Journals 39-60 Due December 10th

Journals 39 through 60 are due on Friday December 10th. You must have a composition book each day in English class starting November 9, 2010. We will use any free time for journal writing. Journals will be turned in only on the due date and in lieu of my absence will be turned in to Mr. Calloway who will get them to me.

39. Write about a time as a child when you played in one of the following: a treehouse, a cornfield, a construction site, a junkyard, an abandoned house or barn, a stream, a cemetery, a pasture, railroad tracks.
40. What did you do to amuse yourself as a child when you had to wait for a long time? (for instance, at the doctor's or dentist's office)
41. Did your mom or dad ever make you wear something you hated?
42. What was the earliest you ever got up in the morning? The latest you ever stayed up?
43. Write about a time you were talked into something and regretted it.
44. Were you ever in a helicopter, limousine, race car, hot-air balloon, submarine, or horse-drawn carriage?
45. Did you ever forget something extremely important?
46. Write about an experience in a hospital.
47. Were you ever accused of something you didn't do?
48. Write about a disastrous trip or vacation.
49. Were you ever give a responsibility you couldn't handle?
50. Were you ever in a fire, flood, tornado, or hurricane?
51. Did you ever have a secret language?
52. Write about becoming disillusioned with someone you admired or respected.
53. Describe the best concert you ever attended.
54. What was the best nickname you ever made up for a friend?
55. Did you ever become friends with someone much younger or much older than you?
56. Did you ever make friends with a wild animal?
57. Write about a window you broke or something valuable you lost.
58. Did you ever climb onto the roof when your parents weren't home?
59. Did you ever save someone from getting hurt?
60. Did anyone ever save you from getting hurt?

Midterm Review Guide

Senior English Midterm Review


“Beowulf”
“Sir Gawain”
“The Canterbury Tales”
“The Nun’s Priest Tale”
“Macbeth”
Heart of Darkness
Frankenstein
Senior Exit basics (works cited and other items)
Short Stories

• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.
• 5.
• 6.
• 7.
• 8.

Voc. Quiz for November 5

November 5

endemic
impetuosity
gravity
course
wizen
vacate
perspicacious
obstetrician
wampum
composure

Reflective Essay

Final Corrected copy of the Senior Exit paper is due Monday, November 15. There will be no extra credit for turning in what is expected of you to do to graduate. You must turn in the rough draft and the rough draft rubric with the final copy.

Reflective Essay is due Wednesday, November 17. It must be typed in Times New Roman 12 inch font. There are to be no fancy cover sheets. If you will need for me to print it I will need it by 11-15-10.
Title page
Five full paragraphs in the following format

Paragraph one – general introduction
Paragraph two – Personal level what the senior exit paper meant to you
Paragraph three Professional/Educational reasons. Tell what this paper meant to you on educational towards graduation and plans after graduation. Professionally mention meeting deadlines, being serious, etc. Also include in this paragraph if the goals you had before the paper were met. Did you find out what you sought to find out?

Paragraph four – lasting lessons
What will you take away with you from the overall Senior Exit Project Experience?

Paragraph five - final wrap up and review of any main points that you would like to drive home.

The Lagoon Notes from 10-25-10

Type of Work

• ."The Lagoon" is a short story
• Has elements of realism, adventure, and romanticism.
• Joseph Conrad completed the story in 1896 and published it in Cornhill Magazine

Setting
• .The story is set in Southeast Asia (on the Malay Peninsula or in the Malay Archipelago)
• on a river flowing eastward to the ocean, on a creek flowing inland through dense forest
• and at a small house on a lagoon
• The action takes place in the last half of the nineteenth century after Europeans colonized southern Asia and after the Malay kingdoms of Wajo, Soping

Vocabulary

•nibong, nipa: Palm trees of Asia with leaves that can be used to make a roof.
•prau: Malayan boat with a triangular sail and an outrigger.
•rajah: an Indian, Malay, or Javanese ruler.
•sampan: small boat with a stern-mounted oar used for steering.
•sarong: Malay garment of men and women. It consists of a single length of cloth that is wrapped at the waist and may extend to the knees or ankles.
•tuan: Malay term for sir or mister.

Characters

• The White Man: Traveler who captains a sampan propelled by Malay oarsmen. He is unidentified by a given name or surname. A Malay friend, Arsat, addresses him as Tuan, a title of respect meaning sir or mister.
• Arsat: The protagonist, a Malay who has been living in a small house on a lagoon with his beloved, a woman named Diamelen, who was once the servant of a rajah's wife. After Arsat fell in love with Diamelen, he and she eloped and were chased by the rajah's men.
• Diamelen: Arsat's mate, who is dying.
• Arsat's Brother: Young man who appears in a flashback story told by Arsat. Arsat says he died while helping Arsat and Diamelen escape from the rajah's men.
• The Juragan: Steersman of the white man's boat.
• Oarsmen of the White Man's Boat
Rajah: A ruler in the land of the Malays. He is mentioned in the flashback story.
• Inchi Midah: Rajah's wife. Diamelen was her servant until the latter eloped with Arsat. She is mentioned in the flashback story.
• Rajah Warriors: They are mentioned in the flashback story. They chased Arsat, his brother, and Diamelen
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Themes

Remorse

.......Remorse and regret for abandoning his brother to the rajah's men haunt Arsat like the ghosts that the Malay boatmen imagine inhabit the lagoon and the forests around it. He believes his failure to save his brother caused Diamelen's illness and death.

Stagnation

In describing the lagoon as stagnant (motionless, dead, inert; or putrid, foul, rotting), the narrator is also describing the life of Arsat and Diamelen since their arrival at their isolated forest dwelling. Their life together has been lonely, uneventful, and motionless; the fester of Arsat's guilt has poisoned their opportunity for a contented life just as the mosquitoes from the lagoon have poisoned Diamelin's veins with deadly disease.

Selfishness

.......Arsat claims Diamelen. With the help of his devoted brother, he selfishly runs off with her without stopping even to come to the aid of his brother.
The Ever-Present Past
.......Arsat has been unable to erase the memory of the day when he left his brother behind. So painful is the memory of that day and so keen is his desire to redeem himself that he deliberately offered up his own life when fighting with the white man.

Alter Ego Project

Due 10-25-10

The alter ego project is due today and has to be on paper that is larger than a standard sheet of notebook paper. Remember the project has to include two pictures. One side will have the real you and the other side will have your alter ego (who you are deep inside or when no one is looking). For each side you are to have 12-15 descriptive words of who that person is. Please use creative adjectives. If you do not have your project today, you may turn it in tomorrow, but because it is a project I will not take it after the third day. See me if you have any questions on how to set the project up, or if you are in need of paper larger than a sheet of notebook paper.

Journals 33-35

Journals 33, 34, 35 are due today 10-25-10 if they are not turned in today I will still accept them late tomorrow and I will follow the late schedule that is in posted in the classroom. See the schedule if you are unsure of the points deducted.

Vocabulary Quiz Update

2nd block - The vocabulary quiz from Friday, October 22 will be tomorrow 10-26-2010. You will also have your regular scheduled vocabulary quiz this Friday.

4th block-You all are on the regular schedule for quizzes and are fine

Journals 33-38

33-35 Due Monday, October 25
33. Is it okay to ever pretend to be someone you are not?

34. What are your life plans once you graduate high school?

35. Was the Senior Exit paper really as hard as you first thought?


Due Monday, November 1

36. Do you feel that by going to college a person could be more successful?

37. Write a 2 paragraph letter to a friend you need to apologize to.

38. Is the fact that being almost out of high school a scary thought for you?

Frankenstein Notes Chapters 22-24

These are the last notes for the novel. We will take a major test on the novel after the review and have a mini project that will be due after the test
Chapters 22-24

• Alphonse and Victor land in Paris.
• Alphonse tries to relieve some of Victor’s despair through tourist activities.
• V talks of hating the face of mankind – he says people repulse him.
• V tells his dad that William, Justine, Henry all died because of him.
• Dad tells V not to act so insane, and V denies that he is acting that way.
• V receives a letter from Elizabeth. She wonders if he loves someone else and says that she will understand if he does, but that she will love him forever.
• V thinks of the monster’s wedding night threat, and thinks that if he dies, then maybe the monster will go away.
• V returns home, marries Elizabeth, and still hears the echoes of the wedding night threat.
• V and Elizabeth plan to stay one night at Evian, and then take their honeymoon trip.

23:
• The honeymooners arrive in Evian, and as it begins to rain, V decides to patrol outside with a pistol.
• While outside, he hears Elizabeth shriek, and he returns to their room to find her dead with marks on her neck like all of the other monster’s victims.
• V sees the monster, fiendishly grinning, and tries to shoot him but he disappears.
• V fears for his brother Ernest’s and his father’s life and he returns to Geneva, where his father dies from grief over Elizabeth’s death.
• V visits a judge, hoping to get help finding his destroyer, but after listening to his story, the judge says he cannot help.

24:

• Revenge is all V can think of and he wants to leave Geneva forever, but visits the family graves one more time where he vows to live to enact revenge.
• Hears Monster’s fiendish laugh, pursues the creature, sees him hiding in a ship bound for the Black Sea.
• Follows creature through Russia and beyond (North Pole).
• Creature leaves a trail for him, notes carved in trees, “My reign is not over.”
• V buys a sledge, with dogs, and prepares to travel on ice. Talks to some people in a small town who tell of a creature(who has weapons) attacking them, and stealing all of their winter food.
• V searches for about 3 weeks, sees a dark speck on the snow far away, and tries to follows. The monster escapes his pursuits.
• V’s dogs die, he hacks up the sledge to make oars and a raft.
• Victor gets rescued by Walton
• Now, Walton takes over as the narrator
• Walton hears Victor’s tale and knows the truth of it because of the letters of Felix and Safie.
• It takes about a week for Walton to hear Victor’s story.
• Walton talks of V’s incredible knowledge about literature and his amazing eloquence.
• V thanks W for listening to him and continues to decline in health.
• Sailors demand that Walton go southward away from the ice, and threaten to mutiny if he does not.
• Victor chastises the sailors for not trusting Walton’s judgment as a captain.
• Before V dies, he asks Walton to destroy the monster.
• Walton sees the monster’s huge form looking at Victor’s body, and asks him to stay.
• The monster tells Walton his final story, and states. “Evil will thenceforth become my good.” Monster tells of his own misery and admits to being a wretch. Tells Walton he plans to go as far north as possible, and he leaves the cabin never to be seen again.

Notes Chapters 18-21 Frankenstein

Chapter 18: V returns to Geneva, puts off the task of building a partner for his creation
(Victor is the narrator).

• Decides to visit England
• V’s health and spirits recover, and though he fears what M will do if he does not create the female, he enjoys solitude.
• V’s dad begins talking of V’s relationship with Elizabeth, and encourages V to go ahead and marry Elizabeth.
• V cannot tell his dad of his fears regarding marriage and how the creature might react to the event.
• V yearns to spend time with English philosophers, yet ponders what would happen if the creature left forever, resolves that he is a “slave” until the creature is destroyed.
• V leaves for England, Alphonse and Elizabeth arrange for Henry to join V.
• V vows to marry Elizabeth upon his return to Geneva.
• V meets Clerval in Strasbourg and is startled by the contrast between the two. V is a tortured, miserable soul, and Henry is full of life.
• The two travel together enjoying the tranquility and beauty of the journey.


Chapter 19: Henry and V travel

• V can feel no joy in the trip. Talks of a “blight over his existence.”
• Clerval wonders why V is so miserable, and wishes to remain in Switzerland
• V senses the presence of the monster and tells Clerval he wishes to tour Scotland alone (for a month or two)
• V goes to the Orkneys (remote area in Northern Scotland) to begin the task of building a mate for his creation. Lives in a old hut (like the De Laceys)
• The work of creating a companion makes V feels repulsion; it sickens him to look at his creation; he grows restless, nervous and alone and working on this miserable project.

Chapter 20/21: V Reflects on his task, bad things happen
• Three years before this he created the monster, and he worries that the mate may be much more malignant that the monster.
• Also the monster said he would leave with the mate and never be seen again, but V realizes that the mate may not agree with that, or even stay with the monster.
• V also worries about offspring of the two monsters and the generations of people who may suffer because of the children of these two.
• V sees the monster with a “ghastly grin” looking at him (so the monster has followed V waiting to claim his companion.
• V realizes he was mad to agree to the creation of the companion, so he tears it to pieces, and later dumps it in the sea.
• V sees the monster watching all of this, and tells the creature to leave him alone. The creature threatens V, saying he will be with him on his wedding night, and says that he, the monster, is the master of V.
• After dumping the remnants of this horrid project, V sails to a nearby town and is accused of murder since he was seen near where a dead body was found in the water.
• He is arrested, and when he views the corpse, he realizes the monster has begun his revenge because the dead person is Henry Clerval, Victor’s BFF.
• V grieves over Henry’s death, and wishes he himself were dead.
• V’s dad come to see him, and a court trial proves that V is innocent.
• V knows he must return to Geneva to face the creature and V’s sleep is constantly interrupted by nightmares.

Chapter 11-17 Notes

Chapters 11-17:
The Creature’s Story
Chapter 11: Tale of the Monster
Describes awakening, confused, indistinct sensations.
It was dark and cold when he awoke so he covers himself with some clothes and wanders outside.
Sees the moon outside and wonders at its beauty.
Finds water in a nearby stream, and seems an abandoned fire (left by beggars).Throws his hand into the fire because of its warmth, and screams in pain.

C. 11: Survival in the forest
Searches for food, which is scarce.
After some snow falls, he sees a small hut and watches an old man near the fire, who sees the monster and flees leaving a delicious meal behind for the monster to enjoy.
Near a village, the monster is seen by some women and children who shriek when they spy him.

C. 11: Villagers pursue the creature
He finds a shelter with a lean to attached to a hut. While looking inside the hut, unknown to its occupants, the creature sees a family, observes their speech, music, and benevolence toward each other. There is an old man, and a young man and girl.
The creature continues to observe the family and is fascinated when they light candles at dark.

Chapter 12: The Lonely Observer
Monster is fascinated with the gentle mannerisms of the cottagers.
Watches their routine; notices their unhappiness.
Old man=blind, young man works away from the home, young girl and man show affection and sacrifice to the old man (these are the Delaceys).

Creature wonders why the cottagers are so sad. (C. 12)
The monster is perceptive enough to realize that it is less strange that he is so lonely versus the loneliness of the DeLaceys.
M stops stealing food from the family because he realizes that they have so little of it. M begins to find his own provisions and brings firewood to the family anonymously.
M listens to the words of the family and learns language.
Young girl is named Agatha, and the young man is Felix. (Felix is the saddest of the three family members).

C. 12: Learning and Loneliness
M notices the use of written language and yearns to learn that also.
M sees himself in a pool of water and is horrified at his ugliness. M and the cottagers settle into a routine where M clears a path in the snow for the family and cuts firewood for them.
As the season changes to spring, M is invigorated by the changes in nature.
*M = Monster

C. 13 – The most moving part of my story”
A beautiful stranger arrives on horseback and Felix is delighted.
Felix calls her “his sweet Arabian” – there is a language barrier, but she begins to learn English (M listens to the lessons and learns faster than Safie (the girl).
M watches all of this for two months.
M progresses in understanding human feelings, society, and what humans value (money, noble birth) which he does not have.

C. 13 Knowledge and Discontent
M wonders why people might kill others, and yet feels “there was just one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death-a state I did not yet understand.”
M learns about gender differences, and hates not having a family of his own.
Questions if his life has any value at all.

C. 14- The Story of Safie and Felix
The elderly man, De Lacey, has origins in France. He once lived in an aristocratic home, and his children were once high in societal position.
Safie’s dad was the cause of the decline of the De Laceys. He was a Turkish merchant who was placed in jail because of his religion and wealth.
Felix happened to be at the trial. Felix vows to help the Turk, and is offered Safie’s hand in marriage by her dad.

C. 14
The monster has copies of letters between Felix and Safie and he offers to show them to Victor to prove that his story is correct.
Felix helps Safie’s dad escape, with forged passports, and then her dad wishes to betray Felix so he cannot marry Safie, so her dad tells the government of Felix’s deceit.
The De Laceys are imprisoned, and Felix is unable to help as a trial ensues and they lose their fortune and are exiled from their home country.

C. 14
The De Laceys are exiled to Germany in the cottage where the monster sees them.
Safie, who is supposed to stay in Italy in exile according to her dad’s plan, secretly escapes so she can find Felix. An attendant helps her find the family.

Chapter 15 – “My beloved cottagers”
On an August night, M finds gifts for him: clothing, a leather portmanteau (large suitcase), some books – Milton’s Paradise Lost, Plutarch’s Lives, and The Sorrows of Werter.
M reads, learns, analyzes his condition, mentally, physically, socially.
Ponders God, and wonders if Satan may be more of an emblem of his condition.

Chapter 15 - Discovery
M finds some papers from V’s lab (V’s journal of creating the monster).
Lots of description of V’s horror at the creature’s appearance. This makes M mad at his “Accursed creator!” and he questions why he was formed.
In the meantime, life improves for the exiled De Laceys. As their lives improve somewhat, the monster is in despair and a continually increasing tumultuousness.
M prepares to find a way to meet with the De Laceys in a few months.
M yearns for love/companionship
As winter comes, the monster is obsessed with meeting the family so one day he visits the old man, while the young people are gone.
M speaks of his loneliness, and his “friends” who live nearby. M finally admits that he means the De Laceys and the young people return and in horror send the creature back to his hovel.

C. 16 – Notice M’s rage at his creator
M grieves over why he was created, and is overwhelmed with feelings of rage and revenge.
He begins to wander in the woods, howling like a beast. Says he has a hell within him, like Satan. He hears voices and hides.
Sleeps, but with fitful dreams.
A man is asking for rent from the De Laceys, but Felix says they can no longer live there because of danger to his father.
M is filled with rage and revenge and burns the cottage. Then he decides to find his creator.

C. 16 M on a mission to find V
M travels at night, knows geography because of his studies
Saves a young girl who falls into a stream, then as he attempts to render aid to her a farmer sees him and fires a gun at him.
Arrives near Geneva (V’s home) and sees a beautiful young boy (William). When he tries to talk to the child, the child screams at him for being ugly and says his father, M. Frankenstein, will punish him.

Encounter with William
M kills William, and sees the miniature of the beautiful Caroline, and is angry that he will never be attractive.
M sees Justine sleeping, and places the miniature in the folds of her dress and flees.
M wonders if he might see V…and now asks V to make him a female companion.

C. 17 M and V talk about the companion
M begs for a companion who is as ugly as he is, and reasons that since he is shunned by humans, he deserves someone of his own.
M says he hates V and wishes to destroy him…says “you will curse the hour of your birth” to V.
M says that he and his female companion will travel to South America and never bother V or his family again.
V agrees to the newest “creation”
Dedicates himself to a hateful task.
Returns to Chamounix to start the creation.
M vows to watch and make sure the project is complete.

Senior Exit

The Senior Exit TYPED ROUGH DRAFT is due on October 20, 2010. This paper must be typed and you must include the works cited, the outline, and the title page in order for the paper to be viewed. Please also know that your paper will need to be turned in in a folder that has the note cards and the entire senior exit book. I do have a limited amount of portfolios if any senior would like to have one and they will be available on Monday, October 18, 2010 starting at 3:05. This will be a first come first serve type of situation.

Vocabulary Quizzes for the next three weeks

Vocabulary Quizzes

October 22

revert
manor
emblem
minion
disyllable
legislate
batten
reformer
velvety
foresight



October 29

quandary
oculist
mania
refute
vicarious
ailment
successful
deleterious
wholly
concur

November 5

endemic
impetuosity
gravity
course
wizen
vacate
perspicacious
obstetrician
wampum
composure

Journals Due 10-18-2010

These Journals are due when you return from break on 10-18-10. This is a Monday so please be ready.
Journals 26-32
Due 10-18-2010

26. Have you ever tried to mold someone into who you wanted them to be?
27. What is the ugliest thing you have seen?
28. What physical features do you love about yourself?
29. What physical features do you hate about yourself?
30. Would you be friends with the “monster”?
31. How is Victor Frankenstein justified in creating a life?
32. Why or why would you not recommend Frankenstein to another person to read?

Chapter Notes 6-10

Chapter 6
Victor receives a letter from Elizabeth, who is desperate for him to return home.
She says that his father is well, and Ernest is now 16.
William, the youngest, is described as being a happy child.
Justine Moritz’s story begins with this chapter. She becomes a part of the Frankenstein family, and though called a servant is much more than that to them.

Justine’s young life is troubled at times, and foreshadowing appears in quotes such as: “Poor Justine was very ill, but other trials were reserved for her.”
V recovers from his illness and despair in about a fortnight (14 days). He cannot feel joy in his progress, because he is worried about what the fruit of his labors may be doing.

Victor introduces Henry Clerval to his professors.
As Waldman praises V, it makes him feel even less joy than before. In trying to please Victor with praise, Waldman actually torments V.
Krempe is not nice about V and his emotional stuggles.
Clerval does not like the sciences like V. He is a fan of literature and languages.
V plans to go home in the fall; he has been away for 6 years.

Chapter 6 - conclusion
V and Henry take a long walking tour, and V feels happy again, somewhat…but embedded in his musings is the fact that he knows it this happiness is only temporary.

Chapter 7: Bad news from Victor’s dad
William is dead, murdered while he left the family to play hide and seek.
Possible motive for the murder is the theft of a very valuable miniature that once belonged to Caroline (V’s mom).
Victor makes plans to go to Geneva immediately. The journey home is melancholy. Stops for two days at Lausanne to try to calm his nerves.

C. 7 - continued
V stops at the place where William was murdered since he arrives at Geneva when the city gates are closed.
A thunderstorm with lightening ensues, and Victor sees the glimpse of a figure that looks like it might be his creation.
He wonders if the monster may be the actual murderer, and then concludes that the creature is the one! Thinks of pursuing the creature, but sees that the monster is hanging on some mountain rocks, out of range.
V goes to his dad’s home
V desperately wishes to tell what he knows about who the murderer might be, but cannot.
Arrives at his father’s home, and Ernest tells him that the murderer has been found – Justine!
Circumstantial evidence against Justine:
She was ill and taken to her bed for a few days. While ill, a servant discovered the miniature in her clothing. She was also out all night the evening of the murder, and acted strangely when told of William’s death.

Chapter 8: The Trial
Justine is calm; evidence is presented. Says she is innocent, but says that her protests will probably not acquit her.
Mentions seeing a man late that evening (who might that be?)
Says she spent the night in a barn since the city gates were locked.
Conjectures that the murderer might have placed the jewel on her, but then takes her statement back.

Chapter. 8
Elizabeth testifies as to Justine’s character, and even though it is powerful, it is not helpful.
V starts acting like a stereotypical mad scientist.
Justine then confesses to the murder, and then calls it a lie. Says she confessed, so she can obtain absolution. “I leave a sad and bitter world.” She dies and V feels devastation at how many lives have been lost because of him.

Victor
Victor is in turmoil; he has caused William’s death, and now Justine’s, and despairs over “…the first hapless victims [of]my unhallowed arts.”
Chapter 9 and 10 Notes
Frankenstein

Chapter 9 – Victor’s story continues
Victor feels a great pain because he cannot act on what he knows about his creature who has destroyed two lives: William and Justine.
V: unable to sleep, wanders in despair and remorse, once again his mental and physical health suffers because his conscience is not clear.

Chapter 9 – Victor’s dad
Victor’s father notices the change in his son, and tries to reason with him.
The family goes to a vacation home for rest and relaxation. V spends many hours on the lake in a boat. He is tempted to plunge into the lake, but knows he cannot do anything to hurt himself because it would cause more sadness for his family and Elizabeth.

Chapter 9 – Victor lives in daily fear of seeing the monster again.
Victor is filled with remorse and guilt; his family is in mourning. His father’s heath suffers.

Elizabeth is also sad and despondent.
The injustice against Justine hurts all of the Frankensteins.
Victor’s grief/guilt intensifies and he tries to escape: wandering the Alpine valleys, wishes to travel back to Chamounix, which he does and then falls into a deep sleep.

Chapter 10: Victor meets his creation
Victor wanders, enjoying the sublime beauty of the mountains. Rested well at night, one more time. Dreams of a group of very large shaped beings surrounding him (foreshadowing).
Wakes and rides to the summit of a mountain; he embraces the idea that aloneness is best for a human, and reaches the top of the mountain around noon.
V begins to feel some joy in his journey, and then sees a man, traveling at a very quick pace, coming toward him. He realizes it is his creation.

Chapter 10 – Victor and the Creature Meet
V calls the creature “Devil” and chastises it for approaching him and all of the bad things the creature has done to people he loved.
The monster, who speaks eloquently, admits that he expected V to feel this way, but implores V to hear his story.
The monster calls himself “Adam,” but realizes he is really a “fallen angel.”

Monster continues to talk to V
The monster talks about how awful it is to be alone, and he asks V why he created him if he hates him.
Monster asks V to listen to his story, and then destroy him if that is what he wishes. Asks V to hear his tale, which is lengthy and strange, and says that V must do this so the creature can live a harmless life (if not he will be the “scourge of your fellow creatures”).
V agrees to listen, and seated by the fire, the creature begins his tale (which actually starts in Chapter 11).

Frankenstein Study Questions 6-15

Study Guide Questions Frankenstein
Chapters 6-9

1. Where was the letter that Clerval gave Frankenstein when he had recovered?

2. How did Frankenstein and Clerval spend the next few months preparing a new experiment?

3. Did Frankenstein receive news that his brother Ernest had been murdered? How do we know?

4. Where did Frankenstein see the creature?

5. Who was accused of committing the murder?

6. How was Frankenstein torn between wanting to save the accused and not wanting to reveal his horrible secret to anyone?

7. When Frankenstein told the judges the true story, and they didn’t believe him why do you think that was?

8. What happened to the accused person?
9. What was Frankenstein’s state of mind after the trial and its conclusion?

10. Where did Frankenstein go to seek relief?


Study Guide Questions
Chapters 10-15

1. Where did Frankenstein meet his creature?


2. Was Frankenstein delighted to finally meet the creature, or was he scared?

3. What did the creature want of Frankenstein?

4. Why At first, did the creature feel confused because of all of the new sensations of life?

5. How were the villagers the creature encountered in awe and worship the creature as a god?

6. Where did the creature take shelter?

7. Which of the following was not an observation made by the creature about the De Laceys’?

8. How did the creature learn to speak and to read?

Frankenstein

Letter One: December
St. Petersburgh (Russia)
Plans to go where no man has gone before
Not afraid of:
Ice/storms – it should be summer-like at N. Pole
Danger
He first thought of this dream to explore while reading his Uncle Thomas’ letters about voyages.

Letter One (Continued):
Walton was an unsuccessful poet for a year.
6 years have passed since he began this project.
Could have had a life of luxury and ease.
Will sail in June.

Letter Two:
Location – Archangel, March
Has found a ship and sailors.
Desires to find a friend who is his equal.
Read Uncle Thomas’ book for the first 14 years of his life.
Shipmaster – courageous Englishman
Master-uneducated, silent, generous man

Letter Three:
Brief letter, July
As he travels North, conditions are more summer-like.
Gales, ice are no problem for the ship and its crew.
Walton is confident of his success, and promises his sister he will not encounter danger

Letter Four:
August, “a strange accident”
Surrounded by ice and fog
“perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the North…a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge and guided the dogs.”

Four (Continued):
Another sledge with a human, a European in a poor state of exhaustion.
Two days pass before the stranger can speak.
Says he is looking for “one who fled from me.”
August: “Broken spirit” of a man becomes Walton’s friend, and begins to tell his story.

Chapter One
Victor’s life and family
Father – Alphonse
Mother – Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein (daughter of one of Alphonse’s friends)
Brothers – Ernest (middle child)
William – youngest son
Distinguished family

Chapter One (Continued)
Victor’s parents traveled extensively and on one of the travels to Italy, they adopted Elizabeth Lavenza (daughter of an Italian nobleman, living in poverty when the Frankensteins meet her)

Chapter Two
One year age difference between Victor and Elizabeth.
Victor tells of his happy childhood, and how passionate he is about life and learning.
Victor’s school friend – Henry Clerval is interested in heroes, action of mankind.
Elizabeth – calm, saintly, soft voice, sympathetic

Chapter Two (Continued)
Victor’s interest in “natural philosophy” makes him wish to read Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Alberto Magnus.
Science is his focus and he feels that he must always strive to learn more.
Searches for the “elixir of life.”
Witnesses a thunderstorm while 15, and becomes interested in the laws of electricity.

Chapter Two (Continued)
Victor changes his studies to math and science built on a secure foundation after reading Sir Isaac Newton.
Chapter ends with foreshadowing:
“Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.”

Chapter 3 Frankenstein
Victor enters college at 17.
University of Ingolstadt.
Elizabeth gets scarlet fever.
Caroline (V’s mom) nurses Elizabeth to health, but falls ill.
On her deathbed, Caroline joins Victor’ and Elizabeth’s hands and wishes for them to marry someday.


Chapter Three (Continued):
Victor meets his professors.
M. Krempe (Monsieur): professor of natural philosophy. Uncouth, repulsive.
M. Waldman: opposite of Krempe. Benevolent, dignified. Helps decide Victor’s future. Focus on chemistry.

Chapter Four:
Victor makes rapid progress in his studies. He improves some chemical instrumentation at the university and receives accolades.
Becomes interested in the structure of the human frame. Says to examine life, one must look at death, so he goes to graveyards to observe the normal decay of the human body.

Chapter Four (continued):
Victor visits charnel houses, vaults, and looks at the decaying effects of death on the human body.
Realizes that he is becoming “..capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.”
Becomes concerned about how to enact reanimation.
Decides to make the creature gigantic in size, so the parts will be easier to manipulate in the lab.
Victor, himself, becomes an absolutely, exhausted wreck (time in school, lab, and prowling graveyards at night).

Chapter Five:
On a dreary night in November, Victor is ready to infuse life into his creation.
Description of the creature/wretch:
Dull, yellow, watery eyes, deep eye sockets
Proportionate limbs, black shiny hair
Yellow skin, stretched tightly around his arteries, muscles
White teeth, black lips, shriveled complexion

Chapter Five (continued):
Took two years to make the creature.
Victor ruins his own health during the creative process.
Victor becomes horrified and disgusted as he looks at the monster.
After finally sleeping, Victor awakes and sees the creature stretching his hand out toward the creator.
Victor escapes from his apartment to his courtyard below, and runs into Henry Clerval the next day who has a letter from Elizabeth for Victor.

Macbeth Project

Please rememeber that this project is due on September 30, 2010.

There will be NO LATE PROJECTS ACCEPTED!

See me if you still have not received a project sheet.

SAT Quiz B

SAT Quiz "B" will be on Friday, September 24.


1. conjugation
2. recover
3. pique
4. granulate
5. voracious
6. specialze
7. excretion
8. sapid
9. plutocracy
10. wantonness

Macbeth Act V Study Questions

Macbeth
Act V
Guided Reading Questions
Act V, Scene 1
 Why does the gentlewoman refuse to repeat what Lady Macbeth has been
saying?
 Why does Lady Macbeth demand to have a light by her side at all times (both
literally and figuratively)?
 What other physical action is Lady Macbeth attempting to do in this scene?
 In all of her mutterings, what is Lady Macbeth actually SAYING?
 At the end of the scene, what is the doctor’s biggest worry concerning Lady
Macbeth?
Act V, Scene 2
 Where will the Scottish rebels meet the English forces that are led by Malcolm?
 What is a hint that Macbeth knows that he is in trouble?
 What are the rumors that are floating around about Macbeth?

Act V, Scene 3
 What action (or inaction) illustrates the fact that Macbeth is losing control?
Act V, Scene 4
 What order does Malcolm give to help camouflage the troops? From the top of
the hill, what will this look like?
Act V, Scene 5
 How does Macbeth react to the news of Lady Macbeth’s suicide?
 When Macbeth receives the report that the woods appear to be moving over the
hill, what does he vow?
Act V, Scene 7
 How does Macbeth react to the death of Young Siward?
 What news does Siward report concerning the soldiers inside the castle?
Act V, Scene 8
 When Macbeth first encounters Macduff, what does he tell him?
 What news does Macduff deliver that is the final blow to Macbeth’s confidence?
 What happens to Macbeth? Be VERY specific.
 Who is proclaimed king? What are his first two orders?

MAcbeth Act II Study Questions

Macbeth
Act II
Guided Reading Questions
Act II, Scene 1

 Describe the atmosphere in this scene.
 Macbeth lies to Banquo in this scene. What lie does he tell, and why does he tell it?
 What is the signal that it is time to commit the murder?
 What does Macbeth hallucinate in the soliloquy in this scene?
 What does he contemplate in his soliloquy?

Act II, Scene 2

 Why doesn’t Lady Macbeth kill Duncan herself? IRONY???
 What does BLOOD symbolize in this play?
 After the murder, Macbeth claims to hear voices. Are they real, or are they something
else? What do the voices say?
 What is the BIGGEST difference between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth that becomes
apparent in this scene?

Act II, Scene 3

 What is the irony in the Porter’s description of his job?
 Who is first person to discover Duncan’s body?
 Who witnesses Macbeth’s murder of the guards?
 Why does he claim to kill the guards? What is the REAL reason why he kills them?
 Where do Malcolm and Donalbain plan to flee? Why do they feel they need to leave?

Act II, Scene 4

 Describe the events and the weather the night of Duncan’s murder.
 What news does Macduff report from the meeting inside the castle?
 What is unusual about Macduff’s decision concerning Macbeth’s coronation? How will
Macbeth react to his decision?
 At the end of Act II, which characters are questioning the guilt of the guards in
Duncan’s murder?
Create

Heart of Darkness Final Test is Thursday, September 9, 2010.

Frankenstein books need to be paid for by Friday, September 10.

SAT Words for 9-13 -10 Test

SAT Vocabulary test Monday September 13, 2010

You are responsible for defining these words on your own and being prepared for the test.




Discredit

Digression

Disdain

Conformist

Divergent

Clairvoyant

Empathy

Circuitous

Emulate

Adversity

Enervating

Adulation

Enhance

Deleterious

Ephemeral

Demagogue

Evanescent

Exasperation

Journals 15-19

Journals 15-19
These are due on Tuesday, September 7

15. Have you ever wanted something so badly in life that you would kill for it? Explain, even if you have not.
16. If your exact date of death could be predicted, would you want to know it? Why or why not?
17. What do you feel are the characteristics of a good friend?
18. Do you feel that Macbeth deserved to be moved up in his position?
19. Is it okay in life to have too much ambition? If you cannot answer this journal, you may need to look up the word ambition.

Best Friend Project Due 9-10-10

Best Friend Project
Due Friday, September 10th 2010

The best friend project must be done on lineless (paper with no lines, non notebook paper) that is larger than a standard sheet of notebook paper

For this project you will create an advertisement for a best friend. Almost like a want ad for a best friend. You must include at least three things that you are looking for, a picture of either yourself, or the perspective best friend, and a mock contact number. See in class example

Journal 10-14

Journals 10-14
These journals are due on Monday, August 30, 2010. They are to be in INK PEN ONLY, and each must have two paragraphs. Each paragraph must have a total of EIGHT sentences. The journals also must be in the composition notebook.

10. Do you feel that Sir Gawain was an honorable Knight?

11. Do you feel that In “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” that the Lord played the game fairly?

12. If you were Sir Gawain would you have accepted the challenge from the Green Knight? Why or why not.

13. Literature book pg. 207 under journal writing: Write a Valentine letter to a real or pretend person please make sure to set this up in a letter format.

14. Do you plan on going to the Carolina Renaissance Festival for five extra credit one hundreds? Why or why not?

SAT Vocabulary Words Week Three

Seniors this test will be on THURSDAY, August 26th.

Antagonist - foe, opponent
Anonymous - nameless, identity unknown
Anecdote - a short account of an interesting or humorous event
Anachronistic - out of date, attributed to a wrong historical period
Amicable - friendly, agreeable
Aesthetic - pertaining to beauty or the arts
Adversity - misfortune, unfavorable turn of events
Adulation - high praise
Abstinence - the act of refraining from an activity
Abbreviate - shorten, abridge

Powerpoint on Canterbury Tales Characters

Please consult this web site for notes on the characters from The Canterbury Tales.

zunal.com/myaccount/uploads/4characters_and_satire_-_oxford.ppt

Journals 7, 8, 9 are due on Friday, August 20, 2010

7. What do you feel a book entitled Heart of Darkness would be about?


8. What are your feelings in regards to the Senior Exit Project?


9. Do you feel Sir Gawain was an honorable knight?

SAT Prep Words

Week of August16-20

Monday

consort
amorphous
immaculate


Tuesday

untoward
astringent
chary

Wednesday

educe
whet
deposition

Thursday

relegate
lucid
modulate

The Canterbury Tales Quote/Identifying Worksheet

You need to copy these sentences and use the text book to find which character is being described. This sheet will be taken up once we complete the entire prologue.

1.None had ever caught him in arrears. ______________

2.He was an easy man in penance-giving
Where he could hope to make a decent living: _______________

3. He'd sewed a holy relic on his cap; His wallet lay before him on his lap,
Brimful of pardons come from Rome all hot. He had the same small voice a goat has got. ____________________

4. He much disliked extorting tithe or fee, Nay rather he preferred beyond a doubt
Giving to the poor parishioners round about From his own goods and Easter offerings. He found sufficiency in little things. _____________

5. He could make songs and poems and recite. Knew how to joust and dance, to draw and write. He loved so hotly that till dawn grew pale He slept as little as a nightingale. ________________

6. His nostrils were as black as they were wide. e had a sword and buckler at his side. ______________

7. He liked to play his bagpipes up and down ad that was how he brought us out of town. _________________

8. She certainly was very entertaining,Pleasant and friendly in her ways, and straining to counterfeit a courtly kind of grace, a stately bearing fitting to her place

9. A medal of St. Christopher he wore _________________

10. But still to do him justice first and last In church he was a noble ecclesiast.
__________________

11. His house was never short of bake-meat pies, of fish and flesh, and these in such supplies it positively snowed with meat and drink __________

12. Above his ears, and he was docked on top just like a priest in front; his legs were lean, like sticks they were, no calf was to be seen. _____________

13. Had hair as yellow as wax,
Hanging down smoothly like a hank of flax. In driblets fell his locks behind his head ____________

14. The cause of every malady you'd got he knew, and whether dry, cold, moist, or hot; ___________

15. I saw his sleeves were garnished at the hand with fine grey fur, the finest in the land, and on his hood, to fasten it at his chin he had a wrought-gold cunningly fashioned pin; into a lover's knot it seemed to pass. _____________

16. Loving God best with all his heart and mind and then his neighbor as himself ___________

17. Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy, and wouldn't speak a word except in Latin when he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in; _________

18. His horse was thinner than a rake,
And he was not too fat, I undertake.
_________________

19. She'd had five husbands, all at the church door apart from other company in youth;___________

20. So had set his wits to work, none knew he was in debt _________

Heart of Darkness

The following Seniors have paid for their Heart of Darkness Novel

Jalisa B.
Pierre
Shannon
Shanira
Denzel
Rhomell
Tasha
Chakura
Paul
Ta-Juanee
Nashon
Brianna M.
Jeremy
Quayde
Rasean
Deshawn
Trinty
Ashley T
Jillisa
Quan
Darrius C.
Asiah
Darrius F.
Shannon
Tere
Winter
Latreka
Antoine S.
Deltwan
Chakura
Jernai


* All students must purchase their own copy of the orginial Dover Edition of this book for this class. Please be reminded that we will start this book next week. I have extended the payment date until Tuesday, August 10.

Also if you have paid and do not see your name please see me as soon as possible and be sure to bring your receipt.

Journals

Please be reminded taht journals 1-3 are due tomorrow in a composition notebook! There are no excuses as to why you do not have your journals ready to turn in.

Journal Topics

1. Page 39 in your British literature book under the journal writing section

2. Describe Grendel as a "monster"

3. Describe Beowulf as a "hero"

Please also keep in mind that journals will only be accepted in a composition notebook, written in regular blue or black ink, and have two paragraphs. Each paragraph must have eight sentences.

Test Tomorrow!!

All Seniors Please be reminded that their is a TEST on "Beowulf" tomorrow. If you have been present at least one day this week you are responsible and will be required to take the test.

English 12 Syllabus

English 12
Crossroads Charter High School
Ms. Rougley
Room 6

Course Objectives

Students in English IV will integrate all the language skills gained throughout their education. The curriculum both affirms these skills and equips the students to be life-long learners. Students continue to explore expressive, expository, argumentative and literary contexts with a focus on British Literature. The emphasis in English IV is on argumentation by developing a position of advocacy through reading, writing, speaking, listening and using media. Students will:
• Express reflections and reactions to texts.
• Explain principles inspired by the curriculum.
• Interpret and qualify texts.
• Research and address issues of public or personal concern.
• Create products and presentations which maintain standard conventions of the written and spoken language.
--The North Carolina Standards of Learning

This course has been designed to offer an introduction to British literature beginning with the Old English texts of the Anglo-Saxons and moving through time to Modern English. We will focus on developing our understanding of the hero/heroine experience as it presents itself in the works of British authors.

We will cover works from the following time periods in the Prentice Hall Textbook:

Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066)
Middle English Period (1066-1500)
The Renaissance (1500-1660)
The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785)
The Romantic Period (1785-1832)
The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
The Modern Period (1914 – Present)











In addition, we will be reading a few of the following major works outside of the textbook: Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Christmas Carol, or Heart of Darkness. Novels can be added to this list as the semester goes along. These novels will be available to you this semester brand new at a cost. However, no one book costs more than three dollars.

Ms. Rougley is on the web
I am excited to offer students and parents an easy way to check homework, download handouts, and access links. By visiting www.englishrougley.blogspot.com, you will be able to read the course description and keep up with assignments.

Classroom Expectations
You are expected to arrive on time and use class time wisely. I consider you tardy if you are not in your seat with your journal when the bell rings. Always come prepared. Your book is not a suitable tool for organizing your papers.

Homework: Homework is due when it is due. If you are absent the day a previously attributed assignment is due, it will be due the next day you come to school, even if you are tardy. Homework assignments are posted on the side board and on my wikispace. Do not ask me what your homework was until you have first consulted these resources. You must complete all assignments. You do not have an option of whether you want to take a zero on an assignment. Homework assignments will be randomly collected and checked.

The Senior Exit will provide you with many homework, daily and essay grades. The Senior Exit is also required by all students.

Please refrain from “packing up” before my signal. You will have plenty of time to get where you are going.

Bathroom passes are for emergencies. Please do not abuse this policy.

I am not beyond giving pop quizzes.

Make-up work: If you are absent, you must either visit www.englishrougley.blogspot.com to retrieve the work you missed or pull your missing work from the filing cabinet in the back of the classroom. If you are absent on the day of an announced quiz or test, you are expected to make up the assignment the day you return to school. I am available for tutoring and/or make-up work every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon until 4:30pm.

All work that is not original must be properly documented using the MLA system. Anything not original and not documented will be considered plagiarism. Parents and administration will be notified, and student will receive a zero for the assignment. This holds true for:
• Copying all or part of an assignment from another student
• Copying part of a source for use in an assignment
• Cutting and pasting parts of websites into an assignment

You will be viewed as young adults and will be treated with the respect you deserve. However, if you behave in an inappropriate manner, you will lose that respect until you make a conscious effort to earn it back.

Grading Policy

Tests: 30%
Quizzes (vocabulary and reading): 20%
Writing Assignments and Projects: 25%
Participation (includes daily journal): 10%
Homework: 15%


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Please sign below and have your parent/guardian do the same.

Student_____________________________________________Parent/Guardian_______________________________

Parent/Guardian best phone contact number________________________________________

Parents or Guardians: please email me ASAP: cynthia.rougley@crossroadscharter.org I’ll build an email address book for easy correspondence. Also, please bookmark www.englishrougley.blogspot.com so you can keep up with your child’s progress in my course. Thanks!

Welcome Seniors 2010-2011

Welcome to your senior year



August, 2010

Dear Seniors,

Welcome to your last and best year of high school. I expect it will be a great year for all of us. This letter details expectations and procedures, plus a general outline of what we’ll be studying this year. Keep it with your important papers so we’ll always be on the same page.

• Daily warm-up: you’re used to it by now. Look for it on the board, on the screen, or on paper on the student table at the door. Come in, sit down and do it. Usually, I won’t collect it (but I’ll keep track of who’s doing it) and we’ll review it together. There will be regular warm-up quizzes.

• Turning in your work: For your protection – do not hand it to me or put it on my desk! You will place all work that needs my attention in a daily class basket that will be marked for your class.

• Getting your work back: I will keep all tests and quizzes in the class until the end of the semester. Other work will be returned to you in five business days.

• Class Rules: Be prompt, be prepared, be kind, and follow school rules.

• The stuff on my desk is mine. It is not my responsibility to provide paper, pens, white out or other school supplies.

Supplies

Mandatory:
• Loose-leaf paper, pencils and pens (It’s English class – we read and write every day.)
• Composition book for your journals
• Three ring binder with at least five dividers

Blue or black ink pen


Helpful, but not required:
• Tape, glue stick, white-out, colored pencils, makers, pocket dictionary

**I’ve seen these at Wal-Mart and the Dollar Tree for $1.00 each.


Academic Focus for the Year

Reading: in-class and on your own. There’s no better way to learn. In addition to timely newspaper and magazine articles, we will study novels and plays from the 12th-grade list, which may include Heart of Darkness, Frankenstein, Macbeth, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and others that are not listed.

MUGS: mechanics, usage, grammar, spelling – to help you improve your scores on the ACT and SAT and to help you speak the “money” language.

Writing: We’ll create a writer’s portfolio (why you need a binder with sections, one of which will be writing book) every day to increase both your comfort level and proficiency, and to give you multiple starting points for required portfolio pieces. This does not include the senior exit paper.

Writing Portfolio Requirements
The Writing Portfolio is intended to be a collection of what a student considers to be his/her most exemplary writing. Teachers must provide students with multiple opportunities to create pieces in each defined category. The portfolio pieces are student-selected, and the students should be afforded opportunities to revise and edit pieces before they are included in the “final” portfolio. In addition, each student must submit evidence of the writing process stapled to the back of one (student choice) of the required portfolio pieces.

The following writing pieces are required in the 12th grade portfolio:
1. A reflective composition that uses personal experiences as a basis for reflection on some aspect of life; draws abstract comparisons between specific incidents and abstract concepts; maintains a balance between describing incidents and relating them to more general, abstracts ideas that illustrate personal beliefs; and moves from specific examples to generalizations about life.
2. A literary analysis. The literary analysis organizes an insightful interpretation around
several clear ideas, premises or images and supports judgments with specific references to the original text, to other texts, authors and to prior knowledge.
3. A functional document (e.g., requests for information, resumes, and letters of complaint, memos and proposals). The functional document reports, organizes and conveys information accurately; uses formatting techniques that make the document user-friendly; and anticipates readers’ problems, mistakes and misunderstandings.
4. An informational essay. The essay develops a controlling idea that conveys a perspective on the subject; creates an organizing structure appropriate to the purpose, audience and context; includes information on all relevant perspectives; considering the validity and reliability of primary and secondary sources, makes distinctions about the relative value and significance of specific data, facts and ideas; anticipates and addresses a reader’s potential biases, misunderstandings and expectations; and provides a sense of closure to the writing. Sources are correctly cited.
5. A persuasive composition with research. The persuasive composition articulates a clear position; supports assertions using rhetorical devices, including appeals to emotion or logic and personal anecdotes; and develops arguments using a variety of methods (e.g., examples, beliefs, expert opinion, cause-effect reasoning). Sources are correctly cited using both internal citations and works cited page.
6. A writer’s reflection, in which the student describes, discusses, and demonstrates his or her own growth as a writer as supported by the pieces selected for inclusion in the portfolio.


The effort you put into the class this year will determine what you get out of it. I look forward to our year together.

Sincerely,



Ms. Rougley
704-597-5100
Cynthia.rougley@crossroadscharter.org
www.gotitans.org follows the link to my blog page


*It’s easy to fall behind when you miss class. Keeping up with your work is the best way to have a relaxed and successful senior year.