Jane Eyre Reading Assignments

for Monday, Dec. 3 -- Chapts. 19 & 20.*

for Tuesday, pp. 235 - 275.  See Ch. 21 questions here.

for Wednesday, pp. 275 - 325

for Thursday, pp. 325 - 365

for Friday, pp. 365 - 405

for Monday, Dec. 10 -- pp. 405 - 445

for Tuesday, pp. 445 - 485

for Wednesday, pp. 485 - end

*As you can see above, the reading pace will pick up beginning next week, so be sure to have read the first 20 chapters by Monday.  Expect to have at least one quiz (and at least one round of Kahoot!) on the reading next week.  Also expect a quiz the following week on the whole book

Double-entry journals will be due Wednesday, Dec. 12.  

Sonnets! Sonnets! Sonnets!

"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.)

Famous Shakespearean Sonnets

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

Assignment for duing class on Thursday:
Choose a sonnet as a base and an approach (see handout for suggestions); then draft the first quatrain of your sonnet.

Jane Eyre -- Resources & First Assignments

Jane Eyre Reading Assignment for Monday, Nov. 26

• 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.

Which Jane Eyre Character Are You?

Take the quiz here. 
For extra points, take the survey a 2nd time for your teacher or another class member and see if the character you come up with matches theirs.

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

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

Jane Eyre Character List (click here)

Upcoming:

• Choose a sonnet as a base and an approach (see handout for suggestions); then draft the first quatrain of your sonnet.

Bean Trees and Socio-Historical Commentary

--"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 . . ."

Poetry Techniques and Modern Music

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"