Remember: Your digital presentation is due to me by 11:59 PM TONIGHT!
Your prep journal is due day of your presentation. You also need to be dressed in business attire for your presentation.
Thursday:
1st Hour- 7th hour-
Kira Ike Jessica
Katie Mike
Maggie Halle
Ethan Claire
Natasha Parker
Friday:
1st Hour- 5th- 7th-
Rylie Garrett Maddy Daniel
Morgan Molly Isabel Nia
Tanner Rachel Sully Zach
Ashton Caroline Miriam Natalie
Will Aimee Divine
Tye Deion Ben
Dawson Alex K Clarisse
Connor Liz B.. Kylea
Hannah Xander Davis
Gabby Kirsten Brice
Sam Hannah
Dennis
Kiara
Kyle
Wednesday:
5th-
Alex O.
Alexa
Chelsey
Nathan
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Brave New World- Title Study
We have just finished reading Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare famously captures the interaction of man with his/her society, but often comments upon how this interaction is in ways that are unexpected or rejected by this same society.
Huxley takes his title from Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest. Click on the following link to read up a bit on the context from which the line was pulled and how it fits into the text you have read.
Huxley and Shakespeare
After you have reviewed the primary text from where Huxley pulls his title, read the essay on Huxley and Shakespeare. This is a sample of an advanced literary argument, similar to what you are constructing for your presentation. You can see how Meckier develops a broad argument and examines multiple works.
Shakespeare and Aldous Huxley
Huxley takes his title from Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest. Click on the following link to read up a bit on the context from which the line was pulled and how it fits into the text you have read.
Huxley and Shakespeare
After you have reviewed the primary text from where Huxley pulls his title, read the essay on Huxley and Shakespeare. This is a sample of an advanced literary argument, similar to what you are constructing for your presentation. You can see how Meckier develops a broad argument and examines multiple works.
Shakespeare and Aldous Huxley
Friday, May 15, 2015
AS10 Final project
AS10 Final Presentation
PRESENTATION INSTRUCTION:
How to prepare and deliver a presentation... (Learn it. Live it)
Sample presentations... the good.. the bad... the ugly
What not to do.. what to do..presentation video
Spot the errors... presentation video
PRESENTATION INSTRUCTION:
1. Maximum 5 minutes in length. I will cut you off at 5... or before if you are brutalizing the audience.
2. A digital, visual aide. PowerPoint/Google Slides is fine. However, you will need to review the essay, "Death by PowerPoint" before you present.
PowerPoint structure-
Presentation tips-
How to prepare and deliver a presentation... (Learn it. Live it)
Sample presentations... the good.. the bad... the ugly
What not to do.. what to do..presentation video
Spot the errors... presentation video
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Class today- May 12th
1. Write down the questions on the board. These 10 questions are designed to help you go through the first few chapters of Brave New World. Start going through these questions in your notes.
2. Finish the class work from Monday, if you have not done so yet.
3. Read up to 122 in Brave New World by Thursday.
2. Finish the class work from Monday, if you have not done so yet.
3. Read up to 122 in Brave New World by Thursday.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Starting our adventure into Brave New World
We are getting started with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World today.
This book is outstanding!! In order to dive in with the right mindset we need to consider our current mindset.. Therefore, read through the following questions; think about where you stand on the issue presented; then explain why and how you think about the issue.
How do I think? Questions
When you are done, we are going to examine Aldous Huxley's world. With Brave New World, we are going to be considering New Historicism and Marxism schools of theory (as well as the rest we have learned). As you read through the following link, have your literary theory questions out and look through them as you are also reading the background information on Huxley and his world.
Huxley's World and Background Notes
Brave New World Reading Schedule:
May 11th: 1-29
May 12th: 30-78
May 14th: 79-122
May 15th: 123-152
May 18th: 153-197
May 19th: 198-229
May 21st: 229-259 (Finish the book)
This book is outstanding!! In order to dive in with the right mindset we need to consider our current mindset.. Therefore, read through the following questions; think about where you stand on the issue presented; then explain why and how you think about the issue.
How do I think? Questions
When you are done, we are going to examine Aldous Huxley's world. With Brave New World, we are going to be considering New Historicism and Marxism schools of theory (as well as the rest we have learned). As you read through the following link, have your literary theory questions out and look through them as you are also reading the background information on Huxley and his world.
Huxley's World and Background Notes
Brave New World Reading Schedule:
May 11th: 1-29
May 12th: 30-78
May 14th: 79-122
May 15th: 123-152
May 18th: 153-197
May 19th: 198-229
May 21st: 229-259 (Finish the book)
Friday, May 8, 2015
For class: Monday, May 11th
Great job on Friday in your Socratic seminar addressing The Taming of the Shrew! I have thoroughly loved watching you develop as thinkers and readers!
For Monday:
1. Pick one school of literary theory (avoid historical and biographical). Pick one question from this school and ask it of Taming. Make sure that it focuses upon the text. (Steps 1-2 of Writing)
2. Break down the issue that the question addresses to a manageable size (and specific). (Step 3 of Writing)
3. Answer the question as an arguable/analytic thesis. (Step 4 of Writing)
4. Construct a thorough outline supporting this thesis as if you were writing a full paper (Steps 5-6 of Writing). Be as clear and specific as possible. Make sure your focus is the text of Taming versus peripheral issues.
Have this all typed up for class on Monday.
For Monday:
1. Pick one school of literary theory (avoid historical and biographical). Pick one question from this school and ask it of Taming. Make sure that it focuses upon the text. (Steps 1-2 of Writing)
2. Break down the issue that the question addresses to a manageable size (and specific). (Step 3 of Writing)
3. Answer the question as an arguable/analytic thesis. (Step 4 of Writing)
4. Construct a thorough outline supporting this thesis as if you were writing a full paper (Steps 5-6 of Writing). Be as clear and specific as possible. Make sure your focus is the text of Taming versus peripheral issues.
Have this all typed up for class on Monday.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Brave New World Reading Schedule PLUS Finals Schedule
Brave New World reading schedule:
May 11th: 1-29
May 12th: 30-78
May 14th: 79-122
May 15th: 123-152
May 18th: 153-197
May 19th: 198-229
May 21st: 229-259 (Finish the book)
Finals Schedule:
May 22nd: 7th hour FINAL
May 26th:
May 27th: 1st and 5th hours FINAL
May 11th: 1-29
May 12th: 30-78
May 14th: 79-122
May 15th: 123-152
May 18th: 153-197
May 19th: 198-229
May 21st: 229-259 (Finish the book)
Finals Schedule:
May 22nd: 7th hour FINAL
May 26th:
May 27th: 1st and 5th hours FINAL
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
For class: Thursday, May 7th
The 8 discussion questions that have been on the board in help your analysis of the play:
1. How is Kate portrayed in her first appearance? What characteristics is she given?
2. How does Bianca contrast to Kate? Why is she created in this manner? why does Shakespeare create this distance in characterization?
3. How are Kate and Petruchio similar/ How are they different?
4. What is Shakespeare saying about marriage? Gender?
5. How does Petruchio "woo" Kate? Why is she susceptible to his methods? What does this tell us?
6. What connections can you make to the induction? How do these two plots align?
7. What influences of Greek comedy can you see in Taming of the Shrew?
8. What does Taming say about "maleness"? About "femaleness"? How does the play, then, argue against this?
Please go through these thoroughly with the text for Thursday.
Be ready for a reading quiz and Socratic seminar.
1. How is Kate portrayed in her first appearance? What characteristics is she given?
2. How does Bianca contrast to Kate? Why is she created in this manner? why does Shakespeare create this distance in characterization?
3. How are Kate and Petruchio similar/ How are they different?
4. What is Shakespeare saying about marriage? Gender?
5. How does Petruchio "woo" Kate? Why is she susceptible to his methods? What does this tell us?
6. What connections can you make to the induction? How do these two plots align?
7. What influences of Greek comedy can you see in Taming of the Shrew?
8. What does Taming say about "maleness"? About "femaleness"? How does the play, then, argue against this?
Please go through these thoroughly with the text for Thursday.
Be ready for a reading quiz and Socratic seminar.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Taming of the Shrew Discussion Questions
Induction and Act 1
| 1. | The Induction portrays role-playing. Who acts the part of whom? Why? How does such role-playing address issues of gender and class? What effects might these representations have on the play? |
| 2. | From the outset, we learn from Bianca's suitors that Katherine is the less desirable of the two sisters. Examine and question this claim. How are Biance and Katherine different? What makes Katherine rather than Bianca the shrew? |
Acts 2 and 3
| 1. | How does Petruchio "tame" Kate? Consider how he seems to define their roles. How does his behavior juxtapose with Kate's? |
| 2. | How does Katherine act in the scenes where she says little or nothing? For example, in Act 2, scene 1, how does Katherine behave when Petruchio reports on his success in wooing Kate and in their plans for marriage? Because the text provides little explanation, you must decide how she would act based on your interpretation of her character from previous scenes. |
Act 4
| 1. | How is Petruchio's masculinity represented? Examine his treatment of servants, Kate, etc. Question #1 from Acts 2 and 3 is still relevant here. |
| 2. | Many critics mark the sun/moon scene in the road to Padua (scene 5) as the turning point in the play which indicates Kate's taming. What is different about this scene? If she is tamed, what is she submitting to? Is it really a "submission," or can it be interpreted in other ways? |
Act 5
| 1. | Analyze Kate's final speech. Is she sincere or ironic? Should we take her at her word? Or should we imagine a gap between what she says and what she means? Does the context of her words change their meanings? What are different possibilities in performing this scene? |
| 2. | What happens to the power dynamics in this scene–between mem and men, women and women, men and women? - Professor Boyer |
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