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ELA 20: Longing to Escape
from WILD GEESE The story is set in the 1920s. Judith (Jude) Gare, who is 17 years old, has a passionate and rebellious spirit. Her overbearing father, Caleb, seeks to control Judith through the relentless demands of farm work. Caleb’s tyranny intimidates Judith’s mother, Amelia, as well as Judith’s submissive older sister, Ellen. Lind Archer,…
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A Canadian Family Portrait: The Gares
In Canadian literature the family is handled quite differently. If in England the family is a mansion you live in, and if in America it’s a skin you shed, then in Canada it’s a trap in which you’re caught. The Canadian protagonist often feels just as trapped inside his family as his American counterpart; he…
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ELA 20 Written Assignment
ELA 20-2 Advice to a Panicky Friend One of your friends has shared some of his/her problems with you. Your friend wants advice on how to handle these difficulties because things seem to be going from bad to worse. In fact, your friend is becoming panicky. Write a post/comment/letter to your friend, giving both your…
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Macbeth: Getting Started
Although you may not yet have read or seen Macbeth, you will soon recognize some familiar conflicts and issues, for you have seen them on television and in films, you have read about them in newspapers and magazines. In the play, there are conflicts between heroism and villainy, good and evil, loyalty and treachery, ambition…
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ELA 20 – 2011 Final Exam Study Guide
Read and consider carefully the short story, “An Ounce of Cure” by Alice Munro from the text, The Story Begins When the Story Ends : Canadian and World Short Fiction. Select one of the following critical ideas as your focus and write an essay in which you discuss the ideas developed by the author. Doubt…
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ELA 20 Final Writing Assignment
Write a post in response to a text you read in ELA 20 in which you discuss 3-5 ideas the text creator suggests to you about The Human Condition-In Search of Self. Consider the course focus: The most profound discovery that we can make is our discovery of self. Our identity rests in the kind…
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The Shack Writing Assignment
Write a post in response to The Shack in which you discuss 3-5 ideas WM Paul Young suggests to you about The Human Condition-In Search of Self. Consider your discussions of key questions in the STJ forums on The Shack (login required). Consider your many class discussions on the four postulates: Can something come from…
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Macbeth Act 5 Quiz Hints
1. Macbeth puzzles over 2 “riddles.” 2. Thermoptic Camouflage 3. Macbeth hopes for an emergency. 4. 5. Lex Caesarea?? 6. Lady Macbeth’s “slayer.”
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Macbeth Act 4 Quiz Hints
1. Strange Brew 2. Cop Killer 3. “Your father… was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force.” 4. I got a mojo, too. 5. A Confessor?
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English 20 Final Exam Poll
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