Tuesday – Journal entry – positive and negative adjective to describe George Bailey. Review characters and powerpoint of Capra’s career. Print study guide for Wed.
Wednesday – Identify mood of post-WWII America and how it effected ticket sales for movies. Identify Capra’s message and purpose in the film. Break into study groups and complete study guide for Friday.
Thursday – Time to work on study guide in class. Discuss modern philosophers and how their theories can be applied to the film.
Friday – Review writing assignments. Answer study guide questions.
1) Homework for Monday – a one-page typed personal essay in response to the film. In light of the fact that you are just beginning to realize your dreams, Capra’s message of disillusionment and comfort do not apply to you. What other lesson can you take from the film and apply to your own life? Use a specific scene from the movie to illustrate your example, and then explain how this did or can apply to your own life. Use personal examples if applicable.
2) It’s a Wonderful Life Essay – If you did not read The Road. Read the original short story. Identify themes, motifs, and/or symbols that Capra added to the plot in order to create his film. Explain how these additions improved the final product, and what Capra’s reason was for including these additions.
3) The Road project – posted separately on blog.
Test on It’s a Wonderful Life, and either the short story or The Road, on Tuesday.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The Road Assignment
Project – The Road - Produce a Powerpoint with at least five images that illustrate five great quotes in the book. Be creative in your choices. Remember there is some glimmer of hope in the story; you can also add hope to your image selections as well. (WARNING: NO CANNIBALISM in your assignment. I know it is there – I just don’t want to see it. Concentrate on other imagery from the novel.)
In addition to your powerpoint, type up an explanation of each photo and why you chose it. Give me depth. Study the photos. Do not state the obvious. Explain what the story of the picture is, as well as why you think it exemplifies your chosen quote. Include the quotes and an explanation of why you felt each quote from the story is significant, or why it spoke to you. The written part does not need to be in an essay format – you may number each paragraph to correspond with each slide. You will need a Works Cited page for the book only - trying to cite Google images is a nightmare.
Your typed portion is due by Friday at 4:00. Please post your powerpoint by 4:00 on the public network in the folder entitled “The Road.” Your name should be the name of your powerpoint file.
Here is the inspiration for the project – a review from Esquire of the film:
“The third major cast member of The Road is the setting itself, the world. The film's locations were perhaps the least well-kept secrets in the marketplace of prerelease Web sites about the movie. "Initially we were talking about [filming in] Australia or Iceland," Hillcoat says. "But all of our research took us to looking at images of events like Mount St. Helens, the volcanoes in the Philippines, Hiroshima, Katrina, a set of man-made and natural disasters that have been heavily photographed and filmed. My production designer, sitting in the countryside in Victoria, Australia, found eight miles of abandoned freeway in Pennsylvania on Google Earth, which gave us those dark tunnels. We deliberately used America's real apocalyptic zones. We went to New Orleans to shoot our interior shots in a ruined shopping mall in post-Katrina New Orleans. We used the strip mines in western Pennsylvania. Even billowing clouds in the background of one scene come from 9/11.
"When they pass through a city, there's a shot of two ships sitting on a freeway that looks like a visual effect. That is an actual IMAX 70mm shot taken days after Katrina. We had to doctor the image, grunge it up, make it more toxic, set it into our world, but these places were not hard to find. There's a fair amount of devastation already in the American landscape."
“You don't recognize these presences as some timely message from our near past, as heralds of warning. Like the father and son, the scenes — the forgotten 18-wheeler jackknifed on a freeway bridge, the gas stations littered with useless contraptions, the sinister farmhouses, the sheds with their hand tools piled like ancient contrivances — all of it calls up the now. Grunged and toxic, sure, but sickeningly familiar. You cannot recognize enough to say where this is, but you recognize it. All of it” (Chiarella).
In addition to your powerpoint, type up an explanation of each photo and why you chose it. Give me depth. Study the photos. Do not state the obvious. Explain what the story of the picture is, as well as why you think it exemplifies your chosen quote. Include the quotes and an explanation of why you felt each quote from the story is significant, or why it spoke to you. The written part does not need to be in an essay format – you may number each paragraph to correspond with each slide. You will need a Works Cited page for the book only - trying to cite Google images is a nightmare.
Your typed portion is due by Friday at 4:00. Please post your powerpoint by 4:00 on the public network in the folder entitled “The Road.” Your name should be the name of your powerpoint file.
Here is the inspiration for the project – a review from Esquire of the film:
“The third major cast member of The Road is the setting itself, the world. The film's locations were perhaps the least well-kept secrets in the marketplace of prerelease Web sites about the movie. "Initially we were talking about [filming in] Australia or Iceland," Hillcoat says. "But all of our research took us to looking at images of events like Mount St. Helens, the volcanoes in the Philippines, Hiroshima, Katrina, a set of man-made and natural disasters that have been heavily photographed and filmed. My production designer, sitting in the countryside in Victoria, Australia, found eight miles of abandoned freeway in Pennsylvania on Google Earth, which gave us those dark tunnels. We deliberately used America's real apocalyptic zones. We went to New Orleans to shoot our interior shots in a ruined shopping mall in post-Katrina New Orleans. We used the strip mines in western Pennsylvania. Even billowing clouds in the background of one scene come from 9/11.
"When they pass through a city, there's a shot of two ships sitting on a freeway that looks like a visual effect. That is an actual IMAX 70mm shot taken days after Katrina. We had to doctor the image, grunge it up, make it more toxic, set it into our world, but these places were not hard to find. There's a fair amount of devastation already in the American landscape."
“You don't recognize these presences as some timely message from our near past, as heralds of warning. Like the father and son, the scenes — the forgotten 18-wheeler jackknifed on a freeway bridge, the gas stations littered with useless contraptions, the sinister farmhouses, the sheds with their hand tools piled like ancient contrivances — all of it calls up the now. Grunged and toxic, sure, but sickeningly familiar. You cannot recognize enough to say where this is, but you recognize it. All of it” (Chiarella).
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
It's A Wonderful Life Study Guide
It’s a Wonderful Life Study Guide
Be familiar with the following items, events, and figures in U.S. history from the time period 1919 to 1946.
1. 1919 Flu epidemic (Mr. Gower’s son)
2. Soda Fountain/ Soda Jerk (Mr. Gower’s drug store)
3. Telegram
4. Building and Loan (Bailey business)
5. Charleston contest (Prom scene)
6. Run on a bank
7. Herbert Hoover (portrait in Building and Loan)
8. Air-raid warden
9. Scrap drives
10. 1A / 4F Draft Board
11. War bonds
12. VE Day/VJ Day
13. Medal of Honor
14. Harry Truman
Questions:
1. How many different modes of transportation are used in the film?
2. How does weather affect the mood of the film? How many types of weather are used?
3. What style architecture is the Granville House? Compare this style to the houses in Bailey Park.
4. Give three examples of how technology has changed since this movie was made.
5. Compare George Bailey’s office to Mr. Potter’s office.
6. What are the differences between Martini’s Bar and Nick’s Place?
7. What are the differences between Bedford Falls and Pottersville?
8. What happens to the women in George’s life if he had never been born? His mother? Mary? Violet Bick?
9. Where do these three important sayings appear in the film?
A. Bread... that this house may never know hunger. Salt... that life may always have flavor. And wine... that joy and prosperity may reign forever.
B. Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.
C. All you can take with you is what you have given away. (Hint – it is on the wall in George’s office.)
Vocabulary:
squall
rabble
miser
pox
lout
chloroform
malfeasance
picketing
confound
smidgen
potter’s field
Who said the following significant quotes in the film?
1. Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
2. Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people.
3. You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider.
4. A toast to my big brother, George: The richest man in town.
5. George Bailey, I'll love you 'til the day I die.
6. Boys and girls and music. Why do they need gin?
7. Now you listen to me. I don't want any plastics and I don't want any ground floors. And I don't want to get married *ever* to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do.
8. You know, George, I feel that in a small way we are doing something important. Satisfying a fundamental urge. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace, and we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office.
Be able to identify the following people associated with the film:
Jimmy Stewart
Donna Reed
Lionel Barrymore
Thomas Mitchell
Frank Capra
Be familiar with the following items, events, and figures in U.S. history from the time period 1919 to 1946.
1. 1919 Flu epidemic (Mr. Gower’s son)
2. Soda Fountain/ Soda Jerk (Mr. Gower’s drug store)
3. Telegram
4. Building and Loan (Bailey business)
5. Charleston contest (Prom scene)
6. Run on a bank
7. Herbert Hoover (portrait in Building and Loan)
8. Air-raid warden
9. Scrap drives
10. 1A / 4F Draft Board
11. War bonds
12. VE Day/VJ Day
13. Medal of Honor
14. Harry Truman
Questions:
1. How many different modes of transportation are used in the film?
2. How does weather affect the mood of the film? How many types of weather are used?
3. What style architecture is the Granville House? Compare this style to the houses in Bailey Park.
4. Give three examples of how technology has changed since this movie was made.
5. Compare George Bailey’s office to Mr. Potter’s office.
6. What are the differences between Martini’s Bar and Nick’s Place?
7. What are the differences between Bedford Falls and Pottersville?
8. What happens to the women in George’s life if he had never been born? His mother? Mary? Violet Bick?
9. Where do these three important sayings appear in the film?
A. Bread... that this house may never know hunger. Salt... that life may always have flavor. And wine... that joy and prosperity may reign forever.
B. Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.
C. All you can take with you is what you have given away. (Hint – it is on the wall in George’s office.)
Vocabulary:
squall
rabble
miser
pox
lout
chloroform
malfeasance
picketing
confound
smidgen
potter’s field
Who said the following significant quotes in the film?
1. Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
2. Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people.
3. You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider.
4. A toast to my big brother, George: The richest man in town.
5. George Bailey, I'll love you 'til the day I die.
6. Boys and girls and music. Why do they need gin?
7. Now you listen to me. I don't want any plastics and I don't want any ground floors. And I don't want to get married *ever* to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do.
8. You know, George, I feel that in a small way we are doing something important. Satisfying a fundamental urge. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace, and we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office.
Be able to identify the following people associated with the film:
Jimmy Stewart
Donna Reed
Lionel Barrymore
Thomas Mitchell
Frank Capra
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Weekly Assignments - 12/6
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – finish watching It’s a Wonderful Life. If you miss any of the film, please find a copy and watch it over the holidays. We will complete an in-depth film study and an analysis using different philosophical theories in January. You will also be tested on the film’s plot and characters.
Tuesday – Article due for your exam essay. Make sure your name is on it. You may bring in other articles or primary sources Wed. and Thurs. Rewrites are due Tuesday (with original essay) by 4:00.
Wednesday – Honors essays on Leaving Mother Lake due by 4:00.
Thursday – Vocabulary pretest. Sign up if you are reading The Road over the holidays. If not, you will have an essay due on It's a Wonderful Life in January.
Tuesday – Article due for your exam essay. Make sure your name is on it. You may bring in other articles or primary sources Wed. and Thurs. Rewrites are due Tuesday (with original essay) by 4:00.
Wednesday – Honors essays on Leaving Mother Lake due by 4:00.
Thursday – Vocabulary pretest. Sign up if you are reading The Road over the holidays. If not, you will have an essay due on It's a Wonderful Life in January.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Mid-Term Vocabulary
There are 193 words. The pretest and the exam will have 20 words and 25 definitions to be matched, just like the other vocab tests. I will try not to have two words with close meanings. Good luck!
abominable – detestable, loathsome
accord - to be in agreement or harmony
acquaint – to make aware
Acrostic: a poem in which letters form a name or message when read in sequence
albeit - although
Allegory: a symbolic representation
allusion – reference to a work of literature, film, art, or history
Alms – money, food, or donations to the poor
aperture - an opening, as a hole, gap, crack
Apocalypse: a writing prophesying a cataclysm in which evil forces are destroyed
Apt – given, prone, likely
askance - with suspension, mistrust
Assimilate – to confirm with customs and attitude of a group
astute – clever, cunning, ingenious
avail – to be of value or profit
Awe – an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration
Battle Ode: a poem dedicated to battle
bawdy – indecent, lewd
bequeathed - to hand down; pass on
bibliophile - lover of books
Biography: an account of series of events making up a person’s life
Blaspheme – to speak irreverently of God
boisterous – rough and noisy
Brood - a breed, species, group, or kind
candid – frank, outspoken
Caparisoned - dressed richly
capricious - erratic
Catechism - a series of questions to elicit a point of view
censure - strong or vehement expression of disapproval
Chaff - the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing
chagrin – a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment
Chaste - virginal
Chide - to scold or reproach
Churlish – rude, mean
Civet - cat
clamorous – vigorous in demands
Code: a set of rules or principles or laws
compunction – remorse, uneasiness about the rightness of an action
Consent – to permit or comply
contrive – to devise, invent, plot
conundrum - anything that puzzles
countenance – the look or expression of the face
Courtier – a person who seeks favor by flattery
covetous - wrongly desirous of wealth
Cuckold - a man whose wife has committed adultery
curs – a mean cowardly person (also a mongrel dog0
curt – rudely brief
Debility – a weakened or enfeebled state
Deify - to make a god of
Deportation - the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien or other person from a state.
Diligent - constant in effort to accomplish something
Discourse – a formal discussion of a topic
Doxology - a form of words containing an ascription of praise to God
Effigy – a representation or image
Elegy: a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person
Embossed – to decorate with raised ornament
Emmanuel – “God with us”
emulation - imitation
ennui – boredom, utter weariness and discontent
ephemeral – lasting a short time, fleeting
Epic: a long narrative poem about a hero
Epigram: a short witty poem expressing a single thought or observation
Epigraph - quote at the beginning of a chapter or a book
Epiphany: a literary work presenting a moment of revelation; a divine manifestation
Epitaph - inscription on a tomb
equanimity – calmness, emotional stability
erudition – learning, scholarship
Expedient - fit or suitable for the purpose
faction – a group of people inside a political party
Flog – to beat with a whip
florid – excessively ornate, showy, flowery
flout – to treat with disdain or contempt
Foil – minor character who parallels a major character – used for contrast
Folk Tale: legend forming part of the oral tradition of the common people
Folly – lack of understanding or sense
Galled - impudence
Gentile – people who are not Jewish
Glutton – a person who eats and drinks excessively
Gnash – to grind or strike teeth together
Hallow - to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
Harass – to trouble by repeated attacks
heathen – an irreligious, uncultured or uncivilized person
Homage - respect or reverence paid
humdrum – lacking variety
Hymn: a song or ode in praise or honor of God, a deity, a nation, etc.
Hypocrite – a person who pretends to have virtues or moral beliefs
Infirmity – a physical weakness or ailment
insinuate – to suggest or hint slyly
introspect - to examine one’s own mind, feelings
Invectively - censoriously abusive
irksome – annoying, tiresome
irrevocable – unable to be repealed
Joke: something said or done to provoke laughter
knavery – untrustworthy or dishonest dealing
Lackey - a toady, servile follower
Lamentation – expressing grief
languid - lacking in spirit or interest
Law: a collection of rules imposed by authority
Legend: a non historical handed down by tradition from earlier times
Letter: a written message addressed a person or organization
Liable – legally responsible
Libertine – a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained
Liturgy: a form of public worship or ritual
Locust – grasshopper, cicada
Love Lyric: the lyric of a personal love song
lugubrious – mournful, gloomy
Malign – to defame; speak evil of
mar – to damage or spoil
Maul – to handle or use roughly
Meek – humbly patient
Melancholy - a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual
Mettle – courage and fortitude
mirth – amusement or laughter
morphology – the form or structure of anything
Motley – exhibiting great diversity
Mutton - the flesh of sheep
Myth: a traditional or legendary story
Narrative: a narrated account; a story
nebulous – hazy, vague, cloudlike
nomenclature – the names or terms comprising a system
nominal - minimal
odious – hateful, detestable
Oracle: an utterance, given by a priest at a shrine in response of a God to an inquiry
orator – public speaker
Ostentation - pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance
Parable: a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson
Parlous - dangerous
peevish – cross, querulous, fretful
Penury – extreme poverty
perspicacity – keenness of mental perception
Pharisees – a powerful Jewish sect that adhered to laws and traditions
Piety – reverence for God
Pinnacle – a lofty peak, the culminating point
Plunder – to rob
Poetry: metrical writing
pogrom – an organized massacre, esp. of Jews
pompous – ostentatiously lofty or high-flown
portly – heavy, fat, stout
Primogeniture – the eldest son inherits the estate
Proclaim – to announce or declare
Prodigal - wasteful
propagation – transmission or dissemination of information
Proverb: a pithy popular saying
Pun: a play on words
Quintessence - the pure essence of a substance
Quotidian - daily
Ravenous – extreme hunger
Reap – to gather or take
Rebuke – to express sharp disapproval
Recompense – to repay or reward for service
Reconcile – to bring into agreement
resolute – firmly resolved
revelry – noisy merrymaking
Revile – to address abusively
rhetoric - the undue use of exaggeration or display
Righteous - acting in an upright, moral way; virtuous.
Rote - from memory, without thought of the meaning
rudiments - undeveloped or imperfect form of something
rueful - causing sorrow or pity
rumination- to meditate or muse
rustic – simple, country, unsophisticated
Sadducees – priests and aristocrats who did not believe in the coming of a messiah
sanctity – saintliness or holiness
Saucy - rude, fresh, brazen
sententious – expressing much in a few words
Sermon: an address of a religious nature
Short Story: a work of fiction that is usually written in prose
shrewd – cunning, clever
simpering – smiling in a silly, self-conscious manner
Sinewy – tough, firm, resilient
slander - to utter slander against; defame
Smolder – to burn without flame
Song: a short musical composition with words
Sow – to scatter see over the earth
Splendor – brilliant in appearance, glory
tenacious – persistent, stubborn
Thresh - to separate the grain by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail
traverse – to extend over, through, or across
Trespass – an offense, sin or wrong
Uncouth – awkward, clumsy or unmannerly
Unquenchable – unable to satisfy or allay
usurp – to seize by force without legal right
Venerable – commanding respect due to age or dignity
verity – truth, reality
vex – to irritate, annoy
victual – food supplies
Vindicate – to clear from an accusation
whetstone – a stone for sharpening
Winnow - to free grain from chaff and dirt, esp. by throwing it into the air
wooed - to seek favor, affection, or love
wrangling – arguing, haggling
wrath - anger
Yoke – a device for joining draft animals
abominable – detestable, loathsome
accord - to be in agreement or harmony
acquaint – to make aware
Acrostic: a poem in which letters form a name or message when read in sequence
albeit - although
Allegory: a symbolic representation
allusion – reference to a work of literature, film, art, or history
Alms – money, food, or donations to the poor
aperture - an opening, as a hole, gap, crack
Apocalypse: a writing prophesying a cataclysm in which evil forces are destroyed
Apt – given, prone, likely
askance - with suspension, mistrust
Assimilate – to confirm with customs and attitude of a group
astute – clever, cunning, ingenious
avail – to be of value or profit
Awe – an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration
Battle Ode: a poem dedicated to battle
bawdy – indecent, lewd
bequeathed - to hand down; pass on
bibliophile - lover of books
Biography: an account of series of events making up a person’s life
Blaspheme – to speak irreverently of God
boisterous – rough and noisy
Brood - a breed, species, group, or kind
candid – frank, outspoken
Caparisoned - dressed richly
capricious - erratic
Catechism - a series of questions to elicit a point of view
censure - strong or vehement expression of disapproval
Chaff - the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing
chagrin – a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment
Chaste - virginal
Chide - to scold or reproach
Churlish – rude, mean
Civet - cat
clamorous – vigorous in demands
Code: a set of rules or principles or laws
compunction – remorse, uneasiness about the rightness of an action
Consent – to permit or comply
contrive – to devise, invent, plot
conundrum - anything that puzzles
countenance – the look or expression of the face
Courtier – a person who seeks favor by flattery
covetous - wrongly desirous of wealth
Cuckold - a man whose wife has committed adultery
curs – a mean cowardly person (also a mongrel dog0
curt – rudely brief
Debility – a weakened or enfeebled state
Deify - to make a god of
Deportation - the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien or other person from a state.
Diligent - constant in effort to accomplish something
Discourse – a formal discussion of a topic
Doxology - a form of words containing an ascription of praise to God
Effigy – a representation or image
Elegy: a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person
Embossed – to decorate with raised ornament
Emmanuel – “God with us”
emulation - imitation
ennui – boredom, utter weariness and discontent
ephemeral – lasting a short time, fleeting
Epic: a long narrative poem about a hero
Epigram: a short witty poem expressing a single thought or observation
Epigraph - quote at the beginning of a chapter or a book
Epiphany: a literary work presenting a moment of revelation; a divine manifestation
Epitaph - inscription on a tomb
equanimity – calmness, emotional stability
erudition – learning, scholarship
Expedient - fit or suitable for the purpose
faction – a group of people inside a political party
Flog – to beat with a whip
florid – excessively ornate, showy, flowery
flout – to treat with disdain or contempt
Foil – minor character who parallels a major character – used for contrast
Folk Tale: legend forming part of the oral tradition of the common people
Folly – lack of understanding or sense
Galled - impudence
Gentile – people who are not Jewish
Glutton – a person who eats and drinks excessively
Gnash – to grind or strike teeth together
Hallow - to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
Harass – to trouble by repeated attacks
heathen – an irreligious, uncultured or uncivilized person
Homage - respect or reverence paid
humdrum – lacking variety
Hymn: a song or ode in praise or honor of God, a deity, a nation, etc.
Hypocrite – a person who pretends to have virtues or moral beliefs
Infirmity – a physical weakness or ailment
insinuate – to suggest or hint slyly
introspect - to examine one’s own mind, feelings
Invectively - censoriously abusive
irksome – annoying, tiresome
irrevocable – unable to be repealed
Joke: something said or done to provoke laughter
knavery – untrustworthy or dishonest dealing
Lackey - a toady, servile follower
Lamentation – expressing grief
languid - lacking in spirit or interest
Law: a collection of rules imposed by authority
Legend: a non historical handed down by tradition from earlier times
Letter: a written message addressed a person or organization
Liable – legally responsible
Libertine – a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained
Liturgy: a form of public worship or ritual
Locust – grasshopper, cicada
Love Lyric: the lyric of a personal love song
lugubrious – mournful, gloomy
Malign – to defame; speak evil of
mar – to damage or spoil
Maul – to handle or use roughly
Meek – humbly patient
Melancholy - a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual
Mettle – courage and fortitude
mirth – amusement or laughter
morphology – the form or structure of anything
Motley – exhibiting great diversity
Mutton - the flesh of sheep
Myth: a traditional or legendary story
Narrative: a narrated account; a story
nebulous – hazy, vague, cloudlike
nomenclature – the names or terms comprising a system
nominal - minimal
odious – hateful, detestable
Oracle: an utterance, given by a priest at a shrine in response of a God to an inquiry
orator – public speaker
Ostentation - pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance
Parable: a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson
Parlous - dangerous
peevish – cross, querulous, fretful
Penury – extreme poverty
perspicacity – keenness of mental perception
Pharisees – a powerful Jewish sect that adhered to laws and traditions
Piety – reverence for God
Pinnacle – a lofty peak, the culminating point
Plunder – to rob
Poetry: metrical writing
pogrom – an organized massacre, esp. of Jews
pompous – ostentatiously lofty or high-flown
portly – heavy, fat, stout
Primogeniture – the eldest son inherits the estate
Proclaim – to announce or declare
Prodigal - wasteful
propagation – transmission or dissemination of information
Proverb: a pithy popular saying
Pun: a play on words
Quintessence - the pure essence of a substance
Quotidian - daily
Ravenous – extreme hunger
Reap – to gather or take
Rebuke – to express sharp disapproval
Recompense – to repay or reward for service
Reconcile – to bring into agreement
resolute – firmly resolved
revelry – noisy merrymaking
Revile – to address abusively
rhetoric - the undue use of exaggeration or display
Righteous - acting in an upright, moral way; virtuous.
Rote - from memory, without thought of the meaning
rudiments - undeveloped or imperfect form of something
rueful - causing sorrow or pity
rumination- to meditate or muse
rustic – simple, country, unsophisticated
Sadducees – priests and aristocrats who did not believe in the coming of a messiah
sanctity – saintliness or holiness
Saucy - rude, fresh, brazen
sententious – expressing much in a few words
Sermon: an address of a religious nature
Short Story: a work of fiction that is usually written in prose
shrewd – cunning, clever
simpering – smiling in a silly, self-conscious manner
Sinewy – tough, firm, resilient
slander - to utter slander against; defame
Smolder – to burn without flame
Song: a short musical composition with words
Sow – to scatter see over the earth
Splendor – brilliant in appearance, glory
tenacious – persistent, stubborn
Thresh - to separate the grain by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail
traverse – to extend over, through, or across
Trespass – an offense, sin or wrong
Uncouth – awkward, clumsy or unmannerly
Unquenchable – unable to satisfy or allay
usurp – to seize by force without legal right
Venerable – commanding respect due to age or dignity
verity – truth, reality
vex – to irritate, annoy
victual – food supplies
Vindicate – to clear from an accusation
whetstone – a stone for sharpening
Winnow - to free grain from chaff and dirt, esp. by throwing it into the air
wooed - to seek favor, affection, or love
wrangling – arguing, haggling
wrath - anger
Yoke – a device for joining draft animals
MLA Rules
Know these rules for the exam and you will be able to correct a sample Works Cited page.
1) Works Cited is always a separate page.
2) The works cited page is still in the text of your research paper. It will include the page number heading continued from the last page of your text.
3) The title of the page is Works Cited. Center this title at the top of the page.
4) Double space between the title and your first entry.
5) List all entries in alphabetical order by last name of the author; sources with no author should be alphabetized by the first important word in the entry.
6) Entries should not be numbered.
7) Underline or italicize titles of independently published works: books, periodicals, albums, and films. Use quotation marks around titles of short works such as a poem, article, or short story.
8) Double-space between lines of an entry and between entries.
9) Begin the first line of each entry at the left margin; indent all other lines five spaces.
10) All works cited must match internal citations in your paper. Do not list a work on your Works Cited page that you do not cite in your paper.
11) The url address is separated by < and >.
12) Dates are written with the number first, the abbreviated month next and then the year. No commas are used. Ex: 2 Dec. 2008.
13) The font style and type size on a Works Cited page are the same as what is used in your paper. Ex: Times New Roman.
14) All entries end in a period.
1) Works Cited is always a separate page.
2) The works cited page is still in the text of your research paper. It will include the page number heading continued from the last page of your text.
3) The title of the page is Works Cited. Center this title at the top of the page.
4) Double space between the title and your first entry.
5) List all entries in alphabetical order by last name of the author; sources with no author should be alphabetized by the first important word in the entry.
6) Entries should not be numbered.
7) Underline or italicize titles of independently published works: books, periodicals, albums, and films. Use quotation marks around titles of short works such as a poem, article, or short story.
8) Double-space between lines of an entry and between entries.
9) Begin the first line of each entry at the left margin; indent all other lines five spaces.
10) All works cited must match internal citations in your paper. Do not list a work on your Works Cited page that you do not cite in your paper.
11) The url address is separated by < and >.
12) Dates are written with the number first, the abbreviated month next and then the year. No commas are used. Ex: 2 Dec. 2008.
13) The font style and type size on a Works Cited page are the same as what is used in your paper. Ex: Times New Roman.
14) All entries end in a period.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Exam Essay Questions
1) Using the definitions we studied in class, do you consider As You Like It to be a Shakespearean masterpiece or simply a Shakespearean classic? Support your answer with examples from the play and quotes from literary analysis.
2) Explain how it was possible for J.K. Rowling to have been influenced by the Apocryphal childhood of Jesus in creating the character of Harry Potter. Use examples from the New Testament Apocrypha and quotes from literary analysis in your answer.
3) On November 28, 2010, the Palestinian Ministry of Information published an article denying Israel's Jewish connection to the Western Wall. It claims the wall is an integral part of the mosque and suggests that Israel falsely "claims ownership of" the wall. In your opinion, who does the wall belong to, and how can this argument be settled peacefully? Use Dr. Dunlap’s lecture, the National Geographic article or other historical source, and current expert opinions in your answer.
4) Explain the difference between the terms “Apocalypse” and “Armageddon” (in the Biblical sense). Choose one film or novel that you feel has been influenced by these concepts and explain this influence using examples from the work and quotes from literary analysis.
5) Explain why the Borges story “Death and the Compass” is or is not a successful piece of traditional detective fiction. Use quotes from the short story and quotes from literary analysis in your answer.
6) You may present a topic of your choice based on what we have studied so far this year on Monday only (or emailed to me over the weekend). After Monday, you are limited to the topics above.
For homework on Tuesday, turn in one, two, or three articles (or excerpts) that you plan to use in your mid-term essay. Make sure the articles are stapled and your name is on each one. I will return these articles to you on the day of the exam. You may not bring any other information to the exam day. I suggest that you formulate your outline ahead of time so that you have plenty of time to write a complete essay with introduction, thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion. You will be required to use internal citations in your essay, but you will not have to create a Works Cited page.
2) Explain how it was possible for J.K. Rowling to have been influenced by the Apocryphal childhood of Jesus in creating the character of Harry Potter. Use examples from the New Testament Apocrypha and quotes from literary analysis in your answer.
3) On November 28, 2010, the Palestinian Ministry of Information published an article denying Israel's Jewish connection to the Western Wall. It claims the wall is an integral part of the mosque and suggests that Israel falsely "claims ownership of" the wall. In your opinion, who does the wall belong to, and how can this argument be settled peacefully? Use Dr. Dunlap’s lecture, the National Geographic article or other historical source, and current expert opinions in your answer.
4) Explain the difference between the terms “Apocalypse” and “Armageddon” (in the Biblical sense). Choose one film or novel that you feel has been influenced by these concepts and explain this influence using examples from the work and quotes from literary analysis.
5) Explain why the Borges story “Death and the Compass” is or is not a successful piece of traditional detective fiction. Use quotes from the short story and quotes from literary analysis in your answer.
6) You may present a topic of your choice based on what we have studied so far this year on Monday only (or emailed to me over the weekend). After Monday, you are limited to the topics above.
For homework on Tuesday, turn in one, two, or three articles (or excerpts) that you plan to use in your mid-term essay. Make sure the articles are stapled and your name is on each one. I will return these articles to you on the day of the exam. You may not bring any other information to the exam day. I suggest that you formulate your outline ahead of time so that you have plenty of time to write a complete essay with introduction, thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion. You will be required to use internal citations in your essay, but you will not have to create a Works Cited page.
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