http://www.risd.edu/Academics/Liberal_Arts/Events/
CHANGE OF PLANS! Stream the webcast from home.
25 POINTAROOS!
If you STREAM the webcast, you need 1.5 pages and answer the following questions:
1. What was the focus of Diaz's presentation?
2. What did you find the most interesting?
3. What major themes does "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" address?
A few of you came to ask: you can write this IN the blog, or type it and hand it in. Either is fine. It should be 1.5 pages, so make sure the length is there.
Also, as this isn't a blog homework, you don't need to comment on anyone's response in particular.
UPDATE! I am sitting in the auditorium waiting for it to start. If question 3 isn't addressed in the presentation, stick with the first two questions. I'm super excited and I hope you are too! Happy viewing!
Monday, November 5, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Y'all are PIONEERS
Hello again, my pioneers.
I'm SUPER pumped about starting a new unit on poetry, aren't you?
(Insert awkward silence here: _____.)
In all seriousness, let's give prose a break and get acquainted with "the rhymical creation of beauty in words," to quote dear old Poe.
I have two goals for this poetry unit:
Acording to Mary Oliver (you'll know her in no time), poetry is a "way of life." And what better way for me to foster this love but by presenting poetry into a way of life familiar to you?
This is due by our class period on Friday, November 2. MAKE SURE TO SUBSTANTIATE YOUR RESPONSE WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE VIDEO AND POEM.
Check out this youtube video (yup, you read that correctly, chicklets).
Your first job in your comment--review the video. Answer one, or some, or all of the following questions: What did you think of it? What emotions did it stir in you? What have you been urged to do? Who is this video about? To whom is this video directed? (Some background info: this is a Levi's jeans commercial.)
DO THIS BEFORE DOING YOUR SECOND JOB!!!!!! DON'T DO THE SECOND JOB UNTIL YOU HAVE JOTTED DOWN YOUR REACTIONS FROM THE VIDEO!!!!!! Thanks.
Your second job: check out the full text of the poem (below), and then respond as you did to the video by answering some or all of the questions: What did you think of it? What emotions did it stir in you? What have you been urged to do? Who is this poem about? To whom is this poem directed? Keep in mind, this time I want you to substantiate your claims this time by referencing Whitman's language.
"Pioneers" by Walt Whitman
Come my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!
I'm SUPER pumped about starting a new unit on poetry, aren't you?
(Insert awkward silence here: _____.)
In all seriousness, let's give prose a break and get acquainted with "the rhymical creation of beauty in words," to quote dear old Poe.
I have two goals for this poetry unit:
- To give you the tools necessary to KICK BUTT AND TAKE NAMES on the MC and Q1 sections of the AP English Lit and Comp Exam.
- To foster in you, my students, a love and appreciation for great (past and present) poetry.
Acording to Mary Oliver (you'll know her in no time), poetry is a "way of life." And what better way for me to foster this love but by presenting poetry into a way of life familiar to you?
This is due by our class period on Friday, November 2. MAKE SURE TO SUBSTANTIATE YOUR RESPONSE WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE VIDEO AND POEM.
Check out this youtube video (yup, you read that correctly, chicklets).
Your first job in your comment--review the video. Answer one, or some, or all of the following questions: What did you think of it? What emotions did it stir in you? What have you been urged to do? Who is this video about? To whom is this video directed? (Some background info: this is a Levi's jeans commercial.)
DO THIS BEFORE DOING YOUR SECOND JOB!!!!!! DON'T DO THE SECOND JOB UNTIL YOU HAVE JOTTED DOWN YOUR REACTIONS FROM THE VIDEO!!!!!! Thanks.
Your second job: check out the full text of the poem (below), and then respond as you did to the video by answering some or all of the questions: What did you think of it? What emotions did it stir in you? What have you been urged to do? Who is this poem about? To whom is this poem directed? Keep in mind, this time I want you to substantiate your claims this time by referencing Whitman's language.
"Pioneers" by Walt Whitman
Come my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!
For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the past we leave behind,
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We detachments steady throwing,
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We primeval forests felling,
We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within,
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within,
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Colorado men are we,
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental
blood intervein'd,
All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental
blood intervein'd,
All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O resistless restless race!
O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Raise the mighty mother mistress,
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress,
(bend your heads all,)
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress,
(bend your heads all,)
Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
See my children, resolute children,
By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
On and on the compact ranks,
With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill'd,
Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill'd,
Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O to die advancing on!
Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd.
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd.
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the pulses of the world,
Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Life's involv'd and varied pageants,
All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the hapless silent lovers,
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
I too with my soul and body,
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Lo, the darting bowling orb!
Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O you daughters of the West!
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Minstrels latent on the prairies!
(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Not for delectations sweet,
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Has the night descended?
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding
on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding
on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the daybreak call--hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind,
Swift! to the head of the army!--swift! spring to your places,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Far, far off the daybreak call--hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind,
Swift! to the head of the army!--swift! spring to your places,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Musings on Short Fiction
We meet again, my darlings.
Since October is synonymous with Halloween, we can celebrate by looking at the master of the macabre, the duke of the darkness, your friend and mine, Mr. Edgar Allan Poe.
Poe said "meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface." He claimed that fiction with obvious meaning "cease[s] to be art."
What better conversation to have here in good ol' APE?
Take this quotation and run with it, mes petits choux. Is Poe-Diddy right? Wrong? Is art only art (and literature only literature) when it is complex? Can a simple fable or allegory be art?
Please post no later than Monday (Columbus Day...10/8/12) at 7pm. I'm hoping to have your posts graded and your rubrics in the folders by Tuesday.
Since October is synonymous with Halloween, we can celebrate by looking at the master of the macabre, the duke of the darkness, your friend and mine, Mr. Edgar Allan Poe.
Poe said "meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface." He claimed that fiction with obvious meaning "cease[s] to be art."
What better conversation to have here in good ol' APE?
Take this quotation and run with it, mes petits choux. Is Poe-Diddy right? Wrong? Is art only art (and literature only literature) when it is complex? Can a simple fable or allegory be art?
Please post no later than Monday (Columbus Day...10/8/12) at 7pm. I'm hoping to have your posts graded and your rubrics in the folders by Tuesday.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Welcome to your first actual blog assignment!
The Catcher in the Rye is, according to critic Robert Bennet, "one of the most widely read and discussed works in the American literary canon," and consequently, Holden Caulfield is one of literature's most beloved--and despised--characters. People either love him or hate him; there is rarely a middle ground with this character.
So, scholars of mine, here are the talking points: What is it about Holden that elicits such strong feelings in readers? What, specifically, did Salinger in his characterization process do to create such an engaging and powerful figure? Why is there such a cult fervor surrounding Holden?
So, by Saturday at 11 AM, post a comment that handles some or all of these talking points, and make sure to include a response to at least one classmate if you are not the first to comment! The blog is on Edline, but to save you extraneous mouse clicks, here it is:
Rock on, faithful literature enthusiasts!
The Catcher in the Rye is, according to critic Robert Bennet, "one of the most widely read and discussed works in the American literary canon," and consequently, Holden Caulfield is one of literature's most beloved--and despised--characters. People either love him or hate him; there is rarely a middle ground with this character.
So, scholars of mine, here are the talking points: What is it about Holden that elicits such strong feelings in readers? What, specifically, did Salinger in his characterization process do to create such an engaging and powerful figure? Why is there such a cult fervor surrounding Holden?
So, by Saturday at 11 AM, post a comment that handles some or all of these talking points, and make sure to include a response to at least one classmate if you are not the first to comment! The blog is on Edline, but to save you extraneous mouse clicks, here it is:
AP English Blog Rubric (15 Points)
Name: _______________________________________________________
_____ Comment responds to prompt in an accurate and appropriate way
_____ First to comment!
_____ If not the first to comment, comment addresses at least one other student’s idea in a respectful way
_____ Comment is at least a paragraph in length
_____ Comment substantiates position by referencing topics that give weight to opinion
_____ Comment is free from grammatical errors
_____ Comment responds to prompt in an accurate and appropriate way
_____ First to comment!
_____ If not the first to comment, comment addresses at least one other student’s idea in a respectful way
_____ Comment is at least a paragraph in length
_____ Comment substantiates position by referencing topics that give weight to opinion
_____ Comment is free from grammatical errors
Rock on, faithful literature enthusiasts!
Friday, August 24, 2012
Hello, my fearless AP Students!
Welcome to AP English. This class is a joy to teach and I am so excited to work with you this year!
This blog is a first for me--I invite you to join me in the adventure. Increasingly, colleges courses have students participate in online forums where they post their thoughts and engage in dialogue with each other.
In order to prepare you for the rigor of college, we are giving that concept a try here on this blog.
Occasionally, we will have a conversation on the blog. I will post a topic as the blog entry, and your job is to respond to it and to your classmates' comments. Your response will count as a homework assignment, and there will be a blog rubric posted on Edline. My hope is that students who have qualms about participating in class will find a voice in writing on this blog. I respect all of your ideas and I want to hear from you--all of you.
I look forward to getting to know you and to developing our AP family. We will continue to discuss this type of assignment in class.
Best,
Ms. Rouleau
Welcome to AP English. This class is a joy to teach and I am so excited to work with you this year!
This blog is a first for me--I invite you to join me in the adventure. Increasingly, colleges courses have students participate in online forums where they post their thoughts and engage in dialogue with each other.
In order to prepare you for the rigor of college, we are giving that concept a try here on this blog.
Occasionally, we will have a conversation on the blog. I will post a topic as the blog entry, and your job is to respond to it and to your classmates' comments. Your response will count as a homework assignment, and there will be a blog rubric posted on Edline. My hope is that students who have qualms about participating in class will find a voice in writing on this blog. I respect all of your ideas and I want to hear from you--all of you.
I look forward to getting to know you and to developing our AP family. We will continue to discuss this type of assignment in class.
Best,
Ms. Rouleau
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