AGENDA:
continue working on independent projects.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Independent Projects
AGENDA:
Begin working on your Independent Projects.
Read your selected book and write journal entries.
Write whatever you want--poems, stories, essays, monologues, scenes, etc.!
Begin working on your Independent Projects.
Read your selected book and write journal entries.
Write whatever you want--poems, stories, essays, monologues, scenes, etc.!
Friday, May 13, 2016
Motif Project Contemporary Writers Project
AGENDA:
Quiz on The Hours
Work on finishing Motif Project
Begin reading and working on Independent Projects
Quiz on The Hours
Work on finishing Motif Project
Begin reading and working on Independent Projects
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Motif Stories/Fugitive Pieces
AGENDA:
Please post a comment on the previous post!
Continue to work on MOTIF PROJECTS...
Contemporary Writers final Book Project
Go to library to pick up one of these books:
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
You will be using this book for your final Contemporary Writers Project. You will also be working on your Final Assessment Portfolio
WRITING: Finish 1st draft of motif stories for Friday and turn it in.
HMWK: Quiz on The Hours on Friday. Begin reading your new books
Please post a comment on the previous post!
Contemporary Writers final Book Project
Go to library to pick up one of these books:
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
You will be using this book for your final Contemporary Writers Project. You will also be working on your Final Assessment Portfolio
WRITING: Finish 1st draft of motif stories for Friday and turn it in.
HMWK: Quiz on The Hours on Friday. Begin reading your new books
Monday, May 9, 2016
Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours
AGENDA:
Read a summary of Mrs. Dalloway on your handout, Wikipedia, Shmoop or on Spark notes. Then answer the following questions: Post your answers on the blog.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dalloway/
http://www.shmoop.com/mrs-dalloway/
14. If you have read Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, would you describe The Hours as a modern version of it? A commentary upon it? A dialogue with it? Which characters in The Hours correspond with those of Woolf’s novel? In what ways are they similar, and at what point do the similarities cease and the characters become freestanding individuals in their own right?
15. For the most part, the characters in The Hours have either a different gender or a different sexual orientation from their prototypes in Mrs. Dalloway. How much has all this gender-bending affected or changed the situations, the relationships, and the people?
16. Why has Cunningham chosen The Hours for the title of his novel (aside from the fact that it was Woolf’s working title for Mrs. Dalloway)? In what ways is the title appropriate, descriptive? What do hours mean to Richard? To Laura? To Clarissa?
Writing: Continue to work on your Motif Projects!
Read a summary of Mrs. Dalloway on your handout, Wikipedia, Shmoop or on Spark notes. Then answer the following questions: Post your answers on the blog.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dalloway/
http://www.shmoop.com/mrs-dalloway/
14. If you have read Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, would you describe The Hours as a modern version of it? A commentary upon it? A dialogue with it? Which characters in The Hours correspond with those of Woolf’s novel? In what ways are they similar, and at what point do the similarities cease and the characters become freestanding individuals in their own right?
15. For the most part, the characters in The Hours have either a different gender or a different sexual orientation from their prototypes in Mrs. Dalloway. How much has all this gender-bending affected or changed the situations, the relationships, and the people?
16. Why has Cunningham chosen The Hours for the title of his novel (aside from the fact that it was Woolf’s working title for Mrs. Dalloway)? In what ways is the title appropriate, descriptive? What do hours mean to Richard? To Laura? To Clarissa?
Writing: Continue to work on your Motif Projects!
Thursday, May 5, 2016
The Hours--Discussion Questions 11-13/Motif Project
AGENDA:
In a well-developed blog post of paragraph answers with evidence from the text, comment on Discussion Questions 11-13 below:
11. Toward the end of Clarissa’s day, she realizes that kissing Richard beside the pond in Wellfleet was the high point, the culmination, of her life. Richard, apparently, feels the same. Are we meant to think, though, that their lives would have been better, more heightened, had they stayed together? Or does Cunningham imply that as we age we inevitably feel regret for some lost chance, and that what we in fact regret is youth itself?
12. The Hours could on one level be said to be a novel about middle age, the final relinquishment of youth and the youthful self. What does middle age mean to these characters? In what essential ways do these middle-aged people--Clarissa, Richard, Louis, Virginia --differ from their youthful selves? Which of them resists the change most strenuously?
13. What does the possibility of death represent to the various characters? Which of them loves the idea of death, as others love life? What makes some of the characters decide to die, others to live? What personality traits separate the "survivors" from the suicides?
Continue to work on Motif projects
In a well-developed blog post of paragraph answers with evidence from the text, comment on Discussion Questions 11-13 below:
11. Toward the end of Clarissa’s day, she realizes that kissing Richard beside the pond in Wellfleet was the high point, the culmination, of her life. Richard, apparently, feels the same. Are we meant to think, though, that their lives would have been better, more heightened, had they stayed together? Or does Cunningham imply that as we age we inevitably feel regret for some lost chance, and that what we in fact regret is youth itself?
12. The Hours could on one level be said to be a novel about middle age, the final relinquishment of youth and the youthful self. What does middle age mean to these characters? In what essential ways do these middle-aged people--Clarissa, Richard, Louis, Virginia --differ from their youthful selves? Which of them resists the change most strenuously?
13. What does the possibility of death represent to the various characters? Which of them loves the idea of death, as others love life? What makes some of the characters decide to die, others to live? What personality traits separate the "survivors" from the suicides?
Continue to work on Motif projects
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
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