This should be the last one.  No really.

Anyway, it looks a bit different as I’ve imported all of my blogs into this one location.  No more confusing the different URLs! The recent posts for each class are located below this post box, and you can click on the title of any to go to that class’s page. I’ll be adding class-specific content to each page in the future, but for now they all look the same.

Seeing as how this is the first major redesign, what do you think? If you were used to checking the old blogs, tell me what you would like to see here. It is still a work in progress, but your input is vital.

Thanks.

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I’ve had a few questions regarding this phase of the project. To clarify, there are two goals I want to achieve and two parameters I wish you to follow.

Goals:

• Achieve an understanding what your archetype is, on an essential level (which you should be discovering as you find your 50 examples)
• Represent that essence visually using an original image of the medium of your choice (from photography to Photoshop or ink to paint; it doesn’t matter).

Parameters of project:

• Must include the image described above
• Must incorporate (either through text or smaller images) the fifty examples you have found.

If you create your project on the computer, do not worry about printing it. Simply email the file to me, burn it to a disk, stick it on a flash drive, or upload it to MediaFire or another hosting service.

If you create your project by hand, it may be letter-sized.

Email any questions.

We did it! Well, almost. We finished our discussion of "Another View of Hester" on Thursday, but did not get to "Hester and the Physician." In light of this, here is the reading schedule for this week:

Monday—Discussion of "Hester and the Physician," "Hester and Pearl," and "A Forest Walk." Pass out "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

Tuesday—Discussion of "The Pastor and His Parishioner" and "A Flood of Sunshine"

Wednesday—Discussion of "The Child at the Brookside" and "The Minister in a Maze"

Thursday—Discussion of "The New England Holiday" and "The Procession"

Friday—Discussion of "The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter" and "Conclusion"

So, did I forget anything? Ahh yes. The paper. I promised to include Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery," so we will be discussing this in relation to The Scarlet Letter as we wrap up on Friday. Most of you have already read it, but it would be worth going over again sometime this week. (It’s in the back of your book.) I will also pass out "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin.

Over the weekend you will write a synthesis essay. Utilizing themes from the three stories, you will write an essay in which you develop a position on the actions of the individuals in these small towns.

Some questions/statements to get you thinking:

• In each of these stories, the citizens of a small community are acting to defend their way of life. They perceive the foreign to be a challenge to this way of life, and are acting in response.
• Do you see the actions of the people in charge as self-serving, or are they genuinely concerned for the people under their care?
• Can you find other examples of these situations? What is different in your example?
• The essential question here: Is it acceptable to sacrifice the individual for the good of the group?

This will be the framework of our discussions as we finish the novel.

Good luck on the essay this weekend. Feel free to revise after you write it, but it would be a good idea to stick with the 45-minute time limit.

Vocab:

• Quiz I
• Decorous (7)
• Prolix (8)
• Emoluments (13)
• Vicissitude (20)
• Sagaciously (24)
• Vitiated (30)
• Filial (53)
• Indefatigable (54)
• Quiz II
• Visage
• Wont
• Mien
• Peremptory
• Efficacy
• Ignominy
• Quiz III
• Lurid
• Sable
• Superfluous
• Exhortation
• Insidious
• Contumaciously
• Quiz IV
• Inscrutable
• Morbid
• Mutability
• Caprice
• Anathemas
• Expatiating
• Eldritch
• Quiz V
• Intrinsic
• Unpremeditated
• Endowed
• Panoply
• Quiz VI
• Averred
• Appellation
• Deportment
• Countenanced
• Impelled
• Quiz VII
• Imbued
• Palliate
• Somniferous
• Presentiments
• Preternatural
• Quiz VIII
• Purport
• Effected
• Propinquity
• Blighted
• Sedulous
• Scintillating
• Quiz IX
• Contiguity
• Misanthropy
• Compass
• Latitude
• Quiz X
• To quaff
• Arraigned
• Animadversion
• Necromancy
• Plaintiveness
• Unscrupulous
• Quiz XI
• Gross
• Nugatory
• Sable
• Gules

Whew.

We did it! Well, almost. We finished our discussion of "Another View of Hester" on Thursday, but did not get to "Hester and the Physician." In light of this, here is the reading schedule for this week:

Monday—Discussion of "Hester and the Physician," "Hester and Pearl," and "A Forest Walk." Pass out "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

Tuesday—Discussion of "The Pastor and His Parishioner" and "A Flood of Sunshine"

Wednesday—Discussion of "The Child at the Brookside" and "The Minister in a Maze"

Thursday—Discussion of "The New England Holiday" and "The Procession"

Friday—Discussion of "The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter" and "Conclusion"

So, did I forget anything? Ahh yes. The paper. I promised to include Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery," so we will be discussing this in relation to The Scarlet Letter as we wrap up on Friday. Most of you have already read it, but it would be worth going over again sometime this week. (It’s in the back of your book.) I will also pass out "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin.

Over the weekend you will write a synthesis essay. Utilizing themes from the three stories, you will write an essay in which you develop a position on the actions of the individuals in these small towns.

Some questions/statements to get you thinking:

• In each of these stories, the citizens of a small community are acting to defend their way of life. They perceive the foreign to be a challenge to this way of life, and are acting in response.
• Do you see the actions of the people in charge as self-serving, or are they genuinely concerned for the people under their care?
• Can you find other examples of these situations? What is different in your example?
• The essential question here: Is it acceptable to sacrifice the individual for the good of the group?

This will be the framework of our discussions as we finish the novel.