Summer Reading Assignment 2017 - 18

Here's a link to the assigned summer reading. Please follow the instructions on the document. Thanks and I'll meet you in a couple weeks

Summer Reading Assignment Link

The link for Araby is broken so use this one: Araby Link

Final Exam Project Due 5/15 and 5/16 UPDATED

Compose a 3.5 - 4 minute multimedia essay (video, photos, graphics, drawings, paintings, dance, and text) that answers the following question: In four  years what have you learned (no, not just in school) and has the journey been worth it?


https://www.wevideo.com/


WeVideo is probably the best free online video creation platform. There are some other decent tools on your computer:
iMovie
Windows Live movie maker


And these are the best rated downloads for your desktop/laptop:
VSDC video editor.
videopad
 SHOTCUT

All three are free. Reviews say that Shotcut is the easiest to master and both VSDC and Shotcut come with no watermarks or logos

I have examples posted at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUdF-IdclTb3HsfGD5U2tLvQ


and here: jessupsenglish


What will you need?  a composed narrative that effective guides the viewer, photos and videos that support/communicate your assertions, and music that helps create/set mood.

When you are finished properly label your film share it to the appropriate folder:

7th 7th Period Final

6th 6th Period Final

5th 5th Period Final

3rd 3rd Period Final

2nd 2nd Period Final

Major Works Assignment: Due before Wed 5/3

Major Works Assignment:

Please complete your Prezi, slideshow, or animation of each of the major works you've read this year (except Hamlet) and upload the link to Exam Review  If you can not upload it, then place the link on a Google Word Doc and share it to jessupsenglish@gmail.com.

Critical Lens Essay Due 4/5 (B) or 4/6 (A)

Critical Lens Essay: Due Date has been extended by two days so make them count.

1. The Paper Template, should you need one, may be found in the drive folder. Template


2. Submit essays with found poem and analysis to turnitin.com when you are finished. Please DO NOT, under any circumstance, email them or ask me to submit them as you are quite capable and will need to be comfortable with this process next year.


3. The rubric and guidelines for the found poetry is HERE




Essay Revisions: All Students scoring under a 7 must submit deconstruction handouts and new essays that WILL score higher. If your essay was a 1 - 3 you must revise to a 5, a 4 should revise to 6, a 5 to 7.


Revisions Due:
Q1 2015 "XIV" - Both Deconstruction Handouts should be complete.
Q1 2016 "The Juggler" - Essay Deconstruction Handout and New Essay
Q2 2016 "The Mayor of Casterbridge" - Essay Deconstruction Handout and New Essay
Q2 2015 from The Beet Queen - Essay Deconstruction Handout and New Essay


Handout for Q2 Deconstruction questions are available in class if you lost them

Hamlet Log /assignment Checklist

1. 3.1
2. "To Be" paraphrase
3. "To Be" argument
4. To Be" project video
5. 3.2
6. 3.3
7. 3.4
8. Character interaction Act 3.4 Hamlet/Gertrude
9. Act 4 Character studies: Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Laertes
10. Character Interaction charts Act 4.5 Ophelia w/ Laertes, Gertrude, Claudius.
11. Act 5.1
12. Act 5.2
13. Extended Reflection

Final Hamlet Log Entry

After your Logs for Act 5.1 and 5.2 compose one final log reflection:

Hamlet has been read and performed for over 400 years because Hamlet's  problems, conflicts, and questions as play and character are uniquely human. In many ways they are the same problems, conflicts and questions we have today.

This said, how is Hamlet modern? Your reflection should consider not only Hamlet, but also at least two other characters. You should similarly consider how Hamlet's need for certainty reflects something similar in us. (Yes, this will take a bit.of writing).

Hamlet Reading AND viewing 5.1 and 5.2 for 3/22 (A) and 3/23 (B)

Read and view Act 5 scene 1, and Act 5 scene 2 and be prepared to discuss conflicts, surprises, and revelations. Prepare questions for discussion. 

 From 3/20 and 3/21

Here's a video that will guide you through #2 Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5 Character Analysis
 

1. Ophelia in Act 4 scene 5 (with Claudius, Gertrude, and Laertes). Remember, it's entirely possible to have characters in a scene (even in a passage) all talking about a different subject without knowing it (like Hamlet and Gertrude). So pay attention to what you think Ophelia is talking about and what the others are talking about with her (or about her). What might even this say about Ophelia's situation? (From this you should be able to write about her evolution as a character for the Log)

2. Follow Laertes development from 1.2, 1.3, 2.1 (indirect), 3.1, and 4.5 - 4.7 who is he really? How does he change or evolve? What do you learn? Most importantly, what's your opinion? (This will probably help complete your analysis of him for the log as well.)

3. For Viewing: Hamlet Act 5

 5.1  

 5.2

Hamlet TW 3/27 and 3/28

ALL Logs Due 3/27 (A) and 3/28 (B)