Journal writing.  You will have a total of four (4) journal writes for the novel Demian.  Keep all four in your notebook and hand them in together.

Journal:  Write 1/2 - 3/4 page explaining one of the following quotes.  What is the author trying to tell you from this quote?  As you explain, you should cite a specific example either from the novel or from your own life:

"Each person must stand on his own two feet" (54, middle of the page)

" . . . try to suppress the second half (dark realm) No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think" (53, 2/3 of the way down)

April 29

Vocabulary for the week: Demian chapter 4
Copy down 4 quotes from pages 52-55 in your notes

"You tried to supress the second half of the world. No one suceeds in this onsce he has begun to think" pg 55
"Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value" pg 53
"we ought to consider everything sacred" pg 52

Read and discuss 54-57

April 29th

Homework you were supposed to do over the weekend:

Study for vocab test and write down a dream

Dream Interpretation Site
Throughout the novel Demian you will see a number of Sinclair's dreams.  They are, of course, symbollic.  Keep track of his dreams in Keep track of your dreams this week
Demian
Herman Hesse, background info:
What he said at his Nobel Prize acceptance speech:  Hesse on Hesse
Wikipedia:  Hesse

Demian Vocabulary: Quizlet, Demian, chapter 1
Demian extra credit vocab: Quizlet Demian 

Journal: 
Why are people often reluctant to do things that will help them be happy?  Give a specific example and explain. 
(you might want to consider these questions, although you don't have to) What holds them back?  How can they overcome this?  
1/2 to 3/4 page
12 minutes 

"I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself." (Demian, 38)

April 23

Dream Interpretation Site
Throughout the novel Demian you will see a number of Sinclair's dreams.  They are, of course, symbollic.  Keep track of his dreams in Keep track of your dreams this week
Demian
Herman Hesse, background info:
What he said at his Nobel Prize acceptance speech:  Hesse on Hesse
Wikipedia:  Hesse

Demian Vocabulary: Quizlet, Demian, chapter 1
Demian extra credit vocab: Quizlet Demian 

Homework: Read to the end of page 29
Cain and Abel story: Genesis version

April 11

Share your favorite poem or song lyrics!
5th Period Lyrics




Hand in typed essay on a change you're proposing to make in this school


Extra credit option: Enter a poem in the Willamette bookstore poetry contest.  Writing poetry is an act of letting the soul sing, and we don't get enough opportunities for that in life, do we?

Extra credit:
+2 for entering a quality poem (most, but not all, poems fall into this category if you spend some time)
+1 for a second poem (but you don't get extra points for those)
+5 for best poem in the class
+10 for 2nd or 3rd in the contest (we will probably have one of those.  Will it be you?)
+15 for 1st place

Requirements:
Awards will be given for the following categories:
Best Rhymed Poem, Best Unrhymed Poem, Best Haiku (that pretty much covers it all!)
You may enter up to 3 poems per category (9 total)
30 lines maximum
Original poems only--no reinterpretations and no illustrations
Enter separate poems on separate sheets of paper
Type poems

In upper left corner in a 3x3 box write:
Name
School
Grade
Phone
Poem category

Bring poems to Mr. Isom no later than 2:30 on Friday, April 12
Or email poem to poetrycontest@willamette.edu by 5:00; or hand deliver to Willamette bookstore

Poetry--Aspects of poetry
The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
Imagery--what you'd see if you were there
     "I know how to pay attention . . . to kneel down"
     "she snaps her wings open and floats away"
     "now she lifts her pale forearms"
     "who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes"
   

Word choice--very descriptive words.  Words with connotation
     "pale" "floats" "complicated" "gazing" "blessed" "











Lyrics to popular music are basically poems, too.  If you need some inspiration, concentrate on the lyrics to some of your favorite songs.
Here's a neat lyrics training program to help you memorize lyrics to songs
Lyricstraining.com

April 2

Who's in Love                         What Shakespeare Is Saying About Love

Orsino     Olivia                     Love is crazy and unpredictable.  Orsino loves the wrong person.  Unrequited love.  He should move on.  

Olivia      Viola                      

Viola   Orsino                        Viola falls in love with Orsino's loyalty and goodness.  She loves his character, not his body or status.
* Love people for who they really are.  Love with the heart.

Malvolio   Olivia                   Don't love someone just for their status.  It's foolish to just want someone's money, etc.

Malvolio   self                        If you only love yourself, that's all you'll ever have.  

Sir Andrew   Olivia

Sebastian     Olivia

Sir Toby   Maria

Antonio    Sebastian