Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLYLsVDG8w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Read the romanticism package. Complete the first activity using 2 or 3 of the sections, but you should have a total of 3 pieces to analyze.

Complete the second activity on one quotation instead of three.

Also, look up william Blake art (and perhaps sketch an imaginative creature/image of your own).

And read the rest of the romantics article.

Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.

http://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_studies_the_brain_in_love.html

Commentary on one purdy poem.

Find a poem by Al Purdy online, at the library, or from ms. Price.

Once you have chosen a poem (not studied in class), you have two options:

1. Write a commentary on the poem using SCALI. You should include a dominant impression in place of a thesis statement. 1000 words. Using rubric for IOC.

2. Make a dramatic reading with a video montage to post on YouTube. You may have up to 3 people in your group for the making of the video. You will need to hand in individual statements of intent to go with your video. A statement of intent explains how you demonstrated an understanding of poetic devices featured in the poem through your video (choice of images, angles, lighting, music, etc.). 500 words. Using rubric for WL 2.

Due next Thursday.

Look up article in popular magazine in print or online (walrus, new yorker, onion, blogTO, the Huffington Post, even Maxim or Men's Health, Cosmo or Nylon) and bring it in as a study to apply one type of criticism that we listed in class today.

And you should be finished reading TFA.

Hamlet act v reading log. And answer act v questions.

Things fall apart: read table of contents (all parts!!!) and the the conflicted life questions in preparation for reading the book when you get book. I'm serious. Please read this stuff over the break.

Happy holidays!

Due Monday: finish RLT. Finish questions on part 3.

Due Tuesday: final world lits.

Your schedule for reading Reading Lolita in Tehran is as follows:

Part 3-
For tuesday = 157-189
For Wednesday = 190-221
For Thursday = 222 to the end of part 3

Part 4-
On Friday = read 30 pages of part 4
On Saturday = read 30 more pages
On Sunday = read 30 more pages (to the end).

Due tomorrow (friday):
- Finish reading part 1 of RLT.
- Hand in one copy per group of character studies.

Finish reading Sailor. Take notes on chapters.

Read Mishima article's and make notes. ( homework from last class).

Formulate one World Lit question that you will be assigning to and marking the response from a fellow students. Make sure your question is clear!

Read and take notes on the remaining chapters in part 1 (Summer) of Sailor. (you'll read up to page 92. Make sure you read because if you fall behind, it will add unnecessary stress to your life when you have to catch up).

Read Japanese culture and Traits handout in course reader
- make notes
Read chapter 1&2 of Sailor
- make notes

Read the end of HoS. And bring all of your presentation handouts to class on Monday so that we can critique the thesis statements! Yay!

List of groups with assigned HoS chapters. Ch.6 is due Monday and we do two presentations a day. You do your own math.

Read HoS Chapter 5.
Expand in the significance of Neruda's poem.
Note significant imagery (w/ ref).
How is the relation b/w Pedro; Clara developing or shifting?
Look up "Bolshevism". In what context is Bolshevism referenced on pg. 120?
Give chapter a new title. Explain.

Homework for chapter 5 of HoS (or ask Allen D)

- read the end of HoBA act 1
- answer the questions assigned in class (typed, formal). Use supports from text.
- Due next class.

- Read up to and including chapter 4 of HoS. Test tomorrow.
- watch Allende video on class website.
- look up biblical reference: Barabas.

-Watch 4am video (on class site)
- Read greatest story ever told and list books you aren't familiar with.
- Read chapter 1 of House of the Spirits.

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