British Literature (Period 3) Assignments

Atonement multiple choice test.

Finish the written portion of the Atonement test.

Late homework and corrections due.  

Finish Atonement.

Choose a page from Part three of Atonement.

Create a blackout poem that reflects Briony's internal struggle and atonement journey after realizing what she had done to Robbie and Cecilia.  

 

The poem's blackout should portray a design and image representative of what the poem is describing.  

Read Atonement Part 3 up to the following paragraph.  Be prepared for any possible reading check quiz.  

 

"Some men were even unfriendly, and uncooperative about their medicines, having managed to blur the distinction between the generals and the nurses. All mindless authority, as far as they were concerned. It took a visit from Sister Drummond to set them straight."

Make sure to complete PTSD powerpoint within groups.

Project:

Make a comic book of Robbie's exploits during WWII, especially ones that reveal parts of his character.  Be as creative as possible!  You may draw or make a collage.  Everything must have color.

 

Include:

Grading

Please complete the schoology assignment labeled "PTSD questions" online by 8am of the due date.

 

Finish Part II.  Be prepared for a potential reading check quiz.  

Read half of Atonement Part 2.  Read up to this last paragraph.  The pdf page number is 132.

- Complete the schoology questions online

 

"This theory, or conviction, rested on the memory of a single encounter—the meeting at dusk on the bridge. For years he had dwelled on that walk across the park. She would have known he was invited to dinner. There she was, barefoot, in a dirty white frock. That was strange enough. She would have been waiting for him, perhaps preparing her little speech, even rehearsing it out loud as she sat on the stone parapet. When he finally arrived, she was tongue-tied. That was proof of a sort. Even at the time, he thought it odd that she did not speak to him. He gave her the letter and she ran off. Minutes later, she was opening it. She was shocked, and not only by a word. In her mind he had betrayed her love by favoring her sister. Then, in the library, confirmation of the worst, at which point, the whole fantasy crashed. First, disappointment and despair, then a rising bitterness. Finally, an extraordinary opportunity in the dark, during the search for the twins, to avenge herself. She named him—and no one but her sister and his mother doubted her. The impulse, the flash of malice, the infantile destructiveness he could understand. The wonder was the depth of the girl’s rancor, her persistence with a story that saw him all the way to Wandsworth Prison. Now he might be cleared, and that gave him joy. He acknowledged the courage it would require for her to go back to the law and deny the evidence she had given under oath. But he did not think his resentment of her could ever be erased. Yes, she was a child at the time, and he did not forgive her. He would never forgive her. That was the lasting damage."

 

 

Finish Part 1 of Atonement

Point of view quiz

• Stanza 1: A, B, C, D, E, F
• Stanza 2: F, A, E, B, D, C
• Stanza 3: C, F, D, A, B, E
• Stanza 4: E, C, B, F, A, D
• Stanza 5: D, E, A, C, F, B
• Stanza 6: B, D, F, E, C, A
• Stanza 7: last line of your choice

Read Atonement: Ch 5-9

 

Reading check quiz on chapters.  

Option 1: Choose a villain from a popular fairy tale, story, or movie.  Create a story in which the villain is actually good.

Option 2: Choose an inanimate object.  Create a story revolving that inanimate object.

-1 page double spaced typed story

-cover page (name, date, period, story title, and rationale paragraph)

-Rationale paragraph: What is the point of view and how do you know?  Why did you choose that point of view?

Read Atonement by Ian McEwan Ch 1-Ch 4 

There may or may not be a reading check quiz

1984 Test

1984 test

 

All written portions must be printed out, typed (12 times new roman font), and double spaced.  Refer to syllabus for formatting.  

 

1) create one page of background on your character.

          - Where were you born?

          - What is your daily life like?

          - Who is a part of your family and what do they do?

          - Do you have any personal interests?  (It may or may not be allowed by Big            Brother)

          -  Include conversation topics that you will have during the 1984 role playing. * This information is made up by you as long as you adhere to the reality of 1984 and the given information I gave you.  This is opportunity to give a backstory to your character beyond the description I made.  Below the instructions is an example.  If you are part of a family or are involved with other classmates in the 1984 role play, you may want to form a consensus on shared facts.  For instance, a husband and wife may need to agree on how they met. )  

 

2) Answer the following question in 4 paragraphs: How does Big Brother gain power through manipulation.  Consider the different ministries in each paragraph.  Offer concrete support through specific quotes and scenes from the book 1984, and offer  analysis.    

 

- finish making any necessary props (ex. badges, posters, songs...)

- bring a costume and props

- be prepared to engage in your role

 

 

 

 

 

1984 Murder Mystery: Character Background

Name: Millie Clark

Age: 23

Marital Status: Single

Residence: Airstrip (London), Oceania

Occupation: Journalist in the Ministry of truth

Government Sentiment: Skeptical, resenting of the Party and Big Brother

Back-Story: I do not remember much of my childhood except that I had three older brothers and two parents. My recollection is murky, but I know that my father was a counterrevolutionary and was later arrested for thought crime. Soon thereafter, my brothers were sent to the ministry of love for keeping journals and expressing feelings against Big brother. At a very young age I was enrolled in the Junior spies to ensure my families compliance with the rules of the party, I was not very successful. After ten years in the Junior Spy League I was assigned an outer party post in the Ministry of truth. I am a journalist, I take records from Big Brother’s speeches, the Ministry of Peace and the Ministry of plenty and use them to write articles. I first began to question the government when I was compiling an economics article, the Ministry of Plenty claimed there would be no chocolate available in the following month. I later saw an inner party member carrying some in his bag. Later that year I received a notice from the Ministry of Peace addressing our successful alliance with East Asia. Just a week before I had written about our bitter war with East Asia and our alliance with Eurasia. I have kept this to myself, and usually only share my resentment with close friends whom I can trust.

Discussion Topics:

Doublethink: How can we think something that simultaneously contradicts our instincts?

War: What do you make of Oceania constant changing of alliances?

The Ministry of Love: what do you think happens in the ministry of love?

The Junior Spies: Why is the junior spies an important program?

The proles: What is it that the proles do? Are they politically valuable?

The Ministry of Truth: Adress job of changing records

Newspeak: What is your take on the 11th edition Newspeak dictionary?

Finish reading 1984.  There may or may not be a reading check quiz.  

Read Book III: ch 1-3

No schoology in order to give ample time to work on project.

Sign permission slip.

Read Book II: 7-10

You do not need to read the excerpt of Winston's book within the 1984 chapters. 

There may or may not be a reading check quiz.  

 

- Complete schoology questions by 8:00 am of due date.  

 

 

Read 1984 Book II chapters 3-6.  

Quiz on historical background:

- Stalin and Hitler influence

-Hitler youth

-book banning

-censorship and propaganda

-George Orwell's backgound

Finish the group google doc detailing debate talking points.  Please write down each section of the debate: opening, rebuttal, main arguments, and closing.  Include your name next to the section you worked on so I can give you credit.  

Finish "1984"  Book 1: ch 7-8; and Book 2: ch 1 and 2.  

Create a 3-5 page dystopia story (double space, 12 font, 1 inch margins).  Include a cover page which is either drawn or clip art.  The cover page is not included in the word count.

* dystopia novels are: set in the future, offer a grim view of certain contemporary issues, and includes a totalitarian government. 

 

These are questions that you may want to consider in writing your story, but are not required for you to do.

Who are the main characters and what is the main conflict? 

What future problems do you address? ex) rise of technology, immigration, global warming, overpopulation, war...

How is the totalitarian government structured?

What does the government regulate?

How are people's everyday life altered? 

Is there a resistance group?

How are the school and other public resources structured?

 

The Hunger Games, and Divergent are examples of dystopias. Each of the characters are running away from an over controlling government and demonstrates issues such as uniformity and the rise of technology.  Use these movies as inspiration for your story.  

 

Read 1984 Chapter 1 and 2.  Complete schoology questions.  

Be ready to provide two videos, one bad and one good about your company.  You must verbally be able to respond to each of the below questions in front of the class.  This will be graded.  Make sure the videos are appropriate and does contain any foul language.  Below are the questions for reference.  

 

Look at an AD or commercial of your company. What message does the advertisement give?
What technique does the company do to give that message?
Research background information on the company including controversial stances of company. How does this change your view of the company?

Complete the schoology assignment online under the title, "Truth is written by the winners."

Give you parents the survey passed out in class and return back to me on Wednesday.  

Frankenstein Test

Finish Frankenstein

Project Due:

- The chosen theme in one sentence

- Quotes (at least three) that support the theme in Frankenstein

- Each quote/scene needs analysis of how the quote supports the theme.  (at least three sentences for each quote.)

-Theme connection to common day issue.

-background information

-necessary statistics

-visuals (ex: songs, videos, political cartoons...)

-Discussion question relating to theme for the entire class to discuss

 

Frankenstein charts Ch 19-23

Frankenstein quiz on chapters up to chapter 14.  Concentrate on the following topics.

- Justine's trial

- Monster's experience after running away from Victor

- The Monster's potential humanity

-Basic plot sequence

-tone, diction, connotation, and denotation

- Gothic romance\ literature

-polar expeditions, galvanism, vivisection, grave robbers, physiognomy 

 

 

Complete Frankenstein charts 15-18.

Complete Frankenstein charts Ch 11-14.

Create a story that represents elements of either Gothic Literature, Gothic Romance or both!  Try to use as many elements as possible.  

 

Length: The story must be 1-2 pages (not including cover page).  No more than 2 pages!

Format: The story must be printed, typed, 12 font, and double space.

Cover page: The story must have a page with just its story title, your name, and an image relating to your story (either drawn or clipart).  Therefore, the rest of your pages should be your story, not extra information like your name or title again. 

 

Test:

Read Chapters 7-10 of Frankenstein.  Complete reading charts for each.  

Quiz on Frankenstein- letters through Chapter 6.  Remember proper event sequences and any notes that we went over in class.

Work on project and make sure at least rough draft of project is completed.  I need to see some evidence of research.  Make sure your group uses either google slides or prezi.

 

Anatomy Vivisection

galvanism

body snatching

Phrenology/Physiognomy

Polar Expeditions

The presentation should be 7-10 minutes long.

• Give the background and brief history of subject.
• Describe the influence the issue had during the Romantic Era.
• Describe the Romantic’s view on the issue
• Provide examples of how topic connects to the book (include passages or quotes).  

Presentation

• well-practiced
• with visuals
• one activity to engage the audience (discussion, quiz, pre-activity)
• should be able to respond to questions

Read Ch 3, 4, 5, 6 and complete a summary chart for each section.  The format of the charts will follow the same as last chapters. In total, you should have four charts.  

Complete the vocabulary from Frankenstein on Schoology.  Below is the post: 

 

Please give at least one sentence of a definition for the given voacabulary word.  Then give a sentence of where you see the word in the context of Frakenstein.  

Ch 3

scarlet fever:

Angel of Destruction:

alchemists:

Ch 4

precepts:

Ch 5

Dante (inferno)

spectre:

Ch 6

fetter

Please bring in your notes so that I can check them.  I will be looking for these categories:

 

Notes

If needed, the powerpoints are on the school website as well.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiz on the Romantic era.

Read Frankenstein : Letters, Chapter 1, and chapter 2.  Make a chart like the one passed out in class for each section.  

Finish the Frankenstein discussion questions emailed to you. They can be written out on loose leaf.   

Please make sure to contribute to the google document defending your debate argument.  Put your name under the section that you are contributing to on the google doc: opening, support, rebuttal, or closing.  This document will later be shared with me so that I can check the work.

The debate will be a project grade so it is to your advantage to prepare.  Showing up without any support will result in a low grade.  

Read the second poem Ozymandias and answer the discussion questions on the handout paper provided in class.  

OzymandiasPoet's Page

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear --

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.'

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poem Questions:  

1. What is the fate of Ozymandias?  How do you know?

1. What did Ozymandias think his fate would be?

1. What is the message of the poem?

1. How does the poem describe the conflict between nature and human creation?

Read the poem by Percy Shelley called "Love's Philosophy" and answer the discussion questions on the paper provided in class.  Below is a copy of the discussion questions and poem.

 

Love’s Philosophy

1. The fountains mingle with the river,
2. And the rivers with the ocean;
3. The winds of heaven mix forever
4. With a sweet emotion;
5. Nothing in the world is single;
6. All things by a law divine
7. In another's being mingle--
8. Why not I with thine?
9. See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
10. And the waves clasp one another;
11. No sister flower could be forgiven
12. If it disdained its brother;
13. And the sunlight clasps the earth,
14. And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--
15. What are all these kissings worth,
16. If thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poem questions:

1. What is the main message of lines 5-8?

1. What is the message of line 11-12?

1. Find examples of the 5 I’s of romanticism in this poem, highlighting or marking where you find the 5 I’s.  Explain below why you marked the ones you did.

 

Read the poem by Percy Shelley called "Love's Philosophy" and answer the discussion questions on the paper provided in class.  Below is a copy of the discussion questions and poem.

 

Love’s Philosophy

1. The fountains mingle with the river,
2. And the rivers with the ocean;
3. The winds of heaven mix forever
4. With a sweet emotion;
5. Nothing in the world is single;
6. All things by a law divine
7. In another's being mingle--
8. Why not I with thine?
9. See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
10. And the waves clasp one another;
11. No sister flower could be forgiven
12. If it disdained its brother;
13. And the sunlight clasps the earth,
14. And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--
15. What are all these kissings worth,
16. If thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poem questions:

1. What is the main message of lines 5-8?

1. What is the message of line 11-12?

1. Find examples of the 5 I’s of romanticism in this poem, highlighting or marking where you find the 5 I’s.  Explain below why you marked the ones you did.

 

Finish persuasion essay.

Please bring a print out final essay.  You do not need a works cited page, but iInclude any necessary citation within the essay.

Begin reading Frankenstein.  Read letters (prologue), Ch 1, and Ch 2.  For each chapter, you are to make a chart like the one passed out in class.  Tell me the setting, characters, summary, and a prediction.  You may use the worksheet passed out in class as a guide.  

In the end, you should have a total of three charts.  

Quiz on fallacies and persuasion elements (pathos, ethos, logos).  Know the vocabulary.  

Complete at least the introduction paragraph, one body paragraph, and a conclusion paragraph for the rough draft.  Remember all the components of the paragraphs.

Complete the worksheet with the outline.  The 5 paragraph essay will be a persuasion essay based on your topic choice.  Pick an opinion to write about.  

The outline on the worksheet should include a thesis statement, three topics for the body paragraphs with some elaborations, and a concluding statement.  I need to approve your topic before you start your essay.

Complete the schoology assignment by 8 am of the due date.  Below is the essay and questions.  I will be strict on the grading of this assignment.  Make sure to include quotes, support, and analysis.  Use proper terminology.

 

Essay

Neat vs Sloppy People by Suzzane Britt

 I've finally figured out the difference between neat people and sloppy people. The distinction is, as always, moral. Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.

2 Sloppy people, you see, are not really sloppy. Their sloppiness is merely rectitude the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral rectitude. Sloppy peocorrectness ple carry in their mind's eye a heavenly vision, a precise plan, that is so stupendous, so perfect, it can't be achieved in this world or the next. metier

3 Sloppy people live in Never-Never Land. Someday is their metier. French for "a person's Someday they are planning to alphabetize all their books and set up home specialty" catalogues. Someday they will go through their wardrobes and mark certain items for tentative mending and certain items for passing on to relatives of similar shape and size. Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbooks into which they will put newspaper clippings, postcards, locks of hair, and the dried corsage from their senior prom. Someday they will file everything on the surface of their desks, including the cash receipts from coffee purchases at the snack shop. Someday they will sit down and read all the back issues of The New Yorker.

4 For all these noble reasons and more, sloppy people never get neat. They aim too high and wide. They save everything, planning someday to file, order, and straighten out the world. But while these ambitious plans take clearer and clearer shape in their heads, the books spill from the shelves onto the floor, the clothes pile up in the hamper and closet, the family mementos accumulate in every drawer, the surface of the desk is buried under mounds of paper and the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling.

5. Sloppy people can't bear to part with anything. They give loving attention to every detail. When sloppy people say they're going to tackle the surface of the desk, they really mean it. Not a paper will go unturned; not a rubber band will go unboxed. Four hours or two weeks into the excavation, the desk looks exactly the same, primarily because the sloppy person is meticulously creating new piles of papers with new headings and scrupulously stopping to read all the old book catalogs before he throws them away. A neat person would just bulldoze the desk.

 6. Neat people are bums and clods at heart. They have cavalier attitudes very informal and offhand toward possessions, including family heirlooms. Everything is just another dust-catcher to them. If anything collects dust, it's got to go and that's that. Neat people will toy with the idea of throwing the children out of the house j ust to cut down on the clutter.

7. Neat people don't care about process. They like results. What they want to do is get the whole thing over with so they can sit down and watch the rasslin' on TV. Neat people operate on two unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away.

8. The only thing messy in a neat person's house is the trash can. The minute something comes to a neat person's hand, he will look at it, try to decide if it has immediate use and, finding none, throw it in the trash.

9 Neat people are especially vicious with mail. They never go through their mail unless they are standing directly over a trash can. If the trash can is beside the mailbox, even better. All ads, catalogs, pleas for charitable contributions, church bulletins and money-saving coupons go straight into the trash can without being opened. All letters from home, postcards from Europe, bills and paychecks are opened, immediately responded to, then dropped in the trash can. Neat people keep their receipts only for tax purposes. That's it. No sentimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter a dying relative ever wrote. Into the trash it goes.

1o. Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics. They are incredibly wasteful. Neat people throw away several toys every time they walk through the den. I knew a neat person once who threw away a perfectly good dish drainer because it had mold on it. The drainer was too much trouble to wash.

11. And neat people sell their furniture when they move. They will sell a La-Z-Boy recliner while you are reclining in it.  Neat people are no good to borrow from. Neat people buy everything in expensive little single portions. They get their flour and sugar in two-pound bags. They wouldn't consider clipping a coupon, saving a leftover, reusing plastic non-dairy whipped cream containers or rinsing off tin foil and draping it over the unmoldy dish drainer. You can never borrow a neat person's newspaper to see what's playing at the movies. Neat people have the paper all wadded up and in the trash by 7:05 A.M.

12 Neat people cut a clean swath through the organic as well as the inorganic world. People, animals, and things are all one to them. They are so insensitive. After they've finished with the pantry, the medicine cabinet, and the attic, they will throw out the red geranium (too many leaves), sell the dog (too many fleas), and send the children off to boarding school (too many scuffmarks on the hardwood floors).

 

Questions

1. What is the tone of the essay? Give your reasoning.

2. Who is the audience/ readers the author is targeting? Give your reasoing.  

3.  State all the falacies you see present.  Give specific support and state why they are fallacies.

4. State the different forms of persuasion and and rhetorical strategies used.  How did the author use these strategies to her advantage?

5. What is the author's main argument?

6. How does knowing the audience help direct the author's argument?

7. Is the argument strong or weak? Why?

8. Is the argument persuasive? Why? 

Complete the schoology assignment by 8 am Wednesday. Below are the questions for reference. If for whatever reason your schoology assignment is not working, email me your responses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM

1. Watch the following commercial.  Describe to me the technique of persuasion used to convince you of a their message?  
2. Pick your own commercial or movie clip, analyzing the technique of persuasion in the same way.  Include the link to the clip.

Points to consider: The use of ethos, logos, and pathos and how each of those were achieved.  Imagery, sound, setting, intonation, timing, and audience.    

"The Secret Life of Bees" test.  Please go over notes in class and go over major themes/plot sequences.  

 

 

Finish the final draft of the letter to Ms. Kidd. Please make sure to note how much you identified with characters or the plot.  Let the letter be at least 300 words. You may ask her questions in the letter too. Below shows formal formatting for letters.  

 

Name:

School:

Date:

Dear Ms. Kidd,

...........(letter).......

Sincerely,

Your Name

Last day to turn in signed syllabus and download first novel.  

 

Complete your Author Page including a photo of yourself or picture that represents you.  Your presentation is NOT due, only the written portion.  Turn in the hard copy in class AND turn in on schoology.  If you do not turn in both schoology and the hard copy, you will not get full credit.  All schoology assignments are due by 8:00am of the due date.  

Complete the schoology assignment for "The Secret Life of Bees" by 8:00 am of the due date.  The schoology code is TPX5F-68XQK  for period 3 British Literature class.  Below are the questions for reference:

Answer the following questions using specific examples and elaborated explanations.  Please make sure your answers at least match the length requirement if not exceed the requirement.

1) What are the conscious and subconscious prejudice you, our contemporary society, and the characters from the movie holds?  {10 sentences}

2) What are the similarities between "The Help" and "The Secret Life of Bees?" {6 sentences}

3) What does it mean to treat people with dignity? {6 sentences}