Spring 2010 JOURNALS: In-Depth
Spring 2010 JOURNALS: In-Depth
TEJ:
o brief plot summary
o note great lines
o response statement (brief paragraph noting your initial reactions to the story)
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1. define “Literature”2. “Prodigal” reaction
3. “Powder” TEJ
4. making connections
5. “Hour” TEJ
6. “Cat” TEJ
7. “Desiree” TEJ
8. “A&P” TEJ
9. “GCP” TEJ
10. grotesque in “GCP”
11. “Worn Path” TEJ
12. “Rose for Emily” TEJ
13. war poetry TEJ
14. “Richard Cory” & “Could not Stop” questions
15. poems responses
- Define “literature” as you understand it? What are its characteristics? What separates it from the ordinary? What gives it greatness, if greatness is a quality?
- React to “The Parable of the Prodigal Son.” Consider the “fairness” to the Elder Son. Do you think the father is fair to the Elder Son in his generosity to the Prodigal Son? Do you empathize with the Father? The Prodigal Son? The Elder Son?
- Read & complete a Triple-Entry Journal on Tobias Wolff’s “Powder.”
- Making Connections: Look for parallels between the first few works we have read
· works:
o “Prodigal Son”
o “Clod & Pebble”
o “Powder”
o “Say Yes”
· on themes: (choose one, only one, & explore it in a 1 1/2-page journal)
o fatherhood/parenting
o marriage/relationships
o self-sacrificing love
o indirect teaching
o human nature
o another?
- Read & complete a Triple-Entry Journal on Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour.”
- Read & complete a Triple-Entry Journal on Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain.”
- Read & complete a Triple-Entry Journal on Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby.”
- Read & complete a Triple-Entry Journal on John Updike’s “A&P.”
- Read & complete a Triple-Entry Journal on Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People.”
- Briefly research the literary term “the grotesque” & note in a journal examples of it in Flannery O'Connor's “Good Country People.” Sounds like a good test question.
- Read & complete a Triple-Entry Journal on Eudora Welty’s “Worn Path.”
- Read & complete a Triple-Entry Journal on William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.”
- Read the selection of war poetry from our site – War Poems – and react to one (only 1) in a journal. How does it reflect the reality of war? Is it biased toward a particular ideology or political party?
- Read the following poems and in a single journal, react “concisely” to each poem (paragraph per poem):
o “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (611)
o “next to of course god america i” (663)
o “Dulce et Decorum est” (656)
o “The Man He Killed” (657)
o “The Ruined Maid” (658)
- Read EA Robinson’s “Richard Cory” and Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could not Stop for Death” poems and, in a single journal, answer the “Topic Questions” in the text book.