon a Wasp Chilled With Cold," and further discuss and analyze the use of conceit in poetry. Should time permit, we will read and illustrate the imagery in the infamous sermon by Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Don't forget to upload your MWDS on The Scarlet Letter on or before January 21. There is a link to a blank MWDS on my moodle as well. We will also be writing an in-class essay on the novel in class in the coming days. And don't forget to study your Lesson 11 vocabulary for a quiz this week.
Like I said...so much to do....so little time!
See you in class!
Mrs. SO
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Welcome Back! Jan. 5-6, 2012
Greetings students!
I hope you all had a restful vacation and are ready to get back into the swing of things. Every class will meet but once this week, but we still have plenty to do. Next week will be an A week, so plan your schedule with that in mind.
Prepare for the following activities this week:
Grade-Level English 12:
We've just completed the section on Medieval Literature, so be prepared for some Renaissance reading. We will begin with a brief lecture on and introduction to Christopher Marlowe's writings, including poetry and one of my favorite plays, Dr. Faustus, the first written Faustian tale, which predates the other well-known Faust, by Goethe by about a century. You should be easily able to distinguish this writing from the previous texts we have read. No longer are we dealing with early or middle English. Like Shakespeare, his contemporary, Marlowe wrote in early MODERN English. I know many students feel that this archaic writing is anything but modern, but comparatively speaking, it is. Still, to assist you in your understanding of this text, I will post an annotated version with helpful explanations for your perusal. We will read the original version in class.
APEnglish Literature 12:
You should have read The Turn of the Screw over the holiday, but in case your family plans did not allow for such, we will delay our discussion of, writing about, and MWDS for this text for a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, we will look at a variety of poems in your text book. You will need to bring it to class next week. On Friday of this week, we will break into groups for two activities. First we will review some of the MC from your midterm, and then we will develop thesis statements with controlling ideas such as those you will need to use when writing timed essays. These thesis statements need to be more concise and exact than those of longer, take-home papers.
Pre-APEnglish 10
As you know, you were to read Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter over the break. Some of you, however, did not get a copy of the text. Others, I am sure, were inundated with family and holiday activities; therefore, I will not expect you to complete the novel for several more days. Keep reading, and fill out a Major Works Data Sheet. I will give you a link to a MWDS, but you can easily find a blank one by googling AP Literature Major Works Data Sheet Blank. If they are not formatted exactly the same as the one I link to, that is fine, so long as the information is basically the same. You may even choose to write the information simply under bold headings instead of typing in the boxes. I would like you to upload your MWDS to Moodle before Jan. 20.
All English 10 Classes
This week we will continue our study of Puritans and delve into Puritan poetry. We will read "Upon the Burning of our House, July 10 1666" and "From the Author to her Book" by Ann Bradstreet. While studying these poems we will discuss the use of and effectiveness of conceit, or extended metaphor. If time permits we will also read poetry by Edward Taylor. Tayor's poems also employ conceit, and it will be your task to decipher what the metaphor is each of the poems, "Huswifery" and "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold," and how to interpret the poem based on the conceit.
I hope you all had a restful vacation and are ready to get back into the swing of things. Every class will meet but once this week, but we still have plenty to do. Next week will be an A week, so plan your schedule with that in mind.
Prepare for the following activities this week:
Grade-Level English 12:
We've just completed the section on Medieval Literature, so be prepared for some Renaissance reading. We will begin with a brief lecture on and introduction to Christopher Marlowe's writings, including poetry and one of my favorite plays, Dr. Faustus, the first written Faustian tale, which predates the other well-known Faust, by Goethe by about a century. You should be easily able to distinguish this writing from the previous texts we have read. No longer are we dealing with early or middle English. Like Shakespeare, his contemporary, Marlowe wrote in early MODERN English. I know many students feel that this archaic writing is anything but modern, but comparatively speaking, it is. Still, to assist you in your understanding of this text, I will post an annotated version with helpful explanations for your perusal. We will read the original version in class.
APEnglish Literature 12:
You should have read The Turn of the Screw over the holiday, but in case your family plans did not allow for such, we will delay our discussion of, writing about, and MWDS for this text for a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, we will look at a variety of poems in your text book. You will need to bring it to class next week. On Friday of this week, we will break into groups for two activities. First we will review some of the MC from your midterm, and then we will develop thesis statements with controlling ideas such as those you will need to use when writing timed essays. These thesis statements need to be more concise and exact than those of longer, take-home papers.
Pre-APEnglish 10
As you know, you were to read Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter over the break. Some of you, however, did not get a copy of the text. Others, I am sure, were inundated with family and holiday activities; therefore, I will not expect you to complete the novel for several more days. Keep reading, and fill out a Major Works Data Sheet. I will give you a link to a MWDS, but you can easily find a blank one by googling AP Literature Major Works Data Sheet Blank. If they are not formatted exactly the same as the one I link to, that is fine, so long as the information is basically the same. You may even choose to write the information simply under bold headings instead of typing in the boxes. I would like you to upload your MWDS to Moodle before Jan. 20.
All English 10 Classes
This week we will continue our study of Puritans and delve into Puritan poetry. We will read "Upon the Burning of our House, July 10 1666" and "From the Author to her Book" by Ann Bradstreet. While studying these poems we will discuss the use of and effectiveness of conceit, or extended metaphor. If time permits we will also read poetry by Edward Taylor. Tayor's poems also employ conceit, and it will be your task to decipher what the metaphor is each of the poems, "Huswifery" and "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold," and how to interpret the poem based on the conceit.
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