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

March 23

Write Shakespearean Insults
Read Twelfth Night Act V
Watch She's the Man

March 21

Today we will finish continue reading the play Twelfth Night.  As you read, find significant quotes to memorize.  Each one of you will have to write 5 lines from memory on Wednesday, April 3rd (10 points).  +5 extra credit for memorizing an extra 10 lines.  
Find quotes at the following site: Twelfth Night Quotes

Today you will also write a 1/2 page journal explaining what Shakespeare is saying (and why he's saying it)in one of the following quotes:
1. What is love? Tis not hereafter; 
Present mirth hath present laughter:
What’s to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty; 
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty:
Youth’s a stuff will not endure. – Feste, 2.3.43-8)
[love now; you might not have the opportunity later]
2. I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood (3.4.354-357)
[Ingratitude is the worst problem a person can have]
3.
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool
And to do that well craves a kind of wit (3.1.60-61)
[you have to be really wise to make the kind of Jokes that Feste makes.  She implies that he's not at all foolish.  Viola goes on to say that when most people say foolish things, it's because they're stupid and they just become more stupid]



I hope you're enjoying the play and that you can see that it's a comedy.  Maybe not exactly a SNL kind of comedy, but funny in that everyone is even more mixed up and messed up in their relationships than we are.  That's the point of Shakespearean comedy.  It helps us laugh at ourselves and not take our problems too seriously.

NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE version of TWELFTH NIGHT on Sparknotes.com
Sparknotes summary of Twelfth Night 

Here's a fun Xtranormal animated discussion between Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth:
Shakespeare as hip dude talking to Queen Elizabeth II
Shakespeare, an Actor Preparing--Hugh Laurie and Stephen Frye
Kid meets Shakespeare in the Forbidden Forest (sort of)
Shakespearean Language
Shakespearean Insults
Black Adder Shakespeare
Shakespeare History of the English Language

March 8--FRIDAY!!

Vocab quiz
Translate passages in groups
Read
NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE version of TWELFTH NIGHT on Sparknotes.com
Sparknotes summary of Act 1, Scene 3

Here's a fun Xtranormal animated discussion between Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth:
Shakespeare as hip dude talking to Queen Elizabeth II
Shakespeare, an Actor Preparing--Hugh Laurie and Stephen Frye
Kid meets Shakespeare in the Forbidden Forest (sort of)
Shakespearean Language
Shakespearean Insults
Black Adder Shakespeare
Shakespeare History of the English Language

Who is playing today's parts in Twelfth Night

Orsino            Emilio        Luis                      
Curio               James
Valentine         Emma       Shelton
Viola               Helen        Max
Captain            Kenzi
Maria              Jordan      Lex
Sir Toby          Austin       Colt
Sir Andrew                      Tommy    
Malvolio         Josh           John

March 4

Today we will finish up reading "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket."
When you finish, answer the following questions at the end of the story:
Page 27, 5-9
You will have a vocabulary quiz Friday on the following words:
Twelfth Night Vocabulary
Here's a Quizlet set of flash cards that will help you review for the test
Twelfth Night quotes for review