Out of the Darkness and Back to Denmark!

Is there an anagram in there somewhere?
Anyway--
1- The last post has the essay topic for the film--please bring a Full Draft (FIRST OR SECOND--JUST MAKE SURE IT IS NOT SO RE-WORKED THAT YOU CAN'T BEAR TO REVISE--FOR REVISION IS OUR LIFE!)-- ready for revision--on Monday--PLEASE DOUBLE SPACE!

2- Here is an update on the dates we are working with so far.  We MUST finish Hamlet by the end of the month and we MUST learn/review literary terms.
VITAL LINK: Here are the other things we are up to:

How to Have a Great Weekend:
Read some Hamlet as you munch a ham sandwich?
Look up to the clouds and think: "Cloudius-----Claudius!"
Grind some coffee and grit your teeth over Gertrude's bad judgement?
Be true to thine ownself--
Be neither a borrower nor a lender--
Pretend to be mad and betray a couple former frien----NO! That's going too far!

Remember that it is always better to be than not to be--there is no question. Enjoy and I will see you on Monday.

Here is the essay topic for the movie

Please write the essay and bring a complete draft to class on Monday, April 22nd.:
Double spaced, TNR, 1-inch margins--thanks!

Moving ON!

We have a full schedule this week-- here is a link to the timetable we discussed on Monday:
April 8-12

Hamlet, Hamlet, He's Our Man! If He Can't Do it....?

Home stretch towards the AP exam and the end of your high school careers--amazing days!
Here's what we are up to this week:
Document of Agendas/video links

We also discussed viewing the film, Apocalyspe Now and relating it to our study of Heart of Darkness--the book from which the film was adapted.  Here is a link to a permission slip for you (over 18) or your parents (under 18) to sign.

Almost Break Time!

We are done with Heart of Darkness, at least for now.  If we have a chance, we will view Apocalypse Now in class.  The final write for Heart of Darkness is a paper providing a critical analysis of the text from YOUR CHOICE among the critical schools. Please be sure your paper addresses the questions that your particular school would ask of the text-- a paragraph or two for each question is a guide-- but don't forget that your thesis can "overlap" several schools of thought.

Our latest dance card is all filled by the Bard-- an epic rhumba with the bestest rhymer of all timer-- a samba with the sonnet master--  a trip the light fantastic night in ghostly, rotten Denmark--Hamlet!
Here are some documents of introduction and assignment:
Chain of Being
C of B artistic interpretation
Elizabethan Universe
Cartoonish Seven Deadly Sins (also known as "mortal" sins--the kind that endanger your immortal soul)
Word Study
Reading Log
Chapter One Quiz-- USE THIS AS A STUDY GUIDE--WRITE ON IT.

READING SCHEDULE:
March 19-20, Act I, scene 1
March 20-21, Act I, scenes 2-3
March 21-22, Act I, scene 4-5
Over Spring Break: Write one Reading Log Entry (three types) for the whole of ACT I

Notice three significant points

As you read and analyze Mr. Achebe's speech, please write down three significant points that he makes and come to class prepared to discuss them in relationship to our other studies of Conrad's work: Heart of Darkness.

King Leopold's Soliloquy

Please read this little pamphlet by Mark Twain: Satire is the name of the game, and how else could we listen to such a man rant on about why he does what he does?  The drawings and photos are amazing to look at, too. You can download it for free or read it on your computer via Google Books. We will discuss in class, of course!
Link to Google Books version
If the link doesn't work, you can download the pamphlet itself on Google Books-- the original text was donated by the library at Harvard University-- for use on your device or computer.