Knowing whether or not one can live without appeal is all that interests me. – Albert Camus
Respond to each of the following in a well-considered post in your blog.
Limit your selection of detail to a separate poem for each response.
Explain how image and symbol reinforce theme in a poem.
Explain how facts about a writer’s life are relevant to your understanding of a poem.
Explain how a poem can reflect a poet’s personal [...]
Read a Novel from the Reading List:
focus your responses on a course focus question
think “creatively” about your response
connect to characters you’ve already studied
extend your response to include symbol and archetype
consider “Critical Questions“
emphasize “Voice” and/or “Structure” in your responses
consider “Writing About Literature”(page 9-14) in Heath
considered other essay writing strategies
prepare at least 8 posts in your “body [...]
Choose a focus for your final response to Hamlet.
Synthesize alternative points of view, (include links to sources: your posts, STJ blogs, etc.).
Review your responses throughout our study:
Thaw, resolve, adieu…
Hamlet Getting Started 2
Is Polonius a Good Father?
Hamlet: Before Act 1 and 2
Why read literature?
Writing tips:
Outcome-Illustrating Verbs
Voice and Structure(Student blog will win $10,000 Scholarship)
Did I mention keep [...]
Congratulations Kimberley! The two runners up, Jess Kim and Shelley Batts, will each be awarded $1,000.
The remaining 7 finalists in the top 10 will be sent a $100 award for their participation. This includes:
Thomas Peters
Matthew Burden
Grant Brisbee
Paul Stamatiou
Shane Lavalette
Stephanie Collins
Karin Dalziel
Any surprises?
Kimberly Klein was a clear first place choice by many STJ bloggers.
One blogger chosen by “the internet” will win $10,000 US scholarship … for keeping a blog.
As the ratio of high school student blogs I read to the number of college student blogs I read approaches infinity, I think it a good time we troll a few of the best college bloggers in the US.
All STJ [...]
Hamlet raises many questions that you may recognize from your own life. Thinking about some of these issues will make your experience of the play more interesting and rewarding. Discuss some of the following questions in your blog or the forums. Record in your blog any ideas you find interesting or thought-provoking. When you begin [...]
Mark Twain once shrewdly observed that a person who chooses not to read has no advantage over a person who is unable to read. In industrialized societies today, however, the question is not who reads, because nearly everyone can and does, but what is read. Why should anyone spend precious time with literature [...]
Examples of Student Responses to English 30-1 Diploma
The Personal Response Assignment from June 2006:
(literature in the question is included in the exam)
The puppet master in Keith Carter’s “Pinocchio” manipulates the marionette’s strings, giving it the illusion of free will. In the poem “Come In,” the speaker resists the allure of an appealing opportunity. In the [...]
Choose from the following:
(Partner up if/where necessary)
Write a folk song.
Create a dialogue in the forums between any 2(or more) authors.
Create a dialogue in the forums b etween any 2 or more characters
Create a new scene to be inserted into a text synthesizing a character(or 2) from outside the text.
Trackback. Then rewrite the quiz on Steinbeck’s [...]
For those in the midst, or looking ahead at finals in my LA classes(9, 10-1, 20-1, 20-2, 30-1, 30-2).
Consider the outcomes we’ve tried to achieve.
Enhancing the artistry of communication has been a strong technical focus. Skills mastered include using online blogging tools, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, even graphical enhancements using Photoshop or audio/video podcasting tools have [...]
