Thank You...

Thanks to Mr. Anderson for inviting me into his Economics class to help judge the presentations. I was very impressed at the great learning happening. Great job on all of the presentations.

WOS:

Today we began Act 3 in Measure for Measure. We again looked at tone and inflection and how it can often change what the character is saying. Before lunch, we broke into groups and speculated on how this "problem play" might resolve itself.

Friday we will be looking at one of the ONLY film adaptations of this often neglected play. Specifically, we will examine how each character is portrayed on film, and how that may be different from your initial view.

Brit Lit:

Today in class I gave my lecture on: How to take over the world, or at least a small town. We looked at propaganda and how it can be used to manipulate people. In the world of 1984, you will see many examples of this. As you watch the political discussions around our senate race, please look for how these things are being used, often right in front of you.

A Block typed their final draft of their room 101 paper. B Block will have the block Friday to type it then. If you were absent, please make sure that you finish this at home.

HW: Please continue your reading schedule in 1984.

Brit Lit:

Today we went over the following terms:

Characterization
--Method used to reveal/describe characters and their traits
Foreshadowing
--Hints of future events
*Irony
--Verbal--narrator/character says one thing, means another
--Dramatic--reader/audience knows things characters do not
--Situational--great difference between purpose of an action and the result
*Satire
--Author’s tone used to ridicule human/societal vice and/or weakness with
intent of causing change
*Paradox
--Statement that seems contrary to common sense yet may be true
War is Peace; Ignorance is Strength; Freedom is Slavery
Symbolism
--Representation of a concept/idea by an object
Metaphor
--Comparison/relationship between two things without using "like"/"as"
Flashback
--Returning to earlier time in order to something in the present clearer
Themes (these must be defined within the terms of the text)
*Totalitarianism
*Freedom vs. Absence of Freedom
*Individualism vs. Conformity
Note: 1984 was written in 1948, three years after the conclusion of WWII.

We broke into small study groups to define examples in the novel.

We will be typing our final draft of your 101 paper this Thursday and Friday, so please have your 2 pg draft for then.

HW: Read pg 122-166 in the small book, or pgs. 147-201 in the larger version for Thursday.

Brit Lit:

Today: Room 101

Imagine that you are a worker in the world of 1984. You have been caught by the thought police for one of the many "crimes" in the novel. Please explain the situation around your arrest, and then describe the "after".

What is your room 101?

2 pgs written, 1 typed.

1st draft due today at 9:00

Final draft (typed and corrected) this Friday.