Assignments, Handouts and Class Notes: Short Story/Film and Literature

 

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Tuesday 5

Wednesday 6

Thursday 7

Friday 8

Tuesday 12

Wednesday 13

Thursday 14

Friday 15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18-22 Break

 

Tuesday 26

Wednesday 27

Thursday 28

Friday 29

 

 

Hello and Welcome: Course Description and Expectations

Read The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and do worksheet

Read Good Country People by Flannery OÕConnor and do worksheet

Read An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

Read The Sniper by Liam OÕFlaherty

Read To Build a Fire by Jack London (online version)

Watch video and work on POV exercise

Writing Assignment Due:

Directions: Write a 500- to 600- word interior monologue from the point of view of a character in one of the stories we have read so far.  Your writing assignment shouldÉ.

  1. Provide a portrait of the character consistent with his or her character in the story
  2. Should respond to details or meditate upon ideas that emerge in the story
  3. Should be written in the first person
  4. Should be typed and double spaced.

Should include a title, your name, the name of the course and the date

 

 

Read Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston and answer questions in complete sentences

Read The Werewolf by Angela Carter, discuss writing assignment

Read Read The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

Author and Genre Notes

Literary Terms: Fiction Ã+  Notes on Plot and Plot Graphs

Class Notes/ Dinesen Stories

The Poe Story online

Poe Worksheet Ã+ O'Connor Worksheet

Poe Notes

 

To Build a Fire Notes

 

 

 

Owl Creek and Sniper Notes

 

Intro to myth and folktales

Archetypes in Folktales

Myth/Folktale Assignment

For more on folktales, visit the authors' notes page!!!

Spunk Notes

The Werewolf Notes

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Tuesday

Wednesday 5

Thursday 6

Friday 7

Tuesday 11

Wednesday 12

Thursday 13

Friday 14

Tuesday 18

Wednesday 19

Thursday 20

Friday 21

Tuesday 25

Friday 28

1) Read Fleur by Louise Erdrich 2) discuss thesis statements

Come in with thesis, outline and some body paragraphs. 

Have draft of essay/story  

Writing assignment due

Read The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore

Do story illustration assignment

Read Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge

Read Conversation with My Father

Start Paper: write a thesis and outline.  For Paper Topic Click Here

Have Draft of Paper and study for MCAS    MCAS LINK

Finish Paper and study for MCAS

Good Friday

MCAS week, only two classes

Flash Fiction and Learn about Project

Sample Thesis and Outline for Short Story Essay

Archetypes in Folktales

My Notes on Bellinda and the Monster

Story Notes: The Man Who Rowed...

Story Notes: Metonymy

Story Notes: Conversation

 

Flash Fiction Notes

Summer of the Beautiful White Horse Notes

 

Final Project Guidelines

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Tuesday 1

Wednesday 2

Thursday 3

Friday 4

Tuesday 8

Wednesday 9

Thursday 10

Friday 11

 

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Tuesday 15

Wednesday 16

Thursday 17

Friday 18

      21-25        

Tuesday 29

Wednesday 30

Thursday 1

Friday 2

Read The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse by William Saroyan

Work on Thesis Statements and discuss Saroyan story

Work on project and read Fool's Paradise by Issac Beshevis Singer

Have outline for project for peer work

Have materials for project, revise any paper, read Zlateh the Goat

Work on Project

Projects Due

LAST DAY!!!                 Share Projects

 

FILM AND LITERATURE

Welcome, go over course and expectations, presentation

Watch On the Waterfront

Quiz on presentation and some vocabulary and more movie

Discuss movie

Break            (Choose a book for your final project)

Finish On the Waterfront and start work on image assignment

Finish image assignment, discuss the language of film and view clips

Read about Greek gods and Prometheus

Read excepts from Frankenstein

 

Zlateh the Goat notes

 

Notes on Parrot Folktale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary Handout 1 Vocabulary Handout 2 Vocabulary Handout 3

Beginnings of Animation and Film Notes

Notes and Link on Early Film Pioneers and Blockbuster Movies

On the Waterfront Analysis

Prometheus Notes

Final Project Topic Sheet

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Tuesday 6

Wednesday 7

Thursday 8

Friday 9

Tuesday 13

Wednesday 14

Thursday 15

Friday 16

Tuesday 20

Wednesday 21

Thursday 22

Friday 23

Monday 26   

Tuesday 27

Wednesday 28

Thursday 29

Friday 30

 

Complete Frankenstein Worksheet

Watch Frankenstein

Watch Frankenstein

Write Paragraph, Discuss Frankenstein and Introduce Paper

Work on paper and watch Young Frankenstein

Work on paper and watch Young Frankenstein

Work on paper and watch Young Frankenstein

Paper Due, discuss movie

Read about Pygmalion, King Caphetua and Introduction to play

Read Act I of Pygmalion and complete worksheet

MCAS-no class

Read Act II of Pygmalion and complete worksheet

Memorial Day

Read Act III of Pygmalion and complete worksheet

Read Act IV of Pygmalion

Read Act V of Pygmalion and complete worksheet

one-night essay on Pygmalion start My Fair Lady

Frankenstein Film Analysis

Frankenstein Notes 1

Frankenstein Thesis Progression

Young Frankenstein

 

 

Introduction to Pygmalion

Pygmalion Act I

Pygmalion Notes 2

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Tuesday 3

Wednesday 4

Thursday 5

Friday 6

Tuesday 10

Wednesday 11

Thusday 12

Friday 13

Monday 16 

Tuesday 17

Wednesday 18

Friday 20  

 

 

Continue My Fair Lady; Revise Frankenstein paper

MCAS

Read The Odyssey, Book IX, finish watching movie

Read The Odyssey, Book X

Read The Odyssey, Book XII

Have thesis for final project

Watch O, Brother Where Art Thou; worksheet

Watch O, Brother Where Art Thou; worksheet

Watch O, Brother Where Art Thou

Finals Start

Project Due

Last Day of School

Odyssey Chapter Summaries