"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose." Magaret Atwood

Friday, January 23, 2015

Homework and Schedule

A Block - Grade 12 Honors English
- You were assigned a specific character (Victor Frankenstein or the Monster) to track for self description, evaluation and character development.  Record 5-10 direct quotations from the novel in which the character describes himself to the reader.  After recording these passages, review them to discover a common theme or message.  Write down the common theme and bring a copy of this message to class for Monday.

Victor Frankenstein sample:  "I have described myself as always having been embued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.  In spite of intense labour and wonderful discoveries of modern philosophers, I always came from my studies discontented and unsatisfied." (35)

Monster sample:  "I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers--their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions:  but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool!  At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification." (102)

C Block - Grade 11 Honors English
- For Monday read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
  -  Text book, pages 106-112, Questions 1-7

D Block - Film and Literature
- New Students!

F Block - Grade 11 Honors English
- For Monday read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
  -  Text book, pages 106-112, Questions 1-7

G Block - Grade 11 Honors English
- For Monday read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
  -  Text book, pages 106-112, Questions 1-7