Questions for Socratic Seminar

Please consider the following questions for our final Socratic Seminar on Their Eyes Were Watching God:

-How does literature allow us to reflect on and critique society and ourselves?
-Are there any heroes in the book?
-What, if anything, is the central theme or message of the book?
-Whose account of Hurston's writing would you agree with: Richard Wright or Henry Louis Gates?  Why?

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Crafting an Argument Through the Analysis of Language

Please review the following document to help you in your analysis of language in Their Eyes Were Watching God.

https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/1WTxQrn_mKzQ7T5hT-A0XMgcBUNxp79hlRI6zhuOD7Zc/edit

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Reading Guide

Use the following charts to help you keep track of key elements of the book:

https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/1y85RGJv-Koff6OQixiW8NBUUfOLLrMrEAWCeKJpsUWw/edit

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Post 1

Review the following document to help you frame Janie's character within her society.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bq7nG5jIccpe4iu0ZDjEmOb7w3iGtcFRL_i4XFMPOho/edit?usp=sharing

Othello Essay: Body Paragraph Guide

Please use the following document as a guide to writing the body paragraphs in your essay:
https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/1a_kjqGlvXqc8o_zqniYd5ET99ZrJLcwId2Vgu28eH7I/edit

MLA: Quoting Guidelines

Please review this document for a review of the quoting guidelines we went over in class.  This document explains how to quote from a drama, how to quote in text prose, and how to format long quotes.

https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/1nN1YIQHa2ZQgwHOgSZUvtYDNy5jf8v7O8SDtNQwctD0/edit

Othello: Note taking Ideas for Critical Essay

https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/11ZFFZjgkLhtYdto4A98tGUqsdN81udiYIJHVaYE0c5Q/edit

Othello: Close reading/analysis of a line

Choose one of the following quotations and respond to it.  First, paraphrase what the quote is saying in your own words.  Next, comment on the language that is used in the quote--consider connotations of words and how these connotations may have larger significance within the play.

Cassio:  I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
2.3.282-83

Cassio:  O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!  That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
2.3.308-10

Iago:  She holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested.
2.3.340-41

Iago: When devils will the blackest sins put on, / They do suggest at first with heavenly shows.
2.3.371-72

Othello Supplemental Vocabulary

Please review the following vocabulary words and definitions from Othello.

https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/1aD2CMDhZHdv4SrrvhM8hRCKitS-WpLuizT3TfioK8EQ/edit

Modifier Help

Check out the following link for notes and practice on modifiers.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/597/1/

Othello Initial Response

After reading Act 1, Scene 1, respond in one of the following ways:

1.  Ask a question and pose a possible answer.  This should be a why or how question.
2.  Note a particular line, phrase, or word that resonates with you.  Explain your reaction or response to this line, phrase, or word.
3.  Note your impression of a character, a subject, or an idea that has been raised so far.  Use the text as a basis for this impression.

Making Connections

Read the following poem.  Reflect on how this poem connects to themes in Catcher in the Rye.  How does it connect to life in general?  What is the tone?  How might this poem connect to love and relationships?

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay. 

Robert Frost

Why Read Catcher?

This article in The New Republic describes one take on why The Catcher in the Rye is such a widely read text.  What, in your opinion, is the value in reading this book.  Is there one?  Justify your response.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/why-do-people-love-catcher-the-rye#

Respond to at least one person.  Please post by Sunday, 2/17.

Vocabulary Lesson 14

Answer the following questions to help you understand the meaning of these vocabulary words.

What is a pervasive attitude in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, or the U.S.?

What are two things that seem correlated?

Create a newspaper headline using some form of coalesce or amalgamate.

Use the word permeate to describe a cooking smell.

Use disseminate in a sentence to describe information getting out.

What is the difference between disseminate and diffuse?

Catcher Response 3

Is Holden a typical teenager?  Does his voice ring true?  Do his words reveal a keen eye for humanity's foibles, or does his voice simply illustrate a cynical, depressed complainer?  Select a quote from Chapter 15 up until the end of the book that you feel is a strong illustration of your take on Holden.  Use this quote as a jumping off point to illustrate your take on Holden as a character.  Explain how this quote illustrates your point.

Respond to at least one other person's quote.

This post is due by Tuesday at 11:00 p.m.

Vocabulary Lesson 13 In Context

Examine the following excerpts from the New York Times using vocabulary words from lesson 13.

https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/1wYX-LHYRazQErn90pA_ffQ2gMMwQOAzBKp_pK928lpU/edit

Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

Please examine the following link on pronoun antecedent agreement and pronoun usage:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

Period 7, Catcher Quote Response 2: Chapters 5-8

Select one quote that stood out to you the most in your reading of chapters 5-8.  Post the quote you selected, and in a paragraph or so, respond to this quote.  Your response might focus on: what the quote reveals to you about a character or a relationship, a personal connection you have to the quote, the language or craft of the writing and the impact that has on the quote, questions that arise from the quote, what the quote helps you visualize, words or phrases that stand out, inferences you are able to make, etc.

You also will respond to one other person's quote or response.

Period 2, Catcher Quote Response 2: Chapters 5-8

Select one quote that stood out to you the most in your reading of chapters 5-8.  Post the quote you selected, and in a paragraph or so, respond to this quote.  Your response might focus on: what the quote reveals to you about a character or a relationship, a personal connection you have to the quote, the language or craft of the writing and the impact that has on the quote, questions that arise from the quote, what the quote helps you visualize, words or phrases that stand out, inferences you are able to make, etc.


You also will respond to one other person's quote or response.

Chapters 5-8 Study Questions

Use the following questions to help guide your reading of these chapters.

Chapters 5 – 8

12. Why does Holden enjoy the snowball fight?

13. What is the importance of his composition about Allie?

14. What is the significance of Holden breaking his hand?

15. Why does Holden fight Stradlater?

16. Why is Holden so lonely at Pencey?

17. In what condition does Holden leave Pencey?  What are his final words to his school?  What do these words indicate?

18. Why does Holden give a false name to Mrs. Morrow?

19. Why does he lie about Ernest Morrow?  Why does he like Mrs. Morrow?

20. What is the significance of the brain surgery story?

In these chapters, we get a glimpse of some of the people Holden does like in his life.  Consider what qualities these individuals have that Holden likes so much.  

Chapters 1-4 Quote

"I don't think I'll ever forgive him for reading me that crap out loud."
pg. 12

Catcher in the Rye Reading Questions Ch 1-4

Use the following questions to help guide your reading. You do not need to write out answers to every question, but you should consider answers to each.

Chapters 1 – 4

1. Why does the book begin with the words, “If you want to know the truth . . .”?

2. Why has Holden “forgotten” to mention his dismissal from Pencey?

3. What is Holden's attitude toward Pencey?

4. What do we learn about Holden from his exam paper?

5. How does Holden characterize himself?

6. How does Holden feel about Mr. Spencer? How can you tell?

7. What does Holden find so depressing about his talk with Mr. Spencer?

8. How does Mr. Spencer feel about Holden?

9. What is the importance of Holden's new hat?

10. What is Holden's attitude toward Ackley?

11. How is Stradlater characterized?