Ms. Buchan
E5 Junior English
Survey of American Literature
Fall 2009 Semester
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Day One
Read Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance." Then respond to it according to the prompt distributed in class.
Day Two
One more night on the above. Bring in a printed copy of it.
Day Three
Bring in both summer assignments on Monday.
Week of 9/14/09
Monday
Get materials you will need for this course: loose leaf, a folder, blue or black ink pens.
Tuesday
Get contracts signed.
Review class notes on critical reading approaches.
Wednesday
Prepare for tomorrow's in-class writing on the summer reading by reviewing the grading rubric and by thinking about the changes the central characters undergo in this text. Think about trying to assign causality to these changes.
Thursday
None
Please scroll down to the links section of this page to access the grading rubric for this summer assignment.
Friday
Review literary time periods class notes.
Week of 9/21/09
Monday
Review final notes in literary time periods packet. Make sure there are no gaps.
By Thursday, read "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washingto Irving. The links for both appear below. Print out a copy of each and bring them to class by THURSDAY.
Tuesday
Based on today's powerpoint presentation, what statement is the earliest American writing making? Be sure you have a response in your class notes.
In what ways does the Edward Taylor poem serve as an example of the literary time period of which it is a part?
Wednesday
Get Irving reading done by tomorrow!!
Thursday & Friday
Work on your assigned Washington Irving Questions. Be sure your paragraph responses are ready to be shared with the class.
Week of 9/29/09
Tuesday
Read handout on the Puritans. Then paraphrase the tenets of Puritanism.
Wednesday
Read chapter one of The Scarlet Letter. Think about the ways that Hawthorne treats the tenets of Puritanism discussed in class today.
Thursday
Finish reading chapter two of the Hawthorne novel.
Think about how Hawthorne provdies insight into the Puritan people. Focus on both the people and the place.
Friday
By Tuesday, read chapters three and four. Think about how the A serves to characterize Hester.
Vocabulary for The Scarlet Letter
Chapters 1 & 2
1) ponderous (adj.) – Having great weight; heavy, weighty, massive; clumsy, unwieldy, or slow-moving due to weight or size
2) edifice (n.) – A building, usually a large and stately building, as a church, palace, temple, or fortress; a fabric, structure.
3) inauspicious (adj.) – Not auspicious, not of good omen; of unfavourable presage, foreboding evil; ill-omened, unlucky, unfortunate.
4) heterodox (adj) – Holding opinions not in accord with some acknowledged standard.
5) malefactor (n.) – A person guilty of a heinous offence against the law
6) ignominious (adj.) – involving shame, disgrace, or obloquy; shameful, disgraceful, discreditable.
7) contumely (n) – Insolent reproach or abuse; insulting or offensively contemptuous language or treatment; despite; scornful rudeness.
Chapter 3
8) manifest (v) – to show plainly, reveal.
9) heterogeneous (adj) – diverse in kind or nature.
10) imperceptible (adj) – so slight, gradual, subtle, or indistinct as not to be perceptible.
11) conceive (v) – to take into, or form in, the mind.
12) sagacity (n) – exceptional intelligence.
13) tremulous (adj.) – characterized or affected by trembling or quivering from nervous agitation or weakness.
Chapter 4
14) epoch (n) – the beginning of a ‘new era’ or distinctive period in the history of mankind.
15) anathema (n) – anything accursed, or consigned to damnation.
16) inalienable (adj.) – something that cannot be alienated or transferred from its present ownership or relation.
17) deportment (n) – manner of conducting oneself; conduct (of life); behavior.
18) misbegotten (n) – a person born out of wedlock; in weakened use: a person born into unfortunate circumstances.
Chapter 5
19) infamy (n) – evil fame or reputation; scandalous repute; public reproach, shame, or disgrace.
20) emolument (n) – profit or gain arising from station, office, or employment; dues; reward, remuneration, salary.
21) insidious (adj.) – full of wiles or plots; lying in wait or seeking to entrap or ensnare; proceeding or operating secretly or subtly so as not to excite suspicion; sly, treacherous, deceitful, underhand, artful, cunning, crafty, wily.
22) intimation (n) – formal notification or announcement.
Chapter 6
23) inscrutable (adj., n) – that cannot be searched into or found out by searching; impenetrable or unfathomable to investigation; quite unintelligible, entirely mysterious.
24) amenable (adj.) – of persons and things: Disposed to answer, respond, or submit (to influence); responsive, tractable; capable of being won over.
25) enmity (n) – the disposition or the feelings characteristic of an enemy; ill-will, hatred.
There will be a quiz on these words on Tuesday, 10/13/09
Week of 10/5/09
Monday:
Read chapters 3 & 4 of The Scarlet Letter.
Tuesday:
Be sure you have read chapters 5 & 6 by Thursday.
Wednesday: Prepare for tomorrow's in class essay on characterization. Bring your book! You will be asked to write one brief essay of three paragraphs.
Thursday:
Based on the vocabulary list distributed in class today, write a sentence for the word you have been assigned. Be sure your sentence makes the definition of the word clear to all. Your assignment is denoted by the circled number of the word you are responsible for.
Example:
Known as a malefactress in town, it was difficult for Hester Prynne to rise above her status as an evildoer.
Friday:
Study for vocabulary quiz on Tuesday.
Read chapters 7-9 by Tuesday.
Complete worksheet on Romanticism. Prepare to share on Tuesday!
Week of 10/13/09
Tuesday
None
Wednesday
Prepare for debate based on your job description.
Thursday
Continue work on debate. Remember that speeches ought to be written at home, research needs to be done at home and juror evaluations should be written at home.
Friday
Read chapters 10 & 11 of The Scarlet Letter
Do journal assignment distributed in class today.
Week of 10-19-09
Monday
Prepare debate work.
Tuesday
Complete the assignment distributed in class today- read chapter 10-13 of the Hawthorne novel. Explain how the notion of things not being what they seem pertains to chapters 10-13. Offer two examples per chapter.
Wednesday
Ready debate paperwork for collection- assuming that we finish everything today. See project description for specifics.
Thursday
Read chapter 14.
Work on appearance vs. reality assignment. Please work only on your chapter and only within your job description.
Friday
Continue research on things not being what they seem for your assigned chapters.
Monday 10/26/09
Work on Reader Response Journal #2. It is due on Tuesday.
For period four who got it a day later, it is due on Wednesday.
Tuesday 10/27/09
Read over essay returned to you today. Also read through two handouts on integrating quotes.
Wednesday
Complete your assessments of all sample essay answers (Samples A-C) begun in class today. Also, read through handouts on analyzing literature and quote selection,
Thursday
Complete work begun in class on why chapter 14 is climactic for Roger Chillingworth and Hester Prynne.
Friday
Read chapters 15 & 16 for Monday
Monday 11/2/09
By Wednesday, read Sample C. Identify strengths and weaknesses.
Tuesday
None
Wednesday
To what extent does Pearl follow in her mother's footsteps? Base your 7-10 sentence paragraph answer on chapter 15.
Thursday
Read chapter 17 of The Scarlet Letter.
Friday
Read chapters 18-20. Think about the ways in which Hester and Arthur change as a result of the forest meeting.
Week of 11/9/09
Monday
Define the word "metaphor"
Focus on pages 159-161. Then in a t-chart form, identify the similarities between Pearl and the brook.
Tuesday
Based on the worksheet handed out in class today, focus on the sections you were assigned and respond to the following:
To what extent does the forest meeting bring about a change in Hester and Arthur, respectively? Focus chapters: 17-19 of The Scarlet Letter.
If you were absent, select a section from one of these chapters and answer the question.
Enjoy your day off!
Thursday
Read chapter 20 of the novel. To focus your reading, think about what Arthur Dimmesdale is tempted to do.
Friday
Take the weekend to catch up on reading. Think about how the work you did in class today- the changes you saw in Hester and Arthur, respectively, persist or alter in chapter 20.
Juniors- Please read the information below pertaining to Tuesday’s Quarterly Exam
Part 1: Text and Table: Students will read a non fiction passage and consult a graph/table in order to answer 10 multiple choice questions.
Part 2: Grammar/Usage: Students will answer 10 PSAT style multiple choice questions.
Part 3: Poem & Essay: Students will answer multiple choice question on two works of literature that share a central idea.
Part 4: Reading Passage: Students will answer multiple choice questions pertaining to reading comprehension. The text will be a literary work.
Week of 11/16/09
Monday
Be sure to bring in a pencil for tomorrow's acuity exam.
Tuesday
None- just be sure to have read chapter twenty of The Scarlet Letter
Wednesday
Read chapters 21-23 tonight. Read 24 by Friday. As you read, think about how the final scene compares to similar ones in earlier chapters- two others.
Thursday
Read chapter 24 by Friday.
Friday
Study for Tuesday's exam by reviewing class notes.
Week of 11/13/09
Monday
Review for tomorrow's test.
Tuesday
Finish your work on Journal #3.
Bring in books- they will be collected tomorrow.
Wednesday
Read excerpts from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself posted below.
Please print these pages and bring them with you to class on Monday.
Excerpts from Song of Myself in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass 1855-1892
1
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
2
Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with
perfumes,
I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the
distillation, it is odorless,
It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it,
I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
The smoke of my own breath,
Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and
vine,
My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing
of blood and air through my lungs,
The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and
dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of
the wind,
A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields
and hill-sides,
The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising
from bed and meeting the sun.
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the
earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of
all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions
of suns left,)
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look
through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in
books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
6
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more
than he.
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green
stuff woven.
Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,
Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see
and remark, and say Whose?
Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the
vegetation.
Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
Growing among black folks as among white,
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I
receive them the same.
And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out
of their mothers' laps,
And here you are the mothers' laps.
This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,
And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for
nothing.
I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and
women,
And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken
soon out of their laps.
What do you think has become of the young and old men?
And what do you think has become of the women and children?
They are alive and well somewhere,
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the
end to arrest it,
And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
11
Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome.
She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
Which of the young men does she like the best?
Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth
bather,
The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet, it ran from their
long hair,
Little streams pass'd all over their bodies.
An unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies,
It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the
sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending
arch,
They do not think whom they souse with spray.
16
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff
that is fine,
One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the
largest the same,
A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and
hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest
joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin
leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian,
A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger,
Buckeye;
At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen
off Newfoundland,
At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and
tacking,
At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the
Texan ranch,
Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners, (loving
their big proportions,)
Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands
and welcome to drink and meat,
A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest,
A novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons,
Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion,
A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker,
Prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.
I resist any thing better than my own diversity,
Breathe the air but leave plenty after me,
And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
(The moth and the fish-eggs are in their place,
The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their
place,
The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.)
17
These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they
are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to
nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are
nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
This the common air that bathes the globe.
19
This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger,
It is for the wicked just same as the righteous, I make appointments
with all,
I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
The kept-woman, sponger, thief, are hereby invited,
The heavy-lipp'd slave is invited, the venerealee is invited;
There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of
hair,
This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,
This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
This the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again.
Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the
side of a rock has.
Do you take it I would astonish?
Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering
through the woods?
Do I astonish more than they?
This hour I tell things in confidence,
I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
21
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with
me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate
into new tongue.
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
I chant the chant of dilation or pride,
We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
I show that size is only development.
Have you outstript the rest? are you the President?
It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and
still pass on.
I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,
I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
Press close bare-bosom'd night - press close magnetic nourishing
night!
Night of south winds - night of the large few stars!
Still nodding night - mad naked summer night.
Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
Earth of departed sunset - earth of the mountains misty-topt!
Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my
sake!
Far-swooping elbow'd earth - rich apple-blossom'd earth!
Smile, for your lover comes.
Prodigal, you have given me love - therefore I to you give love!
O unspeakable passionate love.
31
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the
stars,
And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg
of the wren,
And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest,
And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits,
grains, esculent roots,
And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,
And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
But call any thing back again when I desire it.
In vain the speeding or shyness,
In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder'd bones,
In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying
low,
In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,
In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador,
I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
48
I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own
funeral drest in his shroud,
And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the
earth,
And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the
learning of all times,
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it
may become a hero,
And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd
universe,
And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed
before a million universes.
And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and
about death.)
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the
least,
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment
then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the
glass,
I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd
by God's name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
49
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to
try to alarm me.
To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,
I see the elder-hand pressing receiving supporting,
I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors,
And mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not
offend me,
I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing,
I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish'd breasts of
melons.
And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
O suns - O grass of graves - O perpetual transfers and promotions,
If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,
Toss, sparkles of day and dusk - toss on the black stems that decay
in the muck,
Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.
I ascend from the moon, I ascend from the night,
I perceive that the ghastly glimmer is noonday sunbeams reflected,
And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or
small.
51
The past and present wilt - I have fill'd them, emptied them.
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute
longer.)
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his
supper?
Who wishes to walk with me?
Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
52
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab
and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world.
The last scud of day holds back for me,
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd
wilds,
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Hope you enjoyed the long weekend!
Week of 11/30/09
Monday
Tend to the four questions on the handout distributed for the sections you have been assigned on Whitman's excerpts from "Song of Myself" which is a part of his collection Leaves of Grass.
Tuesday
None
Wednesday
Look over the two sections you have been assigned. Be specific in your four answers to the questions on the handout.
Thursday
None
Friday
Get started on your original "Song of Myself" modeled after Walt Whitman's poem of the same title. Assignment is due on Wednesday.
Week of 12/7/09
Monday
Continue working on your "Song of Myself." This poem can be written any way you like. If you want to rhyme it, do; if not, don't. What you need to think about is what you value in yourself and what it is you see in your world that causes you to celebrate living. The aspects you explore may be similar to Whitman's, but they NEED NOT BE! The idea is to have fun with this and to think about all of your amazing traits. Toot your own horn!!!!! This assignment calls for it! And have fun with it. That is the point of a creative assignment.
Tuesday
One more night for assignment.
Wednesday
Read page one of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau.
Thursday
Read the rest of the Thoreau essay distributed in class. Be sure to read side notes for clarification as you read. As you read, please take notes on the ways that Thoreau develops his thesis. Create a list of topics that he offers in support of his assertion.
Friday
To the best of your ability, try to answer the question on the bottom of Ms. Skopp's handout.
Week of 12/14/09
Monday
None
Tuesday
be sure to bring in Thoreau work.
Wednesday
Read Act I. scene ii of Macbeth.
Thursday
None
Friday
Please read Act I, scenes iii & iv of Macbeth over the weekend. Think about how Macbeth's character compares to his reputation.
Week of 12/21/09
Monday
Please read Act I, scenes v & vi of Macbeth.
Tuesday
1) Read Act I, scene vii. and Act II scene i. of Macbeth.
2) Make a list of how Lady Macbeth influences her husband's thinking.
Wednesday
1) Read Act I. scene vii of Macbeth. Think about how Lady Macbeth influences her husband's thinking.
2) Read the remainder of Act II of Macbeth over the vacation.
3) How are those close to Duncan affected by his death? To respond, make a list of all characters close to Duncan (literally and figuratively) and cite lines (offer quotes) that support your contention (at least one line per character).
4) Start studying the vocabulary words for the Mid Year Exam. They appear below.
Enjoy the time off!
from The Scarlet Letter
tremulous
abomination
abstractions
meditative
betokened
defiled
iniquity
converts
wayfarers
straggled
flitting
vista
pensiveness
scintillating
attribute
vivacity
scrofula
luster
personification
morose
enigmatic
sphere
stigmatized
dilemmas
mercurial
euphemisms
sphere
stigmatized
dilemmas
mercurial
euphemisms
introspection
ethereal
impalpable
anguish
suffice
universal
inmate
zealously
resolute
discern
scourge
propensity
luxuriant
gushed
transfiguration
emancipated
accost
despotic
deportment
smiting
pious
penance
typified
benign
rigid
benevolence
guardianship
simultaneous
from Macbeth
taint
epicures
antidote
physic
constrained
speculative
arbitrate
ague
treatise
direness
vitriolic
chiding
cynicism
nihilism
perturbation
agitation
mar
sorely
circumspect
pedantic
equivocate
primrose
carousing
provoker
disheartens
requited
hence
combustion
anointed
downy
farcical
satirical
groveling
resounds
perchance
tyrant
transpose
yoke
sundry
hoodwink
avarice
verity
fortitude
concord
coveted
reconcile
ingratiate
denounces
reiterated
denounces
entreaty
Week of 1/4/10
Happy New Year and Welcome Back!
Monday
One more night for the holiday HW. The chart will be collected tomorrow.
Tuesday
None
Wednesday
Bring your copy of your PSAT score report to class.
Thursday
Complete the PSAT worksheet distributed in class today.
Friday
If you do not do so in class, complete the dagger soliloquy paraphrase.
Week 1/11/10
Monday
Bring in the chart you did on Act II.
Tuesday
Read Act III scenes 1-3 by Wednesday.
Wednesday
Review notes from today's class on how getting what they wanted has affected the Macbeths.
Read Act III scenes 4-6 of the play by Thursday.
Thursday
None
Friday
Read Act IV scene 1 of the play.
Draw a picture of each apparition. Stick figures are welcomed!
Then make a list of the apparitions and indicate what they prophesy for Macbeth.
Start to study the vocabulary for the midyear exam. It appears above.
MIDYEAR EXAM DATE AND TIME:
Monday 1/25/10 10:15-11:45
Room Assignments:
E5:01- period 1: Room 101
E5-07- period 4: Room 102
Midterm Breakdown:
Reading Comprehension Passages based on The Scarlet Letter and/or Macbeth
Vocabulary Section based on words above
Grammar and Mechanics similar to PSAT style questions
Essay based on Macbeth and another text we have covered this term such as those written by Puritan poets, or Washington Irving or Walt Whitman, or Henry David Thoreau.
Tuesday
Read Act IV scenes ii & iii. Indicate how Macbeth has wronged Macduff and how these two characters are emerging as opponents.
Wednesday
Read Act V. scene i of Macbeth.
Thursday
Finish reading the play!!!!!
Friday
Review class notes for Monday's exam.
Good luck!!!!
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