Homework Quarter II - Page III
Compare and contrast the tone and purpose of two or more of any of the assigned works. Use references and excerpts to support your views.
What is satire and what are the objectives of satire? Use references to and excerpts from the assigned works to support your thesis.
How is the purpose of satire different from the purpose of absurdism? Use as support references to and excerpts from any or all of the currently assigned works in addition to references to and excerpts from either of the previously assigned absurdist plays.
How are satire and parody different? Use the assigned works to support your thesis.
SPECIAL NOTE:
It may be argued that the majority of the works that I have assigned over this winter break are "progressive" in political slant. If this offends your sensibilities, feel free to e-mail me one or two "conservative" titles that I might add to the list.
Also, if you have an essay prompt or two that you would like to enter into the fray, e-mail me your ideas.
For those of you whose names were drawn and are thereby set to receive free amazon.com copies of Gulliver's Travels, I will contact you when they come in. They were set to arrive last Thursday, but, alas, they did not.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Due Thursday, January 8, 2009:
Here are the essay topics for the essay you are writing in class on Wednesday and Thursday so that you may insert a bit of outside research.
Also, please bring to class an MLA hard copy of your Winter Break essay.
Due Friday, January 9, 2008:
Submit to turnitin.com by one minute before midnight your persuasive essay. Make sure that it addresses the prompt and that it meets the minimum word requirement.
NO NEED TO SUBMIT A HARD COPY.
Due Monday, January 12, 2009:
Review the Winter Break "reading." There will be an exam next week.
Due Friday, January 16, 2009:
Complete all Satire activities and review the Winter Break "reading." There will be a self-evaluation form and a muliple-choice exam in class on Friday.
Read the inaugural poems "Dedication" and "The Gift Outright" by Robert Frost and be prepared to discuss them in terms of historical context, tone, diction and theme(s).
Due Wednesday, January 21, 2009:
Read the following inaugural poems and ancillary writings.
Tomorrow in class we will discuss how to analyze poetry, and we will then set out to analyze a few poems.
Robert Frost's Poem(s) for JFK, 1961
Maya Angelou's Poem for Bill Clinton, 1993
Miller Williams' Poem for Bill Clinton, 1997
Elizabeth Alexander's Poem for Barack Obama, 2009
The Story Behind Elizabeth Alexander's Poem for Barack Obama, 2009
The LA Times' Critique of Elizabeth Alexander's Poem
Due Thursday, January 22, 2009:
Read and complete through page 76 of the poetry packet/booklet/pamphlet/thing so that you may be all the more successful on tomorrow's timed write.
Due Friday, January 23, 2009:
Read the rest of the poetry handout.
Due Monday, January 26, 2009:
Become familiar with the words on the vocabulary list and otherwise prepare for the final exam..
Due Wednesday, January 28, 2009:
In preparation for Wednesday's Semester I final exam, please review the following:
< Poetry handout
< Vocabulary handout
< Bullet points on tragedy
< Exam on existentialism and absurdism
< Exam on satire
The multiple-choice final exam will consist of approximately 35 questions pertaining to the aforementioned and 55 practice AP exam questions.