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Extra Credit Assignment: Research the origin and the development of Ancient Greek Theater, and deliver a five to ten minute presentation to your classmates, similar to what Raymond and Brandon did on The Rime of The Ancient Mariner.  Please, contact me by email, a.s.a.p., so I know who wants to do this assignment. I would like the presentation

made to our class very soon after we return from holiday.



A theater in which Antigonie was performed in Ancient Greece

What does the size and the design of this theatre tell you about the
significance drama may have had to Ancient Greek society?
Notice how this theater has been carved out of the mountain,
of which it is a part.



FRANKENSTEIN ESSAY TEST

Victor Frankenstein's narrative is bifurcated by the his creature's story. Write an essay in which you discuss, compare, contrast, and interpret both halves of Victor's divided narrative. You may want to use your class notes to recall what was discussed in class today.

Thursday you will be given the short answer Frankenstein Test.  Please be prepared.

Assignments: For Those Who Didn't Do Them

• PLEASE, write your name and the date on all written work.
• Enter the blog, explore the postings and comments, and find the posted assignments you were given.
• Rewrite the entire sonnet test with the correct answers. (Your classmates provided you with them, and they are posted on the blog.)
  

Saint Crispan's Day Speech
Sonnet 130
Compare Sonnet 18 to Spenser's "One Day I wrote Her Name Upon The Strand"
negation prefixes/words
self-created words from Latin prefixes
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" vs. Raleigh's reply
The reply to Raleigh (on our class blog) 
Blake's Chimney Sweeper Poems (from A.P. Test)
Shakespeare's procreation sonnets compare two
Columbia University
"Shooting an Elephant" - annotate and highlight
"Shooting an Elephant" essay
"My Last Duchess" Essay TEST
Sonnet TEST Short Answer
Sonnet Essay TEST
Hamlet Act I
Checking Literature Logs
Hamlet Act Act II Q's
Slackers
Ophelia Questions
Hamlet Act III Q's
Hamlet Act IV Q's
Tragedy
Hamlet Act V Q's
post high school
Hamlet student written TEST
Hamlet Essay TEST
"Allegory of the Cave"
Compare Walter and Victor's childhoods
College Matrix
Dichotomy in Frankenstein
Frankenstein's creature
Books read by the creature (Internet work)

The Creature's Narrative

Be prepared to write answers to the following questions in class tomorrow. I hope you have enjoyed reading Frankenstein this weekend.

1.Why does the creature seek refuge in the cottage?

2.What motivates the creature to spy on the Delaceys? Why is he so interested in them?

3.Why does he at first have such difficulty in understanding the cottagers?

4.What does the creature do to address this problem and to overcome this difficulty?

   5.Why does the creature do what he does for the Delaceys?

6.What disposes and enables the creature to understand the Delaceys?

7.How does he become literate?

8. How many and what language(s) does he master? How does he do this?

9. Why do you think the creature conceals himself from Delaceys?
10.What does the creature’s insatiable interest in learning about and from the cottagers tell us about him?

11. What do you think the creature learns about this family and the concept of family?                       

12. What books does he read?

13. What do the books he reads reveal to him about humanity? (Use the Internet.)

14. Of what are the Delacey’s a microcosm? Explain.

15.How does his understanding of the DeLaceys change during his stay in the cottage?

16.How is he changed (or humanized) by his voyeurism and reading?
17.Why is this transformation for the better or the worse? 

18.What are the qualities that make us human?

Scotland, England, Patagonia and the Creature's Proposal

Returning to Victor's Torment







And from the shore at dawn . . .

The evidence,  image,  memory, and  injustice

 

EXTRA CREDIT Assignment

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," extract passages you deem to be relevant  to FRANKENSTEIN, then make an oral report to the class about the poem and how it relates to Mary Shelley's novel. 

  Ever been on a ghost ship? Welcome aboard.