bell work as the bell rings, please take out a piece of paper and quietly write a letter to...

BELL WORK

As the bell rings, please take out a piece of paper and

quietly write a letter to me...Dear Ms. Rodriguez:

In four sentences tell me what your aspirations are for

your senior year. This will be graded (5 pts.)

and used for assessment.

You have five minutes.

Welcome to English 12

From literature to life...

A year of reading literature from

around the world, and writing about

the lessons we can learn from

it.

A Homespun LoveAlicia Partnoy

Because this humble and homespun love-just as you see it, simple, unadorned-is what keeps our feet on the ground,is what engenders the fruit of our nonconformity,and throws us a lifeboard amidst the shipwreck.Every so often our love blazes like thousands of stars,gets dressed up to go out and uncorksbottles of effervescence, cases of laughter.You see, every so often, when the moment is right,our love recalls that is it, like we are, a survivor.

Maria Hathaway Spencer

Prepare to begin

bellwork by getting out paper/journal and a pen or pencil.

While the announcements are read, please listen respectfully. Your behavior during announcements is a part of your participation grade.

Bell Work Bell Work should begin at

the bell and is done quietly. You will be graded on this in your participation

grade.

Journals are worth 5 pts and are graded on

thoroughness of answer, and writing style

Journal #1 8-17-10

Place one hand palm down out in front of you.



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Journal #1 8-17-10

Imagine there are strings tied to each of your fingers.

Now…

Write about what objects are tied to the end of each of these strings.



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Journal #2 8-19-10

What are your feelings about Shakespeare? What writing of his have you studied, and what was your experience with it? Do you know anything about Hamlet?

Bell Work

Bell Work should begin at the bell and is done

quietly. You will be graded on this in your participation

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Journal #3 8-24-10

If you were in an interview and were asked, what your best characteristics (qualities) were, what would you say? Give examples.



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Journal #4 8-31-10

Write about the little every day things that friends, family, anyone, does for you, for which you are grateful, but never actually say thank you.



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Journal #5 9-14-10

Are there people whom you speak and act/behave differently around? Why or why not? Do you think this is a bad thing or a good thing? Why?



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Journal #6 9-21-10

Write about the most valuable thing you own that didn’t come from a store. Why is it valuable, and what is it for? Who would you give it to if you were writing your will.



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Journal #7 9-28-10

What is your definition of courage? Have you ever seen anyone behave this way? Have you ever behaved this way? Do you think you could?



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Journal #8 9-30-10

How long does it normally take you to make new friends? What do you look for in a friend and what kind of friend are you?



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Bell Work

Vocab Lesson

Please have your books out and be ready to correct/review at the

bell.

Vocab Lesson 1 Quiz

Please get out a sheet of paper and pen.

Vocab Quiz should take no more than fifteen

minutes.

Bell Work

Vocab Lesson 1 Review

Please have your books out and a piece of paper to prepare for Vocab Quiz Review

Vocab Lesson 1 Review

Please write one sentence for the vocab

word assigned.

This needs to be an original sentence and

should correctly use the word.

College Personal Statement

The personal statement should be a unique perspective into what makes you distinctly you and should come from your personality, and experiences.

There is a formula followed by successful essays.

The purpose of the personal statement rounds out your application with information not included in your resume or transcripts.

College Personal Statement Most colleges are going to

ask you questions that cover the following themes:

Who are you? Why us?

Be creative!

The topic you choose will tell the committee a lot, so choose something that feel you can show off the best aspects of yourself.

These essays are usually formatted as a story and a lesson.

Stories are unique by their nature, can be about your experiences or ideas, and provide intrinsic action to carry the essay. A lesson shows them that you are wise, able to learn and can understand yourself and interpret the world.

There are a few tried and true elements that you should consider as you think about what you could use in your life for this essay.

Some Common ElementsWork Towards... Keep it positive – the

committee wants to see you as someone with a positive outlook. Good students rarely have a bad one.

Keep your focus narrow and personal to match the scale of the essay.

Show don't tell– develop your thesis with facts.

Be specific - include specifics and details to make it come to life.

Avoid...

Writing errors. They simply make you look careless or unskilled.

Trite subjects or sensitive subjects. This doesn't mean that you can't do something with a strong emotional pull but don't write if you can't be objective.

Being generic and talking about just ideas (stick with a narrative to avoid this).

Trying to impress.

Extra goodness... Quirky details (things that

paint the most unique aspects of your experience and who you are.

Vivid language that mirrors your “best” voice.

Consider using an extended metaphor or symbol if it fits your style.

Frame your ideas in a narrative outline, with a beginning, middle, and end.

AYA UEKAWA

Pedro de Valdivia First Personal

Statement Assignment (10 pts. due Monday)

Please come up two short paragraphs (4 sentences) describing the following:

A situation in which you experienced growth

A situation in which you overcame an obstacle.

Don't worry about fleshing these out, but instead work on coming up with scenes that interest you and are unique to you.

Pedro de Valdivia First Personal

Statement Assignment (10 pts. due Tuesday)

Please come up two short paragraphs (4 sentences) describing the following:

A mentor or someone who has had a positive influence on you.

Something you are passionate about and how it impacts your life positively.

Don't worry about fleshing these out, but instead work on coming up with scenes that interest you and are unique to you.

College Personal Statement

Use one of the two scenarios you brainstormed last week. Write a 1 ½ to 2 page essay and bring this scene to life. Try and frame it as a story with a beginning middle and end. Remember to include a lesson, insight, or understanding that you learned.

Lourdes Grobet

College Personal Statement II

Choose your own topic that answers one of the three common prompts: 1. tell us about you 2. why us? 3. surprise me!

Write a 1 ½ to 2 page essay. Try and frame your ideas as a story with a beginning middle and end. Remember to include a lesson, insight, or understanding that you learned. Lourdes Grobet

College Personal Statement (Final Draft)

Choose one of your two personal statements to revise.

Resubmit the first paragraph of this statement on Monday with the following elements:

1. A hook, or attention getting first line/s.

2. Some specifics after that that paint the scene (who, what, where) or define any terms that will be needed to understand.

3. A narrowing at the end of the paragraph to focus on you and your growth or strengths as shown by the story.

Lourdes Grobet

College Personal Statement (Final Draft)

Heading for the finish line…

Once you have an introductory paragraph that you are satisfied with.

Work through your essay in approximately 1 to 1 1/2 pages a story or a couple of scenes that bring to life what you are showing about yourself and your growth.

Detail, and showing not telling is key. Specifics paint the story.

Bringing it to conclusion will mean restating your theme with additional insight that shows how you are going to take this growth and apply it to your future, or broaden it out to the world. Go noble, go global.

Lourdes Grobet

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (c.1600)

•The motif of corruption. (physical, mental, physical)

•Growing up and individuating

•The dramatic arc in literature

Hamlet in 3 Easy Steps

1. Hamlet Packet to be completed in class and for homework.

2. Hamlet in-class responses (requires use of text, but not

notes)

3. Hamlet end of quarter exam

Hamlet Act 1Due Aug 26th

1. Familiarize yourself with the events in Act 1 with the summary

provided.

2. Read Act 1 and pay attention to the three questions as you go. If

there are parts of the act you do no understand, refer to outline for big

picture. 3. Choose one of the three

questions that you feel like you can answer with specifics.

4. Take note in the text (post its?) of where you see examples to prove

your answer.5. Use the section in your packet to

answer the question you have chosen and include specifics – see

guidelines.

What types of corruption are in Hamlet?

1. Physical corruption - discussions of death and dying, rotting and the general idea that we are going to die.

2. Mental corruption - that we can’t see/understand clearly because everything is clouded by our myopia.

3. Spiritual Corruption - we are all fallen, flawed, sinners

4. World/Natural Corruption - the world is not fair, just or right.

Hamlet Act 1 Check-in

Please write a question or an observation about Act 1 on the note card.

If you have a question about any of the text, please include your email address (legibly) and I will respond to your question today.

Big Idea Act 1

The Three Questions

1. What is everyone talking about?

2. What is propelling the action?

3. What do the important characters care about?

• It is obvious that girls frequently mature more quickly physically than boys, but it may also be true that girls mature earlier on the inside as well. ﾊ The lesson we can learn from William Shakespeare ﾕ s Hamlet, is that this is because, for girls, societal consequences of immaturity are more serious. In Act I Scene 3, in an aside between Laertes and Ophelia, Laertes expresses his concern that Hamlet may not be able to follow through on romantic overtures that he has made towards Ophelia. ﾊ He tells Ophelia that she needs to “weigh what loss your honor may sustain if with too credent ear you list his songs”. This means that she needs to be careful of the consequences that being jilted by Hamlet would bring. Laertes actually articulates that these consequences would fall harder on Ophelia, because Ophelia does not have the latitude as a young woman to have her honor ruined. Consequently she needs to make mature wise decisions about Hamlet and not be romantically naive. Later in the scene her father Polonius chastises her for her seeming naivete by saying, “You do not understand yourself so clearly as it behooves my daughter and your honor”. Polonius is again warning her that not understanding the seriousness of this situation will lead to dishonor. Ophelia ﾕ s father and brother separately express protective concern and advise her in the ways that things are different for girls. ﾊHamlet ﾕ s dalliance can be Ophelia ﾕ s devastation, which is why Ophelia has a more pressing need to grow up and put away her romantic notions.

Why Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys - Hamlet Prompt

It is obvious that girls frequently mature more quickly physically than boys, but it may also be true that girls mature earlier on

the inside as well. The lesson we can learn from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is that this is because, for girls, societal consequences of immaturity are more serious. In Act I Scene 3, in an aside between Laertes and Ophelia, Laertes expresses his

concern that Hamlet may not be able to follow through on romantic overtures that he has made towards Ophelia. He tells

Ophelia that she needs to “weigh what loss your honor may sustain if with too credent ear you list his songs”. This means that she needs to be careful of the consequences that being jilted by Hamlet would bring. Laertes actually articulates that these consequences would fall harder on Ophelia, because

Ophelia does not have the latitude as a young woman to have her honor ruined. Consequently she needs to make mature wise decisions about Hamlet and not be romantically niavete Later in

the scene her father Polonius chastises her for her seeming naivete by saying, “You do not understand yourself so clearly as

it behooves my daughter and your honor”. Polonius is again warning her that not understanding the seriousness of this

situation will lead to dishonor. Ophelia ﾕ s father and brother separately express protective concern and advise her in the

ways that things are different for girls. Hamlet’s dalliance can be Ophelia’s devastation, which is why Ophelia has a more

pressing need to grow up and put away her romantic notions.

1st College Personal Statement 50 pts.Due Tuesday

Rubric 20 Pts. For Completeness

Including Formatting 10 Pts. For a story (beginning, middle, end) 10 Pts. For a lesson

(insight or wisdom) 10 Pts. Mechanics

Hamlet Response 09-16-10

Use one of your response questions, and give your opinion with two supporting specifics.

You must use specifics (actions or words) from the text with reference to scene and line. You may use your books but not your notes.



grade.

Hamlet Responses are worth 10 Points and are

graded on thoughtfulness, use of text as proof, and writing style. These are

done over 10 minutes and should be 1/2 of a page.

Hamlet Response Act 5 09-23-10

Use one of your response questions, and give your opinion with two supporting specifics.

You must use specifics (actions or words) from the text with reference to scene and line. You may use your books but not your notes.



grade.

Hamlet Responses are worth 10 Points and are

graded on thoughtfulness, use of text as proof, and writing style. These are

done over 10 minutes and should be 1/2 of a page.

Formatting your Hamlet Response

Please consider using the following format which will ensure that you meet all of the requirements of the prompt.

1. State thesis by answering question.

2. Give reason why as a support to opinion.

3. Provide a specific (or a quote) including the scene and lines. A specific is a statement, conversation, speech, action, etc.

4. Analyze (interpret) to show how this supports your thesis. (I.e. what this means is…)

5. Transition to next quote or give another reason why. (I.e another example of this is…)

6. Include second specific instance to support

7. Analyze specific instance to show how this supports.8. Restate thesis, and include your final thoughts.

Hamlet Act 2Due Sept 2nd


provided.








guidelines.

Hamlet Act 3Due Sept 9th


provided.








guidelines.

Hamlet Note and Quotes (The Famous Ones)

Please use a piece of binder paper and fold in in three in order to do

this assignment.

Please choose five of the following quotes and write them (briefly) in

the left column of your paper.

In the middle column of your paper ask yourself any questions you

have about the quote.

In the far right column, make notes to yourself about what you see the

quote meaning. Pay particular attention to how this quote may play into the major themes we

have discussed or reader’s response questions.

•There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.Hamlet Act 1, v, 159-167

•This above all to thine own self be true;And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man. Polonius, Act 1. iii

•I set it down,That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Hamlet, Act 1, v

•The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,That ever I was born to set it right! Hamlet, Act 1, v

•Polonius: [Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. - Will you walk out of the air, my lord?Hamlet: Into my grave. Act 3, ii

•The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Gertrude, Act III scene ii

•I must be cruel, only to be kind:Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. Hamlet, Act III scene iv ,

•Hamlet: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.Claudius: What dost thou mean by this?Hamlet: Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. Act IV, scene iii

•When sorrows come, they come not single spies,But in battalions. Claudius, Act IV scene v

•"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - from Hamlet , Wm. Shakespeare; Act II, scene ii•"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." - Hamlet

• Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Hamlet, Act 3, scene I

•Something is rotten in the state of Denmark - Marcellus Act I. Scene V

•The lady doth protest too much, methinks. - Gertrude, Act III, Scene II

•The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. - Hamlet, Act II, Scene II

•O! my offence is rank, it smells to heaven. - Claudius, Act III, Scene III

•Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart. - Hamlet, Act III, Scene I

•Hear you, sir; What is the reason that you use me thus? I loved you ever: but it is no matter; Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day. - Hamlet, Act V, Scene I

Nguyen Minh Son

behind methe autumn wind blowsme home-issa

A Blessing – John O'DonahueOn the day whenthe weight deadenson your shouldersand you stumble,may the clay danceto balance you.And when your eyesfreeze behindthe grey windowand the ghost of lossgets in to you,may a flock of colours,indigo, red, green,and azure bluecome to awaken in youa meadow of delight.

When the canvas fraysin the currach of thoughtand a stain of oceanblackens beneath you,may there come across the watersa path of yellow moonlightto bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,may the clarity of light be yours,may the fluency of the ocean be yours,may the protection of the ancestors be yours.And so may a slowwind work these wordsof love around you,an invisible cloakto mind your life.

Confession

To say I'm without fear--It wouldn't be true.I'm afraid of sickness, humiliation.Like anyone, I have my dreams.But I've learned to hide them,To protect myselfFrom fulfillment: all happinessAttracts the Fates' anger.They are sisters, savages--In the end they haveNo emotion but envy.

Louis Gluck

dmitry guskov

First Quarter Exam

1. Hamlet response questions and big ideas as articulated in packet.

2. Literary terms for English 12 first quarter

3. VocabularyChiura Obata

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Documents

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participation grade

thoroughness of answer

style journal

love blazes

year of reading literature

senior year