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Assignment for Aug. 26 - Sept. 1

Assignment one: Click on the British Timeline link on elizabethfullerton.com. Listen to the entire thing and read all the way up to modern times. Discuss what you discovered from watching/listening to the timeline.

Assignment two: Write two sentences using Unit three vocab. words. Make them interesting, yet appropriate for schoolwork.

Two comments.

Assignment for week of Aug 19 through Aug 25

This week look for examples of the two differing religious beliefs in Beowulf. Find two examples, quote them in your post, and then discuss what they mean to you.

Post number two: find examples of alliteration in "The Wanderer" and quote them with the line numbers.

Leave two quotes.

Since High School Musical 2 is out this weekend

and it's all my kids are watching,  I thought y'all would really like this website.

Zac Efron Please Stop Tanning

I let me know how you like it in the comments section.

Assignment for Aug 13th through August 18, 2007

Discuss something that you thought was interesting about your summer reading book(s).

Now for your second post: Write two sentences using two different words from your Level H Vocabulary Workshop.

Make sure that you leave two comments on your class web log (not this one).

Why do you think I put this on our blog?

Bildungsroman

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A Bildungsroman (IPA: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.roˌmaːn]/, German: "novel of personal development") is a novelistic form which concentrates on the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the protagonist usually from childhood to maturity. These themes are now often portrayed in films as well as novels.

Bildungsromans usually contain the following course:

• The protagonist grows from boy or girl to man or woman.
• The protagonist must have some reason to go on this journey. A loss or discontent must jar him or her at an early stage away from the home or family setting.
• The process of maturing is long, arduous, and gradual, consisting of repeated clashes between the needs or desires of the hero and the views and judgments enforced by an unbending social order. This bears some similarity to Sigmund Freud's concept of the pleasure principle versus the reality principle.
• Eventually, the spirit and values of the social order become manifest in the protagonist, who is then accommodated into society. The novel ends with an assessment by the protagonist of himself/herself and his/her new place in that society.
• The character is generally making a smooth movement away from conformity. Major conflict is self vs. society or individuality vs. conformity.
• There are themes of exile or escape.

Within the genre, an Entwicklungsroman is a story of general growth rather than self-culture; an Erziehungsroman focuses on training and formal education; and a Künstlerroman is about the development of an artist and shows a growth of the self.

Many other genres include a bildungsroman as a prominent part of their story lines; for example, a military story frequently shows a raw recruit receiving a baptism of fire and becoming a battle-hardened soldier. A high fantasy quest may also show a transformation from an adolescent protagonist into an adult aware of his/her powers or lineage.

Feel free to leave a comment and tell me why it is here. Make sure you read the other posts if you haven't yet.

Week One of Blogging: August 5th - August 11th

This week, please do two things:

1. Register for your typepad account. (This should be free, if you are asked to give a credit card number you haven't done it correctly. Just go back and follow the link and instructions in the email.)
2. After reading my sample "100 Things" entry, write and post your own list of 100 things about yourself. Make sure that you use correct grammar and use complete sentences.

If you haven't downloaded the notes yet, go read the post below this one. You need the notes printed out and in class on Wednesday, August 8.

Welcome To Your Senior Year!

Welcome English IV Honors students! This is where you will get your weekly assignments for Beth Fullerton's first block class blog. This week, please go here

and print out the notes.

Or you can download

Download anglosaxon_period_notes.doc

and save on your computer (Just make sure you have a hard copy for your notebook)

Your responsibilities for this blog include checking here for your assignment each week, registering for a typepad account (wait for my invitation to appear in your email and read the directions for signing up), and write two posts and two comments each week by 11:59 pm on Saturday of that week. Make sure that you use professional language. Anything you write on the internet will still be around fifeteen years from now when you want to apply for a promotion or get a new job. Don't let things that you put out into cyberspace send out the wrong message about you.