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Posted: May 1, 2013

MAY 6th -  both King Lear creative extensions are due   MAY 6th - complete reading/questions/terms for chapters 1 - 6 of Things Fall Apart

Posted: April 20, 2013

April 22 -  test on Acts IV and VApril 29 - King Lear essay due (get it in early for an MLA checkup)May 6 - King Lear creative extensions due 

Posted: April 5, 2013

Questions for King Lear  III.vi and III.vii dues Monday

Posted: April 5, 2013

Search Engine Review assignment due Monday

Posted: March 28, 2013

Complete questions for III i and ii

Posted: March 22, 2013

Complete the following: II.i Comment on the following lines.  Who said it and what does it mean for the play? Character? Lines: 10 – 11 29 – 33 49 – 51 54 – 55 62 – 64 70 – 76 84 – 85 90 – 92 98 – 99 105 – 107 120 – 126                   II.ii Comment on the following lines.  Who said it and what does it mean for the play? Character? Lines: 12 – 22 23 – 27 32 – 35 42 – 43 50 – 52 58 – 59 68 – 80 87 129 – 134 135 – 140 143 – 145 156 - 159    

Posted: March 21, 2013

Complete the following with supporting evidence and line references.   II i 1.  What happens in this scene to further the subplot? 2.  What happens to further the main plot? 3.  Which characters help weave the plots together?  Why? II ii 1.  What is Kent’s opinion of Oswald?  Who starts the fights?  Who stops the fight?  What is Kent’s behavior towards Edmund and Cornwall? 2.  Placing someone in the stocks was a punishment for the lowest criminal and thus an insult for the King’s messenger.  Who determines the punishment?  Who tries to intervene? 3.  What is the letter which Kent reads and why is it important?
My English 122 classes recently completed a unit on sonnets.  Check out the following work:     The Notorious, Disease Ridden Baby Killer by Sanora Matchett   He’s twisting, diving and stalking his prey. He strikes, ripping through cotton flesh with glee. A shark in my sock drawer, to my dismay, He is the king of the carpeted sea. The brave adventurer scours mountains high, Demolishing dishes and homework books. No stopping him now, I think with a sigh. “Who could stay mad at you with those good looks?” I can’t find my heart and I’m late for work. ‘Round the corner he runs with a scamper, The petty thief dances with a sly smirk. I found it stashed in the laundry hamper. Naughty or not, he could never displace My endless love for that ferrety face.         Seasonsby Samantha Baker Spring came, the same as it had always come.It was nothing new, but you were. You changedMy world — the warm wind was comforting, glumRains no longer so dreary in my eyes.Autumn rolled around, the spring worn and spent,And the leaves whithered and fell from the trees;All of it turned to nothing and you wentWith them, despite all my desperate pleas.I tried to forget, but the roots of youHave now grown — around my ribcage and thenThey sprouted flowers just beneath my twoCollarbones; my body's become a glen.The snow is melting, Spring is on her way;Why does ti still feel like an Autumn day?     Silken Trap By Jennifer Bell   Like a shiny, silver gossamer song, Intricate pattern, woven perfectly, Dew laden pearls heavy with morning dawn, Drawn with quiet patience, diligently. With nature's loom the spider's spinnerets Spin a web forcing forth a filament, Strings of strong, sticky spider silky jets, Carefully nurtured  and  lovingly meant. With the surrounding space vacant and vast Thus will begin the fated dance of death. Preys encapsulation in mummy's cast, Soon struggles cease with life's last basic breath. Such beautiful, perfectly sculptured lines, Laden heavily, ominous design.              

Posted: March 19, 2013

Read King Lear Act I Scene v

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