16 December

Read up to page 224 and write eight questions or comments.


!!!!Your revised essay test is due tomorrow!!!

15 December

Read up to page 167 and write four questions or comments.

REVISE ESSAY TEST BY FRIDAY.

14 December

Read up to page 147 and write four questions or comments.

13 December

Read up to page 121 and write four questions or comments, and study for the test you were supposed to take today.

9 December

Study for Monday's test.

8 December

Read up to page 97 and write four questions or comments.

7 December

Read up to page 77 and write four questions or comments.

6 December

Read up to page 57 and write four questions or comments.

2 December

Answer the following questions in your packet:

Section 1:
10-13, 16, 17, 26, 28, & 29

Section 2:
1, 2, 5 & 6

1 December

Read up to page 37 and write four questions or comments.

30 November

Read up to page 20 in 1984 and write four questions or comments.

29 November

Study for the second half of the exam.

23 November

Study the two handouts for Monday's test.

22 November

Finish the play and write four questions or comments.

18 November

Read up to page 145 and write four questions or comments.

17 November

Read up to page 118 and write four questions or comments.

16 November

Rewrite this speech in your own words:

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,
That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;
And that which rather thou dost fear to do
Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;
And chastise with the valour of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crown'd withal. (I.v.15-33)

11 November

Read up to page 91, and write four questions or comments.

10 November

Read up to page 65 in Macbeth, and write four questions or comments.

9 November

Read up to page 45 in Macbeth, and write four questions or comments.

If you got back your paper, work on revisions. If you have not turned in the paper, you are losing 10 points a day on late work.

8 November

If you were in class today, your homework is to write in your journal:

What is ambition? Do you consider yourself to be ambitious? Write at least one page.


If you were NOT in class, your homework is to write in your journal:

Write a rant in the style of the novel. Write at least 2 pages.

4 November

The final draft of your paper is due on Monday. All four pages, and a "works cited" page.

Here are the guidelines for using quotes and for creating a "works cited" page:

In MLA style, in-text citations, called parenthetical citations, are used to document any external sources used within a document (unless the material cited is considered general knowledge). The parenthetical citations direct readers to the full bibliographic citations listed in the Works Cited, located at the end of the document. In most cases, the parenthetical citations include the author's last name and the specific page number for the information cited.
Use of Authors' Names

Always mention the author's name—either in the text itself or in the parenthetical citation—unless no author is provided.
If the author's name is mentioned in the text
If the author's name is used in the text introducing the source material, then cite the page number(s) in parentheses:
Branscomb argues that "it's a good idea to lurk (i.e., read all the messages without contributing anything) for a few weeks, to ensure that you don't break any of the rules of netiquette" (7).
If the author's name is not mentioned in the text
If the author's name is not used in the sentence introducing the source material, then include the author's last name in the parenthetical citation before the page number(s). Note that no comma appears between the author's name and the page number(s).
The modern world requires both the ability to concentrate on one thing and the ability to attend to more than one thing at a time, "Ideally, each individual would cultivate a repertoire of styles of attention, appropriate to different situations, and would learn how to embed activities and types of attention one within another" (Bateson 97).
Placement of Citations
• Place a citation as close to the quoted or paraphrased material as possible without disrupting the sentence.
• When material from one source and the same page numbers is used throughout a paragraph, use one citation at the end of the paragraph rather than a citation at the end of each sentence.
• Parenthetical citations usually appear after the final quotation mark and before the period. An exception occurs, however, in quotes of four or more lines since these quotes are presented as block quotes: that is, they are indented and use no quotation marks. In such cases, the parenthetical citation goes after the period, as the following example shows:

Bolles argues that the most effective job hunting method is what he calls the creative job hunting approach: figuring out your best skills, and favorite knowledges, and then researching any employer that interests you, before approaching that organization and arranging, through your contacts, to see theperson there who has the power to hire you for the position you are interested in. This method, faithfully followed, leads to a job for 86 out of every 100 job-hunters who try it. (57)

[INDENT TEN SPACES FOR THE EXAMPLE ABOVE)


Here is a sample Works Cited entry for a book:
Herrera, Hayden, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo. New York: Haper, 1983.
For a website:
Herrington, TyAnna K. "Being Is Believing." Rev. of Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte. Kairos: A Journal for Teaching Writing in Webbed Environments 1.1 (1996) at "Reviews." 24 May 1996 .

3 November

The rough draft of your paper is due tomorrow. It should be at least 3 pages long.

2 November

Tonight, choose a topic and write an outline. It should include specifics and page numbers.

The first draft of the paper is due on Thursday.

Choose one of the following essays topics and write a 4 page paper. It should be typed and double-spaced. Use parenthetical citation, with a works cited page.

1. Explain why the underground man is a product of the Industrial Revolution.

2. Explore the underground man’s dialogue with the Romantic poets. Use the poems and poets we read in class. How does he break from them? What does he admire about them? What relationship do they have to the Russian romantics?

3. How does Dostoevsky use the style of realism to convey his arguments in the novel?

4. Prove that Dostoevsky’s antihero could live today. Give evidence that parallels his experiences and observations.

5. Explore his materialism vs. freedom polemic. Why does the underground man attack rationalism? What style does he write in to attack it?

6. How did events from the 20th century prove the underground man’s prediction that human instinct was still predatory and cruel, in spite of rationalism? (Look at his refutation of Buckle’s and Chernyshevsky’s ideas.)

7. How did Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (1905) prove the underground man’s “two times two equals four” argument prescient?

1 November

Finish the book and write four questions or comments.

28 October

Read up to page 117 and write four questions or comments.

27 October

Read up to page 98 and write four questions or comments.

26 October

Study for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz.

25 October

Define the following terms and include the part of speech.

QUIZ WEDNESDAY.

1. sullen
2. drawl
3. cadence
4. bleak
5. pungent
6. impervious
7. flourish
8. gaunt
9. immobile
10. sustenance
11. skiff
12. chide
13. scant
14. savor
15. haggard
16. unkempt
17. drone
18. fretful
19. toil
20. loiter

21 October

Study the review sheet for Monday's test.

19 October

Answer the last 12 questions on the review sheet.

18 October

Read up to page 71, and write four questions or comments.

14 October

Read up to page 56, and write four questions or comments.

13 October

Write your college essay based on the feedback I gave you today.

This draft will be graded based on the quality and correctness of the writing.

12 October

Write your college essay based on the feedback I gave you today.

You will be graded based on effort for this draft.

7 October

Personal Essay Topics


For tomorrow, begin writing on three different topics. For example, you can choose numbers 2, 4 and 5, OR you can answer number 2 in three different ways.
Write at least one paragraph for each topic, outlining what you would write in that essay. Tomorrow you will work individually with me to choose which one you will complete.



Write 300-500 words on one of the following topics:

1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken,
or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international
concern and its importance to you.

3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and
describe that influence.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Topic of your choice.

6 October

Answer the following questions in your packet: on sheet #1: #s 2, 5, 9. On sheet #2, answer questions: 1, 2, 8. On sheet #3, answer questions 6 and 25, and on sheet #4, answer question 6.

5 October

Study for tomorrow's vocabulary/grammar quiz.

4 October

Read up to page 50, and write four questions or comments.

30 September

Read up to page 35, and write four questions or comments.

29 September

Read up to page 17 in Notes from Underground, and write four questions or comments.

These should be questions to which you do not know the answer, and they should be in a presentable condition to be turned in.

28 September

Define the following terms. Include the part of speech.

Notes from Underground Vocabulary


1. paradox
2. capricious
3. milieu
4. lofty
5. spite
6. candor
7. inept
8. perplexity
9. prevail
10. torment
11. ineffable
12. vile
13. niggardly
14. akin
15. curt
16. knave
17. provincial
18. insolent
19. ironic
20. benign

27 September

Study the review sheet for tomorrow's exam.

23 September

Read "The Flitting" by Clare, and write a response. It should be at least one page long, and include at least 3 quotes.

22 September

Read "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time" and "Ode on Melancholy" by Keats. Write a response to each, using at least 2 quotes per response. Both responses should add up to 1-2 pages.

21 September

Read "She Walks in Beauty" by Byron, and write a response, using at least 2 quotes.

ALSO: May of you are missing homework assignments already, and are losing 10 points a day on each one. Use tonight to make-up missed work.

20 September

Read "London" by Blake (or any poem in the packet that you have NOT read) and "Apostrophe to the Ocean" by Byron, and write a response to each, using at least 2 quotes per response, and both should total 1-2 pages.

16 September

Read the last three poems by William Blake and write a response to each using quotes. The three responses should total 1-2 pages.

15 September

Read the first three poems by William Blake and write a response to each using quotes. The three responses should total 1-2 pages.

14 September

Read the three poems by William Wordsworth and write a response to each using quotes. The three responses should total 1-2 pages.

13 September

Read "Tintern Abbey" and write at least one page in response using quotes.