Educational Quote

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
-William Butler Yeats

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

4/8/14-Tuesday-A Day

ENG 9
Sorry, you have missed today's quiz on Essay format.
Classwork: Read the student essay on the short story "The Interlopers" and respond to the following:
1.What is missing from the introduction?
2.Write a thesis for this essay.
3.How can paragraph 2 be stronger?
4.What is missing from the paragraph structure in paragraph 4?
5.How can the conclusion be stronger?
Then revise your Rough Draft of the Mockingbird essay (How does Tom Robinson and the Scottsboro boys represent the symbol of the mockingbird?)
1. Does your essay have a thesis?
2. Does your thesis include the author’s name, name of the text, and your three points?
3. Do the main ideas of your body paragraphs match your 3 points in your thesis?
4. Do you have evidence for each body paragraph?
5. Does your essay match the 5 paragraph essay format?
Journal: What are the three parts of a thesis?
*Put the classwork and journal on the same sheet of paper. Use the back and front.
 
ENG 10
Warm Up:
How does the novel end?
Did it meet your expectations?
Why do you think the author ended in this manner?
Classwork: Discusson one of the following in your small group and present to the class.
1. Why does Golding end Lord of the Flies with the rescue of the boys? Does this ending change the realistic nature of the novel?
2. How could this novel be described as an allegory? If it is an allegory, what message does Golding seem to want to get across to his readers? What allegorical roles are the characters playing?
3. What is the role of religion in the lives of the boys? Is their religion based on Christianity, or does it seem more pagan?
4. Lord of the Flies was published in 1954, although it is set in some fictional future. In what ways does its message seem to speak to the violence that is present in 1954? What about violence today?
5. Only one female voice is presented (very briefly, and in recap) in this novel, that of Piggy's aunt. Would this story have been different in any important ways if there had been both boys and girls on the island? In other words, is this a story about the capacity of humans for violence, or is it a story about the male capacity for violence? Or is there simply not enough evidence to make an argument either way?
6. Similarly—why does it matter that these are kids? Would adults in the same situation act any differently?
7. How are the characters in Lord of the Flies presented as both "heroic and sick" (6)? As both sane and insane? As both good and evil?
8. What role does fear play in Lord of the Flies? How does fear affect the boys as the story progresses?
No Journal
 
We revied the Test outline for the second part of class.
1.Plot
A.Characters
B.Major events in each chapter
2. Synthesis Notes
A.Definitions of Literary elements
B.Most important parts of each
3. Stanford Prison Experiment
A.What it is
B.What happened
C.Connection to the novel
4. What is evil?
A.Your valid definition of evil
B.Connection to the novel
5. Whaddaya need to be happy and Succeed?
A.Maslow’s “official” needs hierarchy
B.Be able to explain the hierarchy and priority of human needs
6. Continuum of Change
A.3 major contrasts of characters
B.Causes of change
7. Discussion topics
A.Human Nature
B.Human Needs
C.All related themes
 
LOTF TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY!!

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