April 17, 2017 - April 21, 2017 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English

Monday, April 17th: 



All late work and revisions are due tonight at midnight! No exceptions! There are no revisions on late work.

Tomorrow, the following are due:

A Streetcar Named Desire multiple choice questions and essay are due.

Please turn A Streetcar Named Desire essay into turnitin.com.

Please submit the analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire into turnitin.com



Tomorrow, please bring your book A Streetcar Named Desire.

We will start reading Albert Camus’ The Stranger this week, along with essays on existentialism. 

How to embed quotations in essays.
George Eliot’s Middlemarch excerpt

Do not quote too much nor too little!
Use the most important part of the quotation in the essay.
Then paraphrase the rest or write in your own words the rest of the quotation.
Please take a look at line 49, “Lydgate was bowing his neck….”
Trying to be reasonable, Lydgate feels as if he is “bowing his neck under the yoke like a creature with talons…” He tries to flatter her by saying “…you  are so clever that if you turn your mind to managing you can school me into carefulness….” She brightens with the hope that perhaps her stubborn  husband will prove to be more reasonable according to her way of thinking.

Now you do it:
Choose a point that you wish to make or tried to make in the essay and find a quotation that supports your point and then embed it in two or three lines.

Lydgate, the husband of Rosamond, cannot bear to ask her father for the money. “I insist upon it that your father shall not know until I choose to tell him.”  He is trying to find an alternative to asking his father-in-law for money by holding an inventory to sell the family’s possessions.

Emasculated: means to be neutered, or rendered impotent, or suffer the loss of manhood.

Analyze behavior – what is said and what is done
Analyze the reaction of the other character
Analyze the narrative shift – what the person is thinking or feeling.
Objective narrative is the observation of external, observable behavior – “she colored…” – we can see that.
Limited point of view is limited to what a character is thinking or feeling which may be not objectively observable. For example, when Rosamond thinks, “Had I known what he was going to be like, I never would have married him….” Is not observable so the narration shifts to her point of view.

 ALL LATE AND OUTSTANDING WORK DUE TODAY AT MIDNIGHT - NO EXCEPTIONS! THERE ARE NO REVISIONS FOR LATE WORK! 


 Tuesday, April 18th: 
 Went over the multiple choice questions 1-8 over the first scene in A Streetcar Named Desire. 
  

Wednesday, April 19th: 
Check in A Streetcar Named Desire 
Check out The Stranger
Went over the multiple choice questions #11 - 20 for A Streetcar Named Desire




Thursday, April 20th: 
In-class essay on Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton 
For tonight, read the first chapter of The Stranger 
Write a brief summary of the chapter(s)
Note references to:
Mortality
Isolation
Depression
Man and Nature
Man and Religion
Meursault's attitude towards women
Identify the passage
Directly quote or paraphrase.
How does this relate to the larger themes of existentialism and  the overall theme of Albert Camus The Stranger? 
You must read the entire book and do a reading log for each chapter of The Stranger 
This reading log will be due next week - without exception on Thursday, April 27th.
 


Friday, April 21st: 
Pass out the existential essays 
Philosophy and Literature: 
“Existentialism” - page 393
“Man Against Darkness” - page 398
“The Christian Commitment” - page 402
Read and discuss the essays
Assign the questions at the end of the three essays 
These will be due on Tuesday, April 25th


Read Jean-Paul Sarte
Discussion
Existence precedes essence: that existence is the very fact that we are here; we exist. The essence – who we are as a person is something that we determine by our actions.
In your reading of The Stranger,  notice the references to the sun, to the light, to the glare, the heat, and the climate of Algeria.  Notice the relationship between the Arab population and the French Algerian population who are ethnically French, but whose families settled in Algeria during colonial times. 

Death, mortality, physical needs.

Notice the emphasis upon the physical, with little or no emotional embellishment. The view is objective, dispassionate, matter-of-fact.  The view is devoid of emotionalism; its emphasis is upon physical description, physical need, physical sensation. 
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