Skip to main content

This Week

English II
Presentations this week will be followed by discussion of Volume II.

English IV
All students should be finished viewing The Truman Show by class Wednesday (available on Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, etc). We will begin writing intros in class Wednesday and finish the analysis essay in class on Thursday. Your prompt follows:
Write an analysis essay focusing on some aspect of Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show. Your essay should strive to provide insight into the meaning of the film, 20 years later, in the context of our increasingly media-centered, artificial world.
Art Survey
Your "TMNT" presentations are due on Wednesday, complete with presentation notes. Please make you have done the following:
  • used a legible font no smaller than 18
  • cited and referenced all sources, which must be credible (no Wikipedia)
  • linked all pictures to the museum where they're located - in other words, each picture linked to its online version for the museum (i.e. The Louvre, or more specifically Mona Lisa)
  • included an accurate citation for each web source at the end of the presentation
  • shared it with me as "lastname-TMNT"

Popular posts from this blog

Juniors ~ Restoration Period

For more on the Restoration Period, go to the homepage for the Norton Anthology of English Literature . Click on the picture below to go to Wikipedia's page on Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode :
Read more

Homework

Seniors Your exam is on Thursday, and your final essay is on Friday. I'll talk more about the essay in class tomorrow. Also, the senior auction project lacks one more important detail - your memories! We will spend a bit of time tomorrow in class writing down some of your fondest memories of your senior year, and the rest of your time at RO.  Sophomores Read "Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey," and complete the questions at the end of the selection in your book. As always, please use complete sentences and cite frequently from the text.
Read more

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

What better way to spend Halloween than reading a story that begins with a beheading? For the next week or so, we'll be discussing Arthurian Literature, beginning with a look at " Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ," the anonymous tale of a test of courtly love, involving a supernatural green knight and a bet. For more information on the poem, read this introduction . I've also included a prose translation that you can compare with the verse translation we have in our book.
Read more