Important Documents
britlit_syllabus.pdf | |
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Book Club Tasks
1) Read the first paragraph of your selected text. Write a reflection about how you imagine the book will proceed--what do you learn in the first paragraph? Is it good writing? What questions did it bring up? Due 2/18 (Per. 3) or 19 (Per 6)
2) Bring in a printed biography on the author of your selected text. Note: You may NOT use Wikipedia, Sparknotes, or any similar sites. Find something that you think is a legitimate source. Due 2/18 (Per 3) or 19 (Per 6)
3) Read the first 10 pages in your text. Due 2/20 (Per 3) or 21 (Per 6)
4) Read the first quarter of your text by Monday, March 3
Book Club Project
All groups will present a detailed lecture to the class detailing the following topics for your chosen text:
1) Author
2) Historical Context
3) Vocabulary and Diction—this covers both unfamiliar words and word choice
4) Main Characters
5) Plot Chart
6) Literary Elements
7) Personal Critique
8) At least 5 important quotes with your group's explanation of them
9) 5 Scholarly Sources
a. NOT websites, although you may use published journal or literary articles that are online
b. Books
c. Journals
You may divide this list and tasks up anyway your group deems fit. It is critical that you remember this is a group project and you will be receiving both an individual grade and a grade for how well you worked as a group!
2) Bring in a printed biography on the author of your selected text. Note: You may NOT use Wikipedia, Sparknotes, or any similar sites. Find something that you think is a legitimate source. Due 2/18 (Per 3) or 19 (Per 6)
3) Read the first 10 pages in your text. Due 2/20 (Per 3) or 21 (Per 6)
4) Read the first quarter of your text by Monday, March 3
Book Club Project
All groups will present a detailed lecture to the class detailing the following topics for your chosen text:
1) Author
2) Historical Context
3) Vocabulary and Diction—this covers both unfamiliar words and word choice
4) Main Characters
5) Plot Chart
6) Literary Elements
7) Personal Critique
8) At least 5 important quotes with your group's explanation of them
9) 5 Scholarly Sources
a. NOT websites, although you may use published journal or literary articles that are online
b. Books
c. Journals
You may divide this list and tasks up anyway your group deems fit. It is critical that you remember this is a group project and you will be receiving both an individual grade and a grade for how well you worked as a group!
Hamlet
Did you forget your text at home? You can read free copies of Shakespeare on the internet by Google-ing the name of the play, or you can download the text for FREE from the Folger Shakespeare Library here.
For those of you struggling with Hamlet, you may consider using an audio book to help you hear the performance the way it was intended. Here is just one of MANY audio versions available for free online. Keep in mind that, as you listen, you should have your text out and follow along!
Hamlet Film Study Guide
If you have lost your study guide for the film version we are watching in class, please be sure to print a new one here:
hamlet_study_guide.pdf | |
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Hamlet Essay Due APRIL 14
Directions: Choose one topic and write a five to six page expository essay addressing specifically your chosen question. Write in third person, active voice, and support your paper with evidence from the text. MLA format is standard.
Your essay must have a cover page that includes your name and class period, which topic you chose, and a creative title for your essay. Remember that your essay needs to be typed in Times New Roman, size 12 font, and be double spaced with one inch margins on each page. Essays must be submitted to TurnItIn.com by 8:15 am on Monday, April 14 and a hard copy turned in during class that same day in order to receive full credit.
Topic 1:
Characters who parallel yet contrast one another are said to be foils. Authors often use foils to clarify character traits as well as issues in stories and plays. Discuss Shakespeare’s use of foils, focusing on the parallels and contrasts of any one of these pairs of characters: Hamlet and Laertes, Hamlet and Horatio, Hamlet and Fortinbras, Hamlet and Ophelia, Laertes and Horatio, Claudius and Hamlet’s father, Gertrude and Ophelia, Polonius and Claudius, Polonius and Hamlet.
Topic 2:
Just as foils can help show similarities and differences between characters, parallel events can help clarify likenesses and contrasts between issues and characters’ responses to them. Analyze Shakespeare’s use of parallel plots and scenes throughout the play, showing their effects on characterization and thematic development.
Topic 3:
Hamlet is often regarded as a play about an indecisive man, unable to take action. Analyze the textual evidence for a theory or various theories which attempt to explain Hamlet’s inaction, or delay in seeking revenge for his father’s murder: lack of opportunity, too much thought and analysis, melancholy, etc.
Topic 4:
Authors use physical weakness, disease, or deformity to symbolize or suggest mental, emotional, or spiritual illness or decay. Beneath the surface action of Hamlet runs an undercurrent of imagery of disease as opposed to healthfulness. Trace the motif of health and physical well-being as opposed to disease, illness and weakness through out the play, showing how Shakespeare links the physical symptoms with spiritual and political conditions. What effect does Shakespeare create?
Topic 5:
What part does madness-real or feigned-play in the tragedy of Hamlet?
Your essay must have a cover page that includes your name and class period, which topic you chose, and a creative title for your essay. Remember that your essay needs to be typed in Times New Roman, size 12 font, and be double spaced with one inch margins on each page. Essays must be submitted to TurnItIn.com by 8:15 am on Monday, April 14 and a hard copy turned in during class that same day in order to receive full credit.
Topic 1:
Characters who parallel yet contrast one another are said to be foils. Authors often use foils to clarify character traits as well as issues in stories and plays. Discuss Shakespeare’s use of foils, focusing on the parallels and contrasts of any one of these pairs of characters: Hamlet and Laertes, Hamlet and Horatio, Hamlet and Fortinbras, Hamlet and Ophelia, Laertes and Horatio, Claudius and Hamlet’s father, Gertrude and Ophelia, Polonius and Claudius, Polonius and Hamlet.
Topic 2:
Just as foils can help show similarities and differences between characters, parallel events can help clarify likenesses and contrasts between issues and characters’ responses to them. Analyze Shakespeare’s use of parallel plots and scenes throughout the play, showing their effects on characterization and thematic development.
Topic 3:
Hamlet is often regarded as a play about an indecisive man, unable to take action. Analyze the textual evidence for a theory or various theories which attempt to explain Hamlet’s inaction, or delay in seeking revenge for his father’s murder: lack of opportunity, too much thought and analysis, melancholy, etc.
Topic 4:
Authors use physical weakness, disease, or deformity to symbolize or suggest mental, emotional, or spiritual illness or decay. Beneath the surface action of Hamlet runs an undercurrent of imagery of disease as opposed to healthfulness. Trace the motif of health and physical well-being as opposed to disease, illness and weakness through out the play, showing how Shakespeare links the physical symptoms with spiritual and political conditions. What effect does Shakespeare create?
Topic 5:
What part does madness-real or feigned-play in the tragedy of Hamlet?
Satire, The Canterbury Tales, and "A Modest Proposal"
writingyourownmodestproposal.pdf | |
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KNOW THESE TERMS!
KNOW THESE GROUPS OF PEOPLE!
Audio Book of the text
One artist's rendering of the characters in the text
See the Cathedral the pilgrims are journeying to
"A Christmas Carol"
achristmascarol_packet.pdf | |
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poorhouses_pamphlets_and_marleys_ghost.pdf | |
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scrooge_defended.docx | |
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1984 film version of "A Christmas Carol"
Macbeth Packets
act_iii_packet.pdf | |
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act_iv_packet.pdf | |
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act_v_packet.pdf | |
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macbethscalesactivityagreeordisagreeactivity.pdf | |
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Macbeth Newspaper Project
macbeth_newspaper_assignment.pdf | |
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newspaper_vocabulary.pdf | |
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macbeth_newspaper_project_rubric.pdf | |
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Editorial
Letter to the Editor
Editorial
Letter to the Editor
TurnItIn.com Information
Students in Period 3 British Literature will enroll in the following TurnItIn.com group:
Class ID: 7038238
Password: Brit3
Students in Period 6 British Literature will enroll in the following TurnItIn.com group:
Class ID: 7038241
Password: Brit6
Class ID: 7038238
Password: Brit3
Students in Period 6 British Literature will enroll in the following TurnItIn.com group:
Class ID: 7038241
Password: Brit6
NewsELA.com
Extra Credit Opportunity:
Register on NewsELA.com with your class code (MADWL) and read an article assigned to your class. Write a three paragraph response to the article answering the following questions:
Register on NewsELA.com with your class code (MADWL) and read an article assigned to your class. Write a three paragraph response to the article answering the following questions:
- Why did the author write this article?
- What is the author's point of view? Do you agree with them?
- What writing techniques does the author utilize to convince their audience?