Homework Quarter III - Page III
Read through Chapter 10 of The Book of Job and complete at least one hex-ectical journal entry wherein there is one section of a six-sided shape dedicated to each of the following concepts:
1) Quote
2) Translation into lay terms
3) Questions that arise from reading the quote
4) Answers to the questions that arise -- as found in literature
5) Answers to the questions that arise -- as found in life (either personal, socio-political or otherwise)
6) Paradoxes that come up -- either in terms of the ideas that are espoused or as direct contradictions in the text
If you have in mind a better shape than hexagram or hexagon, or if your shape has seven or even eight sections, then so be it. The more you are in the habit of divining your own paradigms for learning, the more you will ultimately benefit. In other words, it is one thing to acquire information; it is quite another to organize and synthesize that information. Apples will drop from your hands if you don't have a basket to put them in, and sometimes the strongest basket is the basket you build yourself.
Due Thursday, April 2, 2009:
Read Chapters 11-20 of The Book of Job and write four "hex-ectical" journal entries.
Due Friday, April 3, 2009:
Read through Chapter 27 of The Book of Job and write one "hex-ectical" entry with an added seventh section of your own creation.
Due Monday, April 6, 2009:
Read through the rest of The Book of Job and write one "hex-ectical" entry with the quote in the middle and the added section being "underlying assumptions" (thank you, Aram), which are things we must all agree on and suppose are true before an analysis or discussion of a particular quote may happen.
Due Wednesday, April 8, 2009:
Study these words (this new list includes "metatheatre") for tomorrow's quiz.
Due Thursday, April 9, 2009:
Review the two AP Exam prep packets given to you previously -- one regarding essays and the other regarding poetry -- in preparaton for tomorrow's timed write, which may include one of the following:
* Compare and contrast two texts from a list
* Explicate a poem
Also, be prepared to include words from today's vocab activity, as there will be a vocabulary bank.
Take a complete AP Practice Exam from 10-2 and earn four days' worth of participation points.
Arrive on time. Anyone who arrives after 10:15 will not be given the test, and anyone who just guesses on a huge chunk or leaves early, before the testing session is completed, as determined by the proctor, will not earn the credit.
See how you will fare on the real thing. Take the practice test now!
Also, there is a car wash on campus all day, so drop off your car, take the exam and then have a great vacation.
SPRING TITLES:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Book of Job, the King James Version
Oedipus the King a play by Sophocles
The Importance of Being Earnest a play by Oscar Wilde
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Room of One's Own an essay by Virginia Woolf
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (book available through school book-room)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Topdog/Underdog a play by Suzan-Lori Parks
Yellow Face a play by David Henry Hwang
Poetry by Luis Rodriquez and Other Authors
Due Monday, April 20, 2009:
Read Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex), The Importance of Being Earnest and
The Awakening. Be prepared for an exam on Monday, the day you return. It may consist of a timed write or a collection of multiple-choice questions or both. If you are absent on Monday, then expect a slightly more difficult assignment upon your return.
Because the Spring Break reading list consists of two plays and a very short novel, it is super feasible and hopefully quite enjoyable.
The goal is to make it through A Room of One's Own before the exam.