Monday, January 23, 2017

Literary Terms

Staying easy in Week 1. Most of these are words you at least vaguely know. Remember, become very familiar not only with the definition, but with examples of these. :)

Motif
Parallel Structure
Allusion
Conceit
Parable
Free Verse
Diction
Romance (not of the Friday night/Valentine's Day variety)
Couplet
Connotation

Macbeth Memorization Options

Long post, but here they are. IF you memorized for Hamlet, you will do a creative project here. If you did a creative project, you will need to choose one of these options and memorize this round. Remember to tell me what you want and I'll print you out a copy unless you want to pull it from here....

Option 1
Act I, scene 7, lines 1-29

  If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
    It were done quickly: if the assassination
    Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
    With his surcease success; that but this blow
    Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
    But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
    We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
    We still have judgment here; that we but teach
    Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
    To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
    Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
    To our own lips. He's here in double trust;
    First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
    Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
    Who should against his murderer shut the door,
    Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
    Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
    So clear in his great office, that his virtues
    Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
    The deep damnation of his taking-off;
    And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
    Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
    Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
    Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
    That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
    To prick the sides of my intent, but only
    Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
    And falls on the other.


Option 2
Act II, scene 1, lines 33-61
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but(45)
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going,(50)
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:(55)
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd Murder,(60)
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear(65)
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives;
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

Option 3
Act IV, scene 1
  First Witch.  Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. 
  Sec. Witch.  Thrice and once the hedge-pig whin’d.   4
  Third Witch.  Harper cries: ’Tis time, ’tis time. 
  First Witch.  Round about the cauldron go; 
In the poison’d entrails throw. 
Toad, that under cold stone   8
Days and nights hast thirty-one 
Swelter’d venom sleeping got, 
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot. 
  All.  Double, double toil and trouble;  12
Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 
  Sec. Witch.  Fillet of a fenny snake, 
In the cauldron boil and bake; 
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,  16
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, 
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, 
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing, 
For a charm of powerful trouble,  20
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. 
  All.  Double, double toil and trouble; 
Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 
  Third Witch.  Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,  24
Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf 
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark, 
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark, 
Liver of blaspheming Jew,  28
Gall of goat, and slips of yew 
Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse, 
Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips, 
Finger of birth-strangled babe  32
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab, 
Make the gruel thick and slab: 
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron, 
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

Option 4
Act V, scene 3, lines 22-28 and Act II, scene 1, lines 48-72
I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!
To be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety. There is none but he
Whose being I do fear: and, under him,
My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,
Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sister
When first they put the name of king upon me,
And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like
They hail'd him father to a line of kings:
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,
For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;
For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;
Put rancours in the vessel of my peace
Only for them; and mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man,
To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
Rather than so, come fate into the list
And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!

Option 5
Act I, scene 3, lines 130-142/Act V, scene 5, lines 19-28/Act 5, scene 8, lines 27-34
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,


And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'

Week of January 23

SO MUCH MACBETH!!!! And I wouldn't have it any other way! :)

Monday, 1/23
Act I
Lit Terms

Tuesday, 1/24
Mac I/II

Wednesday, 1/25
Mac II

Thursday, 1/26
Short Story Focus

Friday, 1/27
Lit Terms Quiz
Mac II

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

No Red Ink

Hey guys, I'm going to be trying something this semester to help boost AP scores AND to just plain make all of us better for whatever our future holds. :)

Go to this link www.noredink.com and walk through setting up an account as a student. Your class code is misty knee 50.

Titles Used in Open Question 3

For an upcoming assignment (are you feeling those butterflies in your stomach? are you waiting with bated breath to hear what it is???), the link below will take you to a list of works that have been used in Open Question 3 pretty much since the beginning of time to 2016. :)

http://mseffie.com/AP/APtitles.html

Friday, January 13, 2017

Week of January 16

Here we go, getting right back at it! :) Looking forward to a great second semester with you guys.

Monday, 1/16
OFF

Tuesday, 1/17
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight

Wednesday, 1/18
Discuss it and into seminar to Macbeth

Thursday, 1/19
Poetry Annotation

Friday, 1/20
Mac Act I
JOURNALS DUE