Tyr’s Day, November 4: Ketchup Day II
EQ: What must you do to make up missing grades and/or raise existing ones?
 Welcome! Gather
OLD WORK,
pen/cil, paper, wits!
 Work on Tasks
o Unit Work, esp.
Reading Journal
MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 18!
o Old Makeup Work
o Ketched Up?
Build Essay Topic
ELABLRL3: Student relates
literature to historical and modern
contexts
ELABLRL4: Student writes in
various genres: essays, narratives,
poems
ELABLRL5: Student acquires new vocabulary; uses correctly reading/writing
ELABLRC1: Student reads 25 books/one million words per year, all subjects
ELABLRC4: Student establishes context for information acquired by reading
ELA12W1: Student produces writing that establishes organizational structure,
sets context, engages reader, keeps focus, gives closure
ELA12W2: Student shows competence in many writing genres
ELA12W3: Student uses research and technology to support writing
ELA12W4: Student uses timed and process writing to develop, revise, evaluate
ELA12C1: Student demonstrates control of rules of English writing, speaking
ELA12C2: Student demonstrates understanding of manuscript formats
Your Unit Two Reading Journal is due in two weeks – Monday, November 18. This Unit you need
TWENTY quotations and reflections drawn from the following. Remember: for full credit, quoted
passages must be properly integrated and cited! Most of these we have done in class, or will (four more
Hamlet assignments are coming up). Today, see what you have, and work on what you do not.
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At least ONE – Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy
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At least ONE – René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
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At least ONE – William Shakespeare, Sonnets 18, 20, 116, 130, 144
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At least TWO – William Shakespeare, anything but Hamlet or studied sonnets
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At least TEN – William Shakespeare, Hamlet passages assigned in class
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At least ONE connecting anything read for this class to any other class’ work
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At least FOUR from any of the above and/or any of the following:
o
Edmund Spenser, Amoretti 30, 64
o
King James I, Daemonologie (passages on ghosts we discussed in class)
o
Donald Rumsfeld, speech 2/15/03
So far you have been assigned the following. If you’ve done them all, awesome. If not – DO!
1. Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy
2. “Random Shakespeare” – any play besides Hamlet
3. “Random Shakespeare” – any poem or play besides Hamlet
4. Shakespeare Sonnet (18, 20, 116, 127, 130, 144)
5. “Known Unknowns” – Rumsfeld
6. “Reading Ghosts” – James I, Daemonologie or Horatio in Hamlet I i 117-130
7. Claudius, Gertrude or Hamlet from Hamlet I ii 1-130
8. Anything from Hamlet I ii-v
9. “FrankenBard” – Halloweeny quote from Hamlet or Macbeth
In all cases: QUOTE, INTEGRATE, CITE!
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth features witches, ghosts, devils, blood – and, scariest
of all, a man who believes that “nothing is / But what is not” (I iii 126-8). Never happy with
what he has, even when he gets what he thinks he wants, Macbeth spends the play killing for,
believing in, and seeing things that do not exist.
Nihilism – a belief that nothing matters or is finally real – is central to the imagery
and meaning of the play. In his most famous soliloquy, Macbeth decides that
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 (V v 24-28).
Macbeth begins by having everything – friends, power, and the most loving marriage in all
of Shakespeare – but risks and loses it for things he does not have, does not even want. He is
Shakespeare’s most profound treatment of nihilism, and of the terrible consequences of
believing in nothing.