Look up Marxism, feudalism and serfdom for seminar discussion tomorrow. Allow your research to lead you to additional information you find interesting/relevant.

In addition to the work below (reading), please type your minstreling paragraph and double space it.,

Crime and Punishment Essay Topics

Difference between the murders of Alyona and Lizaveta. Literary purpose?
Razhumikin said he was "alternating between two characters". Comment.
Is Raskolnikov responsible for his isolation
Is Raskolnikov a product of his social environment
Justify Raskolnikov's crime as for humanity
Justify Raskolnikov's ccrimes against humanity
Historical content of extraordinary man and/or utilitarianism. Are they related or contradictory?
Paradox of cynicism of Tsarist autocracy… a revolt against evil rulemakers by defining their own rules, making them less evil than those they revolt against
Portrait of social conditions Russian society as a character (St. Petersburg)-solitude and poverty
How does Dostoebsky create balance between Raskolnikov awareness of ethics and/or nationalism and his desire to reform a flawed society
Rask _ research Hegelian and Neitzchean concepts of a superhuman vs. Profiry _ slavophillie, traditionalist, Marxist
How does the novel counter Machiavellian ideals
Assess the theme of moral redemption through suffering – a Christian ideology- does punishment supersede crime, can redemption save criminals.
How do the characters cover all aspects of human suffering, catorgiarize their human condition ie. Rask - conscious, mental, emotional; sonya-physical; katerena-familial; marmeladov-social
Argue that the crime is a crime against human/body soul
nothing.
Function of deliriums and dreams as moral voice, victims motif in dreams
Symbolism: blood, paint, whip
All ironies in novel: free soul in confined room, murders pawnbroker for being greedy and steals her money, buries money in park, extraordinary/ordinary vs. Incidental, prostitue as redeemer.
Svid as a foil
Moral vs. religious salvation
Focus in the theory of extraordinary in part 3 a) look at Prof talk with (ch.5) (b) talk with Raz (ch1) (c)zossimovs madness talk (ch3)
How does Dost offer a psychological but not moral judgment of svid.
Religion symbolism = cross,lazarus, Marmladov; leading up to confession
How does the point of view effectively create sympathy?
How is time psych and not chronological; what is the effect of time?
Sonya, Raz, Profiry as healers. Similarities btw their characters. What is dost identifying as the beakers of his time/environment.
Is svid. A mirror or foil to Rask.? (monster or victim)
Parallel Sonya and Christ
Is Rask temporarily "mentally deranged" as his lawyer says he is?

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Write paragraph on raskolnikov's doubling (write your own question). Half to full page. Due tomorrow.

Continue reading based on reading log timeline.

Finish C&P part 1 quotations for tomorrow.

Print off character list for C&P from eng 4u7 page. Start to assemble ideas for your Bristol board.

Read tab on dialectic on eng 4u7 homepage.

Bring books for tomorrow.

Read Variations on the word sleep by margaret Atwood.

Please send a message out to Radeka, Tina, BJ, Stephanie, David, and Coco that I need their world lit papers ASAP. Have them email me at price.English@gmail.com

The text that you can use on your exam are HoS, HoBA, Sailor,TFA,Hamlet & Reading Lolita.

You'll get five questions; you have to answer comparatively on one.

Thank you BJ for recording the passages; thank you Lediona for typing them up...

Solomon Passages
pg 138
pg 19
pg 81
pg 137
baked Alaska - chapter 3

Macbeth Passages
1) act 1, scene 7 1-29
'If it were done 'tis done, then 'twere well.'

2) act 1 scene 7
'we will proceed no further in this business'

3) act 3, scene 1
'to be thus is nothing'

4) act 3 scene 1 (two pages)
'well then how/ have you considered of my speeches?'

5) act 3 scene 3
'naught's had, all's spent'

6) ?
'banquo: were such things here we do speak about'

7) act 2 scene 2 (test)
'look at this sorrow sight'

8) act 2 scene 2
'that which hath made them drunk hath made me bold'

9-10) 'these deeds must not be thought'
'go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready'

11) act 2, scene 5
'he brings that great news'

12) act 1 scene 3
'so foul and fair a day I have not seen'

Atwood poems
1. a tourist centre in Boston
2. variations on the word sleep
3. the woman who could not live with her faulty heart. 
4. the animals in that country 
5. owl song
6. song of the fox
7. eat song 
8. pig song 
9. bull song
10. song of the word love
11. variations on the word love
12. a women's issue

Exam passages...

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Read to the end of chapter 3 for tomorrow. Read to the end of part 1 (chapter 10) for Tuesday.

See "Macbeth" on the class website for your assignment and rubric handouts.

Homework:

1. Submit your practice analysis and commentary by e-mail to Mrs. Price during the break if you want me to evaluate it before you write your test. This assignment is optional and it is entirely for your own good. Make sure you include your name and "commentary for Miss. Malgeri" in the subject line. Please do not submit the commentary last minute on Sunday night, as it will be difficult for me to give you feedback on Monday if you do so.

2. Work on your Macbeth performance. Instructions and rubric for this assignment are also posted on the blog.

 

Important dates for grade elevens:

-Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Passage analysis and commentary test. You will have 75 minutes (the entire period) to analyze and write a commentary for a passage from Acts

1-3 of Macbeth. (Both the analysis and the commentary will be graded).

 

-Friday, March 25, 2011 Part B of culminating activity due Analysis of 2 quotations from the scene you will be performing. (Make sure each group member selects different quotations, and remember that 4 of the quotations your group members analyse must be included in your script). This component of the assignment will be graded individually.

 

-Monday, March 28, 2011 Theme/Imagery summary sheet due This is the summary of the particular theme/image you signed up for with a partner (or in some cases, a group of 3). You will receive a group mark for this.

 

-Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Performances -Act 4 Scene 1

                  - Act 4 Scene 2

                  - Act 4 Scene 3 (part 1)

 

-Thursday, March 31, 2011 Performances -Act 4 Scene 3 (part 2)

                    -Act 5 Scene 2-3

                    -Act 5 Scene 4-6

Analyze passage from Macbeth to put on overhead tomorrow.

Change of due dates. The journals on Act 1 are due on Monday. No extensions.

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.

Welcome to Grade 11 IB English

Use this blog to keep track of homework.