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Category: English 30

  • Gender Equality

    TED video: Sheryl Sandberg: COO, Facebook “Why we have too few women leaders”(2010) [ted id=1040] “Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. Ask yourself some of these focus questions on equality or some of these questions on feminist criticism specifically. Identify Sheryl Sandberg’s core messages about equality. Think carefully.…

  • Hamlet: After Act 1 and 2(English 30)

    Major Response (30-1)”I know not seems.” In I, ii, 76, Hamlet claims that his grief is real, not just a show. Make a chart of all the occasions in Act 1 and 2 when there is a difference between the way a character seems to be and the way he or she really is. Create…

  • Hamlet: Getting Started

    “We all sympathize with Hamlet, and that is understandable, because almost every one of us recognizes in the prince our own characteristics.” – Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Russian novelist and playwright. Hamlet raises many questions that you may recognize from your own life. Thinking about some of these issues will make your experience of the play…

  • Honour and Certainty?

    Hint: consider the focus questions for this course. 30-1 “Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour’s at the stake.” (Act 4 Scene 4, from Hamlet’s “How all occasions do inform against me” soliloquy) Discuss the ideas developed by William Shakespeare in…

  • Separation from a Loved One

    Compare and contrast how the following two poems deal with the theme of separation from a loved one: The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter by Ezra Pound(a translation from original by Li Po) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne Focus on such aspects as imagery, symbolism, archetypes, mood, and characterization. Quote directly from the…

  • English 30: Blake’s Romanticism

    D.C.Williams (1899-1983) said that Blake was a romantic with a critical view on the world, he maintained that Blake’s Songs of Innocence were made as a view of an ideal, somewhat Utopian view whereas he used the Songs of Experience in order to show the suffering and loss posed by the nature of society and…

  • English 30: Waking Up Canadian

    We recently watched The Terminal with Tom Hanks. We looked at the true story of Merhan Nasseri. What do you think about this “Lost Canadians” news article at CBC? What do you think about this video titled “Waking up Canadian”? Consider questions related to our course focus in your writing: The Human Condition: In Search…

  • Masks are Metaphors

    Grandfather would prowl through the living room as though seeking a place of rest and not finding it, would stare fixedly without speaking, and would then descend the basement steps to the rocking chair which sat beside the furnace. — Margaret Laurence, “Mask of the Bear”(139) … not selfishly–or not always selfishly, we are in…

  • The Lottery Writing Assignments

    Shirley Jackson regarding the letters she received after publishing The Lottery … Curiously, there are three main themes which dominate the letters of that first summer–three themes which might be identified as bewilderment, speculation, and plain old-fashioned abuse. In the years since then, during which the story has been anthologized, dramatized, televised, and even–in one…

  • English 30 Poetry Assignment

    Respond to each of the following in a well-considered post in your blog. Limit your selection of detail to a separate poem for each response. Explain how image and symbol reinforce theme in a poem. Explain how facts about a writer’s life are relevant to your understanding of a poem. Explain how a poem can…