Posted: January 6, 2012
Reminder that draft copies of your essays should be ready for Monday. I will review them for MLA issues before they are passed in on Tuesday!
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Posted: December 19, 2011
English 122 - Hamlet essays are due tomorrow
English 112B - questions 1 -5 on poem "Common Magic" are due tomorrow
Posted: December 16, 2011
English 122 - Hamlet essays are due on Tuesday. You have been working on this assignment for three weeks. Get your essay in on Monday for MLA check-up.
English 112B - students are working on their Macbeth essays which are due in January
Posted: November 30, 2011
English 122 - complete questions on Act V Sc v
English 112B - video projects are due next week
Posted: November 24, 2011
Act IV Scene V Answer in complete sentences with supporting evidence.
1. What do we learn about the state of Gertrude's soul in her aside? What does this say about how she has responded to Hamlet's accusations and recommendations in 3.4?
2. The court assumes Ophelia's madness is caused by her father's death. Judging from her songs, are they correct? Is that the only thing that has made her mad? What else is on her mind and coming to the surface in her madness?
3. What is Laertes' approach to revenging his father's death? How does it compare to Hamlet's? How much support does he have? Whom does he initially blame?
4. What is being threatened as Laertes enters? How well does Claudius handle this emergency?
5. How does Laertes respond to mad Ophelia? What offer does Claudius make to get his discussion with Laertes back on track?
Posted: November 23, 2011
English 122 - soliloquy 7 analysis due
English 112B - witch video assigned
Posted: November 22, 2011
English 122 - test tomorrow at lunch for those absent today
English 112B - test tomorrow at luch for those absent Monday
- banquet articles are due
Posted: November 21, 2011
English 122 - test tomorrow on Acts I - III. Any student missing will write Wednesday during lunch.
English 112B - banquet articles are due Wednesday
Posted: November 20, 2011
English 112B - test on Acts I - III will be Monday
English 122 - test on Acts I - III will be Tuesday or Wednesday
Posted: November 16, 2011
English 122 - Act III Sc i listened to
- soliloquy 4 reviewed
Act III Scene I Soliloquy #4
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
English 112B - banquet assignment given
Posted: November 14, 2011
English 122 - we looked at Act II Sc. i and most of Act II Scii
English 112B - hurly burly assignment due tomorrow
- finish your exploration of the 3rd murderer
Posted: November 10, 2011
Complete the ACT II sheets from today.
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Posted: November 9, 2011
English 122 - we have finished listening to and viewing Act II. Group work tomorrow as we explore the act.
English 112B - we have completed Act II. Do not forgot your hurlyburly assignment.
Posted: November 6, 2011
English 122 - your Article of the Week is due
- six questions on Act I Sc ii due (audio for act already posted)
- Monday at noon is last chance for those who missed the in-class assignment on The Old Man and the Sea
English 112B - do not forget your hurlyburly project due on the 15th
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Posted: November 2, 2011
English 122 - we listened to Act I Sc i which establishes the tone of the play. Questions assigned for tomorrow.
English 112B - do not forget your hurlyburly art project due on November 15th