Fri. 5/18; Tues. 5/22; Fri. 5/25

We will watch the film and do our project!  Ms. Nicole is getting us the film.

Work for Friday 11 May 2011

Please finish Gatsby and write a summary or outline summary for the rest of the Chapters!

We will finish our discussion Fri. or next Tues.  Then we will begin our fun project!  Me

Work for 4 May 2012

Read Chapter 8.  Write a complete summary of this chapter.  You may use outline or sentence form.
See you Tuesday!

For 4 May 2012

Please finish up to Chapter 7 of Gatsby, if you have not done so.  Go back to Tuesday on this blog for the questions.

For Friday to Tuesday

Here are the questions for 5-6-7.  Finish for Tuesday.

Chapter V

1. Is Gatsby the lover and soldier more sympathetic than Gatsby the businessman? Why or Why not? 10 pts.
2.Why is Nick willing to help reunite Gatsby and Daisy? 20pts.   3.
3. Describe the reunion. Do you believe the American Dream could come true? 30 pts.
4.What is Daisy'd reaction to Gatsby's house?

Gatsby Questions Chapters 6 and & 7:

Chapter VI

1. Why does the reporter go to Gatsby's house? 10 pts.

2. What does Gatsby tell Nick about his real past? 20 pts

3. Why is Gatsby motivated by Cody's friends? 10 pts.

4. How is Tom beginning to feel about Gatsby? 10 pts.

5. Would Daisy ever leave Tom to marry Gatsby? Why? 20 pts.

Chapter VII
1. What Changes occur in Gatsby's household? 10 pts.
2. At the luncheon at the Bucchanan's, Daisy's baby appears, Daisy and Gatsby's love is apparent and the whole group decides to go to the City. Comment on what you observe about each of these events. 30 pts.
3.What ocurs between Nick and Tom at the Plaza Suite? 20 pts.
4.Nick realizes that Gatsby and Daisy must have hit Myrtle on the way home from the city. Who was the driver? Who accepts the blame? Why? 20 pts.
5. Why does Gatsby watch the Buchanans through their window? Why does this mark the end of Gatsby's dream? 20 pts

24 APRIL 2012

Please read Chapt 4.  Here are questions for 5 as well!

Chapter IV

     1. In this Chapter Jordan tells Nick what was revealed to her the night of the party about Daisy and Gatsby and Daisy and Jordan. Are you surprised by the information? 20 pts.
     2. What does Gatsby ask Jordan to do? Why? 20 pts.

Chapter V
       1. Is Gatsby the lover more sympathetic than Gatsby the soldier? Why or Why not? 10 pts.3.
       2.Why is Nick willing to help reunite Gatsby and Daisy? 20pts.
       3. Describe the reunion. Do you believe the American Dream could come true? 30 pts.

20 April 2012

Carefully read chapter 2 of Gatsby.   Answer the questions on your sheet.  If you are behind do chapter 1.  Our discussions are going well!

Work for Tuesday April 17, 2011

Welcome to the hazardous world of Gatsby!!  Read and respond to the first Chapter.  Also your paper on O Pioneers! is due which is why you only have one chapter to read.  Do so carefully as a lot of info. is packed in there.  Please highlight!  I hope my intro was useful.  Ms. B.

Friday 30 March 2012

Finish the novel and answer the questions I gave you in class. 

Work for 27 March 2012

Marking period closes this Friday.  All work must be up to date by then.  I will read with you the next several chapters of O Pioneers! 

Please do Part seven of the test.  If you have an answer sheet, please put answers on it.  Otherwise write on the test itself. 

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23 March 2012

Please read the next chapters in Part IV.  Do the questions for Chapters 4-5-6.  You do not have to go back and answer the previous questions on the sheet for Chapters 1-2-3.  These were for added discussion!

Answer the following questions in a paragraph or more (4-5) sentences each.  Write on one side only.  Use additional paper if needed.

 Part IV-The White Mulberry Tree Chapts. 1-2-3.

Read Part IV The White Mulberry Tree-Chapters I, II, and III for Tuesday.  For Friday,

Chapt. IV, V, VI.  You may choose to write a detailed summary of the Chapters OR answer the following questions

Chapter 1.

1. Why does Cather go to such lengths in describing the fair?
2. Recount the most important scene in this Chapter.  What does it mean?
3. Why does Alexandra recoil from Marie as she touches her?

Chapter 2.

4.  Before Emil travels to Michigan for law school, what is the discussion about between him and Marie?
5. Is Marie really shallow-hearted?  Why did she marry Frank?
6. Does Emil’s invitation to Marie surprise you?
7. What does Emil desperately need to know?
8. Why must one of them go away?
 

Chapter 3.  One Week Later

8. How does Emil disclose to Alexandria his feelings about his brothers?
9. Why does Alexandria tell Emil about their father as a young man?  Why does Emil once again recount the story of the duck?

 Chapter 4.  The Next Day

10. Why does Amedee ignore his illness?

Chapter 5.  The Same Night

11. What has happened to Amedee?
12. What is Marie feeling about Emil’s not coming to tell her about the death?  Describe her mood?

Chapt. 6 Confirmation and Death
13.  Discuss the contrast between the youth on horseback to escort the Bishop to the church and the scene the riders encounter at the graveyard.
14. Emil sees Frank and thinks about Marie as the music in the church gives him a revelation.  What is it?

15. Why is each of them ready for the scene at the end of this chapter?   Were you ready?

For 20 March 2012

Read Part IV The White Mulberry Tree-Chapters I, II, amd III pp.83-94.  You may choose to write a detailed summary of the Chapters OR answer the following questions

Chapt. 1

1.        Why does Cather go to such lengths in describing the fair?

     2.          Recount the most important scene in this Chapter.

Chapt.  2

    3.          What happens to Amedee ?

    4.           Before Emil returns to  Michigan for law school, what happens between he and Marie?

Chapt.   3. One Week Later

     5.           How does Emil disclose to Alexandria his feelings for his brothers?

     6.          Why does Alexandria tell Emil about their father as a young man?

For 16 March 2012

Congratulations to Olivia on her birthday yesterday!   And to the arrival of Taylor's two new sisters from Africa.  Blessings to you all!!

1. You need to do Section 5 of the test. Bubble in the answers.
2. Then continue reading O Pioneers! Part III Winter Memories Chapters I and II!  You have the questions for this section.

Get caught up!!  You know who you are!

For March 13, 2012

Please do part four of the practice test. Put the answers on the answer page. Bring it with you.  We will go over it and get your score!

Then continue with Part II of O Pioneers!  Read and do  the questions for Chapters 5-12.

This is not too much if you use part or one weekend day to prepare for class.  I have to!

Ms.  Barbara

Work For 9 March 2012

Continue reading Part II Chapters 1-5.  Answer pertinent questions.  Thanks

Work for Tuesday 6 March 2012

Read Chapters 4 and 5 of the first part of O Pioneers!  and Chapter 1 of the second part.  Do the related questions for each. 

Please bring your Composition Books to class!

Work for Friday 2 March 2012

Read Chapters 1,2, and 3 of  O! Pioneers.

Write out the answers to the questions I have provided for Part I, II, and III.

I will fill in background information on the Author, Willa Cather and the history of the times.

Work for 28 February 2012

• Finish Daisy Miller.  Do take home quiz.  On paper write:  I have not given or received any unauthorized help on this quiz and sign your name. 
• You will have an in class essay as your final writing.  You may use the text but nothing else.
• Have a good break!

Work for Friday 17 February 2012

Please finish Daisy Miller.  Read the last several pages very closely.  Answer the questions on the handout I gave you in class.  I am attaching the paper options here so that you can decide whether you want to do a paper or take a test!!!!

Daisy Miller

Essay Options

 I.    Choose one of the following topics and write at least a 500 word essay ( two typed pages ) on it.

 A.  Rewrite a major scene from the first person point of view.  Use Daisy, Winterbourne, or Mrs. Costello for this option.  You may have that person’s thoughts and observations as part of the scene.  Use dialogue and description following the pattern of the original.  Keep the plot similar but make changes according to how that person would narrate the events of the scene you choose

B.   Compare the book and the movie. Tell how they are alike and different and whether the movie helps you to interpret the narrative since you can see the nuances of the events and characters.  Did the director Bogdanovich translate the story well?  Why or why not.  Use specific scenes to back up your opinion.

                                                              Or

II.   Choose  two of the following  topics and write 250 words or more on each.

A.    Daisy is described as extraordinarily good looking.   How does this  description work  as a plot element  necessary to the effect of the story?  Use paraphrases and quotations from the novella to make your points.

B.    Some of the scenes of the plot take place indoors and some outdoors.  How does the setting the author chooses help to define the main theme of the plot: American freedom and honesty vs. European decorum or formality and proper speech?

C.     Could the theme of American innocent vs. European calculated behavior be developed as well as it was if the representative of European behavior was Daisy,  and Winterbourne was the innocent American representative of openness and honesty?   Or is the standard view of males and females necessary to make the point of Daisy’s rebelliousness?  In shor,t would this novella work if  their roles were reversed?

D.    Write several letters from Daisy to a friend in NY “society” explaining what her life in Europe is like.

N.B. A topic of your choice needs my approval but is a welcomed alternative!

Work for Friday 10 February 2012, Tuesday 14 Febuary

• For this Friday, read the remainder of part one.  On the sheet I gave you, do questions 1-7.
• For this Tuesday, the 14th, read pp. 28-42 or from The scene change to Rome the following January  to when Winterbourne leaves Daisy and Giovanelli in the carriage and walks  '-towards the residence of his aunt Mrs. Costello." Add any new character list and do the questions I give you on Friday. 

Work for Tuesday 7 February 2012

Read and mark the next seven pages.  You are able to answer q. 1-4 on the sheet I gave you.  Please answer in at least a paragraph or two on separate paper.  You may have a quiz on the first 15 pages or in your book up to the line of Mrs. Costell where she refuses to meet Daisy and says, " Mrs. Cornelius stares a moment." ' I would like to see my granddaughters do them!'  "she declared grimly.".  You will read the rest of part I Tuesday to Friday.  Don't forget to add the new characters to  the list and their descriptions.

Work for Friday 3 February

Read the Note (one page) that introduces Daisy Miller.  Then read the beginning of the story up to and including the part after Randolf is intrroduced.  The last para. is on pg. 8 and begins with,  "Mother thought..." and ends with "...He is very smart."


Then list the characters you meet and write down the words that describe any thing about them.

28 January 2012

Please read and underline important passages in The Great Divorce,  and bring all your journals to class.

Work for 24 January 2011

We are heading towards the end of the book.  Are you choosing Heaven ?

Read and mark in text important quotes for Chapters 9 & 10.  See you Tuesday!

21 January 2011

Do chapter 9 and finish any back Chapts.  Your grade will include all work for Chapts 1-9 for this marking period that closes this Fri.

Work for 17 January 2012

Please do the next two chapters in the Great Divorce.  Read Chapters 7&8.  Make a double entry journal sheet.  In the top Full Space tell who are the Characters in that story.  Then In the left column write a summary of what happens in the chapter while using good quotes (at least 5-6) that tell more about the story.  Then in the right hand column write what the meaning of the story is, including the lesson of the story as well as why the Ghost does not take the invitation to go to Heaven.

Please identify and explain the quotes on your handout that I have assigned your group.R.J. do all of the Chapter 5 quotes about the Episcopal Bishop and the Spirit Dick(The Bright Person).

We will discuss this ib class on Friday and you will fill in all the sheets so we can move forward.  These journals serve as a review!  Have fun.  Ms. Barbara