2013+World+Literature+B

Welcome to the second Semester of World Literature!

This page contains our daily assignments and activities and is a great resource for handouts and other information about class. You can use this page to make sure you have the correct assignments or download items you need. Check the running blog below through out the semester.

Here is the Course Information handout and General Policies:

=__**Daily Assignments and Activities:**__=

Here is the description of your final exam. - It is best to finish the novel first, but you can look this over and start thinking of ideas.
 * FINAL EXAM -**
 * YOU WILL BE GIVEN A COPY OF THIS ON WHICH TO PUT NOTES FOR YOUR IN-CLASS FINAL ESSAY.**

Review Questions and discussion for Final Exam **- **
 * Monday, June 3 -**

Stay up with reading and quizzes as listed in your reading guide.
 * May 14- 30 -**

Afghanistan background and reading Homework: Finish worksheet and reading
 * Monday, May 13 -**
 * Projects must be turned in to me before class time on Tuesday.**

=**Homework: Change! Read Chapter 10 - be sure you know what is happening!**=
 * Friday, May 3 -**
 * Review Chapter 8
 * Read Chapter 9 aloud


 * Thursday, May 2 -**
 * Quiz
 * Foils and symbols
 * Homework: Chapter 8**


 * Wednesday, May 1 -**
 * Review Chapter 5
 * Reading time - Chapters 5 & 6 - [[file:LOTF2013readingGuide.docx]]
 * Homework: Quiz on Ch. 4-7 tomorrow**


 * Tuesday, April 30 -**
 * Changes in the society
 * Personality types
 * Homework: Read Chapter 5**


 * Monday, April 29 -**
 * Quiz
 * Vocabulary words
 * Discuss chapter - changes
 * Homework: Read Chapter 4**


 * Friday, April 26 -**
 * Read Chapter 3, answer question, find and define 5 vocabulary words from reading
 * Homework: Finish above and prepare for quiz on Monday on Chapters 1-3**


 * Thursday, April 25 -**
 * Movie
 * Character and plot discussion
 * Conflicts


 * Wednesday, April 24 -**
 * Characters and setting
 * Read Chapter 2


 * Tuesday, April 23 -**
 * Discussion of game and Hobbes/Locke
 * Introduction to novel
 * Begin reading Chapter 1
 * Homework: Finish Chapter 1 and answer questions [[file:LOTF2013readingGuide.docx]]**


 * Monday, April 22 -**
 * Homework: Write six sentences in answer: How does this game prove Hobbes or Locke is right? Use one of hte author's points to support your argument.**

Summarize Hobbes, read John Locke
 * Friday, April 19 -**
 * Homework:** Finish questions on Locke for Monday

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke background reading - Finish questions on Hobbes on loose-leaf paper
 * Thursday, April 18 -**


 * Wednesday, April 17 -**
 * Candide test**


 * Tuesday, April 16 -**
 * Setting and events of Conclusion
 * In-Class writing - what does this ending mean?
 * Homework: Review of for test - [[file:CandideReviewSheet.doc]]**


 * Monday, April 15 -**
 * Discussion of chapter 27-29 - charades
 * Homework: Read the Conclusion (Chapter 30)**


 * Friday, April 12 -**
 * Discussion of handout - satire in action
 * Reading
 * Homework: Chapters 27-29 - p. 128-138**


 * Thursday, April 11 -**
 * Summary of Chapter 22 - time in France
 * Begin work on handout questions - [[file:CandideSurinam toEnglandnotes.doc]]
 * Homework - complete handout (read Chapter 23-26)**


 * Wednesday, April 10-**
 * Candide Grows Up worksheet review
 * El Dorado as foil to the world
 * Chapter 18 reading - Candide renounces Pangloss's philosophy, similar situations today?
 * Homework: Read chapters 19-21**


 * Tuesday, April 9**
 * Further discussion of Voltaire's targets
 * Candide Grows Up worksheet - [[file:Candide Grows Up.doc]]
 * Homework: Complete worksheet for class tomorrow**


 * Monday, April 8 -**
 * Quiz on Ch. 6-12
 * Discussion of Voltaire's satire targets
 * Homework: Read Chapters 17 and 18**


 * Friday, April 5 -**
 * Review chapters 6-9
 * Reading Chapter 10
 * Homework: Chapters 11 and 12 - Quiz on Monday on Old Woman's Story**


 * Thursday, April 4 -**
 * Quiz on Chapter 1-5
 * DIscussion of Inquisition and Auto de fe
 * Reading chapter 6 and 7
 * Homework: Read chapter 8 and 9**


 * Wednesday, April 3 -**
 * Review Ch. 1-3 - satire and humor - [[file:Candide1-5.key]]
 * Begin reading Ch. 4
 * Homework - Read Ch. 4&5 - QUIZ TOMORROW on Ch. 1-5**


 * Tuesday, April 2 -**
 * //Candide// background notes - [[file:CandideNovelBackAgeofReasonNotes.doc]]
 * Reading Ch. 1 in class
 * Homework: Read Chapter 2 and 3**

Renaissance Jeopardy!
 * Thursday, March 28 -**


 * Wednesday, March 27 -**
 * Enlightenment background reading
 * Homework:** Finish college essay. Printed copy due tomorrow.

If your school has a question, use it If your school does not have a question, choose one of the following: 1. Discuss a meaningful contribution you have made through involvement in school, church or community activities. 2. Describe an event, a person or an educational experience that has had a major impact on your life and why. 3. You have just finished writing your 263-page biography. What is on page 132? 4. Evaluate a signiﬁcant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. 5. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you. 6. Indicate a person who has had a signiﬁcant inﬂuence on you, and describe that inﬂuence. 7. Describe a character in ﬁction, a historical ﬁgure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an inﬂuence on you, and explain that inﬂuence. 8. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
 * Monday and Tuesday, March 25 & 26 -**
 * == College essay - research college essay requirement - **begin writing!** ==


 * Friday, March 22 -**
 * College essay examples, tips and reading
 * NO HOMEWORK!**


 * Thursday, March 21 -**
 * College application process with Mrs. Rothenbacher

Satire - writing about literary and visual satire -
 * Wednesday, March 20 -**
 * Homework - finish satire assignment**


 * Tuesday, March 19 -**
 * Satire - practice explaining satire cartoons
 * Homework - Finish and print out Hamlet essay**
 * Be sure essay worksheets have been shared via Google Drive -**
 * - Argument and Proofs, Building Body Paragraphs and Intro and Conclusion**


 * Monday, March 18 -**
 * Satire - definition and examples
 * Homework: Work on Hamlet essay**


 * Friday, March 8 -**
 * Writing Introductions and Conclusions - [|Introduction & Conclusion]
 * Essay work - write introduction and conclusion
 * Homework: Finish essay for Wednesday. March 20**


 * Thursday, March 7 -**
 * Citing Quotations correctly - Body Paragraph & Citation Example
 * Body paragraph workshop - groups (Author - I need help with . . ., Reader - Suggestions and compliments)
 * Homework: Revise body paragraphs**


 * Wednesday, March 6 -**
 * Check Argument/Topic sentence sheet for comments
 * Create Body Paragraph worksheet
 * Homework: Complete three body paragraphs for discussion and review tomorrow**

HamletEssayTurnIn
 * Monday, March 4 -**
 * Complete this worksheet - save as Google Doc and share it with Ms. Ostendorf - use this link to access the worksheet
 * Begin writing body paragraphs using this structure - use this link for the Body Paragraph worksheet: BuildingBodyParagraphs
 * Homework: FInish one body paragraph, using the above worksheet, for tomorrow.**


 * Friday, March 1 -**
 * Brainstorming discussion
 * Clarify ideas and choose topic
 * Complete back side of worksheet for Monday - have all quotations!**


 * Thursday, February 28 -**
 * Video - the duel and the end
 * Discussion - Hamlet's flaw
 * Essay - begin brainstorming - [[file:Hamlet Literary Analysis.docx]]
 * Homework: Finish essay topic brainstorming**

Write four intelligent sentences in response to: If Hamlet is the tragic hero of this play, what is his tragic flaw? Give three reasons this is true.
 * Wednesday, February 27**
 * Hamlet's news to Horatio
 * The challenge, the duel and the end
 * Homework:** A tragic hero is a hero whose tragic flaw causes his or her demise (undoing or death). A tragic flaw is a character trait, like greed, or foolishness or being naive or impulsive or unstable or too trusting.


 * Tuesday. February 26 -**
 * Quiz on Act IV, scene 7
 * Video - The plan and Gravedigger scene
 * Homework:** Read through Act V, scene ii, line 285


 * Monday, February 25 -**
 * Quiz on Act IV, scenes 5 & 6
 * Review conflicts
 * Read Act IV, scene 7
 * Homework: Finish Act IV**


 * Friday, February 22 -**
 * Review conflict development - Hamlet v. Claudius, Hamlet v. Himself, Fortinbras v. Denmark
 * Video - Hamlet, Gertrude and the murder of Polonius; Act IV, scenes 1-4
 * Homework: Read Act IV, scenes 5 & 6 for Monday**


 * Thursday, February 21 -**
 * Quiz on Act III, scene iii and iv
 * Reading - Act IV, scenes i and ii
 * Homework - Finish Act IV, scenes i and ii**

Why doesn’t Hamlet kill the King when he has the chance?
 * Wednesday, February 20 -**
 * Quiz on Act III, scene ii
 * Video - //The Play//
 * Reading - Act III, scene iii and iv
 * ==== A3S3, 39-101 //The King alone and then Hamlet alone// ====

A3S4, 1-120 //Hamlet talking to his mother//
Why does Hamlet tell his mother that infatuation can’t be the causeof her marrying Claudius? How does Gertrude react to what Hamlet says?
 * Homework - Finish** ** Act III, scene iii and iv for brief quiz tomorrow. **


 * Friday, February 15 -**
 * Quiz on Act III, scene i
 * Video and Questions - Is Hamlet crazy? What supports your opinion?
 * Being Act III, scene ii
 * Homework: Finish Act III, scene ii (short Quiz on Wednesday)**


 * Thursday, February 14 -**
 * " // Rogue and Peasant Slave // " review/quiz
 * Video clip - Act III, scene i, line 1-64
 * Close reading - "To be or not to be"
 * Homework: Finish Act III, scene i**


 * Wednesday, February 13 -**
 * // Hamlet and Polonius //
 * // The Players //and "Rogue and Peasant Slave"
 * Homework: Finish Act II**


 * Tuesday, February 12 -**


 * Monday, February 11 -**
 * Video: Act II, Scene i and ii
 * Homework: Answer questions on reading guide**

Class quiz on Act I, Scene i-iii Video - //"That this too, too solid flesh would melt"// // Laertes and Ophelia // // Polonius' advice to Laertes // // Polonius and Ophelia // // Scene iv and v - Friends, the Ghost and Hamlet //
 * Friday, February 8 -**
 * Homework: Finish Act I, Scene v**


 * Thursday, February 7 -**
 * Review Act i, Scene I
 * Movie clips
 * Reading - Act I, Scenes II and III
 * Homework - Finish through Scene III for tomorrow**


 * Wednesday, February 6 -**
 * Quiz on St. Crispin's Day speech
 * Introduction to Hamlet - [[file:HamletIntro.key]]
 * Begin Reading - Read Act I, Scene I for homework
 * Hamlet Reading Guide [[file:Hamlet2013READINGGUIDE.docx]]**


 * Tuesday, February 5 -**
 * Reading of sonnets
 * Shakespeare's language and Henry V's St. Crispen's Day/"Band of Brothers" speech
 * Homework:** Complete your translation of Henry's V's speech


 * Monday, February 4 -**
 * Review notes from video - dates and theater in Shakespeare's time
 * English/Shakespearian sonnet - "Shall I Compare Thee", "My Mistress' Eyes" and "Let Us Not" - [[file:MyMistressEyes.doc]] [[file:Shakespeare’sSonnetsSt.Crispin.doc]]
 * Homework:** Complete six lines of your sonnet with rhyming couplet at the end


 * Friday, February 1 -**
 * Review Renaissance background notes
 * Video - "Shakespeare in Our Time"


 * Thursday, January 31 -**
 * Finish presentations
 * Quiz on Renaissance background

Black Plague Exploration Wars Gutenberg Martin Luther and the Reformation Protestant "Ninja Turtles" of artists The Catholic Church and Excommunications.
 * Wednesday, January 30 -**
 * Presentations**
 * Homework:** Prepare for the quiz tomorrow on Renaissance background by knowing about the following:


 * Tuesday, January 29 -**
 * Presentations**


 * Monday, January 28 -**
 * Complete slides
 * Complete bibliography slide
 * Practice presentation
 * Homework: Complete work and prepare for presentations**


 * Friday, January 25 -**
 * Slide examples
 * Group work on slides


 * Thursday, January 24 -**
 * Renaissance background
 * Project introduction
 * Begin group project - [[file:RenaissanceBackgroundQuestions.doc]]
 * Complete aside, but interesting:** Here is a link to the story about Shakespeare's **[|sonnets being preserved on DNA]**


 * Wednesday, January 23 -**
 * Course overview
 * Semester I review
 * ==== Assignment - [[file:Homework1-23.doc]]====
 * Homework:** Complete the above assignment and be ready to hand it in at the beginning of class tomorrow.