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.