Thursday, April 7 "Musee des Beaux Arts" and Ethan Frome Task 3 writing

Learning standards: 

I can use words, phrases, and clauses as well as varied syntax to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons.

I can establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.

 Important information:

First read the question carefully. Make sure you understand what is being asked. For example, if you are asked to give three examples of imagery, you must provide textual evidence and write the type of imagery.

When you are responding to a question, it must stand independently. That means that anyone reading your response would know to whom or to what you are referring. 

Make sure you have woven in textual evidence to support what you say.

Indicate line breaks. /     
 The ploughman heard might "have heard the splash.../ But for him it was not an important failure". 

Avoid contractions in formal writing.

Proof read for capitalization, punctuation and subject verb agreement.

Coming up: vocabulary quiz tomorrow.  (handed out on Monday, but there is an additional copy on today's blog)

In class:  vocabulary review

               Writing assignment continued from yesterday

This is due at the close of class.
           Read the directions carefully. You may use the literary handout material that I have previously given you (I do not have any more copies), if you wish; however, this is not necessary to write the response.  I have also included a new copy of Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts.

Be very mindful of language conventions: capitalization, spelling, punctuation, subject verb agreement and consistency of tenses. Weave in supporting text.

You must have a thesis statement, evidence and an analysis statement that explains why or how what you said is significant.


Name_________________________________ thematic comparison between by Musée des Beaux Arts  by W. H. Auden and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton    Part 2                       Writing grade

Directions: Yesterday, we analyzed W. H. Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts poem. Today, you are connecting the theme of the poem with Ethan Frome.

 Reread the poem and then the excerpt from Ethan Frome below. In a well-developed response of one to two paragraphs, identify the unifying central idea of the poem and Frome excerpt and analyze how the author’s used one literary technique to develop the central idea. (Make sure to proof read!)

These words said by Ethan after the crash should be very familiar:  "Oh, Matt, I thought we'd fetched it," he moaned; and far off, up the hill, he heard the sorrel whinny, and thought: "I ought to be getting him his feed..."   

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COPY OF POEM USED YESTERDAY

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel 

Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,

The old Masters: how well they understood

Its human position: how it takes place

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting

For the miraculous birth, there always must be

Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating

On a pond at the edge of the wood:

They never forgot

That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course

Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot

Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse

Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Vocabulary for "The Story of an Hour"

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin                       vocabulary   quiz on Friday, April 8

Note that there are 10 words and 2 idioms.

1. laconic- adjective-  person, speech, or style of writing using very few words; brief, concise, terse, succinct, pithy

2.      throng-noun- noun- a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals.

3.      intrepid-adjective- adjective- fearless; adventurous (often used for rhetorical or humorous effect).

4.      to accost-verb- to approach and address (someone) boldly or aggressively.

5.      reticent- adjective- not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.

6.      hapless- adjective- (especially of a person) unfortunate.

7.      furtive- adjective-attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.

8.      irate- adjective- feeling or characterized by great anger.

9.      plethora- noun- a large or excessive amount of (something).

10.  felonious- adjective- wicked, cruel

Idioms

11.  the sword of Damocles- if you have a sword of Damocles hanging over you/your head, something bad seems very likely to happen to you

12. Pyrrhic victory- a victory that is not worth winning because you have suffered so much to achieve it