February 29th

ROOT QUIZ 5! Two class heads up- ON FRIDAY!

DOUBLE BLOCK!

Course question "The Silent Towns".

"The Off Season":
Notes to add:

• -This story, like most of Bradbury's stories, relies heavily on IRONY.
• -Reminiscent, slightly, of "Ylla", with the bad relationship. 
• -Many colours referenced.

"The Long Years":

• 207-210: Hathaway, alone on Mars with family, sees rocket approaching one night.
• Hathaway from "and the moon still be as bright".
• 210-212: Captain Wilder returns
• 212-213: Reminiscing re: Parkhill and Spendor. Hathaway's weak heart.
• 213-219: Breakfast at Hathaway's: discovery of graveyard: Hathaway died, Wilder learns of the robot family. 
• 219-220: The crew deliberated what to do with family.
• 220: The family meaninglessly continues Hathaway's traditions. 

Major shift in tone, humorous "The Silent Towns" and the depressing "The Long Years" is perhaps the most dramatic between any stories in the book.

Course question! #3, 4.

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"El Dorado"

City Of Gold.

FIND:

Allusions,

Sentences that are cool,

write on the essay, what connection can you make between this essay and something else we have read this year, how/why?

Course Question! 

February 24th

Course questions of:
"The Off Season": #1,2,3. 4 too, however, 2 overruns 4.
"The Watchers": #3,4(?).

"The Silent Towns":
Music motif: "Jukebox" "The Old Gang of Mine". Sings "Oh, Genevieve, sweet Genevieve".
"I am Legend" influenced by this story (??).
193-199: Walter is alone on Mars, but tries to get to ringing phone.
199-201: Walter connects with Genevieve and drives off to find her.
201-202: He dreams of her, she is not where she was, so he goes back.
202-203: They meet and he is disappointed by her appearance.
203-206: Spend day together, then Walter takes off when she brings out "the dress"
206: He lives on other side of Mars.
Comedy--He is so desperate for a perfect beautiful girl, turns out to be not this and he runs and decides to be alone after trying to be with another (a woman). (SITUATION IRONY) Sexist!!

COURSE QUESTION

Song video
From: Fort Apache (1948), starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Temple
Lyrics: 
Well then, Oh, Genevieve I'd give the world
To live again the lonely past!
The rose of youth was dew-impearled;
But now it withers in the blast.
I see thy face in every dream,
My waking thoughts are full of thee;
Thy glance is in the starry beam
That falls along the Summer sea.

Oh, Genevieve, sweet Genevieve,
The years may come, the years may go,
But still the hands of memory weave
The blissful dreams of long ago.

February 22nd

Course selection today!

Parts Of Speech: #9


9) He drove her ("to") home, so she would not have to walk so far.
Pronoun/Subject.
Verb.
Pronoun/DO.
Noun"OP"( implied prep: "to").
(Could add comma here.)
Conjunction.
Pronoun/Subject.
Verb.
Adverb.
Verb phrase.
Adverb.
Adverb.


"The Off Season":
186-191: Martians give Sam deed to half of Mars, then Earth explodes.

"The Watchers":
Earth people watch it explode, worry about family, Earth people go home.


Course question! last two stories!

February 17th

Please submit "The Ballad of the black fox skin" questions. #2-4



Reading: pg 174: "The Luggage Store"==Peregrine: Peregrine mountain ?("Naming of the names")
                                                              =Hints of war.("The Tax Payer".)
174-176: News of impending war; everyone to go to Earth at time of crisis to be with family.
Religion motif- Father Peregrine.

"The Off Season": Companion piece to "And The Moon Be Still As Bright".
Music motif:177. 178,
Similes- senses, pov: 182.

176-186: Martians come to talk to Sam, Sam flees and shoots them.
STOPPED HERE!


PARTS OF SPEECH #9

February 15th

Hanlon was not here first block:

We got "The Ballad of the Black fox Skin" by Robert William Service.
Do all 4 steps for this poem:

1) Provide a summary for all 4 parts (I,II,III,IV).

2) Define 2 unfamiliar words in the poem.

3) Choose 8 of these: Use Literary term package and PAGE NUMBERS for quotes!
   Irony: Situation OR Verbal.
   Tone (speaker).
   Contrast
   Imagery
   Personification
   Theme
   Alliteration
   Parallelism
   Simile
   Repetition
   Internal Rhyme
   Assonance
   Metaphor

4) Explain a connection to the best course question.

DO THIS ALL ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER!

Summary: I) Characters introduced: Claw-fingered Kitty, Windy Ike, and man-who-had-no-name meet;nameless has the pelt;Pelt is cursed, and was hard to catch. Drink toast to fox's death.

Nameless is like you are him, for you to step in.

II) Life described in Roadhouse with CF-K and W Ike- they kill people for their valuables. Safe by bears than these dance-hall wenches(people worse than animals.) Nameless is drunk and asleep.
(Bonnie and Clyde??)

III) Nameless dead by CF-K. "MY PRECIOUS"=Pelt. CF-K and W-Ike "fell out".Affect of curse. Kitty runs away with pelt. Go to mountains. Kitty's life flashes before her eyes. Kitty dies-Ike kickers her down into crag.

IV)  Ike has pelt. Ike runs away-cursing everything. Ike falls in ice(water). Note left behind. Skin not found, "walked away".

Examples of the curse: Hunter's death, Ike and Kitty no longer friends, Kitty dies, Ike's death.
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This poem differs from the other poems this because it is a narrative poem (ballad), like "David".

3 line stanza= Tercet. AAA rhyme scheme.

Root Quiz 4 handed back

February 12th

Make sure PARTS OF SPEECH #6 is done.

cont. read: "THE MARTIAN":

Music reference (167).

166-174: LaFarge finds Tom as someone else in another family. Convinces Tom to return. Tom is killed by competing desire of all who sees "him".

Loss/grief is a significant thing(theme) and coping with such... Death streak broken!

Course question! 1. Are humans essentially good or essentially bad?
                             3. How does perspective influence judgment?
                             4. Can love ever cause more harm than good?
not really #2 because, is about love still....

PARTS OF SPEECH #7,8 for MONDAY!

I like to work out.
I= Subject/pronoun.
like to work out= verb
like=verb.
to work out=verb.

to be...infinitive form of verb.
work out= verbal phrase.

February 10th

Take out your PARTS OF SPEECH handout:

Have #5 done for today!

5) Since we are finished with those, can you remove them to the garage?
Since: Conjunction (FANBOYS).
We: Pronoun/Subject.
Are: Verb.
Finished: Adjective.
With: Preposition.
Those: Demonstrative/OP.
Can: Verb.
You: Pronoun/Subject.
Remove: Verb.
Them: Pronoun/DO.
To: Preposition.
The: Article.
Garage: Noun/OP.

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"The Old Ones"

Old people come to Mars.

"The Martian"

PG. 158-162: Old couple's dead son returns (martian?) and runs away.

Motifs: Music (Tom sings to them).

An inversion of "The Third Expedition"??

PG 162-164: Tom returns; LaFarge hears about Nomland's suicide (Tom involved?).

164-165: Taking Tom to town, doesn't like it.

165-66: Tom disappears in a crowd.



Finish sentence #6!

February 3rd

Go over Root Quiz 5 words.

MARKS CUT OFF FEBRUARY 9TH!!!

Went over haiku's from a few classes ago. Decided the winner= Buderia! Congrats :D "Clouds".

PARTS OF SPEECH sheet:

USE SUGGESTED PROCESS!

3) John read his tiny nephew an exciting story on the davenport.
John: Subject/Noun.
Read: Verb.
His: Possessive pronoun.
Tiny: Adjective.
Nephew: Noun/ IO.
An: Article
Exciting: Adj.
Story: Noun/ DO.
On: Prep.
The: Article.
Davenport: Noun/OP.

4) Our father built the family a redwood picnic table with his own hands.
Our: Possessive Pronoun.
Father: Noun/Subject.
Built: Verb.
The: Article.
Family: Noun/IO.
A: Article.
Redwood: Adjective.
Picnic: Adjective.
Table: Noun/DO.
With: Prep.
His: Possessive Pronoun.
Own: Adjective.
Hands: Noun/OP.

February 1st

DAVID questions are due.

Take out PARTS OF SPEECH handout.

#2) Has your boss sent you a notice about the next convention in Hawaii?
Has: Sent:  Verb.
Your: Pronoun (what kind?) Possessive.
Boss: Subject/Noun,
You: Pronoun/IO.
A: The: Article.
Notice: Noun/DO.
About: Preposition.
Next: Adj.
Convention: Noun/ IO
In: Prep.
Hawaii: Noun/ OP


THE, AT, AN- It has noun it connects to. (Article)

I sent you a notice.= IO. Implied.
I sent a notice to you. =OP.


"The naming of names": 

Part one: 136: Naming towns in Mars by who came, past characters.

Part two: 137: Rules from Earth coming to Mars.

Skipping "USHER II"

Get Root Quiz 5 words.
Cross out "Pler".