Monday, September 23, 2013

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

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, 21^st 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