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Is Polonius a Good Father?
Write about whether or not you think Polonius is a good father. In your post, explain which of his actions were right and which were wrong. Create your own description of a good father. Write a letter to Polonius offering him advice about ways in which he could become a better parent. Trackback, svp.
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Examine early decisions in LOTF
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice. -William James Piggy, Ralph, and Jack make, or do not make, significant decisions in the first 3 chapters of Lord of the Flies. What are the common decisions they are learning to make? What are some of the…
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Outcome-Illustrating Verbs
AKA Strong Verbs Knowledge of terminology; specific facts; ways and means of dealing with specifics (conventions, trends and sequences, classifications and categories, criteria, methodology); universals and abstractions in a field (principles and generalizations, theories and structures): Knowledge is (here) defined as the remembering (recalling) of appropriate, previously learned information: Arrange; defines; describes; duplicate; enumerates; identifies;…
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Hamlet: Act 1 and 2(English 30)
How do isolation and loneliness affect how we perceive ourselves? Is Horatio a nihilist? A Christian existentialist? Something else? Does he reveal his “imperatives“? How does he respond when evidence challenges his “imperatives”? Consider “Postulates 1-4.” How do characters respond when evidence clearly contradicts their ideals? While viewing/reading/blogging, keep the usual “Cornell” notes with pen…
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Gutenberg Books
from Gutenberg: Easy Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Call of the Wild by Jack London Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Medium Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père Winesburg, Ohio; a group of…
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Why read literature?(English 30)
Mark Twain once shrewdly observed that a person who chooses not to read has no advantage over a person who is unable to read. In industrialized societies today, however, the question is not who reads, because nearly everyone can and does, but what is read. Why should anyone spend precious time with literature when there…