English IV (Section 2) Assignments
- Instructors
- Term
- Fall 2008
- Department
- English
- Location
- Room 207
- Description
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English IV is a study of world literature from the Middle Ages(mid 400's) to present day. We read a variety of texts and authors, including Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton. There are also three compositions to be completed and a power point presentation at the end of the year.
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Write a one page response answering the following questions:
1. How can you help America to be prosperous once again?
2. What is your role/place in the world?
3. How can you be responsible to your fellow citizen?
4. How can you leave the world a better place than you found it?
Be sure to use at least two quotes from President Obama's inaugural speech and analyze the quotes.
1. How can you help America to be prosperous once again?
2. What is your role/place in the world?
3. How can you be responsible to your fellow citizen?
4. How can you leave the world a better place than you found it?
Be sure to use at least two quotes from President Obama's inaugural speech and analyze the quotes.
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Pre-Draft is due. Detailed description of assignment is in the link. The page must be double-spaced, typed, and size 12 font.You should write at least one page, but two pages is the expectation.
One page should be answering the questions from #2 on the second page of the assignment sheet. Use the passages you've noted from Acts 1-3 and choose 2 or 3 passages to reflect upon. Another paragraph should answer the last question of #2. What are your impressions of the topic in Hamlet? (The topic is whatever theme group you're in). So for instance, what are your impressions/ideas of deceit in Hamlet? Two more paragraphs should be devoted to answering questions #5, one paragraph each. Remember, in your final essay, you can write about mulitple characters and how your topic affects each of them. Also remember that your theme statement is more or less your opinion and others may disagree. So your essay is going to be an argument that whatever theme statement you have created is a legitimate response to Hamlet and applies to the characters and plot. The play should be reinforcing your theme statement, or proving it.
One page should be answering the questions from #2 on the second page of the assignment sheet. Use the passages you've noted from Acts 1-3 and choose 2 or 3 passages to reflect upon. Another paragraph should answer the last question of #2. What are your impressions of the topic in Hamlet? (The topic is whatever theme group you're in). So for instance, what are your impressions/ideas of deceit in Hamlet? Two more paragraphs should be devoted to answering questions #5, one paragraph each. Remember, in your final essay, you can write about mulitple characters and how your topic affects each of them. Also remember that your theme statement is more or less your opinion and others may disagree. So your essay is going to be an argument that whatever theme statement you have created is a legitimate response to Hamlet and applies to the characters and plot. The play should be reinforcing your theme statement, or proving it.
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Shakespeare Festival:
Bring food and write a statement using Elizabethan language to describe your food, and give us your holiday wish for the new year.
Extra Credit:
Dress up as an Elizabethan character. Up to 20 points extra credit
Bring food and write a statement using Elizabethan language to describe your food, and give us your holiday wish for the new year.
Extra Credit:
Dress up as an Elizabethan character. Up to 20 points extra credit
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Grammar Packet on USAGE
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Re-read I.ii.159-257 and II.ii.213-378 and answer the following two questions:
1. What does Hamlet think of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
2. What do Hamlet's friends think of him?
1. What does Hamlet think of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
2. What do Hamlet's friends think of him?
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Read II.i
Answer questions on handout
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Thursday, December 4th
In class, we finished scene ii and read scene iii. HW: Find one word from the text(cite act, scene and line number) to describe Ophelia, Laertes and Polonius.
Read Scene iv.
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Friday, December 5th
Reading Quiz on scene iv.
In class, we finished scene ii and read scene iii. HW: Find one word from the text(cite act, scene and line number) to describe Ophelia, Laertes and Polonius.
Read Scene iv.
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Friday, December 5th
Reading Quiz on scene iv.
Begin Answering questions from Hallmark pg. 16(Day 2 Melting Flesh)
Read scene v
Monday, December 8th
Do Day 3 from Hallmark
HW: Do 3 dialectical responses to the text
Tuesday
Share some dialectical responses
Read 2.1
Answer the questions:
1. What is Polonius asking Reynaldo to do?
2. What did Hamlet do to Ophelia in her closet?
3. What assumptions does Polonius jump to concerning the cause of Hamlet's madness?
Wednesday
Wednesday
Do Day 4 By the Numbers from Hallmark