Sunday, December 8, 2013

Updated December Syllabus

HORROR LITERATURE G BLOCK DECEMBER 2013


Tues, Dec. 10                         scene ii

Wed., Dec. 11                         scenes iii & iv
                                                “Frankenstein” second drafts

Thurs., Dec. 12                      review Act I in groups

Fri., Dec. 13                           Act I quiz

Tues., Dec. 17                        Act II, scene i

Wed., Dec. 18                         Act II, scene ii to players’ recital of Pyrrhus story)
                                                Discuss Agamemnon story

Thurs., Dec. 19                      Act II, scene ii to end

Fri., Dec. 20                           Act II quiz & Party

Wed., Dec. 17                         Prep for writing test

Thurs., Dec. 18                      Writing test



Sunday, November 17, 2013

Nov. Syllabus

G BLOCK NOVEMBER SYLLABUS 2013

Tues. Nov. 12 Go over Vocab 2 words
Discuss 16 – 20
Hand out possible paper questions

Wed., Nov. 13 Finish and discuss Frankenstein
Thurs., Nov. 14 “Frankenstein” movie.
Good essay questions due

Fri., Nov. 15 Finish “Frankenstein” movie
Vocab Quiz 2
Outline of Frankenstein essay due, typed (follow template)

Tues., Nov. 19 Rewrite of Gothic Essay Due (see assignment)
Vocab Quiz 2
Frankie Quest

Wed., Nov. 20 Draft of essay due to peers
Thurs., Nov. 21 Essay due to me
“Night of the Living Dead”

Fri., Nov. 22 Review and discussion

Tues., Nov. 26 Night” review
Shakespeare factoids
Vocab 3 quiz

Wed., Nov. 27 Act I, scenes I & ii

Thurs., Nov. 28 Thanksgiving!

Fri., Nov.  29 No school

Tues., Dec. 2 Scene iii

Wed., Dec. 3 Scenes iv and v

Thurs., Dec. 4 Practice and act scenes

Fri., Dec. 5 Act I review

Tues., Dec. 9 Act I test

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Gothic Powerpoint

Here's the link. 

http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/RSpriggs/files/gothic_literature%20power%20point1.p
pt
 

Monday, October 7, 2013

Updated October Syllabus

HORROR LITERATURE (Section 2) OCTOBER 2013

 

Tues., Oct. 8               “The Pit and the Pendulum”
                                    Final college essay 1 due

Wed., Oct. 9               “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Thurs., Oct. 10           “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
                       
Fri., Oct. 11                “The Monkey’s Paw”
                                    Final college essay 2 due

Tues., Oct. 15            Go over writing skills

Wed., Oct. 16            "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne

Thurs., Oct. 17         No class - Ms. D has a field trip

Fri., Oct. 18              "Rappaccini's Daughter," Hawthorne

Tues., Oct. 22            In-Class Essay on Gothic Horror stories   
                                    Hand out Shelley Factoids       

Wed., Oct. 23             Discuss essay
Factoid presentation
INTRO TO ROMANTICISM
                                    Hand out Vocab List 1. Go over usage.

Thurs., Oct. 24          Frankenstein chapters 1-4
Reading quiz on chapters 1 – 4
                                   
Fri., Oct. 25                Frankenstein 5 – 7
                                    Review punctuation in groups

Tues., Oct. 29            Outside Reading Presentations

Wed., Oct. 30             Vocab Quiz.
                                    Outside Reading Presentations

                                     Hand out Vocab List 2


Thurs., Oct. 31            Discuss 8 – 13
                                    
Fri. Nov. 1                   No class


Tues., Nov. 5             Discuss 14 - 17        
                                    Hand out essay assignment
Wed., Nov. 6              17 – 19

Thurs., Nov. 7            Frankenstein, 20 - 21
                                     Outlines due - Q, thesis, RQ, 4 topic sentences

Fri., Nov. 8                 Discuss end of novel.
                                     One-on-one for outlines
                                  

Monday, September 23, 2013

Sept. - Oct. Syllabus


HORROR LITERATURE G BLOCK OCTOBER 2013

 


           
Tues., Sept. 24          Hand in and discuss college essays
HUBRIS IN HORROR LITERATURE
The story of Babel
            Beowulf – Grendel
                                    Diction and passive voice

Wed., Sept. 25           Punctuation review

Beowulf – Grendel’s Mom and the Dragon


Thurs., Sept. 26        MONSTER PRESENTATIONS
College essay idea 2 written down and submitted

Fri., Sept. 27              MONSTER PRESENTATIONS

Tues., Oct. 1              College Essay 2 due
ROMANTICISM AND THE GOTHIC – Powerpoint
                                     “The Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allen Poe
                                   
Wed., Oct. 2               “A Tell-Tale Heart”
WRITING UNIT II: The analytical essay
The difference between observation and idea

Thurs., Oct. 3                        “The Pit and the Pendulum”
                                    Developing the Thesis

Fri., Oct. 4                 “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Tues., Oct. 8              “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
                                    Body Paragraphs, Transitional Topic Sentences

Wed., Oct. 9               Intro and concluding paragraphs
“The Monkey’s Paw”

Thurs., Oct. 10          Setting up quotations
                                    Hand out Frankenstein
Factoids: Who was Mary Shelley?

Tues., Oct. 15                        Factoid presentation
                                    Frank, chapters 1 – 4
                                   
Wed., Oct. 16             Hand out Frank Vocab List 1. Go over usage.
                                    Frankenstein 5 - 7
                                   
Thurs., Oct. 17          Frank 8 – 13
                                   
Fri., Oct. 18                14 – 16
                       

Tues., Oct. 22                        Frank Vocab quiz 1
                                    Hand out Frank Vocab list 2
17 – 19

Wed., Oct. 23             Frankenstein, 20 – 21
                                    Outside reading presentations

Thurs., Oct. 31          Finish outside reading presentations
Discuss end of novel
Frankenstein” movie             
                                    Hand out Frankenstein essay assignment

Mon., Nov. 4             End of Term I

Tues., Nov. 5             Outline for Frankenstein  essay due
                                    Frankenstein movie review due

 

Wed., Nov. 6              Vocab quiz 2
One-on-one for Frank essays
                                   

100 Best Horror Books Link

http://home.comcast.net/~netaylor1/jonesnewman.html

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Monsters!


MONSTERS!

Choose a monster that has been around for awhile. Then, become as expert as you can on the history of this monster as he/she appears, possibly in slightly altered guise, in mythology, literature, film, and other entertainment media.

Create a 3-minute powerpoint (or similar) presentation in which you educate us on this monster. Some questions you should address in your presentation:

·               who is this monster?
·               What does he/she look like?
·               What is this monster notorious for?
·               Where does this monster first appear?
·               Where else does it appear?
·               Is this monster “alive” today?
·               What are this monster’s monstrous traits?
·               Who generally battles this monster?
·               Does the monster have a weakness? What is it?
·               What does this monster represent in terms of the anxieties of each milieu in which it appears? (ancient greek civilization, Victorian era Europe, 21st century America, etc.
·               Does what the monster represents change or evolve? From what to what?
·               Is there a side to the monster that is pleasurable or alluring?
·               Might the monster elicit our envy for some reason?
Why is this monster scary? Is there something primitive and unchanging—something “unive
Links to sample college essays:




http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124155327269488613.html