due Friday June 4

Read Jane Eyre chapter 17; work on Siddhartha and Jane Eyre analyses.

If you're having trouble getting all you English work done, please talk to me. Most of you still have an extension to use. It's better not to use your extension, because the earlier you get your work done, the more free you will be, but if you do need to use it, talk to me!

due Wed. 6/2

Read Jane Eyre chapter 15

Do a comic strip (stick figures are fine!) of cantos 8, 9, and 10. Consult your notes to make sure you're covering the key elements of the cantos.

due Tuesday June 1

Jane Eyre chapter 14

two more charts, one on yourself, one on Jane Eyre

due Friday 5/28

Read Jane Eyre chapter 13

due Thursday 5/27

Jane Eyre chapter 12

a full-page chart about either yourself or about Jane Eyre

due Wed. 5/26

Jane Eyre chapter 12

Siddhartha draft if you haven't given me one already.

due Tuesday 5/25

Read Jane Eyre chapter 10

grammar quiz on sentence structures

due Monday 5/24

Read Jane Eyre Chapters 8 and 9

grammar quiz due Tuesday

Siddhartha draft due Wednesday

due Friday 5/21

Jane Eyre ch. 7

work on your Siddhartha analysis

due Thursday 5/20

Read Jane Eyre chapter six.

Read the Jane Eyre vocabulary words you found today: Finish rephrasing your phrases more simply; if you do five phrases, you've done enough for your homework.

Work on your Siddhartha analysis.

due Wednesday 5/19

read chapter 5 of Jane Eyre

quiz on world views

work on Siddhartha analysis (due June 7)

due Tuesday 5/18

Jane Eyre chapter 5

quiz on world views

work on Siddhartha analyses

due Friday 5/14

Read Jane Eyre chapter 2

work on parallel allegory or Siddhartha analysis

due Thursday 5/13

Read chapter one of Jane Eyre.

Due Monday: your parallel allegories, parts 1-7.

Due by Monday, June 7: the final version of your Siddhartha analysis. Get your discussion and summary into me as soon as you can so I can give you feedback and then you'll be in a position to rewrite it.

due Wednesday 5/12

1. Finish writing your first Siddhartha chart

2. Write a second chart

3. Construct a claim; if you can't, write a third chart, and then construct a claim or, if you still can't, just bring your three charts to class.

If you have time, start revising your parallel allegory so far, making it nice and clear and proof-reading.

due Tuesday 5/11

Write the canto six part of your parallel allegory.

Come up with at least ten sentences or phrases (no more than one sentence each) that have to do with conflict from the chapter in Siddhartha you were assigned. Don't just mark them in your book; copy or type them out.

due Friday 5/7

Siddhartha 113-120

part three of your parallel allegory

optional: part four of your parallel allegory

due Thursday 5/6

Siddhartha 103-112

Write an elaborate simile and insert it at an appropriate place somewhere in the first two parts of your Parallel Allegory. If you're unsure about how to do this you can put this part of the assignment off and I'll explain more in class.

due Wed 5/5

Siddhartha 89-101

parallel allegory part II (based on second canto)

due Tuesday 5/4

Siddhartha 77-88

Write part I of your Parallel Allegory, based on your group's work, telling the story of your avatar encountering his or her "lion," "leopard," and "wolf," and (at least temporary rescue) by your Virgil-figure. This should be about two-thirds of a page to one page long (typed).

due Friday 4/30

Read 43-56 in Siddhartha, the "Kamala" chapter.

Bring in your finished L and A analysis, including charts.

due Thursday 4/29

Read Siddhartha chapters 3 and 4 pp. 35-49.

Due Friday: final version of Lavinia and Antigone analysis, including charts.

due Wed. 4/28

Siddhartha 13-23

Write your discussion comparing Lavinia and Antigone. Be thorough. Try to discuss all the different parts of your claim. Discuss one example for each of the parts of your claim.

due Tuesday 4/27

Read Siddhartha 3-11 (first chapter)

Come up with a claim for your newspaper article

Due Wednesday: as long as necessary a discussion for your claim, in which you support all the parts of your claim, and discuss a specific example (a quotation) in reference to each part of your claim.

due Friday 4/23

finish reading Lavinia

(if you want to get ahead, do charts; we're heading for four charts, two each for Lavinia and Antigone (the characters, not the books), and after that a three-sentence summary for each.

due Thursday 4/22

Lavinia up to p. 254

Claim for photograph.

Find a passage from Lavinia that seems "the essence of Lavinia." Then try to find a passage from Antigone that is comparable to it in some way, or else is simply "the essence of Antigone.

due Friday 4/16

Lav. 176-190

twenty observations of your dormroom/bedroom

due Thursday 4/15

Lavinia 160-176

twenty observations inside the bus to or from New York (or as indvidually arranged for those not taking a bus)

due Monday 4/12

Read Lavinia 141-160

analysis of two items

due Friday 4/9

Lavinia 125-141

analysis due Monday

due Thursday 4/8

prepare for Lavinia quiz

summary or summaries of the two things you're comparing

summary/summaries, claim, and discussion due Monday

due Wed 4/7

Lav. 114-125

review study guide for Lavinia quiz

chart #2

due Tues. 4/6

Lavinia 95-114

chart number one: use one observation from each thing you are comparing.

due Friday 4/2

Lavinia 68-81

twenty observations (ten on each thing being compared)

due Thursday 4/1

Lavinia 60-68

observations due Friday.

due Wed. 3/30

Lav. 47-60

2 things to compare

due Tuesday 3/30

Read Lavinia 30-47

Due Wednesday: two things to compare and analyze.

due Monday 3/29

short story based on a Greek myth

Sula pp. 16-30

due Thursday 3/25

Read Mythology 230-240 (optional, but will help with Lavinia)

Read pp. 1-2 of Lavinia. that's pages, not chapters.

due Friday: quiz on the Fall of Troy

due Monday: short story based on Greek myth

due Wed. 3/24

Read pp. 268-277 in Mythology;

be ready to write down, from memory, the plot points about the Trojan War that we agreed on.

Bring to class Antigone (available in the bookstore) and pick up Lavinia while you're at it.

due Friday 3/5

pp. 185-200 Mythology

over vacation: 201-210 Mythology

due Thursday 3/4

Greek mythology ID quiz

bring notes about Primavera painting

due Friday: pp. 185-200 Mythology

due Wed. 3/3

pp. 155-165, Mythology

Thursday: Greek mythology ID quiz

due Tuesday 3/2

Mythology pp. 144-154

pp. 155-165 will be due Wednesday

mythology ID quiz on Thursday

due Monday 3/1

1. Email to me or hand in a hard copy of your analysis (summary, claim, analysis) of animals in the Bible; hand in your charts as well.

2. Read in Mythology 105-110 and 136-139.

Note: Greek mythology matching quiz on Thursday, 3/4. I'll send you the updated study sheet by email.

due Friday 2/26

Please read 96-104 in Mythology, and be ready to hand in your psalm. Emailing the psalm to me is great, but please try to have a copy in class as well.

due Thursday 2/25

Summary and tentative claim for analysis of animals in the Bible.

"Psalm" due Friday.

Pp. 96-104 of Mythology are also due on Friday.

due Wednesday 2/24

grammar quiz

read 65-77, Mythology

third page of chart for animals in the Bible

due Monday and on Monday

1. Myth. 55-64

2. chart #1, Biblical animals. (final analysis due Monday, 3/1)

grammar quiz on Wednesday, 2/24.

psalm due Friday, 2/26.

Special Monday morning assignment. Must be done between 8 am and 9 am. Work with your assigned partner unless he or she doesn't show up; in that case work alone. Don't report to class at 8 am; do report to class at 9 am.

Exercise in Characterization

Look at the three pictures above, then find them at http://www.wga.hu by typing "Athena" in the "text" box. Click on the pictures there and they will get big enough to study. If you get a blank, try clicking on "50%."

A. Which of the three versions of Athena is most appealing to you personally? Why? Write a sentence about each portrayal, in which you try to articulate specifically why one version is most appealing, least appealing, in the middle. (Total: three sentences, one for each painting.) If you and your partner decide to agree, work together; if you don't agree, or just would prefer to have a different response to the assignment, work independently.

B. Come up with two details in support of your explanation. Describe each detail in a clear, specific sentence or two. (Total: six details, two for each picture.)

C. Consult the terms of visual analysis in the Humanities Department handbook, at www.walnuthillfaculty.org. Which term applies to each detail you chose? If you don't think any terms apply to your detail, say so.

due Friday 2/19

1. Read pp. 48-55 in Mythology.

2. prepare for Bible identification quiz.

due Thursday 2/18

Read Mythology, pp. 24-40.

Review your Biblical terms.

due Wednesday 2/17

C&E analysis due.

Bring Psalms 1 and 23.

Optional: begin looking over Bible study guide for identification quiz.

Optional: begin takingbrief notes concerning animals in the parts of the Bible we've read. (See email.)

due Tuesday 2/16

1. Read Job 38-42.

2. Write a draft of your analysis of the "C and E" painting.

3. Check the book store for Mythology.

due Friday, 2/12

Job, 1-7; summary and claim of your analysis of "The Creation and Expulsion"; the final draft of the analysis is due Wednesday, not Monday.

due Wednesday 2/10

Read Micah chapter 6, Jonah 1-4 (all of Jonah)

Write the second page of your chart for The Creation and Expulsion.

Due Thursday: summary.

Optional: work on your discussion so you can show it to me before the weekend.

due Tuesday 2/9

Read Exodus 20-22.

Take one of your working claims concerning The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise and write it at the top of a piece of paper. Then do one page of a chart about your claim, choosing one element from the painting and doing some thinking about it. The goal of your thinking: to come up with a still better, or a slightly more detailed version, of your claim.

The image can be found at http://www.metmuseum.org/toah//hd/sien/hod_1975.1.31.htm or go to metmuseum.org and put the name of the painting in the search box.

due Friday 2/5

Read Gen. 15-18.

Keep working on Things Fall Apart analysis.

due Thursday 2/4

Read Genesis 10-14.

Work on your analysis of Things Fall Apart (due Monday).

due Wed. 2/3

Gen. chaps. 5-9

due Tuesday 2/2

http://www.parishofstluke.net/photos/oldtestament/

1. Do page two of your chart. Like what you did today in class but for a different quotation.

2. Read chapters 2-3-4 in Genesis.

due Monday February 1

Write your approximately one page piece "How I See Things."

Come up with quotation from Things Fall Apart that will help you think about how power works in the book, or how religion works, or how the two are related (your choice).

Bring Genesis chapters 1-3.

due Friday 1/28

http://koranteng.blogspot.com/2006/03/voices-inside.html

Read or re-read chapter 22-23 of Things Fall Apart.

Think about how to divide up your response to "How I See Things."

Keep working on locating a Bible, or at least Gen. 1-3.

due Thursday 1/27

1. Read or re-read chapter 9 of Things Fall Apart. (We will be reading or re-reading chapters 22 and 23 in the next few days).

COMING ASSIGNMENTS:

2. Get a copy of the Bible, preferably in the New Revised Standard Version. You can find it on-line. Print out to bring to class chapters 1-3 of the Book of Genesis, the first "book" of the Bible (or bring your copy of the Bible itself to class) starting Monday.

3. Due Monday:

Write "How I See the World" (I will email you a description of this assignment).

due Friday 1/22

Modernized version of the beginning of the Inferno, typed and finished.

due Tuesday 1/19

1. Reflections assignment.

2. Read chapter 9, Lathe.

optional: work more on your modern version of the Inferno.

due Friday 1/15

Read chapter 8 of Lathe

Siddhartha analysis (optional)

Reflections due Tuesday

due Thursday 1/14

Read chapter 7 of Lathe of Heaven.

Work on Reflection assignment.

(optional Siddhartha assignment due Friday)

due Wed. 1/13

Lathe chapter 6.

Write for fifteen minutes, continuing your modern-day version of the Inferno.

Remember: Friday, optional analysis of Siddhartha; Tuesday your reflection is due.

due Tues. 1/12

Read chapter 5 of Lathe of Heaven.

Work on your Reflection assignment.

due Mon. 1/11

1. Reade chapter 4 of Lathe of Heaven

2. Work Reflection assignment due Jan. 19

3. Write just the beginning of your story or screenplay of your modern-day version of the beginning of the Inferno.

For a sample screenplay, try http://sfy.ru/

due Friday 1/8/10

Read The Lathe of Heaven, chapter 3.

Start work on your Reflection assignment, to be mailed later today.

due Thursday 1/7/10

Read chapter two of The Lathe of Heaven.

dye Wednesday 1/6

Bring The Inferno, The Lathe of Heaven, and Siddhartha to class.

Read chapter one of The Lathe of Heaven (it's about four pages).

Come up with 10-15 observations of pages 112-115 of Siddhartha.

The observations could be about

what verbs are used

what nouns are used

plot

setting

character

other

Don't let too many of your observations be about any one of these categories; try to get two or three from each.

Due Monday: analysis of pp. 114-115 of Siddhartha.