February 20 - February 24, 2017 A.P. Agenda


Tuesday, February 21nd:

As you watch “Crash Course: Frankenstein, Part 2”, please consider the following questions:
1.     What common traits does Frankenstein  share with Romanticism?
2.     What are the things the Romantics valued that the intellectuals of the Classical Age, Age of Reason, or Industrial Age did not?
3.     What is intentional fallacy?
4.     What does one miss when one concentrates only on “intentional fallacy”?
5.     Why are the women in Frankenstein  so passive and doomed?
6.     What happens to women, families, and societies when men single-mindedly pursue scientific experiments?
7.     Why might one think Frankenstein does not like women?
8.     What are some of the grand themes in Frankenstein?
9.     What were some of the current or contemporary scientific experiments at that time?
10.  What might Mary Shelley say to the experimenters?

Watched the Crash Course: Frankenstein, Part 2” video
Then did Kahoot.it – Frankenstein

Wednesday, February 22nd: 
Played kahoot on Frankenstein  and Crime and Punishment 
 
Thursday, February 23rd: 
 Class Notes on Tone: 
Passed out the tone handout.
Tone is the attitude the writer has towards the subject or character or situation.
Look over the words on the list and find the definition of words you do not know. 
Some words the class did not know: 
Vex: to annoy, to irritate
Vexing: adjective
Vex is a word that was used frequently in the 19th century but has fallen out of common use.
Trying to hush a classroom of seven year olds can be quite vexing.

Poignant: bittersweet
The ending of Titanic was very poignant.

Giddy: to be so happy as to be silly; silly with happiness
Example: When his long time girl friend finally broke up with him, Michael was giddy with relief. 

Frivolous: to be of utmost unimportance; trivial; trifling, unimportant, of little to no significance.

Audacious: bold, daring, enterprising; risk taking

Sardonic: grimly cynical, darkly humorous

Turgid: tedious, pompous or bombastic

Colloquial: slang language; having to do with regional dialect.

Idiom: a way of saying something which is specific to a culture or a region which might not make syntactical sense. Example:  In Texas, people say, “We’re fixing to go to the store.” Fixing means preparing or about to do something. 

Verbs can have connotative feelings, too.

Gallop, lope, sprint, prance, jog, run, skip, scamper,

The boys galloped through their mother’s house, wrecking everything in their excited path. 
What image or mood or feeling does the verb gallop seem to convey in the above sentence? 
Wild, feisty, careless, untamed, release, wild abandon – ecstatic freedom!!!!

The long-legged young girl loped across the meadow.What image does this sentence create?
Horses, deer, giraffes, zebras, lions, jaguars, tigers, antelopes, gazelles, etc. - all these creatures can lope.
Lope: an easy-gaited run usually seen in horses or other long-legged creature.

Gait: a particular type of walking.

Scamper: to run with quick light steps, especially from fear or excitement; connected with children and small animals. 

What attitude or mood or tone does the word scamper seem to convey? 

Dichotomy: a contradiction; having two parts, which contradict each other.

Satire: to make fun of something in order to show or reveal the weakness, hypocrisy,

Your assignment for this weekend is to work on your essay. Create an adjective/verb bank with the tone color dealing with horror, gothic Romantic literature,
Some suggested words: suspenseful, dark, gruesome, gloomy, eerie, cryptic, secluded, bitter, sorrowful, vexing, etc.

Friday, February 24th:  
Senior Breakfast! 




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