Shakespeare Links

You will have today's class period ONLY to complete this assignment. PLEASE WORK DILIGENTLY!

I have gathered together several websites that have information about Shakespeare or his times. Use these websites to finish filling out your information guide to Shakespeare.

http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/shakespeare1

After you have completed the background information on Shakespeare, please choose one of the quotes after the jump. You will research how this quote is used in modern times by checking on The New York Times website for current articles that still use Shakespeare's words today. 

For fun, check out this hilarious parody of Forrest Gump for the life of William Shakespeare!

List of Shakespeare FAMOUS Quotes after the jump!

Analyze the Rhetoric!

Now that you have taken the terms and identification portion of the test, you will now analyze the SOAPS of a recent persuasive speech: President Barack Obama's 2012 Inaugural Address. Feel free to listen to his speech tonight so you can hear and see the inflection and emphasis he puts on certain words. Tomorrow, you will just have an abbreviated transcript to work with in order to label and clarify the SOAPS of his rhetorical strategy. Short and sweet Inaugural Address--PERFECT for analysis!

Identifying Thesis and Supporting Claims

Today, we looked at a hilarious, but well-structured "This I Believe" Essay.  Even though Elizabeth talks about Rice Krispies as heroes, this essay is a GREAT example of what I am looking for in your personal reflective essays. Be sure that you are elaborating like she does about each of your examples and character traits. 

Check out these articles about Real-Life Heroes from CNN. These articles are much more thorough, detailed, and researched but still offer insight into writing your own personal essay. See if you can identify the theses and main supporting claims in the articles!

SOAPS and The Declaration of Independence

Convincing the world to believe a text or an advertisement is an important technique for persuasion and rhetoric. Rhetoric is the the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences. After looking at some awesome advertisements and The Declaration of Independence, we will continue with "The Crisis" Wednesday to analyze its text for the same rhetorical techniques. 


SOAPS Analysis Worksheet

Founding a Nation: Declaration of Independence

Friday, we broke down the fancy jargon of the Declaration of Independence's first few paragraphs. All in all, we now know that this document is a giant list of grievances posted by the self-imagined, foundational American people. You have each been assigned a numbered paragraph/grievance that we will summarize and share with each other. Let's see how bad that mean ole King George really is!

NPR and Hester Prynne as the Pentultimate American Heroine?

Now that we have finished The Scarlet Letter, it is time to really dig deeply into the purposes and writing style of Hawthorne's text. First, we identified many different conflicts in the novel:

• man vs. self
• Dimmesdale vs. guilt
• Hester vs. guilt
• Hester vs. temptation
• Chillingworth vs. manhood (ugly/cheated on/outcast)
• man vs. society
• Hester vs. Puritan "gossip"
• Dimmesdale vs. "reputation"
• Pearl vs. "elf-child"
• man vs. man
• Dimmesdale vs. Chillingworth (revenge/truth/Hester)
• witch vs. Hester (soul/evil)
• Black Man vs. Chil/Hest/Dim
• Hester vs. Pearl (behavior/truth)

From our list, there are various antagonists and protagonists in the novel depending on which conflict a reader focuses on. Therefore, we charted the "good" vs. "bad" traits of each; our findings are listed below  (more points=more good):

-.5 Chillingworth        0 Pearl         1.5 Dimmesdale         2 Hester

Also, great job using higher thinking skills today, English 3 Honors! NPR's radio broadcast on Hester as the first female American archetype was of college-level thinking. Here is the transcript of the broadcast. Plan to do more with non-fiction literary analysis as you continue this year and through the rest of your educational career.

The Epic Hero

We continue our Anglo-Saxon Unit with Beowulf, one of the original epic tales of the English literary canon. Even though Beowulf is one of the oldest texts we will read, the story has been repeated for generations. Joseph Campbell wrote about this generations-old story in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Today we read a summary of his major points and the steps of a hero's journey. This journey is as epic as Beowulf and Batman and as common as "Phineas and Ferb." Even romances, comedies, and other genres fit the mold set out by Joseph Campbell.

See a comparison of modern movies at this link: http://patrickgarvin.com/blog/?p=1172

Beowulf Question Packet

Creating Personal Resumes

Today, we had a look at a few key elements of resume-building. Look at the following resources to find more detailed tips and excellent word choices to further improve your resume:

• Center for Career Development
• The Resume Workbook for High School Students
• Sample Resumes
• Comparing Good and Bad Resumes

Use the following Resume Generator, sponsored by ReadWriteThink, to create a pre-formatted and outstanding resume.

Remember, your resume is a continually changing document. Remember to update it as you gain more experience or learn new skills!

Your Own Informational Text Sources

Today, we are looking into informational texts that can be catered to YOUR interests, needs, and education. I have created a Symbaloo with hyperlinks and RSS feeds to various reliable and teen-friendly news sources. Heck, I even like the "teen" version as it gives clearer and more straightforward news.

I want you to leave at least one sticky on this virtual pinboard with a useful website you find for RELIABLE news sources. Make sure you leave your name on the sticky note so I can give you credit for the assignment!

You may find sources to pin or use the sources your classmates and I post to complete the News Scavenger Hunt today in class. Make sure you write down the urls (the www.... web address) so that we can access these sources tomorrow!

Victorian Era History

You may use any of the following sites to use for the "History" part of your children's book, due Friday.

Overview of Victorian Writing Trends
http://literatureinenglishunican.blogspot.com/2009/12/english-realism-victorian-era-1837-1901.html

Analysis and Typed Text of Many Poems
http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/twenty-one-poems-ap-literature-and-composition

Quick History of the Victorian Era
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/article.html

The Reign of Victoria in England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/

Sitemap of Easy-to-Click Victorian England Social Life Info
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html

A Resource for a Resource List
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/www.html

Dropbox.com Access Info

ID: elizabethheck@ccs.k12.nc.us

P/W: svhs9-12

New Online Resources

News from Mrs. Steppe:

After years of planning and developing, the Online American Library is now LIVE!  This is a fantastic resource - and will only get bigger each year!  With any luck all American library systems will share their digital collections, creating one of the largest inventories of information, music, and books available for free (well, our taxes pay for it) in the world.

 

Here's an article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/digital-public-library-of-america_n_3111264.html

 

And here's the DPLA:

http://dp.la/

Ben Franklin's Aphorisms

This week English 3 has been discussing various aphorisms (short statements with a message) of Benjamin Franklin. Many of these aphorisms are still around today and are used by various people in advertising, politics, and even parenting!

We then matched up Ben's aphorisms to his virtues for the nation of individuals (rather than that central form of government praising the queen).

Here is a copy of the chart that we completed in class together.

Analyzing the Social Impact of The Scarlet Letter

Today we charted the "good" vs. "bad" traits of each of The Scarlet Letter's main characters. At the end of the day, here are the "Good Ratings" for each of the characters (more points=more good):

-.5 Chillingworth
0 Pearl
1.5 Dimmesdale
2 Hester

We also identified many different conflicts in the novel:

• man vs. self
• Dimmesdale vs. guilt
• Hester vs. guilt
• Hester vs. temptation
• Chillingworth vs. manhood (ugly/cheated on/outcast)
• man vs. society
• Hester vs. Puritan "gossip"
• Dimmesdale vs. "reputation"
• Pearl vs. "elf-child"
• man vs. man
• Dimmesdale vs. Chillingworth (revenge/truth/Hester)
• witch vs. Hester (soul/evil)
• Black Man vs. Chil/Hest/Dim
• Hester vs. Pearl (behavior/truth)

From our list, there are various antagonists and protagonists in the novel depending on which conflict a reader focuses on.

Also today, we watched a few clips from the recent film, Easy A. The ideas of Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and Pearl have been present throughout ancient and modern history. We will continue to talk about Hester as an archetype tomorrow.

Lacan and The Scarlet Letter: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByVKpn2OdpFAMFhRNXB0dk5zM3M