Have a good March Break

All incomplete assignments must be completed prior to he first day back after the break. The following is a list of assignments that are due for term 3, which will be ending less than two weeks after we get back from the break.

• Magnetic poem/Quebec poem( for those who went on the Quebec trip)
• Place poem: write about a place you feel comfortable in, use strong descriptive words
• Poem read aloud to class/write up that went with the poem ( what the poem was about & why you chose it)
• Thief poem response
• Dead Poet's Society Questions
• Novel Summary/Vocab/Minor Character (this was last terms work known as ABC)
• Poetry Test
• Novel Test

Dead Poet's Society Questions

Dead Poet’s  Society Film Sheet                                                20 marks

Complete all answers in full sentences. Make sure you answer all parts of the questions.

1. Discuss the growth of the character of Todd Anderson.
2. Fully describe the character of Mr. Keating, do you agree or disagree with his teaching methods.
3. A theme in the film deals with parental control vs. adolescent independence, discuss this theme citing examples from the film.
4.  Cite one example of foreshadowing in the film.

Week of Mar 10-14 Dead Poet's Society Film

This week in English, we will be watching "The Dead Poet's Society" movie in class. Students should be attentive since a film sheet will complement this film. We will spend some time discussing some of the issues in the film in class as well as: symbolism, foreshadowing, theme, and character development.

For those of you on early vacation, I tried to find the movie online, but had no luck, however you should be able to rent it from most video stores or rent it online from iTunes.

I have included a mini synopsis of the film as well, you can read it by clicking on the link. Film sheet to follow later.

Dead Poets Info

Continuing work on Responding

Begin with a statement that discusses theme or what you will be talking about.

Example: In the poem, "The Man who finds His Son has Become a Thief," Raymond Souster investigates (discusses) the difficulty a father feels when he finds out his son has stolen something. At first the father in the poem wants to believe his son who says, " I didn't steal anything, honest." Like most parents he wants to believe his son, and believe he has raised his son properly.

The author effectively creates images which support the theme of this poem. In the line," choose a line to discuss)".

The following are other phrases that can be used when discussing poetry.

In the line,"" the author is trying to say......
In the line,"" the author is trying to get across the idea that...
In the line,""the author is suggesting
This idea is supported when the author says, .....
The use of (imagery, symbolism, personification etc.) is used effectively to communicate the idea that,
I thought the line"" was effective because.....
In stanza one.....
Souster implies

SAMPLE RESPONSE

Harlem by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

In Langston Hughes’ poem, “Harlem”, the theme of the poem is stated in the first line, “What happens to a dream deferred?” Immediately the poem strikes a universal chord because the vast majority of human experience throughout the ages has encountered a “dream deferred”. Some people let the dream die (“dry up”), while others agonize (“fester like a sore”) about the loss for a lifetime. Still others hold the dream close and use it for comfort (“crust and sugar over”). The didactic nature of the poem reflects the didactic nature of human emotion when faced with loss. The lines “Maybe it just sags, like a heavy load.” are separated from the previous stanza, creating the feeling of ‘sagging’. The images that Hughes invokes are vivid descriptions of the various ways that people handle the loss of a dream. The title, ‘Harlem’, further invokes a specific image of a specific class of people who are constantly barraged with dreams broken.