Monday

 Test today! Good luck!

Friday

 Today we are going to review for the test.

Thursday

 

Today we are going to look at Rita Dove and then review Huckleberry Finn. Please turn to page 1300.

You will need to answer questions 1-3 on page 1305.

Things to Study for Test

 "Hills Like White Elephants"

Know the symbolism of the setting, a major theme, the point of view, what's going on with the dialogue.

"Searching for Zora"

Summation. Why did Walker go looking for Zora? Answer the question: "Walker's optimism" writes critic Donna H. Winchell, "is ultimately born of her belief that something divine exists in every human and nonhuman participant in the universe. The inhabitants of her fictional world search...for that divine spark that makes them uniquely who they are." How might this quote apply to this essay?

Langston Hughes

Be able to list and explain a major theme in his poetry. Also look back at textbook questions on his poetry.

Allen Ginsberg

"Howl" "America" "Hum Bom" - explain what the poems are about and how they fit post-modernism

Gregory Corso

"Marriage" "The American Way"  - explain what the poems are about and how they fit post-modernism

Malcolm X and Malcolm Luther King

Go over study questions in textbook

"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas"

Explain a major theme of the narrative with examples.

Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address"

I might give you the text of this address on the test and ask you to SOAPSTone it and explain what Lincoln believes the Civil War has been about and what the next steps are. 

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Theme. Discussion what is going on in the text.

Rita Dove

Discussion of poems. Look at text questions.

Billy Collins

Discussion of poems.  Look at text questions.

The Great Gatsby

Anything on the test you took. 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Anything on the test you took.

"Sonny's Blues"

Discuss the major conflict of the story and how this conflict connects a theme.

1) Write a paragraph overview of the story. What is it really about? What really happens?

2) There are a number of themes in the story including: suffering, darkness, feeling trapped and wanting to escape. How can you tie all of these into one dominate theme that is suggested in the title "Sonny Blues"? (Note there is no single answer for this questions).

 

Wednesday

 

Then we will look at Rita Dove.

Today we are going to look at Rita Dove and Billy Collins. Please turn to page 1300.

You will need to answer questions 1-3 on page 1305.

 Today we are going to look at Gregory Corso

HW: Choose one poem, summarize it and connect it to a major theme, and then discuss how it is post-modern.

Gregory Corso

 http://www.litkicks.com/Texts/Marriage.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46374/the-american-way

 

Billy Collins and Rita Dove

 

 Today we will discuss the ending of "Looking for Zora" and give you some time to work on yesterday's assignment.

Then we will look at Rita Dove and Billy Collins.

Today we are going to look at Rita Dove and Billy Collins. Please turn to page 1300.

You will need to answer questions 1-3 on page 1305 and 1-4 on page 1310.

 

Monday

 Today we are going to read, "Looking for Zora" by Alice Walker.  This week we will also look at Toni Morrison, Gregory Corso, Rita Dove and Billy Collins.

When you are finished I'd like you to answer the following:

1) What is your general response to this? How does one writer impact a person so much that they go looking for that person?

2) Does this change your view of Zora? Why or why not?

3) "Walker's optimism" writes critic Donna H. Winchell, "is ultimately born of her belief that something divine exists in every human and nonhuman participant in the universe. The inhabitants of her fictional world search...for that divine spark that makes them uniquely who they are." How might this quote apply to this essay? Cite evidence from the text to support your insight. 

 

Things to Study for Test

 "Hills Like White Elephants"

Know the symbolism of the setting, a major theme, the point of view, what's going on with the dialogue.

"Searching for Zora"

Summation. Why did Walker go looking for Zora? Answer the question: "Walker's optimism" writes critic Donna H. Winchell, "is ultimately born of her belief that something divine exists in every human and nonhuman participant in the universe. The inhabitants of her fictional world search...for that divine spark that makes them uniquely who they are." How might this quote apply to this essay?

Langston Hughes

Be able to list and explain a major theme in his poetry. Also look back at textbook questions on his poetry.

Allen Ginsberg

"Howl" "America" "Hum Bom" - explain what the poems are about and how they fit post-modernism

Gregory Corso

"Marriage" "The American Way"  - explain what the poems are about and how they fit post-modernism

Malcolm X and Malcolm Luther King

Go over study questions in textbook

"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas"

Explain a major theme of the narrative with examples.

Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address"

I might give you the text of this address on the test and ask you to SOAPSTone it and explain what Lincoln believes the Civil War has been about and what the next steps are. 

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Theme. Discussion what is going on in the text.

Rita Dove

Discussion of poems. Look at text questions.

Billy Collins

Discussion of poems.  Look at text questions.

The Great Gatsby

Anything on the test you took. 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Anything on the test you took.

"Sonny's Blues"

Discuss the major conflict of the story and how this conflict connects a theme.

1) Write a paragraph overview of the story. What is it really about? What really happens?

2) There are a number of themes in the story including: suffering, darkness, feeling trapped and wanting to escape. How can you tie all of these into one dominate theme that is suggested in the title "Sonny Blues"? (Note there is no single answer for this questions).

Toni Morrison 

Look at study questions in Textbook. 

Friday

 

 We are going to continue with "Sonny's Blues". 

1) Write a paragraph overview of the story. What is it really about? What really happens?

2) There are a number of themes in the story including: suffering, darkness, feeling trapped and wanting to escape. How can you tie all of these into one dominate theme that is suggested in the title "Sonny Blues"? (Note there is no single answer for this questions).

 

Thursday

 We are going to continue with "Sonny's Blues". 

1) Write a paragraph overview of the story. What is it really about? What really happens?

2) There are a number of themes in the story including: suffering, darkness, feeling trapped and wanting to escape. How can you tie all of these into one dominate theme that is suggested in the title "Sonny Blues"? (Note there is no single answer for this questions).

 

May 3rd

 Today, I'll give you a few minutes to finish up questions on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and then we will begin looking at "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin.

https://sfponline.org/Uploads/372/sonnysblues.pdf

 

Tuesday

   Today we are going to discuss Malcolm X and Martin Luther King (pages 1202, 1218-1228). Do questions 1-3, 4, 8, 9 on page 1228.

 

Monday - May

 

 Today we are going to look at three poems by Allen Ginsberg. Your assignment is to choose one of them and write a blog post (at least one paragraph) that discusses 1) The meaning of the poem connecting the contents with a major theme and 2) How the poem is postmodern.

POSTMODERNISM:  Its main characteristics include anti-authoritarianism, or refusal to recognize the authority of any single style or definition of what art should be; and the collapsing of the distinction between high culture and mass or popular culture, and between art and everyday life. Fragmentation, dark humor and author self-referencing are characteristics of postmodernism as is the idea that there is no single truth.

America

Hum Bomb 

Howl