HW due 04-02 Read C&P Part III Chapters 1-5
Spring Break HW- Read up to Part III of Crime and Punishment and complete the multiple choice packet.
HW 03-17 Read Part I, Chapters 6-7 of Crime and Punishment. Compile a Rasdkolnikov 2-column T-chart that documents Raskolnikov's split mind. On one side, include the incident, and on the other side, record his decision change. Chart should begin at chapter 1. Please write the examples in your own words. Write the chapter from which the examples are from. Examples can be put in your own words.
HW 03-14 Read Part I, Chapters 1-5 of Crime and Punishment AND respond to study guide questions on a separate sheet of paper. Don't be surprised if there is a pop quiz!
HW 03-06-08 SENTENCE TYPES QUIZ ON 03-07
HW DUE 02-26 READ BELOVED PART 2, CH. 2, 3, 4
HW DUE 02-23 READ BELOVED PART 2, CH. 1
HW DUE 02-21 READ BELOVED CHAPTER 18
HW DUE 02-21 READ BELOVED CHAPTERS 16-17
HW DUE 02-19 READ BELOVED CHAPTERS 11-15
Keep an ongoing list of sentences that seem potentially significant or particularly representative of a character. Your list can focus on different quotes for different characters.
HW DUE 02-15 READ BELOVED CH. 9-10
Earth Day poems and completed entry forms are due 02-15! Entry forms can be downloaded by clicking on the "files" tab.
HW - DUE 02-14 READ BELOVED 7-8
HW DUE 02-13 READ BELOVED 5-6
HW DUE 02-12 READ BELOVED 3-4
HW DUE 02-11-08 Read chapters 1 and 2 of Beloved. Be ready for a comprehension quiz. Optional MC corrections due Monday.
Due FEBRUARY 28TH - $$$$ IS DUE FOR THE AP EXAM . PLEASE GIVE YOUR CHECK TO MR. MEYER IN ROOM 117. Click on the"files" tab if you need the form.
Due Friday 02-01- Complete the multiple choice questions for"Ode on A Grecian Urn."
Due Thursday 01-30- Read the three sample essays on "Blackberry Picking" and rate each one from 1-9. (8 being the highest and 1, the lowest) Sample essays can be downloaded by clicking the"files" tab and selecting the file called 1999.
Due Monday 01-29-08 Please email your MLK contest poems to me. I will submit them to the contest for you. Directions for labelling poems and creating the cover sheet is attached in a file called "MLK contest" that you can download by clicking on the tab above called "files." Bring your multiple choice questions #1-12 (and answers).
Due Monday 01-28-08 Revise the themtic statement on Reed's, "Naming of Parts" and respond to poetry multiple choice questions 1-12
Due Thursday 01-24-08 - Revised thematic paragraph on Hardy's "Nobody Comes"
CHOOSE OPTION A (Due Jan. 22) or OPTION B (Due Feb.18)
Due Tuesday 01-22-08:
Complete the multiple choice questions on "Sestina."
CLICK ON THE "FILES" TAB ABOVE TO DOWNLOAD THESE CONTEST FORMS.
OPTION A: Write two contest poems (minimum 10 lines each) about MLK's quote, "The question is not between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non existence." Use elementS that are new to you from pages 1 or 5 of your TERMS packet. Contest entrants must be at least 18. If yo are under 18, you can still choose this option to write these poems, but they will not compete. Submit poems to Mrs. Hochstadt on Tuesday , January 22nd.
OPTION B: Write 1 contest poem (approximately 10-50 lines) about your thoughts of Mother Earth, Gaia, the Big Blue Marble, Earth Day, etc I will collect "The Mother Earth" entries Friday, February 18. Use elementS that are new to you from pages 1 or 5 of your TERMS packet.
HW 01-16- Write a thematic statement on Reed's, "The Naming of Parts."
HW 01-15 - Know the basic poetic elements for a 10-question multiple-choice poetry quiz tomorrow!
January 11, 2008 Write a thematic paragraph on Thomas Hardy's poem, "Nobody Comes."
TREE-LEAVES labour up and down,
And through them the fainting light
Succumbs to the crawl of night.
Outside in the road the telegraph wire
To the town from the darkening land
Intones to travelers like a spectral lyre
Swept by a spectral hand.
A car comes up, with lamps full-glare,
That flash upon a tree:
It has nothing to do with me,
And whangs along in a world of its own,
Leaving a blacker air;
And mute by the gate I stand again alone,
And nobody pulls up there.
January 10, 2008
Write a found poem. Due 01-11.
January8, 2008
Write a thematic statement for Millay's poem, "Justice Denied in Massachusetts."
Let us abandon then our gardens and go home
And sit in the sitting-room.
Shall the larkspur blossom or the corn grow under the cloud?
Sour to the fruitful seed
Is the cold earth under this cloud,
Fostering quack and weed, we have marched upon but cannot conquer;
We have bent the blades of our hoes against the stalks of them.
Let us go home, and sit in the sitting-room.
Not in our day
Shall the cloud go over and the sun rise as before,
Beneficent upon us
Out of the glittering bay,
And the warm winds be blown inward from the sea
Moving the blades of corn
With a peaceful sound.
Forlorn, forlorn,
Stands the blue hay-rack by the empty mow.
And the petals drop to the ground,
Leaving the tree unfruited.
The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed uprooted -
We shall not feel it again.
We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain.
What from the splendid dead
We have inherited -
Furrows sweet to the grain, and the weed subdued -
See now the slug and the mildew plunder.
Evil does not overwhelm
The larkspur and the corn;
We have seen them go under.
Let us sit here, sit still,
Here in the sitting-room until we die;
At the step of Death on the walk, rise and go;
Leaving to our children's children this beautiful doorway,
And this elm,
And a blighted earth to till
With a broken hoe.
January 7
Scampi eyeing his birthday dinners:
