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.