April 3, 2017 - April 7, 2017 Weekly Agenda


Monday, April 3rd:
Multiple Choice Questions over the poem "S.I.W."  by the W.W. 1 poet Wilfred Owen

A little refresher on some terms that appear on the multiple choice questions for "S.I.W."
Feminine rhyme: a rhyme that matches two or more syllables occurring at the end of a line, and the second syllable is not stressed.
The following words are examples of feminine rhyme: `Dan-cing and `Pran-cing

Examples from poetry: 

 Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
.           England hath need of thee: she is a fen
.           Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
.           Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,  - examples of feminine rhyme
.           Have forfeited their ancient English dower - examples of feminine rhyme
.           Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
.           Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
.           And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.

Ah! do not wanton with those eyes,
.           Lest I be sick with seeing; - examples of feminine rhyme
Nor cast them down, but let them rise, - examples of feminine rhyme
.           Lest shame destroy their being.
 

Trochaic: two syllables of STRESSED/unstressed
Examples:
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

Masculine rhyme is where only one syllable, the last syllable, at the end of a line of poetry is rhymed with another syllable at the end of a line of poetry.
 Example: disdain and complain
Or an excerpt from A.E. Housman:
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now - example of masculine rhyme
Is hung with bloom along the bough. - example of masculine rhyme 

Multiple – Choice Questions over S.I.W. by Wilfred Owen
Went over in class.


Tuesday, April 4th:
1. Watch the Ernest Hemingway Bio
2. How Sexual Rivalry, Fist Fights, and Other Shenanigans Drove Ernest Hemingway
3. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises – 1925, Paris, Pamplano”
4. Everybody Behaving Badly: The True Story Behind The Sun Also Rises

As you are watching the videos, please answer the following questions:
Ernest Hemingway’s Biography:
1.     Where and when was Hemingway born?
2.     What did  Hemingway decide to do after high school?
3.     What did Hemingway do in Europe during World War 1?
4.     Where was Hemingway living and what was he doing in his mid-twenties?
5.     What genre of writing did he do before he had his first success in fiction?
6.     What was the title of Hemingway’s first successful novel?
7.     What did Hemingway do in the 1930’s in the Spanish Civil War?
8.     What was the conflict between Hemingway and his wife during the Spanish Civil War?
9.     What did Hemingway do during World War 2?
10.   What sport was Hemingway known for?
11.   What was the catalyst for the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls?
12.   For which book did Hemingway win the Nobel Prize?
13.   What plagued him during his fifties?
14.   How many times was he married?
15.   How old was Hemingway when he died?
16.   How did Hemingway die?
Please answer the following questions as you watch “Sexual Rivalry, Fist Fights, etc.”
Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Ernest Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

1.      Which did Hemingway prefer - the city or the country? 
2. Why did Hemingway prefer the one over the other? 
3. What kind of writer was Hemingway at the beginning of his career?
4. Is The Sun Also Rises based on real people - is it a roman a clef? 
5. Who was Harold Loeb? 
6. What two communities did Harold Loeb’s character bridge? 
7. What was Harold Loeb’s reaction to Hemingway’s depiction of him in the book?
8. Who was Lady Brett Ashley based on? 
9. Who was the male counterpart to Lady Brett Ashely? 
10. Who was Bill Gorton based on?
11. What did Donald Ogden Stewart do to anger Hemingway?
12. How did Hemingway get back at Donald Ogden Stewart?
13. What did Donald Ogden Smith confess to years later which left him shamefaced? 
14. Whose story is The Sun Also Rise - Jake’s or Lady Brett Ashley? 
15. What is Hemingway’s “iceberg theory” in literature?
16. What did Hemingway mean when he said The Sun Also Rises was “high/low?”
17. What was Hemingway able to do to become commercially successful that his literary friends such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein could not do?
18. What was a criticism leveled at The Sun Also Rises that is related to the fact that it is a roman a clef?
19. What suggestion did Hemingway’s good friend F. Scott Fitzgerald give about the beginning of the book?
20. What adjectives would one use to describe Ernest Hemingway that were helpful to his success? 

Wednesday, April 5th: 
Essay over The Sun Also Rises 
The Prompt: How does the the following passage reveal the theme of  the novel The Sun Also Rises ?
You might want to discuss the time period - which is after a devastating world war in which young men in their prime lost their innocence.  Other aspects that should be considered are the personalities of the characters - Jake, Robert, Brett - and their experiences, which have been shaped by the world being destroyed and not being quite put back together. Hemingway believed it was essential for a man - or a woman - to live according to one's own code, which one has created for oneself.  Some have learned and created a code to live by; what happens to those who don't? 
The essay will be due at the end of the period. 

Thursday, April 6th: 

Pass out the A Streetcar Named Desire packet which is to be completed over the spring break:
Please answer in a five hundred word essay either essay number one, two, four, or five. Please choose ONE.  Please submit the essay by midnight, Friday, April 14th at midnight to turnitin.com.
Please do the multiple choice questions 1 - 30
For each scene of A Streetcar Named Desire, please do the following:
Write a brief summary of the scene.
Write a brief analysis of the characters.
Identify at least one of the following:
Metaphor, personification, irony, allusion, imagery
Identify the figurative language
Who is speaking and to whom.
The situation
Explain the figurative language
Explain what is being revealed through the use of the figurative language.
The entire packet and your analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire  will be due on Tuesday, April 18th.
Played Kahoot – The Sun Also Rises

 






Friday, April 7th: 


Read the first page of A Streetcar Named Desire (the directions in italics). Identify any metaphors, allusions, and imagery found there. You may have to look up the meaning of a few of them. Write what you think the figurative language might mean. Take a guess……


Watch the first scene of A Streetcar Named Desire

The break please read the entire play A Streetcar Named Desire.
Please finish the entire packet, the essay prompt, and the multiple choice questions and submit to turnitin.com by Tuesday, April 18th. 
Please finish your analysis of the entire play: the scene by scene summaries, the character analysis, and the analysis of the figurative language used, and submit to turnitin.com by Tuesday, April 18th.  
 
 

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