World+Literature+-+Semester+II

**Welcome to World Literature (B) - Semester II**
Here is the class grading and scale and the class policies

=__Daily Class Log:__=
 * Thursday, June 2 -**
 * In-class QuizStar quiz on Chapters 16-23
 * Discussion
 * Question for Final Exam - Sheet to be handed out on Monday - Question below:

Using the kite as a metaphor for the novel, write five coherent paragraphs about your thoughts on __The Kite Runner__. In doing so, describe characters, events, ideas, quotes, images, literary tools, relationships or background information that you think are important to the novel. Use these to create five paragraphs that address the parts of the kite in the following manner:

**Introduction** – a short statement about the novel as a kite; it is in good shape, it would win any tournament, it flies well but fails eventually, etc. **Paragraph #1** – The frame – what provides the structure and holds the novel together? **Paragraph #2** – The sail – what makes the kite fill with air and fly? How well does it fly? **Paragraph #3** – The string – what holds the kite to the ground? What makes it able to fight off others? **Paragraph #4** – The bows – what parts of the novel are “decoration” or added bonuses? **Paragraph #5** – Rips or tears – what are the flaws? What could be done better?

On loose-leaf paper in class, write your separate, complete paragraphs of at least six sentences each. You may draw on or write notes in outline form on the front of the sheet handed out in class for use on the final.


 * Tuesday and Wednesday, May 31 and June 1 -**
 * Reading Days in Retreat Center (Chapters 16-23, p. 203 to 310)


 * Friday, May 27 -**
 * Reading Day: Read Ch. 13-15
 * ===Homework: Take Quiz on Ch. 11-15 by midnight on **Monday** ===


 * Thursday, May 26 -**
 * Discussion: Amir and Baba - changes, characters
 * Movie clip
 * Review Ch. 11 and 12


 * Wednesday, May 25 -**
 * Reading Day - begin Ch. 12-13
 * Homework: Finish Ch. 1-13 for classroom discussion tomorrow


 * Tuesday, May 24 -**
 * Reading Day - begin Ch. 8-10
 * Homework: finish reading and take Quiz on Ch. 8-10 by midnight tonight


 * Monday, May 23 -**
 * Discussion: Hassan and Amir, "I became who I am", Assef
 * Movie
 * Finish Ch. 7 for Quiz by midnight tonight


 * Friday, May 20 -**
 * Reading Day
 * Finish Chapters 5-7 for discussion on Monday and quiz by midnight


 * Thursday, May 19 -**
 * Afghanistan history, characters and questions
 * Short clip of the movie
 * Homework: Finish chapter 4 and take the quiz by midnight on QuizStar


 * Wednesday, May 18 -**
 * Hand in completed essays
 * Begin //The Kite Runner// - [[file:KRReadingAssignments11.doc]]
 * Homework: read chapters 1-3, through p. 23


 * Tuesday, May 17 -**
 * Complete essay typing
 * Essay due on Wednesday.
 * Essay musts:
 * Typed
 * Double-spaced
 * Correct quotation/citations
 * Title
 * Bibliography - separate page, correct citation
 * Worksheets to hand in: Digging Deep/Brainstorming, Topic Sentences, Choosing A Topic (pink sheet), Body Paragraph Outline (ivory) OR copy of body paragraphs with all the parts labeled
 * Sign up for QuizStar - [[file:QuizStar Account.doc]]


 * Monday, May 16 -**
 * Typing body paragraphs
 * Writing introduction and conclusion - [[file:IntroConclusion2010.doc]]


 * Thursday, May 12 -**
 * Quotations and topic narrowing
 * Writing body paragraphs - [[file:TFABodyParagraphs.doc]]


 * Wednesday, May 11 -**
 * Topic sentences - [[file:TFATopicSentences.doc]]


 * Tuesday, May 10 -**
 * Choosing an topic and quotations - [[file:TFAChoosing a Topic.doc]]


 * Monday, May 9 -**
 * Topic narrowing - "Take a Stand"
 * Brainstorming/Topic worksheet - [[file:TFAbrainstorming.doc]]


 * Friday, May 6 -**
 * Discussion - What is the novel really about?
 * Essay Topic Brainstorming


 * Thursday, May 5 -**
 * Novel overview questions - [[file:TFAoverview.doc]]


 * Wednesday, May 4 -**
 * Review Chapters 20-22 - A.) How has Umuofia changed since Okonkwo left seven years ago? How does this effect his homecoming? B.) What problems do the Ibo and the Christians have with the other's religion? Why is it not immediately a problem? How are their beliefs similar? (p. 179-181) C.) What events lead to the destruction of the church?
 * Read Chapters 23 -25 (finish the novel!) - Why does the novel have to end this way? What does Achebe do with the conflicts in ending it this way and what points does he make in doing so?


 * Tuesday, May 3 -**
 * Conflicts and title
 * Homework: Chapters 21 and 22


 * Monday, May 2 -**
 * Illustrations - 4 conflicts, each line of "Second Coming"
 * Discussion
 * Reading/Homework: Chapter 20


 * Friday, April 29 -**
 * Read Chapter 19
 * Questions for review -[[file:TFApost-19Review.doc]]


 * Thursday, April 28-**
 * Quiz- Ch. 13-16
 * Discussion - missionaries and Ibo people's reaction, Oracle, Christianity and Nwyoe's conversion
 * Homework: read Chapters 17 &18 (through 19 for Monday)


 * Wednesday, April 27 -**
 * Discussion of Chapter 14 - Confession ceremony, Uchendu's speech
 * Reading - Chapter 15 & 16 - finish it for homework - how does the missionary work effect Okonkwo's family?


 * Tuesday, April 26 -**
 * Ibo culture - yams, kola nut, dance
 * Review Chapter 12, read Chapter 13
 * Homework: Read Chapter 14


 * Monday, April 25 -**
 * Review Chapter 11 - What do the folk takes tell about Ibo values? What happens with Ezinma? How does Ekwefi react? Oknokwo? Why does the author include this story?
 * Read Chapter 12: Explain the rites involved in Obo marriages and preparations. How are food and wine shown to be sacred? How do you know that community is important to the Ibo people?


 * Thursday, April 21 -**
 * Quiz on Chapters 7-10
 * Discussion about gods, beliefs and customs
 * Homework: Read Chapter 11 - to p. 109


 * Wednesday, April 20 -**
 * Review Chapters 7 & 8
 * Read Chapters 9 &10 for quiz tomorrow


 * Tuesday, April 19 -**
 * Quiz on Chapters 1-6, discussion
 * Homework: Read Chapters 7 & 8 (to p. 74)


 * Monday, April 18 -**
 * In class: Review of Chapters 1-4 - Study Questions - [[file:TFAQCh1-4.doc]]
 * Homework: Read Chapters 5 and 6 - to p.51


 * Friday, April 15 -**
 * Check-in homework
 * Review notes - Achebe, Nigeria, novel, war, title
 * Review Chapters 1 and 2 - characters, conflicts
 * Homework: Chapter 3 & 4


 * Thursday, April 14 -**
 * Background notes on Things Fall Apart - [[file:ThingsFallApartBeckground.doc]]
 * Homework: Read Chapters 1 & 2 - p. 3-15


 * Tuesday and Wednesday, April 12 and 13 -**
 * Computers for typing your personal statement
 * Personal statement due in class on Thursday, April 14: one to one-and-a-half pages, 12pt. font, double spaced, first person, answers a specific question.


 * Monday, April 11 -**
 * College essay introduction and examples
 * Homework: Look at applications for the schools that interest you and find their essay questions.


 * Thursday, April 7 and Friday, April 8 -**
 * Resume work with Counseling Department


 * Wednesday, April 6 -**
 * Candide - The End: Why must it end this way?
 * Homework: written response - [[file:CandideEnd-HowSatireWorks.doc]]


 * Tuesday, April 5 -**
 * Review: Voltaire's objectives and targets, El Dorado as a foil to the world, Candide's influences
 * Homework: Read Ch. 27 to end - p. 128-144


 * Monday, April 4 -**
 * Quiz - Old Woman's Story and El Dorado
 * Homework - Read Chapters 19 to 21 - p. 86-96 - [[file:Candide - Ch. 19-21Questions.doc]]


 * Friday, April 1 -**
 * Late and missing work reminder: All work for 3rd Quarter is due in class on Monday or in my office by 2pm
 * Old Woman's story - Chapters 11 & 12 - List the events of her story and use the map to show her travels - [[image:n_africa_mid_east_pol_95.jpg width="80" height="49"]]
 * Homework: Read Chapters 17 & 18 for Monday


 * Thursday, March 31 -**
 * Discussion of Chapters 6-9 - action, satire, Voltaire's point
 * Reading - Chapters 10-12


 * Wednesday, March 30 -**
 * Quiz - Candide Chapters 1-5
 * Discussion
 * Homework: Read Chapters 6-9


 * Tuesday, March 29 -**
 * Review of Chapters 1-3
 * Homework: Read Chapters 4 and 5 (to p.35) - use these questions to be sure you understand the important points - [[file:Candide.1-5.Questions.doc]]


 * Monday, March 28 -**
 * Enlightenment - a quick look at important people and ideas - [[file:NovelBack.AgeofReasonNotes.doc]]
 * Begin Candide - Chapter 1
 * Homework - Read Chapters 2 and 3 - pp.22-28


 * Friday, March 25 -**
 * Essay work
 * Begin look at "Candide" - [[file:CandideCh1.doc]]


 * Thursday, March 22 -**
 * Continue work on Modest Proposal II


 * Tuesday, March 22 -**
 * Wiring your own Modest Proposal - [[file:Texting and driving.doc]]


 * Monday, March 21 -**
 * Writing satire
 * Homework: Complete Brainstorming sheet - [[file:A Modest Proposal II – Assignment.doc]]


 * Friday, March 11 -**
 * "Modest Proposal" Quiz
 * How satire works - a closer look at Swift and others


 * Thursday, March 10 -**
 * Satire examples: Jon Stewart, The Onion
 * Jonathan Swift - begin together, finish in groups - Quiz tomorrow
 * Homework:Trading card (do both!) due tomorrow - print it and bring it to class.


 * Wednesday, March 9 -**
 * Satire - literary and visual - [[file:SatireJR10.ppt]]


 * Tuesday, March 8 -**
 * Continue work on Part I
 * Begin work on Part II - Trading Card template: [[file:TradingCard.2up.doc]]
 * Due Wednesday: Typed - Biography, 3 Contributions, Bibliography (two source other than Wikipedia)


 * Monday, March 7 -**
 * Begin Enlightenment Project - [[file:ResearchCardsEnlightenment11.doc]]


 * Friday, March 4 -**
 * Enlightenment Jeopardy!


 * Thursday, March 3 -**
 * Test on Hamlet


 * Wednesday, March 2 -**
 * Hamlet's tragic flaw - a personality trait or habit!
 * Review for tomorrow's test! [[file:HamletTestReview.doc]]


 * Tuesday, March 1 -**
 * Review for test on Thursday
 * Characters as way to play's meaning and Hamlet's tragic flaw
 * Notes and ideas - [[file:HamletFinalQuestions.key]]


 * Monday, February 28 -**
 * Movie - the end
 * What is the play really about? - How does the ending help clarify that? (characters, symbolism and results)


 * Friday, February 25 -**
 * The duel and the dying!
 * How does this tragedy work?
 * Important quotations and Shakespeare's purpose


 * Thursday, February 24 -**
 * Movie: "Alas, poor Yorick", confrontation with Laertes, Orsic announces the duel
 * Homework: Read Act V, Scene ii, lines 285-end - Make sure you know what happens!


 * Wednesday, February 23 -**
 * Quiz: Homework passage
 * Discussion about above
 * Movie: Grave digger scene
 * Homework: Read Act V, Scene ii, lines 239-285 - [[file:Hamlet2-23.doc]]


 * Tuesday, February 22 -**
 * Main conflicts and their progress
 * Hamlet's sarcasm to the King - read scene 3
 * Movie - Claudius' plans, Hamlet and England, Ophelia goes mad, Laertes returns - [[file:Hamlet2-22.doc]]


 * Friday, February 18 -**
 * Close reading of text from homework - Hamlet and Gertrude
 * Movie - What is going on with Hamlet?
 * Homework: [[file:Hamlet2-18.doc]]


 * Thursday, February 17 -**
 * Movie - "To Be Or Not To Be" - is Hamlet losing it?
 * Movie - The play and its fallout
 * Homework: [[file:Hamlet2-17.doc]]


 * Wednesday, February 16 -**
 * Quiz on Act III, Scene I reading
 * Video comparisons - Is Hamlet really going mad?
 * NO HOMEWORK!


 * Tuesday, February 15 -**
 * Four main conflicts
 * Hamlet and the Players, Hamlets reprimands himself - Act 2, Scene 2, lines 540 and on
 * Homework: [[file:Hamlet2-15.doc]]
 * Quiz tomorrow on "To Be or Not to Be"


 * Monday, February 14 -**
 * Is Hamlet gone mad?
 * Homework: [[file:Hamlet2-14.doc]]


 * Friday, February 11 -**
 * Quiz on homework reading
 * Movie - King, Queen and Polonius about Hamlet
 * Homework : [[file:10.doc]]


 * Thursday, February 10 -**
 * Video I - Act I, Scene II, lines 133 and on - "That this too, too sullied flesh would melt"
 * What Hamlet's main concerns/problems with what is happening?
 * Video II - Act I, Scene III - Laertes, Opehelia and Polonius
 * Why doesn't Laertes want Ophelia to have anything to do with Hamlet?
 * What is Polonius' advice to Laertes before Laertes leaves?
 * Why doesn't Polonius want Ophelia involved with Hamlet?
 * Video III - Act I, Scene IV and V - Hamlet and the Ghost
 * Why is Hamlet upset about the celebration in the house?
 * Why don't Horatio and the others want Hamlet to go with the ghost?
 * Homework: Read Act I, Scene V, lines 1-120
 * How did Hamlet's father die?
 * What did the ghost say about Hamlet's mother?
 * Besides the obvious fact that he lost his life, wife and crown, why is the ghost so upset about being killed?


 * Wednesday, February 9 -**
 * Review characters and Act I, Scene II
 * Movie - Act I, Scene I
 * Read King's speech - Act I, Scene II, lines 1-39
 * Watch movie - Act I, Scene II
 * Homework: Re-read Act I, Scene II, lines 68-164
 * Why are Claudius and Gertrude upset with Hamlet?
 * How does Hamlet rspond?
 * Read Act I, Scene III, lines 56-145
 * What do Polonius and Laertes tell Ophelia about Hamlet?


 * Tuesday, February 8 -**
 * Character and background
 * Act I, Scene I - the ghost
 * Homework: Finish Act I, Scene I


 * Monday. February 7 -**
 * How does "Shall I Compare Thee" get its meaning?
 * St. Crispian's Day speech translation
 * Shakespeare's language - handout [[file:HamletLanguage.pdf]]
 * Homework: Translate St. Crispan's Day speech and write down the main points Henry uses to motivate his men.


 * Friday, February 4 -**
 * Iambic pentameter - examples
 * Sonnets - definition and construction
 * Homework: Translate "Shall I Compare Thee to A Summer's Day" into your own words


 * Thursday, February 3 -**
 * Finish video
 * Iambic pentameter and activity
 * Homework: Finish 6 lines of iambic pentameter with clean copy to hand in tomorrow


 * Wednesday, February 2 -**
 * Quiz on Renaissance Background
 * Video - "Shakespeare In Our Time"


 * Tuesday, February 1 -**
 * Finish Presentations
 * Compare notes on questions
 * Prepare for tomorrow's quiz - [[file:RenaissanceQuiz.doc]]


 * Monday, January 31 -**
 * Presentations


 * Friday, January 28 -**
 * Finish slides and prepare for presentations Monday
 * Homework: Finish any unfinished slides


 * Thursday, January 27 -**
 * Group work on renaissance project
 * Homework: Finish research and have slides ready, at least in outline form


 * Wednesday, January 26 -**
 * Begin Renaissance Background project


 * Tuesday, January 25 -**
 * Course policies and notes
 * Acitvity
 * Today's homework - [[file:Homework1-19.doc]]