Writing Assignment on Lord of the Flies Directions: Write on one of the following topics. Write at least two typed pages. This is due Monday, March 30. 1) Do you recall a time when you realized that, like the boys in this novel, you had to behave like an adult and not a child. Maybe you were ready and maybe you weren’t. But the circumstances made you feel as though there were no adults to be responsible, so you had to be. Was it a good experience or not? What did you learn about yourself? Others? 2) When you read a novel, you usually identify most with one of the characters. Based on what you’ve read of the book so far, which character would you rather be: Jack or Piggy? I know you’d probably rather be Ralph or maybe Simon. But try this experiment.
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Note -- For METER HELP see attachment below (Ballad meter document) Writing on Change -- See attachment below (Writing for English 3, Level 2). Also see attachments: Lady of Shalott, Housman, Two Poems on Time, Tennyson and Herrick, and Frost -- Four Poems on Change. See Hot New Extra-Credit Poetry-Memorizing Assignment below! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2009-2010 ASSIGNMENTS START HERE: -- Writing a Sketch -- See attachment below ("Sketch Assignment"). Due Thursday, Sept. 3. (P.S. Finish your summer reading books for the Day of Judgment is Come! Or whatever.) -- Summer Reading: 1) Be ready Tuesday, 9.8. 2)You will tell us the names of the two books you read. 3) You will choose one of them to talk to the class about. 4) What you won't do is tell the whole plot. Instead, say what it's about, in a sentence or two -- no more. Practice this at home. Is it a novel, a biography, an autobiography? If it's a novel, is fantasy, a thriller, or a just a novel? 5) Try to bring the book to show us what it looks like. 6) Say where you were when you read it -- on the living room couch? In the bathroom? In the back seat of the family car coming home from vacation? 7) Is it any good? Why or why not? 8) Be ready to read a short paragraph from it that gives us a taste of it. --Canterbury Tales: Read pp. 86-96 for Wednesday (The Miller's Tale) and pp. 96-106 for Friday. -- The Canterbury Tales -- Read the vocabulary list in the attachment below. All these words appear in some form and roughly in this order in "The Pardoner's Tale." Look up the words you don't know and be ready for a preposterous quiz on Friday, 9.25. Also know the "Seven Deadly Sins," also on the attachment. We will discuss some of them in class, but we may not get to them all. They won't all be on the quiz. The words I've chosen are not old words found only in Chaucer. They are all words grownups encounter in their reading. Knowing them will serve you well, I think. -- Crisis Writing Assignment -- Due Friday, Oct. 3. See attachment below. -- Sonnet -- Write an "English" or "Shakespearean" sonnet. It is due Tuesday, October 13. Make use of "Mrs. Formica's Home Sonnet-Writing Kit" which is attached below. -- Optional Assignment: Revise your crisis writing, responding to the notes I wrote on your paper. Due Friday, Oct. 16. I will give you a second grade and average the two. You will have the chance to ask me about my notes and what you could do to do better. All assignments for my class must be typed and double-spaced, unless I tell you otherwise. If you have no computer at home, you'll have to schedule time to type it in school. Same with printing out assignments, if you must mail them to yourself at school. Paradise Writing Assignment -- Due Tuesday, Oct. 20. Write a memory of "paradise" from your life. See attachment below for details. ("Writing Assignment about Adam and Eve") IT MUST BE TYPED OR I WON'T ACCEPT IT. -- Your reading schedule for Macbeth is in an attached document below. -- Here is a link to an interactive map of Scotland showing where the events of the play take place: http://www.thelandofmacbeth.com/menu.htm -- See attached list of passages to be discussed in class after the end of the movie. Review them as per the instructions on the attachment. We'll probably discuss three or four a day this week. -- Macbeth writing assignment due Thursday, Nov. 19. See attachment below. -- Thanksgiving poem due Wednesday a.m. See attachment below with examples. Write any form or form-less. Pro- or con-thankfulness. |