Today's Essential Question: How does Shakespeare continue to develop the concept of death as the great equalizer?
Do Now: Consider the following essay topics. The 3 possible prompts are pulled from released AP exams. Begin to consider a "plan of attack," for each option. (Thesis, Opening sentence, Support, Quotes, etc.) You will have an opportunity to map and organize your support for all three essays. One of the 3 will be selected and presented to you for a timed essay, later in the week. (Although each prompt below tells you to “choose a novel or a play,” I have chosen for you...Hamlet.)
Essay Option A:The most important themes in literature are sometimes developed in scenes in which a death or deaths take place. Choose a novel or play and write a well-organized essay in which you show how a specific death scene helps to illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.Avoid mere plot summary. Essay Option B:One of the strongest human drives seems to be a desire for power. Write an essay in which you discuss how a character in a novel or a drama struggles to free himself or herself from the power of others or seeks to gain power over others. Be sure to demonstrate in your essay how the author uses this power struggle to enhance the meaning of the work. Essay Option C:In some works of literature, a character who appears briefly, or does not appear at all, is a significant presence. Choose a novel or play of literary merit and write an essay in which you show how such a character functions in the work. You may wish to discuss how the character affects action, theme, or the development of other characters. Avoid plot summary.
Homework:
Always strive for active voice and present tense when analyzing a short story, a novel, a passage from a novel, an essay, a play, or a poem. Each of you will select TWO of the "Active voice, present tense verbs" from the list below. Your homework is to design an 8 1/2 x 11 flyer to promote your verb. Assignment due Friday, November, 16th. Details to be explained in class...
The writer…
1. asserts that
wisdom resides in simplicity
2. creates a world where robots
3. constructs
family life sans TV and video games
4. reconstructs
his father’s memories
5. relives the adventures of his youth
6. traces
the boy’s family history
7. tracks
the evil results of greed
8. probes the innate cruelty of human nature
9. explores
how one lie leads to legions
10. criticizes
negligent parents
11. blames
fate for his brother’s illness
12. accuses
society of apathy and selfishness
13. attacks the
authority figures
14. argues the
merits of honest humiliation
15. establishes
a mood of dissatisfied sarcasm
16. presents a childhood story
17. seeks
to explain the inexplicable
18. finds ruptured
relationships to be the cause
19. reveals how
love can change lives
20. thinks love’s merits are overrated
21. believes
all people want to feel significant
22. feels people too often succumb to despair
23. suggests that
all families have secrets
24. points out the
confusion
25. considers the
historical period
26. examines the
idealism of youth
27. exposes the hypocrisy of the self-righteous
28. dissects the
underlying reasons
29. focuses on the cruelty of racist remarks
30. concentrates
on motives behind decisions
31. reflects on a long walk in the woods
32. recalls a time when Americans relied on
33. reminisces
about his grandfather’s fiddle
34. commiserates with families of soldiers
35. recreates the blurred
landscape of a blind man
38. tells how he escaped into another world
39. shows how education defines social status
40. portrays a young athlete
41. depicts the hardships of the
Depression
42. illustrates the struggles of migrant workers
43. paints
a portrait of society’s forgotten
44. describes the courage of ordinary people
45. provides a glimpse into
46. cries
out for social justice
47. pleads for acceptance
48. appeals for understanding
49. expresses the pain of loss
50. confides her sense of guilt
51. questions conventional wisdom
52. ignites the reader’s imagination
53. uses examples of broken things
54. pinpoints the moment of epiphany
55. hints that irony taunts our every
move
56. implies that his despair stemmed from
57. makes clear the bristling resentment
58. surprises the reader
59. searches for answers to
60. empties his heart
61. produces two very different views
62. sorts through raw
memories
63. inspires
the reader to take a stand
64. chisels careful images of disappointments
65. encourages
following whims
66. insists on facing mortality
68. rages against the materialistic rat race
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