1. Macbeth puzzles over 2 “riddles.”
2. Thermoptic Camouflage
3. Macbeth hopes for an emergency.
4.
5. Lex Caesarea??
6. Lady Macbeth’s “slayer.”
Category: English 20
English 20
Macbeth Act 4 Quiz Hints
English 20 Final Exam Poll
Macbeth Hints: Act 3 Quiz
1. “No less material”
2. “Under [his] thumb”
3. “Kids Wanna Rock”
4. “when the President does it, that means it’s *not* illegal!”
5. “It is common for people today to question how any leader can be a tyrant who achieves office through popular election, and, indeed, who remains popular.”
6. “Cinderella Story“
English 20 go into the dark to see the light
We’ve been asking questions about the world.
Some have read Plato’s Cave Allegory.
Our discussions have tried to be more philosophical. Kierkegaard’s leap into faith and nihilism a bit.
We seem to return always to our four postulates:
- Something can come from nothing,
- God exists,
- Humans have immortal soul,
- Humans have free will.
We have all watched The Truman Show.
We created and responded to each other’s surveys using Poll Daddy.
We made webs and outlines and we wrote essays.
While you read…Brave New World
Using the format of a blog, comment at the end of each reading session on both the substance of your reading and its effects on you.
Record pages or sections on which you are commenting. Record your impressions of characters, events, conflicts, descriptions. Record responses to your own questions. Record questions about the novel as you read. Respond to course focus questions.
Make sure you take the time after, during, or before each reading session to make an entry into your blog. 10-15 sentences per reading session might be enough.
Make each entry interesting, personal, intelligent. Avoid retelling the story or simply “dumbing-down” the text. Write posts that engages your readers in critical thinking, enhances their attention span, and fills them with speculative awe.
Write several short posts per week, once a day at least. Write longer posts when your mood strikes you. Tag each post before publishing. Use categories such as the following to keep your responses organized:
Utopia
Community, Identity, Stability
Science and Technology
Conditioning
Soma
Sensual Pleasures
Religion
Family Life
Death
Skinner
Kohlberg
Piaget
Erikson
Freud
Adler
Thoreau
Track the posts you make and the comments you send and receive in a spreadsheet. Try to spend no more than 15 minutes on the computer per class. If that isn’t enough, do more work at home or during spare time. There is a need for quite, concentrated reading time during your day. Here we go.
English 20 Final Exam 08
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
(427 BC-347 BC)
We must constantly make decisions in daily life. Some decisions are simple choices (e.g., Coke or Pepsi) while others affect people’s entire lives. Furthermore, every decision has consequences and often there is not a clear alternative. Decisions involve weighing alternatives and considering the consequences. Does conforming to the beliefs and actions of the majority make a person a “good citizen”?
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice. -William James
Write an essay based on literature you have studied in which the author examines conformity. What idea(s) does the writer develop regarding a conformity?
Search the net, search blogs, search your mind. Synthesize, hyperlink, and trackback.
Your writing should be a synthesis of the 5 paragraph essay AND a blog post.
Time: 2.5 hours
Submit a printed copy to your teacher and a trackback to this post.
Canadian Poetry Unit Plan
I’ve selected three mini-units for our study of Canadian Poetry:
Throughout your study, think carefully and creatively about responses to your course focus questions. Maintain a connection to characters you’ve already studied. Extend your discussion of image, symbol, and archetype. Consider: Principal Images of Heaven and Hell and Principal Images of Innocence and Experience.
English 20 Final Exam 2.0
Search the net, search blogs, search your mind. Synthesize, hyperlink, blockquote, and trackback.
Your writing should be a synthesis of the 5 paragraph essay AND a blog post.
Refer to one or any texts from your course: Macbeth, BNW, Can. Lit., Film, News, or other online media.
Your question:
What does it mean to be human in an engineered world?
Time: 2.5 hours
Submit a printed copy to your teacher and a trackback to this post.
Pingback Trackback of the Canadian Outback
English 20(Chem)
Your task is to complete Writing Activity 1 from my canpoets blog.
Just following those instructions will not be enough, however.
Your assignment will not be complete until a “trackback” or “pingback” appears in the comment section on my Writing Activity 1 post.
I’ll have a bag of cookies on standby. Cookie of choice to STJ blogger(s) who completes a pingback trackback of the Canadian outback.