To the freshmen: You should have the following grammar journals completed.
11. Complements
12. Direct Objects
13. Indirect Objects
14. Object Complements
15. Sentence Combining/ Predicate Nominatives
16. Predicate Adjectives
17. Prep. Phrases
18. Adjective Phrases
19. Adverb Phrases
20. Review For Finals
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Friday, December 07, 2007
Thursday, December 06, 2007
THE CHARACTERS By Relationship
Parris: A minister in Salem who is more worried about his reputation than the life of his daughter or the lives of his parishioners
Betty: Parris's young daughter; stricken at the beginning of the play; one of the girls who "cry out" during the trial
Abigail: Orphan; niece of Parris; tauntress; mistress of Proctor; leads "crying out" during the trial
Tituba: Parris's slave from Barbados; first accused witch
Putnam: Vindictive, bitter villager who believes he has been wronged and cheated; leading village voice against the witches
Mrs. Putnam: Wife of (Thomas) Putnam; first plants the idea that Betty has been bewitched
Ruth: Daughter of the Putnams; one of the girls who "cry out" at trials
Mercy Lewis: Putnams' servant; also involved in accusation of witches; one of the girls who "cry out" during the trial
Proctor: Good man with human frailties and a hidden secret; often the voice of reason in the play; accused of witchcraftElizabeth:
Wife of (John) Proctor; a cold, childless but upright woman who at first cannot forgive her husband's frailties; an accused witch
Mary Warren: Proctor's servant; an easily swayed young girl who plants the evidence of witchcraft on Elizabeth; one of the girls who "cry out" during the trial
Hale: A minister who is a recognized authority on witchcraft; at the play's end tries to save the accused
Danforth: Deputy Governor of Massachusetts who is taken in by the testimony; attempts to get confessions of accused witches
Hathorne: One of the judges for the trials
Rebecca: Wife of the respected Francis Nurse; midwife; exemplary Christian; accused witch
Francis: Husband of Rebecca; had land dispute with the Putnams
Giles Corey Old, garrulous villager; inadvertently causes his wife to be accused
Sarah Good: Accused witch who cracks under the strain of imprisonment
Susanna: Doctor's messenger; one of the girls who "cry out" during the trial
Cheever: Charged with arresting the witches
Herrick: Also charged with arresting the witches; acts as jailkeeper
Hopkins: Messenger
Martha: Giles Corey's wife who likes to read; accused witch
Goody Osburn: Midwife at birth of three Putnam babies who were born dead; accused witch
Bayley: Putnam's brother-in-law; Putnam's choice to be minister; opposed by Nurses
Parris: A minister in Salem who is more worried about his reputation than the life of his daughter or the lives of his parishioners
Betty: Parris's young daughter; stricken at the beginning of the play; one of the girls who "cry out" during the trial
Abigail: Orphan; niece of Parris; tauntress; mistress of Proctor; leads "crying out" during the trial
Tituba: Parris's slave from Barbados; first accused witch
Putnam: Vindictive, bitter villager who believes he has been wronged and cheated; leading village voice against the witches
Mrs. Putnam: Wife of (Thomas) Putnam; first plants the idea that Betty has been bewitched
Ruth: Daughter of the Putnams; one of the girls who "cry out" at trials
Mercy Lewis: Putnams' servant; also involved in accusation of witches; one of the girls who "cry out" during the trial
Proctor: Good man with human frailties and a hidden secret; often the voice of reason in the play; accused of witchcraftElizabeth:
Wife of (John) Proctor; a cold, childless but upright woman who at first cannot forgive her husband's frailties; an accused witch
Mary Warren: Proctor's servant; an easily swayed young girl who plants the evidence of witchcraft on Elizabeth; one of the girls who "cry out" during the trial
Hale: A minister who is a recognized authority on witchcraft; at the play's end tries to save the accused
Danforth: Deputy Governor of Massachusetts who is taken in by the testimony; attempts to get confessions of accused witches
Hathorne: One of the judges for the trials
Rebecca: Wife of the respected Francis Nurse; midwife; exemplary Christian; accused witch
Francis: Husband of Rebecca; had land dispute with the Putnams
Giles Corey Old, garrulous villager; inadvertently causes his wife to be accused
Sarah Good: Accused witch who cracks under the strain of imprisonment
Susanna: Doctor's messenger; one of the girls who "cry out" during the trial
Cheever: Charged with arresting the witches
Herrick: Also charged with arresting the witches; acts as jailkeeper
Hopkins: Messenger
Martha: Giles Corey's wife who likes to read; accused witch
Goody Osburn: Midwife at birth of three Putnam babies who were born dead; accused witch
Bayley: Putnam's brother-in-law; Putnam's choice to be minister; opposed by Nurses
Here's my list of historical inaccuracies in the play/screenplay:
Betty Parris' mother was not dead, but very much alive at the time. She died in 1696, four years after the events.
Soon after the legal proceedings began, Betty was shuttled off to live in Salem Town with Stephen Sewall's family. Stephen was the clerk of the Court, brother of Judge Samuel Sewall.
The Parris family also included two other children -- an older brother, Thomas (b. 1681), and a younger sister, Susannah (b. 1687) -- not just Betty and her relative Abigail, who was probably born around 1681.
Abigail Williams is often called Rev. Parris' "niece" but in fact there is no genealogical evidence to prove their familial relationship. She is sometimes in the original texts referred to as his "kinfolk" however.
Miller admits in the introduction to the play that he boosted Abigail Williams' age to 17 even though the real girl was only 11, but he never mentions that John Proctor was 60 and Elizabeth, 41, was his third wife. Proctor was not a farmer but a tavern keeper. Living with them was their daughter aged 15, their son who was 17, and John's 33-year-old son from his first marriage.
Everyone in the family was eventually accused of witchcraft. Elizabeth Proctor was indeed pregnant, during the trial, and did have a temporary stay of execution after convicted, which ultimately spared her life because it extended past the end of the period that the executions were taking place.
The first two girls to become afflicted were Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, not Ann Putnam, and they had violent, physical fits, not a sleep that they could not wake from.
There never was any wild dancing rite in the woods led by Tituba, and certainly Rev. Parris never stumbled upon them. Some of the local girls had attempted to divine the occupations of their future husbands with an egg in a glass -- crystal-ball style. Tituba and her husband, John Indian (absent in Miller's telling), were asked by a neighbor, Mary Sibley, to bake a special "witch cake," -- made of rye and the girls' urine, fed to a dog -- European white magic to ascertain who the witch was who was afflicting the girls.
The Putnam's daughter was not named Ruth, but Ann, like her mother, probably changed by Miller so the audience wouldn't confuse the mother and the daughter. In reality, the mother was referred to as "Ann Putnam Senior" and the daughter as "Ann Putnam Junior."
Ann/Ruth was not the only Putnam child out of eight to survive infancy. In 1692, the Putnams had six living children, Ann being the eldest, down to 1-year-old Timothy. Ann Putnam Sr. was pregnant during most of 1692. Ann Sr. and her sister, however did lose a fair number of infants, though certainly not all, and by comparison, the Nurse family lost remarkably few for the time.
Rev. Parris claims to Giles Corey that he is a "graduate of Harvard" -- he did not in fact graduate from Harvard, although he had attended for a while and dropped out.
The judges in The Crucible are Samuel Sewall, Thomas Danforth, and John Hathorne. The full panel of magistrates for the special Court of Oyer and Terminer were in fact named by the new charter, which arrived in Massachusetts on May 14, 1692 were William Stoughton, John Richards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Wait Winthrop, Bartholomew Gedney, Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin and Peter Sergeant. Five of these eight had to be present to form a presiding bench, and at least one of those five had to be Stoughton, Richards, or Gedney.
Thomas Danforth the Deputy Governor, joined the magistrates on occasion as the presiding magistrate.
The events portrayed here were the examinations of the accused in Salem Village from March to April in the context of a special court of "Oyer and Terminer." These were not the actual trials, per se, which began later, in June 1692. The procedure was basically this: someone would bring a complaint to the authorities, and the authorities would decide if there was enough reason to send the sheriff or other law enforcement officer to arrest them. While this was happening, depositions -- statements people made on paper outside of court -- were taken and evidence gathered, typically against the accused. After evidence or charges were presented, and depositions sworn to before the court, the grand jury would decide whether to indict the person, and if so, on what charges. If indicted, the person's case would then go to a petit jury, or to "trial" something like we know it only much faster, to decide guilt or innocence. Guilt in a case of witchcraft in 1692 came with an automatic sentence of death by hanging, as per English law.
Saltonstall was one of the original magistrates, but quit early on because of the reservations portrayed as attributed to Sewall's character in the play. Of the magistrates, only Sewall ever expressed public regret for his actions, asking in 1696 to have his minister, Rev. Samuel Willard, read a statement from the pulpit of this church to the congregation, accepting his share of the blame for the trials.
Rebecca Nurse was hanged on July 19, John Proctor on August 19, and Martha Corey on September 22 -- not all on the same day on the same gallows. And the only person executed who recited the Lord's Prayer on the gallows was Rev. George Burroughs -- which caused quite a stir since it was generally believed at the time that a witch could not say the Lord's Prayer without making a mistake. They also would not have been hanged while praying, since the condemned were always allowed their last words and prayers.
Reverend Hale would not have signed any "death warrants," as he claims to have signed 17 in the play. That was not for the clergy to do. Both existing death warrants are signed by William Stoughton.
The elderly George Jacobs was not accused of sending his spirit in through the window to lie on the Putnam's daughter -- in fact, it was usually quite the opposite case: women such as Bridget Bishop were accused of sending their spirits into men's bedrooms to lie on them. In that period, women were perceived as the lusty, sexual creatures whose allure men must guard against!
The hysteria did not die out "as more and more people refused to save themselves by giving false confessions," as the epilogue of the movie states. The opposite was true: more and more people gave false confessions to save themselves as it became apparent that confession could save one from the noose. What ended the trials was the intervention of Governor William Phips.
Contrary to what Phips told the Crown in England, he was not off in Maine fighting the Indians in King William's War through that summer, since he attended governor's council meetings regularly that summer, which were also attended by the magistrates. But public opinion of the trials did take a turn. There were over two hundred people in prison when the general reprieve was given, but they were not released until they paid their prison fees. Neither did the tide turn when Abigail Williams accused Rev. Hale's wife, as the play claims -- although the "afflicted" did start accusing a lot more people far and wide to the point of absurdity, including various people around in other Massachusetts towns whom they had never laid eyes on, including notable people such as the famous hero Capt. John Alden (who escaped after being arrested).
Abigail Williams probably couldn't have laid her hands on 31 pounds in Samuel Parris' house, to run away with John Proctor, when Parris' annual salary was contracted at 66 pounds, only a third of which was paid in money. The rest was to be paid in foodstuffs and other supplies, but he even then, he had continual disputes with the parishioners about supplying him with much-needed firewood they owed him.
Certain key people in the real events appear nowhere in Miller's play: John Indian, Rev. Nicholas Noyes, Sarah Cloyce, and most notably, Cotton Mather.
Giles Corey was not executed for refusing to name a witness, as portrayed in the movie. The play is accurate: he was accused of witchcraft, and refused to enter a plea, which held up the proceedings, since the law of the time required that the accused enter a plea. He was pressed to death with stones, but the method was used to try to force him to enter a plea so that his trial could proceed. Corey probably realized that if he was tried at all, he would be executed, and his children would be disinherited. (Interestingly, Miller wrote both the play and the screenplay... Who knows why he changed it to a less-accurate explanation for his punishment and execution?)
"The afflicted" comprised not just a group of a dozen teenage girls -- there were men and adult women who were also "afflicted," including John Indian, Ann Putnam, Sr., and Sarah Bibber -- or anyone in Andover, where more people were accused than in Salem Village!
There's a tiny scene in the movie with a goat getting into someone's garden and tempers flaring -- the actual history is that three years before the witchcraft accusations, a neighbor's pigs got into the Nurse family's fields, and Rebecca Nurse flew off the handle yelling at him about it. Soon thereafter, the neighbor had an apparent stroke and died within a few months. This was seen as evidence in 1692 of Rebecca Nurse's witchcraft.
Betty Parris' mother was not dead, but very much alive at the time. She died in 1696, four years after the events.
Soon after the legal proceedings began, Betty was shuttled off to live in Salem Town with Stephen Sewall's family. Stephen was the clerk of the Court, brother of Judge Samuel Sewall.
The Parris family also included two other children -- an older brother, Thomas (b. 1681), and a younger sister, Susannah (b. 1687) -- not just Betty and her relative Abigail, who was probably born around 1681.
Abigail Williams is often called Rev. Parris' "niece" but in fact there is no genealogical evidence to prove their familial relationship. She is sometimes in the original texts referred to as his "kinfolk" however.
Miller admits in the introduction to the play that he boosted Abigail Williams' age to 17 even though the real girl was only 11, but he never mentions that John Proctor was 60 and Elizabeth, 41, was his third wife. Proctor was not a farmer but a tavern keeper. Living with them was their daughter aged 15, their son who was 17, and John's 33-year-old son from his first marriage.
Everyone in the family was eventually accused of witchcraft. Elizabeth Proctor was indeed pregnant, during the trial, and did have a temporary stay of execution after convicted, which ultimately spared her life because it extended past the end of the period that the executions were taking place.
The first two girls to become afflicted were Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, not Ann Putnam, and they had violent, physical fits, not a sleep that they could not wake from.
There never was any wild dancing rite in the woods led by Tituba, and certainly Rev. Parris never stumbled upon them. Some of the local girls had attempted to divine the occupations of their future husbands with an egg in a glass -- crystal-ball style. Tituba and her husband, John Indian (absent in Miller's telling), were asked by a neighbor, Mary Sibley, to bake a special "witch cake," -- made of rye and the girls' urine, fed to a dog -- European white magic to ascertain who the witch was who was afflicting the girls.
The Putnam's daughter was not named Ruth, but Ann, like her mother, probably changed by Miller so the audience wouldn't confuse the mother and the daughter. In reality, the mother was referred to as "Ann Putnam Senior" and the daughter as "Ann Putnam Junior."
Ann/Ruth was not the only Putnam child out of eight to survive infancy. In 1692, the Putnams had six living children, Ann being the eldest, down to 1-year-old Timothy. Ann Putnam Sr. was pregnant during most of 1692. Ann Sr. and her sister, however did lose a fair number of infants, though certainly not all, and by comparison, the Nurse family lost remarkably few for the time.
Rev. Parris claims to Giles Corey that he is a "graduate of Harvard" -- he did not in fact graduate from Harvard, although he had attended for a while and dropped out.
The judges in The Crucible are Samuel Sewall, Thomas Danforth, and John Hathorne. The full panel of magistrates for the special Court of Oyer and Terminer were in fact named by the new charter, which arrived in Massachusetts on May 14, 1692 were William Stoughton, John Richards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Wait Winthrop, Bartholomew Gedney, Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin and Peter Sergeant. Five of these eight had to be present to form a presiding bench, and at least one of those five had to be Stoughton, Richards, or Gedney.
Thomas Danforth the Deputy Governor, joined the magistrates on occasion as the presiding magistrate.
The events portrayed here were the examinations of the accused in Salem Village from March to April in the context of a special court of "Oyer and Terminer." These were not the actual trials, per se, which began later, in June 1692. The procedure was basically this: someone would bring a complaint to the authorities, and the authorities would decide if there was enough reason to send the sheriff or other law enforcement officer to arrest them. While this was happening, depositions -- statements people made on paper outside of court -- were taken and evidence gathered, typically against the accused. After evidence or charges were presented, and depositions sworn to before the court, the grand jury would decide whether to indict the person, and if so, on what charges. If indicted, the person's case would then go to a petit jury, or to "trial" something like we know it only much faster, to decide guilt or innocence. Guilt in a case of witchcraft in 1692 came with an automatic sentence of death by hanging, as per English law.
Saltonstall was one of the original magistrates, but quit early on because of the reservations portrayed as attributed to Sewall's character in the play. Of the magistrates, only Sewall ever expressed public regret for his actions, asking in 1696 to have his minister, Rev. Samuel Willard, read a statement from the pulpit of this church to the congregation, accepting his share of the blame for the trials.
Rebecca Nurse was hanged on July 19, John Proctor on August 19, and Martha Corey on September 22 -- not all on the same day on the same gallows. And the only person executed who recited the Lord's Prayer on the gallows was Rev. George Burroughs -- which caused quite a stir since it was generally believed at the time that a witch could not say the Lord's Prayer without making a mistake. They also would not have been hanged while praying, since the condemned were always allowed their last words and prayers.
Reverend Hale would not have signed any "death warrants," as he claims to have signed 17 in the play. That was not for the clergy to do. Both existing death warrants are signed by William Stoughton.
The elderly George Jacobs was not accused of sending his spirit in through the window to lie on the Putnam's daughter -- in fact, it was usually quite the opposite case: women such as Bridget Bishop were accused of sending their spirits into men's bedrooms to lie on them. In that period, women were perceived as the lusty, sexual creatures whose allure men must guard against!
The hysteria did not die out "as more and more people refused to save themselves by giving false confessions," as the epilogue of the movie states. The opposite was true: more and more people gave false confessions to save themselves as it became apparent that confession could save one from the noose. What ended the trials was the intervention of Governor William Phips.
Contrary to what Phips told the Crown in England, he was not off in Maine fighting the Indians in King William's War through that summer, since he attended governor's council meetings regularly that summer, which were also attended by the magistrates. But public opinion of the trials did take a turn. There were over two hundred people in prison when the general reprieve was given, but they were not released until they paid their prison fees. Neither did the tide turn when Abigail Williams accused Rev. Hale's wife, as the play claims -- although the "afflicted" did start accusing a lot more people far and wide to the point of absurdity, including various people around in other Massachusetts towns whom they had never laid eyes on, including notable people such as the famous hero Capt. John Alden (who escaped after being arrested).
Abigail Williams probably couldn't have laid her hands on 31 pounds in Samuel Parris' house, to run away with John Proctor, when Parris' annual salary was contracted at 66 pounds, only a third of which was paid in money. The rest was to be paid in foodstuffs and other supplies, but he even then, he had continual disputes with the parishioners about supplying him with much-needed firewood they owed him.
Certain key people in the real events appear nowhere in Miller's play: John Indian, Rev. Nicholas Noyes, Sarah Cloyce, and most notably, Cotton Mather.
Giles Corey was not executed for refusing to name a witness, as portrayed in the movie. The play is accurate: he was accused of witchcraft, and refused to enter a plea, which held up the proceedings, since the law of the time required that the accused enter a plea. He was pressed to death with stones, but the method was used to try to force him to enter a plea so that his trial could proceed. Corey probably realized that if he was tried at all, he would be executed, and his children would be disinherited. (Interestingly, Miller wrote both the play and the screenplay... Who knows why he changed it to a less-accurate explanation for his punishment and execution?)
"The afflicted" comprised not just a group of a dozen teenage girls -- there were men and adult women who were also "afflicted," including John Indian, Ann Putnam, Sr., and Sarah Bibber -- or anyone in Andover, where more people were accused than in Salem Village!
There's a tiny scene in the movie with a goat getting into someone's garden and tempers flaring -- the actual history is that three years before the witchcraft accusations, a neighbor's pigs got into the Nurse family's fields, and Rebecca Nurse flew off the handle yelling at him about it. Soon thereafter, the neighbor had an apparent stroke and died within a few months. This was seen as evidence in 1692 of Rebecca Nurse's witchcraft.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
To access IFolders:
Click on the IFolders icon on your desktop, then click on IFolders again (if necessary).
Login. Your username is your first name, followed by a period, followed by your last name - all lowercase, with no spaces. For example: daniel.brugioni
Your password is your four digit student ID number.
Once logged in, click on "Create New Folder." Name it.
To save - first, save your essay to the computer. Then, in IFolders, click browse, find your essay title, double click on the title, then click upload. It will be saved, and you can open it anywhere - even Mongolia.
Click on the IFolders icon on your desktop, then click on IFolders again (if necessary).
Login. Your username is your first name, followed by a period, followed by your last name - all lowercase, with no spaces. For example: daniel.brugioni
Your password is your four digit student ID number.
Once logged in, click on "Create New Folder." Name it.
To save - first, save your essay to the computer. Then, in IFolders, click browse, find your essay title, double click on the title, then click upload. It will be saved, and you can open it anywhere - even Mongolia.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Background on the Salem Witch Trials - Use these links to answer the questions below.
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
1. Approximately when did the Salem witch trials take place?
2. What are some possible causes for the hysteria in Salem?
3. Who was Samuel Parrish?
4. Who was Tituba?
5. What event concerning the Parrish children ignited the hysteria?
6. Who was Cotton Mather?
7. What types of punishment were used for those accused of witchcraft?
8. What happened to those who did not confess to witchcraft?
9. How many lives did the Salem trials ultimately claim?
Background on McCarthyism - More links, more questions.
http://encarta.msn.com/
1. What did Senator Joseph McCarthy have to do with the Red Scare of the 1950’s?
2. What political situation prompted the hysteria during the Red Scare?
3. What is the HUAC and what did it set out to do in the 1940’s and 1950’s?
4. What were blacklists and who was most likely to be named to these lists?
5. What happened to those accused by Joseph McCarthy and the HUAC?
6. What kinds of trials or hearings were held? Were they fair or not?
7. What questions were accused people asked?
8. How many were found guilty? Any famous people?
9. What ultimately happened to his investigation?
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
1. Approximately when did the Salem witch trials take place?
2. What are some possible causes for the hysteria in Salem?
3. Who was Samuel Parrish?
4. Who was Tituba?
5. What event concerning the Parrish children ignited the hysteria?
6. Who was Cotton Mather?
7. What types of punishment were used for those accused of witchcraft?
8. What happened to those who did not confess to witchcraft?
9. How many lives did the Salem trials ultimately claim?
Background on McCarthyism - More links, more questions.
http://encarta.msn.com/
1. What did Senator Joseph McCarthy have to do with the Red Scare of the 1950’s?
2. What political situation prompted the hysteria during the Red Scare?
3. What is the HUAC and what did it set out to do in the 1940’s and 1950’s?
4. What were blacklists and who was most likely to be named to these lists?
5. What happened to those accused by Joseph McCarthy and the HUAC?
6. What kinds of trials or hearings were held? Were they fair or not?
7. What questions were accused people asked?
8. How many were found guilty? Any famous people?
9. What ultimately happened to his investigation?
Monday, October 22, 2007
“The Horla” Quiz.
Part One – Short Answer (5 points each)
1. Where did the narrator believe the Horla came from?
2. What was his first evidence of the Horla? (There are several answers; be specific.)
3. What did the narrator leave for the Horla when he went to sleep?
4. What does the narrator find in the morning? (Refer to number three.)
5. What does the narrator do at the end of the story?
Part Two – Essay (25 points)
Does the Horla exist, or is it a figment of the narrator’s imagination? What evidence supports the presence of an entity, and what evidence supports madness? Be specific and use at least three relevant examples.
Part One – Short Answer (5 points each)
1. Where did the narrator believe the Horla came from?
2. What was his first evidence of the Horla? (There are several answers; be specific.)
3. What did the narrator leave for the Horla when he went to sleep?
4. What does the narrator find in the morning? (Refer to number three.)
5. What does the narrator do at the end of the story?
Part Two – Essay (25 points)
Does the Horla exist, or is it a figment of the narrator’s imagination? What evidence supports the presence of an entity, and what evidence supports madness? Be specific and use at least three relevant examples.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Here is a link for the short story "The Horla." Be sure to read it, in its entirety, by Monday, when there will be a quiz.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Friday, September 07, 2007
Thursday, May 31, 2007
·Choose 2-4 essays and/or activities you've done in this class, and paste them directly into your website's publish page.
.Write a reflection (1-2 pages, double-spaced) about your essays, what they
meant to you, why you chose them – and your overall progress as an English student.
· Type or paste it directly into your www.blogger.com page.
· To highlight text, hold down the control key, and the “a” key.
· To copy text, hold down control and “c”
· To paste, hold down control and “v”
· To access your criterion page:
· Go to criterion.ets.org. Do not type www.
· Click Go to Criterion Student Website.
§ Your username is your first initial, followed by a period, followed by your last name. Ex: d.comer
§ Your password is the last four digits of your student ID.
.Write a reflection (1-2 pages, double-spaced) about your essays, what they
meant to you, why you chose them – and your overall progress as an English student.
· Type or paste it directly into your www.blogger.com page.
· To highlight text, hold down the control key, and the “a” key.
· To copy text, hold down control and “c”
· To paste, hold down control and “v”
· To access your criterion page:
· Go to criterion.ets.org. Do not type www.
· Click Go to Criterion Student Website.
§ Your username is your first initial, followed by a period, followed by your last name. Ex: d.comer
§ Your password is the last four digits of your student ID.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007
Journals are due! Look below to see what journals you should have.
Freshmen: (50 Points)
Creative Writing:
Similarities/ Differences b/w Romeo and Juliet and Save the Last Dance.
Have R+J been making good decisions?
Response to the painting Land of the Lotus Eaters.
Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world?
Grammar Journals: (FIrst lines/ topics listed)
My running shoes are pretty rad.
Pay up or die!
Clauses 1
Adj. clauses
Noun/ Adverb clauses
Sentence Structure
Sophomores: (55 points)
Creative Writing:
Response to the "Christmas Truce" article.
List of Power-Hungry Characters
If you could talk to Brutus, what would you say to him?
Respond to the painting Ceremony at Sunset.
Grammar Journals: (List of First Lines/ Topics)
Passive Voice
Misplaced Modifiers
Dangling Modifiers
Modals #1
Modals #2
Modals #3/ Review
Freshmen: (50 Points)
Creative Writing:
Similarities/ Differences b/w Romeo and Juliet and Save the Last Dance.
Have R+J been making good decisions?
Response to the painting Land of the Lotus Eaters.
Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world?
Grammar Journals: (FIrst lines/ topics listed)
My running shoes are pretty rad.
Pay up or die!
Clauses 1
Adj. clauses
Noun/ Adverb clauses
Sentence Structure
Sophomores: (55 points)
Creative Writing:
Response to the "Christmas Truce" article.
List of Power-Hungry Characters
If you could talk to Brutus, what would you say to him?
Respond to the painting Ceremony at Sunset.
Grammar Journals: (List of First Lines/ Topics)
Passive Voice
Misplaced Modifiers
Dangling Modifiers
Modals #1
Modals #2
Modals #3/ Review
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
"Driving to Rowan Oak"
I
The slow hum in the walls
Sounds louder
It’s very bad tonight
My nerves! she said
Mine too but didn’t say
And cast my eye inward
To where the green
Hangs wet with bent leaves
I find that waiting for the bang
The explosion
Makes me miss the small explosions
Everyday I lose big
Or win and then
Come to you with the news of my achievement
My small victory
Only to see you shrink away
Like plastic from a fire
At the quiet hour
The time when even spirits sleep between
The unaccompanied humming walls
I see the path, it
Takes many forms
And slips serenely southward
The clouds inflating the pine
Permeating
The Springtime sunshine warm
Morning’s a misty reprieve
Painted in dawn-lonely pastels
The underbrush rife with thrush
A passing thunderpeal
Gives way
To the twilight’s humid hush
Alone or nearly alone
The thrill of your touch still
Numbing my fingertips
My road-black nails
A long dormant voice now speaks
Of trips half taken
I leave the safety of numbers
For the mystery of the trail
II
Over the blown land
Over the hanging pines
Over the callused hand
Over the rusted signs
The talking drums, sound
Just on the edge of perception
A thunderstone
Echoes spilling on the noon flat air
Thunk of recognition
Meandering thoughts I
Slump on the splashboard
Wondering if I am only prolonging the inevitable
Or opening another door
There is sclaff then scintillation
Blinding sun on the spillway
The floodwater rising
Giving birth to interred memories
In the thickheaded evening
III
There is sclaff then scintillation
The dirt of inhumation
I saw a girl who looked like you
Leaving from the station
But the train departed early
And I was far away
IV
What’s done can not be undone
Nor what’s said unsaid
The road behind us stretches further than all that’s ahead
Alone on the roadside
Smoke on the air, rising in columns
To the clouds
The air is softer, the stiletto edge of old
Mordancy diminished with my
Easy manipulation of the past
And all the while stretching
On, the sinuous road,
The forthcoming future
Exclusive in its relevance
Slides through the sarcophagus dust
Under painted oaks
Bejeweled with moss in the sun
- Daniel Brugioni
I
The slow hum in the walls
Sounds louder
It’s very bad tonight
My nerves! she said
Mine too but didn’t say
And cast my eye inward
To where the green
Hangs wet with bent leaves
I find that waiting for the bang
The explosion
Makes me miss the small explosions
Everyday I lose big
Or win and then
Come to you with the news of my achievement
My small victory
Only to see you shrink away
Like plastic from a fire
At the quiet hour
The time when even spirits sleep between
The unaccompanied humming walls
I see the path, it
Takes many forms
And slips serenely southward
The clouds inflating the pine
Permeating
The Springtime sunshine warm
Morning’s a misty reprieve
Painted in dawn-lonely pastels
The underbrush rife with thrush
A passing thunderpeal
Gives way
To the twilight’s humid hush
Alone or nearly alone
The thrill of your touch still
Numbing my fingertips
My road-black nails
A long dormant voice now speaks
Of trips half taken
I leave the safety of numbers
For the mystery of the trail
II
Over the blown land
Over the hanging pines
Over the callused hand
Over the rusted signs
The talking drums, sound
Just on the edge of perception
A thunderstone
Echoes spilling on the noon flat air
Thunk of recognition
Meandering thoughts I
Slump on the splashboard
Wondering if I am only prolonging the inevitable
Or opening another door
There is sclaff then scintillation
Blinding sun on the spillway
The floodwater rising
Giving birth to interred memories
In the thickheaded evening
III
There is sclaff then scintillation
The dirt of inhumation
I saw a girl who looked like you
Leaving from the station
But the train departed early
And I was far away
IV
What’s done can not be undone
Nor what’s said unsaid
The road behind us stretches further than all that’s ahead
Alone on the roadside
Smoke on the air, rising in columns
To the clouds
The air is softer, the stiletto edge of old
Mordancy diminished with my
Easy manipulation of the past
And all the while stretching
On, the sinuous road,
The forthcoming future
Exclusive in its relevance
Slides through the sarcophagus dust
Under painted oaks
Bejeweled with moss in the sun
- Daniel Brugioni
Respond to this question (one page minimum):
A tragic hero is, by definition, a person more noble than evil, whose fortunes go from good to bad. Does Brutus fit this description, or is the tragic hero someone else, perhaps even Cassius or Caesar? Do you think, perhaps, that the play lacks a tragic hero? Defend your answer.
Can you think of any other characters (from stories we've read in this class) who fit the above description of a tragic hero? Explain.
A tragic hero is, by definition, a person more noble than evil, whose fortunes go from good to bad. Does Brutus fit this description, or is the tragic hero someone else, perhaps even Cassius or Caesar? Do you think, perhaps, that the play lacks a tragic hero? Defend your answer.
Can you think of any other characters (from stories we've read in this class) who fit the above description of a tragic hero? Explain.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Freshmen: Be sure you've completed all of the following journals. See me for details.
CW 1 - Respond to the Quickwrite on p. 732.
GJ 1 - Subject Complements
CW 2 - How do you feel during a thunderstorm?
GJ 2 - Prepositional Phrases
GJ 3 - Adjective Phrases
CW 3 - Respond to the painting The Lovers, Somali Friends.
GJ 4 - Adverb Phrases
GJ 5 - Verbal Phrases
CW 4 - Respond to the painting A Young Couple.
CW 5 - Respond to the painting of the couple in the orchard.
GJ 6 - Verbals continued
Make sure you have these done, for they're worth 55 points!
CW 1 - Respond to the Quickwrite on p. 732.
GJ 1 - Subject Complements
CW 2 - How do you feel during a thunderstorm?
GJ 2 - Prepositional Phrases
GJ 3 - Adjective Phrases
CW 3 - Respond to the painting The Lovers, Somali Friends.
GJ 4 - Adverb Phrases
GJ 5 - Verbal Phrases
CW 4 - Respond to the painting A Young Couple.
CW 5 - Respond to the painting of the couple in the orchard.
GJ 6 - Verbals continued
Make sure you have these done, for they're worth 55 points!
Monday, February 26, 2007
Read this article and then respond to the overhead prompt.
If you finish early, you may read your novel or check that you have all your journals in.
Grammar Journals (9):
1. Indefinate Pronouns (Agreement)
2. Collective Nouns (Agreement)
3. Conjugation
4. Adverb Phrases
5. Irregular Verbs
6. Tense
7. Progressive Form
8. Lie vs. Lay
9. Sit vs. Set
Creative Writing (6)
1. What did you like the most/ least about The Good Earth?
2. Response to Yosemite Valley Picture
3. How do you feel during a thunderstorm?
4. Is war necessary? (JFK quote).
5. Response to the WW1 Cemetery Picture
6. What would you do if you were stranded on a deserted island?
If you finish early, you may read your novel or check that you have all your journals in.
Grammar Journals (9):
1. Indefinate Pronouns (Agreement)
2. Collective Nouns (Agreement)
3. Conjugation
4. Adverb Phrases
5. Irregular Verbs
6. Tense
7. Progressive Form
8. Lie vs. Lay
9. Sit vs. Set
Creative Writing (6)
1. What did you like the most/ least about The Good Earth?
2. Response to Yosemite Valley Picture
3. How do you feel during a thunderstorm?
4. Is war necessary? (JFK quote).
5. Response to the WW1 Cemetery Picture
6. What would you do if you were stranded on a deserted island?
Thursday, February 08, 2007
1. Research the following new weapons that were developed for use in the Great War and explain how they changed the face of war. Weapons to explore: flamethrower, tank, machine gun, submarine, airplane, and 3" mortar.
2. Explain what "no man's land" was and draw an illustration of it.
3. How was gas used as a biological weapon in the Great War? What types of gas were used, and what were their effects?
4. What was life like in the trenches for the typical German soldier?
5. True or false: You should read ch. 1 by Friday. Answer in 5 pages or less, demonstrating grade-level appropriate control of diction and tone.
6. How did Americans view the war before American involvement? Did this opinion change once the United States was involved? If so, how?
7. What happened at Verdun that made it so notorious?
Click here to start your search. You may also use such search engine sites as Google or Yahoo, or browse Wikipedia. Remember, plagarism is strictly prohibited! Use vivid sensory details in your answers, and don't be afraid to be unusual. Your anwsers are due Friday, so get crackin' weiners.
Mike Greer: Draw the following: snake, bear, square, dog.
2. Explain what "no man's land" was and draw an illustration of it.
3. How was gas used as a biological weapon in the Great War? What types of gas were used, and what were their effects?
4. What was life like in the trenches for the typical German soldier?
5. True or false: You should read ch. 1 by Friday. Answer in 5 pages or less, demonstrating grade-level appropriate control of diction and tone.
6. How did Americans view the war before American involvement? Did this opinion change once the United States was involved? If so, how?
7. What happened at Verdun that made it so notorious?
Click here to start your search. You may also use such search engine sites as Google or Yahoo, or browse Wikipedia. Remember, plagarism is strictly prohibited! Use vivid sensory details in your answers, and don't be afraid to be unusual. Your anwsers are due Friday, so get crackin' weiners.
Mike Greer: Draw the following: snake, bear, square, dog.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
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