03/21/2013

This week:

Monday: Free Write If you were absent, then make up any topic and write on it for 3/4 of a page and then have your parents respond to it by adding on to it, saying what they enjoyed about your writing, writing questions they have etc.
Tuesday: "Charge of the Light Brigade" (see me for handout)
Wednesday: "Two Friends" (see me for handout)
Thursday: Assessment: "Influence of Sea Power" (see me for handout)
HW: Brush up on the short story plot structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
Know words like narrative hook and conflict as well
Friday: "Dinner Party" (see me for handout)

***No homework over break***
***Will post "Imperialism" study guide soon; stay tuned!

Mrs. Johnson

03/11/2013

Today in class:

• Day two of District State Reading Test; you will have one more day in class to complete the test. After tomorrow, you must complete the test on your own time and before Thursday afternoon. Times to complete the test are as follows: lunch, during a study hall or another class where you have received permission to do other work, or after school. Assessments will be scored as is by Friday morning.
• Today is the last day to turn in any Great Expectations unit work. You have been given ample amount of time to show me any work that was not entered when the sub was here. Additionally, you have had more than enough time for make up work; therefore, the cut off on that is today unless there are extenuating circumstances to consider.
• Finally, TOMORROW is the LAST DAY TO TURN IN YOUR MOTIF ASSIGNMENT. 

***You DO NOT NEED GREEN BOOKS TOMORROW; we will read a handout in class.

Thank you,

Johnson

03/11/2013

Today in class:

***MOTIF ASSIGNMENT DUE TODAY***
***I WILL NOT ACCEPT IT AFTER WEDNESDAY***
***NO GREAT EXPECTATIONS WORK--We will begin a new unit of study and 

• We started the District Reading Assessment. You will have until Wednesday to finish it in class; it must be completed by Thursday, March 14th after school in order to receive credit--this counts as a proficiency/quiz grade, so please take it seriously. 
• No homework tonight.

Mrs. Johnson

Today: 03/08/2013

Today in class:

Great Expectations Exam
Motif Assignment due Monday
***Bring green book Monday

Johnson

03/06/2013

GE Study Guide:

Test Format: 100 Questions

Multiple Choice

Character Matching

Plot Questions

Order of Major Events

Know the following characters:

Abel Magwitch, Arthur, Bentley Drummle, Biddy, Clara Barley, Clarriker, Compeyson, Estella, Herbert Pocket, Joe Gargery, Matthew Pocket, John Wemmick, Miss Havisham, Miss Skiffins, Molly, Mr. Jaggers, Mr. Pumblechook, Mr. Trabb, Mr. Wopsle, Mrs. Joe Gargery, Orlick, Pip, Startop, The Aged P.

Review the order of major events in the story.

Review Key Plot events from the story.

***TEST FRIDAY!

***MOTIF ASSIGNMENT DUE MONDAY

Updates

Motif Assignment Example Below!
Today in Class: Worked in groups on a prompt--come get one if you were absent.
Homework: Work on Motif Assignment***Due Date Moved to Monday!!!
Great Expectations Test moved to Friday!!!


Motif Assignment: Find two examples and cite them for the following eleven motifs. Format for paper should be:

List 2 quotes with page number
Analysis

List 2 quotes with page number
Analysis

And so on . . .

¨1. Doubles such as: two convicts on the marsh, two invalids, two young women who interest Pip, two secret benefactors, and two adults who mold children after their own purposes.

¨2. Comparison of Characters to Inanimate Objects: Pumblechook=fish, Mrs. Joe’s face=nutmeg grater, Wemmick=letter box

3. Gothic Setting: Havisham's house

4. The Mists: on the marshes/when Pip leaves for London/when the convicts are around

5. Drummle or A.K.A "Spider:" a recurring annoyance for Pip.

6. Creep Crawlers: the spider community at Havisham's, beetles by the fire, mice behind the walls, etc.

7. Miss Havisham's Garden: symbolic of death, rotting things, hmm?

8. Locks and Keys: secrets/opportunities/control

9. Statues: Estella's cheek

10. Gloomy weather: EVERYWHERE! What does it symbolize?

11. Shadows: Orlick, Estella, mystery, etc.

¨Mist Motif Example

¨“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me” (822).

¨Pretend there is another Quote Here

¨In the above excerpt from Great Expectations, the “mist motif” recurs yet again as Pip confronts a new beginning in his life. Ironically, it is the life he has fervently yearned for up to this point, yet Dickens astutely reminds the reader that, while Pip has dreampt of this moment—his opportunity to become a gentleman, he feels conflicted about leaving behind a place he can never forget is his true home.¨

Dickens ingeniously ties in the “mist motif” to symbolize the marsh country fading behind Pip, and his soon-to-be new life as a gentleman in London laying before him as evidenced in the following phrase: “the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.” 

¨

Ironically, while it seems as though Pip has nothing but clarity and success in his new path as the “mists have risen” so-to-speak, Dickens fogs readers’ minds yet again as Pip embarks on another disappointing journey, filled with convoluted mind games and heartache.