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CONTEXT

Shakespeare must be viewed as the author of the thirty-seven plays and 154 sonnets that bear his name. The legacy of this body of work is immense. A number of Shakespeare’s plays seem to have transcended even the category of brilliance, becoming so influential as to affect profoundly the course of Western literature and culture ever after.

The Tempest probably was written in 1610–1611, and was first performed at Court by the King’s Men in the fall of 1611. It was performed again in the winter of 1612–1613 during the festivities in celebration of the marriage of King James’s daughter Elizabeth. The Tempest is most likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare, and it is remarkable for being one of only two plays by Shakespeare (the other being Love’s Labor’s Lost) whose plot is entirely original. The play does, however, draw on travel literature of its time—most notably the accounts of a tempest off the Bermudas that separated and nearly wrecked a fleet of colonial ships sailing from Plymouth to Virginia. The English colonial project seems to be on Shakespeare’s mind throughout The Tempest, as almost every character, from the lord Gonzalo to the drunk Stephano, ponders how he would rule the island on which the play is set if he were its king. Shakespeare seems also to have drawn on Montaigne’s essay “Of the Cannibals,” which was translated into English in 1603. The name of Prospero’s servant-monster, Caliban, seems to be an anagram or derivative of “Cannibal.”

The extraordinary flexibility of Shakespeare’s stage is given particular prominence in The Tempest. Stages of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period were for the most part bare and simple. There was little on-stage scenery, and the possibilities for artificial lighting were limited. The King’s Men in 1612 were performing both at the outdoor Globe Theatre and the indoor Blackfriars Theatre and their plays would have had to work in either venue. Therefore, much dramatic effect was left up to the minds of the audience. We see a particularly good example of this in The Tempest, Act II, scene i when Gonzalo, Sebastian, and Antonio argue whether the island is beautiful or barren. The bareness of the stage would have allowed either option to be possible in the audience’s mind at any given moment.

It is tempting to think of The Tempest as Shakespeare’s farewell to the stage because of its theme of a great magician giving up his art. Indeed, we can interpret Prospero’s reference to the dissolution of “the great globe itself” (IV.i.153) as an allusion to Shakespeare’s theatre. However, Shakespeare is known to have collaborated on at least two other plays after The Tempest: The Two Noble Kinsmen and Henry VIII in 1613, both probably written with John Fletcher. A performance of the latter was, in fact, the occasion for the actual dissolution of the Globe. A cannon fired during the performance accidentally ignited the thatch, and the theater burned to the ground.

SUMMARY

The Prince and the Pauper

Preview of The Prince and the Pauper Summary:
The Prince and the Pauper is a fable or fairy tale for young readers written in the 19th century by Samuel Clemens, under the pen name of Mark Twain. It tells the story of two boys in 16th century England who were born on the same day and look identical, but are unrelated. One, named Edward Tudor, is a prince and the other, named Tom Canty, is a pauper. Edward Tudor was a real person in history, but Tom was invented by Twain. Through unusual circumstances, Edward and Tom meet and exchange clothing, which leads to everyone confusing the identities of the two boys.

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1. Research: Begin the essay writing process by researching your topic, making yourself an expert. Utilize the internet, the academic databases, and the library. Take notes and immerse yourself in the words of great thinkers.
2. Analysis: Now that you have a good knowledge base, start analyzing the arguments of the essays you're reading. Clearly define the claims, write out the reasons, the evidence. Look for weaknesses of logic, and also strengths. Learning how to write an essay begins by learning how to analyze essays written by others.
3. Brainstorming: Your essay will require insight of your own, genuine essay-writing brilliance. Ask yourself a dozen questions and answer them. Meditate with a pen in your hand. Take walks and think and think until you come up with original insights to write about.
4. Thesis: Pick your best idea and pin it down in a clear assertion that you can write your entire essay around. Your thesis is your main point, summed up in a concise sentence that lets the reader know where you're going, and why. It's practically impossible to write a good essay without a clear thesis.
5. Outline: Sketch out your essay before straightway writing it out. Use one-line sentences to describe paragraphs, and bullet points to describe what each paragraph will contain. Play with the essay's order. Map out the structure of your argument, and make sure each paragraph is unified.
6. Introduction: Now sit down and write the essay. The introduction should grab the reader's attention, set up the issue, and lead in to your thesis. Your intro is merely a buildup of the issue, a stage of bringing your reader into the essay's argument.
(Note: The title and first paragraph are probably the most important elements in your essay. This is an essay-writing point that doesn't always sink in within the context of the classroom. In the first paragraph you either hook the reader's interest or lose it. Of course your teacher, who's getting paid to teach you how to write an essay, will read the essay you've written regardless, but in the real world, readers make up their minds about whether or not to read your essay by glancing at the title alone.)
7. Paragraphs: Each individual paragraph should be focused on a single idea that supports your thesis. Begin paragraphs with topic sentences, support assertions with evidence, and expound your ideas in the clearest, most sensible way you can. Speak to your reader as if he or she were sitting in front of you. In other words, instead of writing the essay, try talking the essay.
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9. MLA Style: Format your essay according to the correct guidelines for citation. All borrowed ideas and quotations should be correctly cited in the body of your text, followed up with a Works Cited (references) page listing the details of your sources.
10. Language: You're not done writing your essay until you've polished your language by correcting the grammar, making sentences flow, incoporating rhythm, emphasis, adjusting the formality, giving it a level-headed tone, and making other intuitive edits. Proofread until it reads just how you want it to sound. Writing an essay can be tedious, but you don't want to bungle the hours of conceptual work you've put into writing your essay by leaving a few slippy misppallings and pourly wordedd phrazies..

Tone & Mood

Metaphors

Poetic Techniques

Literal Examples of Common Poetic Devices in an Urban Setting

Peter Piper (Tongue Twister Song) A Funny Song by Bryant Oden

Onomatopoeia

NO PUDE ENVIAR CORREOS

Hola chicos

 ALGO TIENE MI COMPU, PERO NO ME DEJÓ ENVIAR CORREOS SOLO A DOS DE USTEDES, ÉSTO DICE EL CORREO Y NO SE SUBIR LA PRESENTACIÓN, PIDANLE A ADELINA Y ANGÉLICA QUE LES ENVIEN LA PRESENTACIÓN POR FAVOR.

El examen está programado para el jueves 12 de mayo, por favor estudien ésta presentación, sus apuntes y lo que hay en el blog, recuerden que éste examen vale el 40%.

Como no hay clase el jueves, tendrán que hacer tarea del blog (cuenta por la del lunes que no les coloqué).

El viernes voy a verlos para entregar unos textos, por favor Kenia pasa por mí a mi oficina cuando termine asesoría para que pasemos a tu  salón (solo serán 3 minutos).


Bibliografía que me pidieron de la clase del pasado lunes:


-AP Power Pack "English Literature & Composition", ed SPARKNOTES.
- Rankin Esthelle, L. Murphy Barbara, "Ap English Literature 2010-2011", ed. McGraw Hill.

Que tengan un lindo día, bye!!!

LITERATURE QUOTES

KNOW AND LEARN THESE LITERATURE QUOTES!!!

HUCKLEBERRY FINN:  (1 & 2)

"We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs, looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed - only a little kind of a low chuckle.

This is from chapter 12 of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" which features Huck and Jim. The major theme of this book is turning one's back on the deceit and shallowness of civilisation and getting back to what is real and true. 

ANGELA'S ASHES: (3 & 4)

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived it all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

"Angela's Ashes" is the book by Irish writer Frank McCourt and spans life from his childhood in Ireland to that of his life in America. I intensely dislike the orchestrated ugliness of this book, particularly its ending, and feel it detracts from the entire work.

WINSTON CHURCHILL: (5 & 6)

"A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Churchill, statesman, politician, orator, leader of the United Kingdom through its darkest hours, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953 for his many writings, which included a six volume set titled "The Second World War". His own life story makes remarkable reading.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN: (7 & 8)

"I've got to get some seeds. I've got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing's planted. I don't have a thing in the ground.

Spoken by Willy Loman in Act Two of "Death Of A Salesman" by Arthur Miller, this work is the agonising story of one man's struggle for conception of self and what he sees as the successful life, contrasted against what is his actuality.

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: (9 & 10)

There is only now, and if two days is your life, then everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you will never get, you will have a good life."

For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway is the story of a young American in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. These words are spoken by the main character, Robert Jordan, in chapter thirteen, after he and Maria have made love in the heather. Dear me, how prickly.

THE GLASS MENAGERIE: (11 & 12)

"I pass the lighted windows of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of broken glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colours, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder.. Oh Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be!...I speak to the nearest stranger, anything that can blow your candles out!...Blow out your candles, Laura - and so goodbye."

This work by Tennessee Williams tells of a family trapped in destructive behaviour patterns. The quote is from Tom, many years later, long after he has left the home of his youth, turning his back on them all.

THE GREAT GATSBY: (13 & 14)

If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay...You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.

The main theme in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is that which runs through many of the mighty American novels - that of the disillusionment of the great American Dream. For Gatsy, in this novel, Daisy represents this dream and its disillusionment.

 HENRY V: (15 & 16)

 "I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The games afoot: Follow your spirit; and upon this charge, Cry 'God for Harry! England and Saint George!

This stirring speech is from Shakespeare's Henry V, Act 3, Scene I. Another jolly battle and more blood and guts. Tallyho, boys!

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST: (17 & 18)

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Written by the brilliant Oscar Wilde, these words are spoken by Lady Bracknell in Act One of "The Importance of Being Ernest". This amusing and clever play deals with several characters maintaining false identities to avoid all the rigid social and moral expectations of that time in Victorian England. And didn't poor old Oscar find that out big time.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST: (19 & 20)

"What worries me, Billy," she said - I could hear the change in her voice - "is how your mother is going to take this.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey is a powerful novel about the individual's struggle against the authority and repression and conformity that society demands - symbolised in the book by one man's struggle against the nurse in control of an insane asylum.

HOMEWORK

Each quote has two numbers of your class list, find your number and investigate some more about the author or literary work that corresponds to you. (blog May 9th)

British Literature Project

Renaissance Man ("Blister in the Sun" by the Violent Femmes)

CALENDAR ACTIVITIES

  April 18 - 23, 2011  

April 18

Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride in 1775.

Through the study of Paul Revere, students learn about primary source documents while researching their family histories, with which they create and compare their family trees.

 

The son of a French immigrant, Paul Revere worked as a gold- and silversmith for more than 40 years in Boston, Massachusetts. In the years before the revolution, Revere gathered intelligence information by "watching the Movements of British soldiers," as he wrote in a personal account of his ride. Although he was joined by William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott, it is Paul Revere who is generally remembered for making this historic midnight ride.

http://www.americanrevolution.org/revere.html

April 20

Celebrate author Mary Hoffman's birthday today.

Students write original picture books based on their own aspirations and dreams and share with the class or with younger students.

  Mary Hoffman, author of the Amazing Grace book series, was born in England in 1945. Hoffman has authored more than 80 children's books, including the Stravaganza series of fantasy novels for young adults, several story collections, as well as a number of nonfiction titles for children and adults. Stravaganza: City of Masks was on the New York Public Library's 2003 Stuff for the Teen Age list.

April 21

Barbara Park, author of the Junie B. Jones series, was born on this day.

Students write their own "Junie B." stories, based on the Junie B. Jones series, after brainstorming issues they've experienced during the school year.

 

Barbara Park is the author of over two dozen Junie B. Jones books, as well as several stories for older readers including My Mother Got Married and Other Disasters, Skinnybones, and Mick Harte Was Here. Park's books have earned a number of awards, including many children's choice and parents' choice award lists. Titles in the Junie B. Jones series continue to appear on bestseller lists.

April 22

Celebrate Earth Day!

In celebration of Earth Day, students research famous environmentalists and write letters to them asking for their opinions on current issues and turn their letters into a poem.

 

Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day in 1970. In the same year, Denis Hayes coordinated the first Earth Day in the United States. As a result of Earth Day, many environmental laws were passed and the Environmental Protection Agency was created.

April 23

In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.

Based on grade level, students learn about rhyming structure, experiment with the Shakespearean Insult Kit, or study scenes from Othello and watch an adaptation of that scene from the movie O.

William Shakespeare is the most widely taught playwright in the English language. By 1588, Shakespeare had left his wife and children to live in London as an actor. During the next ten years, he became a successful playwright, performing for the royal court and building a new theater called the Globe. He retired to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616, where he died soon after. Since that time, few young students of English literature have not heard the line, "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"





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HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY 14th

What is Musical Theatre?

Musical theatre is defined as the presentation of a story using the elements of music, singing, dancing, on a stage in front of a live audience. This art of telling stories either through or with songs dates back to time immemorial. The ancient Greeks included music and dance in many of their stage comedies and tragedies as early as the 5th Century B.C. Staged in open-air amphitheatres, these plays featured humor, political and social satire, jugglers, and anything else that might entertain the masses. While these plays had no direct effect on the development of musical theatre as we know it, they prove that musicals have been around for at least 2500 years.

*WRITE 3 FEATURES ABOUT MUSICAL THEATRE (1)

History of Musical Theatre

The origins of the musical trace all the way back to story telling ballads. The ballads were stories in songs, passed down orally from generation to generation. In 1597, Dafne, the first opera emerged. Like ballads, opera told stories through music. However, opera is written down and performed on stage. And from opera, the operetta, literally meaning “little opera”, developed. Relative to its predecessor, operettas dealt with less serious topics and used more dialogue.

Finally, in 1866, the very first musical, The Black Crook by Charles M. Barras and Giuseppe Operti, was performed in New York. However, American musical theatre did not establish its own identity until after the turn of the twentieth century.

George M. Cohan--librettist, lyricist, and composer, was a powerful influence in creating a truly native musical art form, his dialogue, lyrics, and melody had the spirit of energy and pride that were unmistakably American. Any plot, however improbable, was possible just so long as it could be the frame for songs and dances. For many years, American musicals were governed by this principle.

The greatest revolution in American musical theatre up to that time came in 1927 with Show Boat, by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern. The show featured popular music, such as jazz and gospel, which parated Show Boat from both operetta and all the musicals before it.

 Then came the first of the Rodgers and Hammerstein masterworks, Oklahoma!, in 1943, with which musical theatre finally became a significant American art form. According to Rodgers, “By opening the show with the woman alone onstage and the cowboy beginning his song offstage, we did more than set a mood; we were, in fact, warning the audience, 'Watch out! This is a different kind of musical.” The national tour of Oklahoma! ran for an unprecedented ten years, playing before a combined audience of more than ten million people. In 1955, Oklahoma! was made into a film where it also found great success.

During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, popular music began to change with rock ‘n roll becoming more mainstream. This trend influenced musicals such as West Side Story (1957) and Bye Bye Birdie (1960) to feature more popular, contemporary music. Hair in 1968 continued this movement by incorporating rock music and storylines based on the hearts of the younger generation.

And setting a pattern that would redefine Broadway, Cats premiered in 1982, introducing opulent sets, extravagant costumes and makeup, and over-the-top special effects. The visual spectacle was unlike the painted backdrops and simple costumes seen in the past. Cats has now become the longest-running show in Broadway history.

Then came Rent in 1996, which revolutionized the very concept of musical theatre around the world. Rent blended pop, dance, salsa, rhythm and blues, gospel, and rock music together to tell its moving tale of hopes and dreams, while also addressing the serious and controversial issues of homelessness, AIDS, and drug addiction. Rent not only challenged the mainstream, but reinvented it. Shows following Rent such as Ragtime (1998) and Wicked (2003) also contained intricate storylines and unique styles of music, while addressing social and political issues.

*MAKE A TIME LINE ABOUT HISTORY OF MUSICAL THEATRE (15 cm OF WIDTH), SEND IT TO MY OFFICE BEFORE 6:00 pm.

TEAM PRESENTATION

ATTENTION:

TEAM 3 AND 4 = APRIL 4th.

TEAM 5 AND 6 = APRIL 11th.


*THIS IS THE LAST OPORTUNITY FOR TEAMS 3 AND 5. (BECAUSE I DON´T HAVE MORE DAYS FOR YOU)

* Do not forget to check the rubric (planning)

Class March 28th.

THE PARTS OF A BOOK

INSTRUCTIONS:

1 Watch the Power Point presentation in your email.

2 Drag the answer with the name that corresponds to each part of the book:

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/term/draggeneric.asp?filename=jwildepartsofbook1

*It to be delivered on Monday, April 4th.

March 17th ST. PATRICK'S DAY

St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1 Write 10 words that you hear in the first video 7'

2 Draw a picture about the written (paragraph) on a full sheet 15'

3 Write a short summary (100 words) about both videos 25'

Now answer the sheet that somebody give you!!! (the remainder of time)

 *Deliver everything to Mtro. César Martínez

FOR MARCH 12TH

LITERARY TERMS

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