General

English 10B

English 10B is the second semester of a year-long Language Arts course. In English 10, we will study and explore poetry, narratives, short stories, novels, non-fiction essays, articles and informational texts. Our comprehension of these texts will be facilitated by analyzing and evaluating the literary elements, plot, character development and themes of each work. As part of this course, we will continue to develop writing skills by experimenting with multiple forms of writing. We will clarify thinking and writing by improving our ability to support opinions, providing expressive details and using the writing process as a means to strengthen ideas. This course will provide ample opportunities for students to imaginatively and critically express themselves through multimedia resources as they make essential connections to the world, themselves and literature.

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(Picture of author, Flannery O'Connor)
"I write to discover what I know."

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READ & WATCH--Showing & Telling Page
READ--Writing Metaphorically Page
WATCH--Conflict in Literature and Life Page
WATCH--Anecdotes URL
READ--Informational Texts: Brochures Page

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The short-story differs essentially from all the longer forms of fiction because its brevity forces the writer to confine himself to a single one of the three elements which the author of a novel may combine at his pleasure. These three elements are the plot, the characters, and the setting.

--Brander Matthews

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“I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”
--J.D. Salinger

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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.--Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

-Julio Cortazar

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.--Edgar Allan Poe

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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

- Sir Edmund Hillary

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Othello, Identity, Jealousy, Manipuation, Race, Gender,Marriage, Vocabulary, and Acts I-II

1995 othello

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello

And what's he then that says I play the villain?--Iago (Othello, Act II, scene iii)

6.1 READ-Othello Act I, scenes ii-iii Page
6.3 READ--Othello, Act II, scenes i-ii Page
6.3 IMPORTANT--Characters of Othello Page
INTRODUCTION to week 6 Page
PRINT: checklist for week 6 URL
6.2 WATCH --Othello and You URL

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IAGO
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on; (3.3.15)

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VoiceThread Questions, Acts III-IV, Elizabethan Marriage, a Feminist Othello and Characterizations of Othello, Iago, Desdemona, and Cassio.

Trifles lights as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ.--IAGO (3.3.370)

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We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd.
--Iago (Othello, Act I, scene I, 43-44)

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William Shakespeare's grave, in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon.

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More autobiography, Peer Editing, Self-Editing, and My So Called Life Forum.

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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
--John Heywood, English Playwrite and Poet 1497-1580.

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Nobel Laureates, Poetry, Music & Lyric Assignment, Poetic Terms, Walt Whitman, and "Song of Myself"

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem. --Walt Whitman

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Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, African American Literary Tradition, Poetic Devices, Person vs. Society, and Writing Poetry.

We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

INTRODUCTION to week 13 Page
PRINT: checklist for week 13 URL
13.2 WATCH--The African American Literary Tradition Page
13.2 READ--Langston Hughes Page
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13. 3 WATCH--Rhyme Scheme Page
13.3 REFERENCE--Sonnets Page
Wimba class room discussion about G. Brooks poem and Q/A poetry writing help....a song in the front yard http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172082
Sources Page

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Choosing Your Own Biography, Alice Walker, Reed Wittenmore and His Critics, Lyrical Poetry, Poetic Devices, and Terms.

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for.”--Robin Williams as John Keating in The Dead Poet's Society

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