Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Monday, March 11, 2019
Princess Bride
After taking notes on character types, watch the movie The Princess Bride. Choose a character to follow.
Decide what type of character they are and provide examples from the movie to help make your case.
Have this assignment along with your chapter questions prepared to hand in after Spring Break.
Character types
- Dynamic -
A dynamic character is a person who changes
over time, usually as a result of resolving a central
conflict or facing a major crisis. Most dynamic characters tend to be
central rather than peripheral characters, because resolving the conflict
is the major role of central characters.
- Static -
A static character is someone who does
not change over time; his or her personality does not transform
or evolve.
- Flat -
A flat character is the opposite of a round character. This literary
personality is notable for one kind
of personality trait or characteristic.
- Round -
A rounded character is anyone who has a complex personality; he or she is often
portrayed as a conflicted and contradictory person.
- Stock -
Stock characters are those types of characters who have become conventional or stereotypical through repeated use in particular types of
stories. Stock characters are instantly recognizable to readers or
audience members (e.g. the femme fatale, the cynical but moral private
eye, the mad scientist, the geeky boy with glasses, and the faithful
sidekick). Stock characters are normally one-dimensional flat
characters, but sometimes stock personalities are deeply
conflicted, rounded characters (e.g. the "Hamlet" type).
- Anti-Hero -
A major character, usually the protagonist, who lacks conventional
nobility of mind, and who struggles for values not deemed universally
admirable. Duddy, in Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,
is a classic anti-hero. He's vulgar, manipulative and self-centered.
Nevertheless, Duddy is the center of the story, and we are drawn to the
challenges he must overcome and the goals he seeks to achieve.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Explore English
Hi gang,
Here are notes for this Friday and the following Monday.
Start off with your daily dose of grammar and some literary terms. Write your journal responses and work on chapter questions. Be sure to spend the rest of the class reading. I'll be around to say hello.
Friday
Daily Dose # 17
Define
the dash and describe its uses.
The
dash is an emphatic mark that usually indicates an interruption of thought, a
sharp break or a shift in thought. Uses are to: introduce a word or group that
you wish to emphasize; a break in thought; to set off distinguished
parenthetical material.
Daily
Dose # 18
Define
quotation marks and describe the placement of end punctuation with quotation
marks.
Quotation
marks enclose words, phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs indicating the
beginning and ending of material being repeated or quoted. The comma and period
always come inside quotation marks. Question marks, exclamation points and
dashes come outside quotation marks unless they are part of the quotation. The
semicolon and colon always go outside quotation marks.
Monday
Monday
Daily
Dose # 19
Describe
the uses of the apostrophe.
The
apostrophe is a mark of punctuation and a spelling symbol. It indicates
omission of a letter or letters (wasn’t, can’t, he’s); forms the possessive
case of a noun (the horse’s saddle, the boys’ clubhouse).
Daily
Dose # 20
What
is a verb?
A
verb is a word that specifies actions or events that take place in time or a
relation between two things.
Literary
Devices
Friday
Friday
Symbolism
Symbolism refers to any object
or person which represents something else.
"Finally,
doves fly over the fields of war" (doves symbolize peace)
Tone
Tone refers to the
attitude that a story creates towards it's subject matter. Tone may be formal,
informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or
many other possible attitudes. Tone is sometimes referred to as the mood
that the author establishes within the story.
Imagery
Imagery
is
used in fiction to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory
experience. Imagery may be in many forms, such as metaphors and similes.
"First
day of school smells like new books."
Monday
Monday
Metaphors
Comparing
something to something else.
"The
ocean is a bowl of dreams."
Simile
A
comparison using like or as.
"He
smells like a gym shoe."
Personification
Making an
object act like a person or animal
"The
ducks complained all day."
Chapter Questions (Be sure to answer in complete sentences)
Friday
1. Why is Ralph elected chief?
2. What is the "scar" that is repeatedly mentioned?
3. Why is Jack unable to kill the pig?
4. How is Piggy revealed as most closely tied to the world of adults?
Monday
5. What question does the littlun with the birthmark raise?
6. How do Ralph and Jack answer the question about the beast?
7. How do they start the fire?
8. What two groups with differing goals are emerging?
Journal Questions (write for 10-15 minuets)
Friday
Have you ever been manipulated? How/why? Have you ever manipulated someone?
Monday
Have you ever been scared? What were the circumstances? Tell me the details.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Explore English Short stories
Questions for the story "The Brass Teapot"
- List the following details for this story:
- Protagonist
- Antagonist
- Conflict
- Climax
- Point of View
- The final line of the story, "we could buy our way into paradise" is an example of dramatic irony. Explain why.
- Can you think of anything in our society that would drive someone to act like John and Alice do in this story? What might the teapot symbolize in that situation?
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More Lit. Terms
Personification
Making
an object act like a person or animal
"The
ducks complained all day."
Hyperbole
Exaggerated
statement or claim not meant to be taken
literally.
"I've
been there and back a million times."
Alliteration
Repeated
consonant sounds.
"Peter
Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
Assonance
Repeated
vowel sounds.
"The
June moon loomed."
Onomatopoeia
Words
sound like it is describing
The
ceiling fan said, "clicketa clacketa clicketa."
Foil
In
fiction, a foil is a character
who contrasts with another character —usually the protagonist— in order to
highlight particular qualities of the other character. In some cases, a subplot
can be used as a foil to the
main plot.
Monday, March 19, 2018
Explore English
Terms to date:
Fundamental Components of
Fiction
Theme (literature)
A
theme is a main idea, moral, or message, of an essay, paragraph, movie,
television program, book or video game. The message may be about life, society,
or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and
are almost always implied rather than stated
explicitly. Along with the plot, character, setting and style, theme is
considered one of the fundamental components of fiction.
Watch
this Pixar short and write a theme statement (1-3 sentences).
Plot (narrative)
Plot is a literary term for the events a story
comprises, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, a sequence,
through cause and effect, or by coincidence. One is generally interested in how
well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional effect.
Character
A
character is the representation of a
person in a narrative or dramatic work of art such as a novel, play, or film.
In
literature, characters guide readers through their stories, helping them to
understand plots and ponder themes.
The
study of characters requires an analysis of its relations with all of the other
characters in the work.
Setting
In
fiction, setting includes time, location,
and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop
and mood for a story.
Literary Devices
Symbolism
Symbolism refers to any object or person which
represents something else.
"Finally,
doves fly over the fields of war" (doves symbolize peace)
Tone
Tone refers to the attitude that a story
creates towards it's subject matter. Tone may be formal, informal, intimate,
solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible
attitudes. Tone is sometimes referred to as the mood
that the author establishes within the story.
Imagery
Imagery is used in fiction to refer to
descriptive language that evokes sensory experience. Imagery may be in many
forms, such as metaphors and similes.
"First
day of school smells like new books."
Metaphors
Comparing
something to something else.
"The
ocean is a bowl of dreams."
Simile
A
comparison using like or as.
"He
smells like a gym shoe."
Explore English
Lord of the Flies Chp.2-5
1.
How do the boys make a fire?
2.
What makes Simon a good/kind character?
3.
How do the littluns spend their time on the
island?
4.
How does the mask transform Jack?
5.
Describe how Ralph has changed from the
beginning of the novel?
Here is a list of words from the novel for you to define:
Preposterous
Mirage
Chastisement
Subsided
Belligerence
Tacitly
Nape
Detritus
Myriad
Festooned
Furtive
Gesticulate
Vicissitudes
Contrite
Tirade
Journal Question # 6
Have you ever let others manipulate or influence you? Why do
people sometimes lose control in group/mob settings?
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