Dear Juniors,
If you missed class, we completed the following:
1. Each student received a copy of AW #5 entitled "Does the Constitution have a heart for Boobies?" Due on Thursday, September 26th.....all colors...3-5 first page, 2-3 second
2. We also discussed AW #4 about Dallas Weins.
3. Students were given a copy of the BOOK LIST for AP English, and asked to select a book from the list for their first book report. Students must have chosen the book by THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th, and have a copy with them in class on that day.
4. We also read a short story by Ernest Hemingway entitled "Hills Like White Elephants" (see below) and a poem by Margaret Atwood entitled "You fit into me" (see below).
Book Report
Works must come from the reading list but cannot include Turn of the Screw, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Great Gatsby, The Crucible, The Glass Menagerie, nor any work that was covered in your 10th grade English class. It would be best, in fact, to pre-approve your choice with me.
1st Term Literature Report Requirements:
- Pick a work by an American author (the reading list was given to you in class).
- Book reports must be typed in MLA format with appropriate headings and sub-headings. Your writing should be formal in quality and in academic voice.
- Make sure you proofread your work.
- Include the following under separate headings:
- Title and author of the book, a brief explanation of why this book was chosen, and the date (year) the book was written or first published.
- Genre (biography, history, action, romance, horror, crime, drama, etc.).
- One paragraph argument that the author is American. Include evidence and support from your research of the author’s life, content, or style.
- A two-paragraph summary of the book, and what you learned from the reading
- A one sentence summary of the theme of the book (the main idea the author is trying to express).
- A list of at least five “golden passages” from your book. Each quote should be accompanied by a paragraph explicating the quote, its context in the book, and its relationship to the theme that you summarized above.
- A complete Reading Record (see below) for this book.
Reading Record
(Your best bet is to copy the following text and paste it into Word.)
NAME:___________________________________Name of Work________________________________________________________________________________Author______________________________________________ Genre_______________________________Author’s Time Period_____________________ Form (Poetry, Prose, Fiction, Non-Fiction, . . .)_______________Time Period of Work/Setting ____________________________________________________________________Key Characters (if applicable -- Include a brief description of their personality traits and function, e.g., protagonist,antagonist, foil, confidante, stereotype)_______________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________One paragraph plot outline (keep it simple)____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________List possible symbols (approx. two major and support ideas)_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Subject (topic): ________________________________________________________________________________Theme(s) (what do you think the text says about the subject? Include possible support ideas -- why do you thinkthat? Justify your interpretation):____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Other noteworthy elements, e.g., tone or mood (satirical, ironic), point of view, important quotation(s),_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Other works by this author (one or two): _______________________________________________________
This book report is due on OCTOBER 17th This assignment is “long term” and WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE unless arrangements are made with me IN ADVANCE. I'm obviously SERIOUS about that. Can't you TELL by my OVERUSE of CAPITAL LETTERS?
"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway
The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade andno trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of thestation therewas the warm shadow of the building and acurtain, made of strings of bamboobeads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies. The American and the girl withhim sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express fromBarcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went toMadrid.‘What should we drink?’ the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table.‘It’s pretty hot,’ the man said.‘Let’s drink beer.’‘Dos cervezas,’ the man said into the curtain.‘Big ones?’ a woman asked from the doorway.‘Yes. Two big ones.’The woman brought two glasses of beer and two felt pads. She put the felt pads and the beerglass onthe table and looked at the man and the girl. The girl was looking off at the line of hills.They were white in the sun and the country wasbrownand dry.‘They look like white elephants,’ she said.‘I’ve never seen one,’ the man drank his beer.‘No, you wouldn’t have.’‘I might have,’ the man said. ‘Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.’The girl looked at the bead curtain. ‘They’ve painted something on it,’ she said. ‘What does itsay?’‘Anis del Toro. It’s a drink.’‘Could we try it?’The man called ‘Listen’ through the curtain. The woman came out from the bar.‘Four reales.’ ‘We want two Anis del Toro.’‘With water?’‘Do you want it with water?’‘I don’t know,’ the girl said. ‘Is it good with water?’‘It’s all right.’‘You want them with water?’ asked the woman.‘Yes, with water.’‘It tastes like liquorice,’ the girl said and put the glass down.‘That’s the way with everything.’‘Yes,’ said thegirl. ‘Everything tastes of liquorice. Especially all the things you’ve waited solong for, like absinthe.’‘Oh, cut it out.’‘You started it,’ the girl said. ‘I was being amused. I was having a fine time.’‘Well, let’s try and have a fine time.’‘All right. I was trying. I said the mountains looked like white elephants. Wasn’t that bright?’‘That was bright.’‘I wanted to try this new drink. That’s all we do, isn’t it–look at things and try new drinks?’‘I guess so.’The girl looked across at the hills.
‘They’re lovely hills,’ she said. ‘They don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant thecolouring of their skin through the trees.’‘Should we have another drink?’‘All right.’The warm wind blew the bead curtain against the table.‘The beer’s nice and cool,’ the man said.‘It’s lovely,’ the girl said.‘It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,’ the man said. ‘It’s not really an operation at all.’The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on.‘I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in.’The girl did not say anything.‘I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s allperfectly natural.’‘Then what will we do afterwards?’‘We’ll be fine afterwards. Just like we were before.’‘What makes you think so?’‘That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.’The girl looked at the bead curtain, put her hand out and took hold of two of the strings of beads.‘And you think then we’ll be all right and be happy.’‘I know we will. Yon don’t have to be afraid. I’ve known lots of people that have done it.’‘So have I,’ said the girl. ‘And afterwards they were all so happy.’‘Well,’ the man said, ‘if you don’t want to you don’thave to. I wouldn’t have you do it if youdidn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.’‘And you really want to?’‘I think it’s the best thing to do. But I don’t want you to do it if you don’t really want to.’‘And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me?’‘I love you now. You know I love you.’‘I know. But if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you’lllike it?’‘I’ll love it. I love it now but I just can’t think about it. You know how I get when I worry.’‘If I do it you won’t ever worry?’‘I won’t worry about that because it’s perfectly simple.’‘Then I’ll do it. Because I don’t care about me.’‘What do you mean?’‘I don’t care about me.’‘Well, I care about you.’‘Oh, yes. But I don’t care about me. And I’ll do it and then everything will be fine.’‘I don’t want you to do it if you feel that way.’The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were fields ofgrain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains. Theshadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees.‘And we could have all this,’ she said. ‘And we could have everything and every day we make itmore impossible.’‘What did you say?’‘I said we could have everything.’‘We can have everything.’
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eyeMargaret Atwood
HOMEWORK:
1. Analyze two of the four works reviewed and discussed today("Hills Like White Elephants," "Metaphors," "Wife's Story," and "You fit Into Me").for Tuesday, September 24th.
2. AW #5 is due on Thursday, the 26th
3. Select and locate your chosen book for your first book report due Thursday, the 26th.
The following topic sentences/body sentences were written in class to assist you with your analysis.
Ursula K. LeGuinn effectively manipulates her audience in “The Wife’s Story,” by using the literary tool of situational irony to create an unexpected turn of events.Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Metaphors,” uses rich metaphorical riddles to thoroughly describe her state of pregnancy.Ernest Hemingway ‘s use of the Iceberg Theory in his short story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” assists the reader in making strong inferences regarding the text; consequently, causing them to explore and interpret Hemingway’s words with greater clarity.In the short poem, “You Fit Into Me,” Margaret Atwood effectively addresses the shift from love to contention through symbolic imagery.