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Honors English II

Hello Sophomores, if you are reading this post you have found our class website. Good. While we are doing our blogging unit, you will check in here once a week and then you will log in to your typepad account to post. I'll give you a topic on Monday and you will have until Saturday of that week to complete the assignment. There will be a time stamp on your post so I will be able to tell what time you hit 'save' and submitted your post. You will also have to leave at least one comment on someone else's post during the week. Remember to sign your comment with the same name as you sign your posts. It has to be the same or I will not be able to count it toward your grade. To let me know that you found this site, leave me a comment. To do that, click the comments link at the bottom of the page.

Quotation for new term

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand short story author  (1888 - 1923)

Assignment for week of December 9th through 15th

This is our last week of blogging. Your first assignment is to evaluate your blogging experience (discuss who made the most relevant posts, who gave good comments, your least favorite topic etc. - just don't bash anyone)

Assignment number two - I've already discussed it in class. Find some Pride and Prejudice fan fiction. A good place to start will be fanfic.net.  Find a story you like (suitable for class) Tell why you like it and then link to it. Then read someone else's choice and review it in the comments of their post.

Assignment for week of December 2 through December 8th, 2007

Discuss "The Paperhanger".  The Harrikin is a recurring setting in Gay's work. The Nashville Scene describes it :

The Harrikin was once replete with mining towns and mining money, but when the ore was all extracted, “the people left like the Maya abandoning their cities to build other cities…, [and] the Harrikin grew wild. Trees sprouted up through the works of man. Kudzu and wild grapevines climbed the machinery until ultimately these machines seemed some curious hybrid of earth and steel.” When a massive tornado—thought to be a hurricane, or “harrikin,” by locals—ripped through a few years later, it upturned houses and trees and dirt roads, leaving behind a tangled maze.

What do you think the Harrikin symbolizes? Also What did you get out of the story?

For your second post, write two sentences using words from unit 12.

Leave one comment.

Assignement for week of November 25th through Dec. 1st.

Assignment 1) Discuss the Bennet family. Which daughter would you want to be and why? Guys, you can discuss whether you would like to be Darcy, Bingley, or Mr. Bennet and why.

Assignment 2) Go find out something about Jane Austen and tell us about it. Try not to use something that someone else used. Also, link back to your source.

Leave one comment, as usual.

Assignment for November 11th through November 17th, 2007

This is a hectic week.

Blog 1) discuss something that you have learned in your notes over the time period.
Blog 2) write one sentence using a vocabulary word from unit 11.

Comment - leave one

Week of November 4th to November 10th, 2007

A) write two sentences using vocabulary words from this weeks (unit 10) unit.

B) Ask a question that no one else (including me) has asked over some part of Hamlet.

C) Leave a comment answering someone's question. Try to answer one that has not been answered yet.

Assignment week of 10/28/07

Assignment 1: Discuss your opinion of Gertrude. Why do you think she married Claudius so quickly after her husband's death? Why does she seem to want Hamlet to "cast thy knighted color off" so quickly after his father's death.

2: Discuss some of the issues you are having with your research paper.

For you comment this week, give someone good   

advice on how to fix their research problem.

Assignment for week of October 21 through October 27th, 2007

Find out something about William Shakespeare and link to the article within your post.
Then write 2 sentences using vocabulary words from Unit 8.
Remember to leave a comment as well.

Hamlet will be starting soon.

Watch this to get ready to begin reading Hamlet next week.