11th Grade English Spring 2014 Per. 6 (Los Angeles Center For Enriched Studies) //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/ Class Name: 11th Grade English Spring 2014 Per. 6 Instructor(s): Kristen Sandberg en-us SchoolSitePro <![CDATA[Due: 06/04/2014]]> //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/homeworkItem3493101 //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/

 

Today you must turn in your final exam for 11th grade English by 11:59 PM to turnitin.com!  Respond to one in a well-constructed and well-supported essay. 

 

The topics are:

1) Trace the development of Janie's voice through the novel TEWWG.  How does Janie find her voice, when does she use it (once she finds it) and when does she refrain, and why?
2) Explain the development of Janie's character, how she discovers herself and finds independence in TEWWG.  What events and people bring her closer (or farther from) becoming an independent woman?
3) Consider Zora Neale Hurston's use of literary devices (imagery, symbolism) throughout the novel TEWWG.  How do Hurston's writing style and literary choices contribute to (or take away from) the feeling or message of the novel?
4) Consider Zora Neale Hurston's use of 'folk' (tales, people, idioms) and vernacular (the non-standard speech/voices/words)  throughout the novel TEWWG.  How does Hurston's choice to use language this way contribute to (or take away from) the feeling or message of the novel?
 
Final Essay Exam: upload to turnitin.com by Wednesday, June 4, 11:59 PM.

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The day of your exam please talk to the class for 1 to 3 minutes about your essay topic.  (If you would rather speak more creatively, than analytically, you could present a creative response to the novel (letter, diary page, song, poem) in class that day, although you must still submit your analysis by the due date.  You could turn this creative response for extra credit.)
 
--You may prepare a notecard.
--Please bring your textbook and any other books you've borrowed!  Please!
 
The topics are:
1) Trace the development of Janie's voice through the novel TEWWG.  How does Janie find her voice, when does she use it (once she finds it) and when does she refrain, and why?
2) Explain the development of Janie's character, how she discovers herself and finds independence in TEWWG.  What events and people bring her closer (or farther from) becoming an independent woman?
3) Consider Zora Neale Hurston's use of literary devices (imagery, symbolism) throughout the novel TEWWG.  How do Hurston's writing style and literary choices contribute to  (or take away from) the feeling or message of the novel?
4) Consider Zora Neale Hurston's use of 'folk' (tales, people, idioms) and vernacular (the non-standard speech/voices/words)  throughout the novel TEWWG.  How does Hurston's choice to use language this way contribute to (or take away from) the feeling or message of the novel?
 
Respond to one in a well-constructed and well-supported essay.  Final Essay Exam:  upload to turnitin.com by Wednesday, June 4, 11:59 PM.
 
 

]]> Sat, 31 May 2014 18:00:03 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 06/01/2014]]> //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/homeworkItem3492824 //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/ Extra Credit Essay Option:  due Sunday, June 1 by 11:59 PM.
"To what extent do the director's choices in the film version of TEWWG enhance the story?  Or do they detract?  Respond to the prompt by comparing the film and book, making sure to consider the artistic options of the writer (imagery...) and those available to the director (scenery, sound...).  How faithful to Hurston's vision is Darnell Martin's film? (Martin is the director.)  Upload to turnitin.com by Sunday, June 1, 11:59 PM.

]]> Fri, 30 May 2014 11:44:30 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 05/27/2014]]> //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/homeworkItem3489756 //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/ Some of you haven't turned in the following:  (make sure you bring these to the next class, also, if you missed the first part of the film TEWWG, I will show it at lunch Tues, Wed, Thurs)
 
1) Considering the latter 1/3 of the novel (her time in the muck), how does Janie change? Write your response and include several examples from the reading to support your claim.  
2) Choose a symbol (some suggested: the pear tree, mule, street lamp, dog, store, hurricane, Janie's hair, the muck, Palm Beach, Teacake, gun...) and explain what the symbol is literally and what it represents beyond what it is literally.  Find at least 3 passages that refer to your symbol and be prepared to explain each.
3) Anyone who missed any quizzes, you must make them up at lunch this week!  Or these will be considering missing assignments! (0 points)
 
For the film:
1) How is the film different from the book?
2) How does the director address (include) elements of the 'folk' and 'art' aspects of the novel?
 
Bring any books and textbooks to class!  If you borrowed books from the classroom library, please bring them back.  I bought 2 copies of The Fault in Our Stars, and other John Green books, and others, PLEASE, please bring them back!  Thank you!

]]> Fri, 23 May 2014 13:38:34 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 05/23/2014]]> //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/homeworkItem3489194 //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/ Independent Reading Activity #3!!  Turn it in:  in person, in my box at school, online to turnitin.com, but TURN IT IN!!  Don't forget, regardless of your method of delivery, you must upload a paragraph or more explanation of what you read, what you thought about what you read, what you made and how it shows what you learned from the reading...by 11:59, Friday, May 23!!  No late work accepted!!  Also, remember no more than 1 extra credit independent reading is accepted from this point forward...
]]> Thu, 22 May 2014 16:35:51 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 05/21/2014]]> //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/homeworkItem3485669 //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/ 1) Considering the latter 1/3 of the novel (her time in the muck), how does Janie change? Write your response and include several examples from the reading to support your claim.  
2) Choose a symbol (some suggested: the pear tree, mule, street lamp, dog, store, hurricane, Janie's hair, the muck, Palm Beach, Teacake, gun...) and explain what the symbol is literally and what it represents beyond what it is literally.  Find at least 3 passages that refer to your symbol and be prepared to explain each.
3) Anyone who missed the quiz on 17-20 -- be ready to take the quiz
 

]]> Mon, 19 May 2014 15:42:43 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 05/19/2014]]> //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/homeworkItem3482819 //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/ Last quiz on TEWWG (chapters 16-20) on Monday.  Be ready!!
]]> Sat, 17 May 2014 16:10:30 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 05/16/2014]]> //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/homeworkItem3478464 //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/ Hello wonderful 11th grade English students!
I hope you succeeded on your quiz for chapters 13-15 (16)!  Now for Day 3 of this week, be prepared for a comprehension/reading quiz for chapters (16)17-20 aka--the end of the book!  Make sure you have read it, not replaced it with something like 'Sparks Notes,' as I will read these too!--insert evil laugh here--Hehehe....
Seriously though, there are no Sparks Notes in college!  If you don't exercise that brain-muscle with working out difficult text now, how will you succeed in college?  Don't be lazy!  Please read the book!
 
Also--I graded your quizzes--most either vastly succeeded (20/15) or miserably failed (1/15 to 8/15).  A few managed to squeak by with 10/11 out of 15--Given that there were 20 questions--you should have been able to get more correct--this is only 66-72%, given the extra credit, it is barely meeting the standard!  Try harder, please.

]]> Wed, 14 May 2014 16:09:41 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 05/15/2014]]> //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/homeworkItem3478537 //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/ Please consider the following and re-read these pages/passages in preparation for our discussion:
1)  In what ways is Teacake manipulative?  Is Janie being used?
2)  What satisfaction does Janie get from the Everglades?  I what ways is her life there fulfilling her inner needs?  To what extent is Teacake a part of this fulfillment?
3)  How does Janie 'find herself' in this new life?
4)  What does Hurston show us of the 'lilt' or cadence of this community, and how does it compare with Eatonville?
5)  What do you make of Mrs. Turner?  Why put her in the novel?  What is Hurston suggesting or telling us (or Janie)?
6)  Please re-read and think about the meaning and significance of each:
--Chapter 14, page 129, first paragraph, "To Janie's strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new."
--Chapter 14, page 134-135, last paragraph, "Sometime Janie would think of the old days...."
--Chapter 16, page 145-146, top of the page, "Once having set up her idols and built altars...."
 

]]> Tue, 13 May 2014 11:45:40 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 05/13/2014]]> //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/homeworkItem3476307 //www.lacesmagnetschool.org/apps/classes/593259/assignments/ Read TEWWG Chapters 13-16.  There will be a quiz.  Since someone left their cheat sheet and sparks notes in my room, the trust is gone.  So you better be ready for a harder test than last time!
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