due Monday February 1

http://www.edinburghwebsites.com/website_analysis.html

Please write a chart about "The Behavior of Hawkweeds" or if you prefer "Rare Bird."

1. Place a question a-top the page.

--The question could come from your own thoughts about scientific pursuit and its relationship to emotion, OR

--you could use this as a question: what is the relationship between scientific pursuit and emotion?

--a third possibility would be to ask a question about one OR the other: "what are scientist like according to this story?" OR How do emotions make life more complex in this story?" Feel free to use these questions if you want to.

2. Write in a relaxed, thinking, enjoying-yourself way about how a quotation from the story helps you figure out an answer to the question at the top of the page. (Insert the quotation in the top left hand corner). Keep writing longer than you first feel like writing--you'll get somewhere good! Try writing about the denotation and/or connotation of an important word or two.

3. At the bottom of the page, sum up your thinking, or your most valuable discovery.

4. Go on and do the same thing for three other quotations. Stay relaxed.

Please remember to bring your grammar worksheet back with you.

due Friday 1/28

http://www.japaneseprints-london.com/paintings.htm

1. poetry discussion, "love poem" and "The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter": email it to me at sdurning@walnuthillarts.org.

2. If you don't have five examples (quotations) of your literary term yet, keep going until you have five. It's okay if they don't bear on the guiding question.

3. Start re-reading "Rare Bird" if you want to analyze it instead of "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds."

due Thursday 1/27

http://www.mt.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/ecs/invasive/technotes/InvasiveTN_16/index.html

Read or re-read "The Behavior of Hawkweeds," the first story in Ship Fever. It can be found at http://books.google.com.

due Friday: read "love poem," p. 597, and "The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter, p. 599, and write about it.

3 important words from each poem, with a sentence or two as to why you think it's important; then a paragraph in which you continue to explore. Don't feel constrained. Don't judge the worth of the poems.

An "A" level response:

paragraphs will have a sense of beginning, middle, and end

a sense that you are discovering things as you go along (thinking while writing)

sentences have few unnecessary words or are otherwise artful

you make reference to at least one of these things:

diction (word choice)

syntax (word order)

sound (rhyme, rhythm, other)

due Friday 1/22

no new assignment

due Wed. 1/20

Please read "What's That smell in the Kitchen?" p. 830, "Paper Matches," p. 831, and"The Silence of Women," p. 832, and then write an informal discussion of the question, "In what ways do these poems differ from each other?" Then email that discussion to me. Thank you!

due Tuesday 1/19

Reflections assignment. Remember that length is not the issue. Being specific is the issue.

due Friday 1/15

Finish reading Streetcar (1189-1203)

write haiku number three, a description of someone or something; stick to the five-seven-five syllable pattern; rhyme a word in the second line with the last word of the third.

Reflection assignment due Tuesday.

due Thursday 1/14

Read 1175-1189 of Streetcar

Write your haiku more about a place than a season; remember--present tense, strategic caesura (pause), imagery.

reflection assignment due Tuesday.

due Wed. 1/13

Read 1164-1175 in Streetcar

Remember your Reflections assignment due Tuesday.

due Tues. 1/12

Read 1148-1164 of A Streetcar Named Desire

Work on Reflection project (due Tues. 1/19)

due Mon. 1/11

1. Read A Streetcar Named Desire, 1140-1148 (until the s.d "the sound of men's voices"

2. Work on Reflection assignment

due Friday 1/8/10

Read the rest of "The Thing in the Forest," pp. 43-48.

Work on the Reflection assignment, previously emailed.

due Thursday 1/7/10

Read "The Thing in the Forest," pp. 35-43, up through paragraph 65.

Optional: work on reflection assignment.

due Wednesday 1/6

Read "A Conversation with My Father,"31-34.