Finish those UC apps tonight. The rough of the Wuthering Heights essay is due Friday in class. Bring a beautiful, ready to submit version on Monday, and also submit an electronic version Monday night. Good luck
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For Block: Read in Green book 642-654, plus "Daffodils" 700. AP Lit Prompts student responses for 2013 question 2. Read the three sample responses and the commentary on the responses. Monday: Close reading paragraph is due, and additional work if you missed Friday. Have read through all but about the last 30 pages of WH (see reading schedule below).
Check out Kate Chopin's The Awakening. You will read the book on your own and finish the entire book by Dec. 11. Read over break if you like, or before and after break. We will be working on the WH essay and poetry in class. Tuesday: Finish WH Wed. WH essay: Rough intro and thesis, rough outline, graphic organizer of your choice. Th: TBA Friday: Revised intro and thesis, first body paragraph (at least 8 sentences/2 quotations), revised and more detailed topic sentence outline with actual workable topic sentences and two CD for each paragraph THIS UPDATES DATES ON HANDOUT If you missed class on Friday,including if you left after the start:
Create a chart showing with general observations and concrete examples how Wuthering Heights (and occupants)/Heathcliff may represent the ID and how Thrushcross Grange (and occupants)/Edgar may represent the superego. Then write a page explaining why you think Catherine, as representative of the ego, cannot mediate between the two. In class, we looked back at chapter 9 where Catherine relates to Nelly her dream of being thrown from heaven explains her love for Edgar and Heathcliff (he's more myself than I am). Think about her metaphor of the foliage and the stones beneath the earth. We also reread chapter 16 where Catherine relates to Nelly her thoughts about being back at Wuthering Heights, where she was a "half savage" girl and her wish to be on the moors where she can "be myself." Consider Catherine's words and the motif of windows as you write your page. Other assignments are below: Continue reading, start thinking about your essay, and write the paragraph of close reading. Wuthering Heights close reading paragraph due Monday. Carefully read the paragraph below from chapter 17 (about page 188 in the fancy book; about page 177-178 in the blue-covered book). Then write a paragraph of about eight sentences, weaving in a couple of quotations, on what the language of the paragraph reveals about the character of Isabella, who speaks these lines to Nelly after fleeing from Wuthering Heights. You may look at the context of her life at Wuthering Heightsand what happens immediately before this, but focus on this paragraph. You must consider syntax, diction and imagery. For syntax notice the one long sentence and the information in that sentence. How does making this one long sentence add meaning? (This goes beyond close reading, but recall how Isabella's dog was hanged at the start of her stay with Heathcliff, so Hareton's actions provide a parallel and a frame. You may consider as part of your close reading how much regard Isabella gives to what Hareton is doing.) This paragraph can be first-drafty and handwritten in a notebook, but give it thought and effort. Bring to class Monday.
‘The back of the settle and Earnshaw’s person interposed between me and him; so instead of endeavouring to reach me, he snatched a dinner-knife from the table and flung it at my head. It struck beneath my ear, and stopped the sentence I was uttering; but, pulling it out, I sprang to the door and delivered another; which I hope went a little deeper than his missile. The last glimpse I caught of him was a furious rush on his part, checked by the embrace of his host; and both fell locked together on the hearth. In my flight through the kitchen I bid Joseph speed to his master; I knocked over Hareton, who was hanging a litter of puppies from a chair-back in the doorway; and, blessed as a soul escaped from purgatory, I bounded, leaped, and flew down the steep road; then, quitting its windings, shot direct across the moor, rolling over banks, and wading through marshes: precipitating myself, in fact, towards the beacon-light of the Grange. And far rather would I be condemned to a perpetual dwelling in the infernal regions than, even for one night, abide beneath the roof of Wuthering Heights again.’ Here is the Wuthering Heights essay as a document, which is copied and pasted below.
Wuthering Heights essay Write an approximately 1200-word essay (four pages), on one of the following prompts. You essay should develop a clear thesis through analysis and evidence drawn from throughout the book. Read and reread carefully, but do not use outside sources. This is your final process literary essay and is worth 200 points; give it your best honest effort.) Requirements for a successful essay: > Introduction: Start with an engaging hook. Include title (italicized) and author. Avoid plot; keep intro shorter than body paragraphs. End with a substantial, compelling and opinionated thesis that passes the so-what test. > Body paragraphs: Start with a clear, opinionated topic sentence that develops some aspect of the thesis. This should be a long sentence that sets up the claim of the paragraph and avoids plot. Paragraph must develop that claim with analysis and specific concrete detail. Include at least two quotations (quotations as short as a couple words are OK), which are properly set up, accurately punctuated, and commented upon. See models for weaving in paragraphs at Purdue OWL and other sites linked on my web site. End with a concluding sentence that somewhat sums up or emphasizes ideas and helps move the paper on to the next paragraph. > End with a conclusion that summarizes your ideas and emphasizes their significance. Words to avoid: this shows that; proves; utilizes; use, to be verbs, have verbs when there is a stronger verb; personal pronouns (I, we, you, etc); Furthermore, Second, Another, In conclusion (as transitions between paragraphs); in the novel, the reader, and other phrases that add wordiness but not meaning. Follow MLA format for document and citation; include a work-cited page. You are expected to follow the guides for college-level composition. Your grade will must heavily depend on the strength of your analysis and supporting evidence, the sophistication of your writing and your carefulness as a writer. Due Dates: (On due date, you must have a the start of class, a printed out typed, complete assignment. Missing mini deadlines will result in a 5% ea. penalty on final.) Due dates are for the minimum that we will work on that day. I recommend working ahead.)
1977, #2. In some novels and plays certain parallel or recurring events prove to be significant. In an essay, describe the major similarities and differences in a sequence of parallel or recurring events in a novel or play and discuss the significance of such events. Do not merely summarize the plot. 1979. Choose a complex and important character in a novel or a play of recognized literary merit who might on the basis of the character’s actions alone be considered evil or immoral. In a well-organized essay, explain both how and why the full presentation of the character in the work makes us react more sympathetically than we otherwise might. Avoid plot summary. 1988. Choose a distinguished novel or play in which some of the most significant events are mental or psychological; for example, awakenings, discoveries, changes in consciousness. In a well-organized essay, describe how the author manages to give these internal events the sense of excitement, suspense, and climax usually associated with external action. Do not merely summarize the plot. 1991. Many plays and novels use contrasting places (for example, two countries, two cities or towns, two houses, or the land and the sea) to represent opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. Choose a novel or play that contrasts two such places. Write an essay explaining how the places differ, what each place represents, and how their contrast contributes to the meaning of the work. 1992. In a novel or play, a confidant (male) or a confidante (female) is a character, often a friend or relative of the hero or heroine, whose role is to be present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener to confide in. Frequently the result is, as Henry James remarked, that the confidant or confidante can be as much “the reader’s friend as the protagonist’s.” However, the author sometimes uses this character for other purposes as well. Choose a confidant or confidante from a novel or play of recognized literary merit and write an essay in which you discuss the various ways this character functions in the work. You may write your essay on one of the following novels or plays or on another of comparable quality. Do not write on a poem or short story. 2005, Form B. One of the strongest human drives seems to be a desire for power. Write an essay in which you discuss how a character in a novel or a drama struggles to free himself or herself from the power of others or seeks to gain power over others. Be sure to demonstrate in your essay how the author uses this power struggle to enhance the meaning of the work. 2008, Form B. In some works of literature, childhood and adolescence are portrayed as times graced by innocence and a sense of wonder; in other works, they are depicted as times of tribulation and terror. Focusing on a single novel or play, explain how its representation of childhood or adolescence shapes the meaning of the work as a whole. 2010. Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic Edward Said has written that “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Yet Said has also said that exile can become “a potent, even enriching” experience. Select a novel, play, or epic in which a character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this experience illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot 2012. “And, after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate, destiny or any supernatural agency.” --Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces. Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how surroundings affect this character and illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole. |
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