Assignments for Monday, Nov. 27 -- Day 53 of 84

          Jane Eyre -- Project Guterberg, full text online, searchable by "Control F"

          Jane Eyre -- Literature.org, full text online, searchable by chapter

• Read Jane Eyre, Chapts. 1 - 10.
• Use sticky notes to mark 10 text passages that relate to the socio-historical issue you have chosen as a focus.  See handout for suggestions on issues.
• Choose a sonnet as a base and an approach (see handout for suggestions); then draft the first quatrain of your sonnet.

Sonnets, Sonnets, Sonnets! (Day 50 of 84)

"When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes, 

In colour black why wrapt she beams so bright?"

                                              --from Spencer, Astrophil and Stella (an example of the type of poem                                                Shakespeare is roasting in Sonnet 130.)

Pop Sonnets  (Contemporary Songs Re-Written in Sonnet Form)
     the Time Magazine article featuring a few Pop Sonnets is here.


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The Bean Trees:

--"Timeline: Guatemala's Brutal Civil War" (from PBS.org)
--"Guatemalan Army Stole Children . . ."
--"Children Were Routinely Kidnapped . . ."
--Kingsolver's Bean Trees as a Political Critique . . ."

Tuesday, Nov. 7 -- Day 45 of 84

Use of Alliteration, Consonance, and Assonance in Popular Music

"How Does Hamilton . . ."

"Consonance, Assonance, and Alliteration in Hip-Hop"

"Assonance, and the Art of Writing Lyrics"

Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homestyle Blues"

Monday, Nov. 6 -- Day 44 of 84

Check in / Schedule Conferences as needed:
     --Personal Essay (due Wednesday)
     --Tragic Characters Comparison Essay (due Thursday)

Intro to The Bean Trees
     --Reading Assignments

• Chapts. 1 - 2 -- due Tuesday, Nov. 6
• Chapts. 3 - 4 -- due Wednesday
• Chapts. 5 - 6 -- due Thursday
• Chapts. 7 - 8 -- due Monday, Nov. 13
• Chapts. 9 - 10 -- due Tuesday
• Chapts 11 - 12 -- due Wednesday
• Chapts. 13 - 14 -- due Thursday
• Chapts. 15 - 17 -- due Friday      

     --Double-entry Journal:  You are asked to keep a double-entry journal of 4 - 6 entries for each set of two chapters.  The left column of each entry is a quote or a paraphrase.  The right column is your analysis.  Analysis may take the form of comments, connections, predictions, or questions.  Connections may take the form of (a) a personal connection; relating the excerpt to personal experience or observation; (b)  a connection to another text; or (c) a connection to the world.
(aka "text to self;" "text to text;" "text to world" connections.)  Include a page number with each entry..

Shakespeare, "Sonnet 97"  & PAWS

Assignments due Week of Nov. 6

Updated Deadlines due to last week's "Bomb Cyclone":

Personal Essay -- Revised Draft to be submitted for grading on Tuesday, Nov. 7

Tragic Character Comparison Essay -- Final draft due Thursday, Nov. 9

Note:  We will be focusing on poetry and on The Bean Trees during class, so you will need to finish up the two essays above largely by working on those outside of class.

"You can never get back lost time . . ."

If you are reading this, first of all, congratulations for surviving the Oct. 30 "weather event" that has changed life in Waldo County forever for a week, at least.  Second, we are going to keep to our weekly schedule as much as possible.  This means you will need to work more independently in completing your personal essay and in completing your tragic character comparison essay.

Due dates:
Personal Essay -- Revised draft due Friday, Nov. 3 (Submit via Google Classroom if no school)
Tragic Character Comparison Essay -- Thursday, Nov. 9

Please email me at my school email address with any questions.