College Now
First Semester
October 17
College Readings D
In Praise of the F
Word;
College Pressures
18
24
Start recitations
2011-12
Second Nine Weeks
Mrs. Jay
19
ICE on Readings D
20
Editing
21
HofD OCE due
Assign Readings E
Peter Principle
Final copy D due
next Thursday
Grammar due
25
26
27
Final copy D due
Hamlet I
Senior memory 3
due
continue readings D
Hamlet I
28
Hamlet II
Hamlet II
Hamlet I
31
Hamlet II
Nov 1
Logs 1 due
Hamlet III
2
Hamlet III
3
Hamlet IV
4
Hamlet IV
7
Hamlet V
8
Logs 2 due
Finish Hamlet
9
10
11
Hamlet finale
TEST HAMLET
Grammar 2 due
Handouts grammar 3
14
College Readings E
due
Peter Principle
15
16
17
18
ICE on PP
Editing theme E
Sonnets
final copy E due
Assign readings F
21
Grammar 3 due
22
grammar
Nov.28
R & G due
29
30
R&G
5
Poetry
12
Poetry
2
R&G
Dec.1
Senior memory 4
due
6 Logs R&G due
Poetry
7
8
College Final
College Final
9
Poetry
13
Grammar 4
14
15
EXAMS
16
EXAMS
Test R & G
Handout grammar 4
EXAMS
Issue Wuthering
Heights
HAMLET
Recitations: Choose one of the soliloquies to memorize. You will sign up for a time slot.
1. Act I,ii,129-159. start with “O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,”
for I must hold my tongue!”
and go to
2. Act II, ii,576-634; Start with “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!” and go to
conscience of the King.”
“But break my heart,
“Wherin I’ll catch the
3. Act III, I, 56-94. the “To be or not to be speech” until Ophelia speaks
Logs for Hamlet. Choose 2 for y our first set and then 2 more for your second set of logs. Check the calendar for
when each set is due. Each should be one (whole) typed page.
1. Although it is understandable to think that the climax of the play occurs in Act V, scene ii, the main
conflict is not resolved there. Where is the climax? Prove it.
2. What did Gertrude know and when did she know it? What is her role Is she an innocent, a victim, an
accessory to a crime, an adultress or the victim of seduction? Provide proof from the text.
 Is Claudius a good king? Consider his actions while he IS king. What must he deal with and how well does
he? Provide textual evidence.
3. Consider the character of Fortinbras. Why would Hamlet give him “my dying voice” and prophecy the
“election lights on Fortinbras”? Isn’t he an invader? What is Shakespeare doing here? Consider the whole
question of succession—Claudius, Hamlet. Provide textual evidence.
4. Why does Shakespeare spend so much time with the “play within the play” ? Consider much more than the
plot line. Connect it to the overall theme, motifs, and underlying structure.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Logs for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Answer both of these. Check calendar for due date. One page
(whole page) for each minimum.
1. Discuss the various levels of comedy used in R&G hand how each functions to enhance the themes(s) or
major concept(s) of the play.
2. Acting is a concept in both Hamlet and R&G. How do its meaning and purpose vary in the two plays?
--READINGS D- EDUCATIONAL ISSUES
“College Pressures”-- handout
“In Praise of the F Word” -- handout
Editorials on Texas 10% rule-- handout
Essay D
Using one or more of the articles as your spring board, agree, refute or qualify the premise that the author has
offered. Support your position with examples and/or statistics or research. Provide a works cited if you use
outside materials.
Readings E-- Classifying People, Places of Things
Readings
Readings Handout-- “The Peter Principle”
Do a PATTR see AP manual p. 51-3; then be sure you can answer all the questions at the end of the writing.
A Theme Traditional Family-- p. 576
Do PATTR -- Purpose; Audience, Theme (Message), Tone, Rhetoric---- see AP manual p. 51-3;
E Classification
Write an essay in which you classify the teachers you’ve had into several distinct categories and make a judgment
about the relative effectiveness of the teachers in each group.