Thanksgiving HW

Students are to write two one-page descriptions of a character. Due Monday November 30. Post on blogs and print out. Thesis is a one sentence description of the character. 1st body paragraph is blatant description and support (think body paragraph of an essay). 2nd paragraph needs to be an extended metaphor about the character. Conclusion is a one-sentence analogy to a person in the world today. (30 points each).

Potential Characters.
• Mr. Phillips
• Lydia
• Lizzy
• Darcy
• Jane
• Caroline
• Mrs. Bennet
• Mr. Bennet
• Bingley
• Wickham
• Colonel Fitzwilliam
• Mary

P&P Essay Topics

1.) After completing the novel, what do you consider to be the most appropriate title: First Impressions, or Pride and Prejudice?
2.) Give the novel a new title and argue why that should be the novel’s title instead of Pride and Prejudice.
3.) Contemplate the three marital motives we see expressed in the novel, and clearly describe what you consider to be the most favorable basis for a marriage, both in the characters dispositions, and the motives behind the match. Use explicit examples from the text to support your assertion.
4.) How can this novel be read as a critique of the classist structuring of society?
5.) Who do you think is the most to blame for the delay of their felicity, Darcy or Elizabeth? Explain how this occurred and why they are to blame.

Pride and Prejudice Reading Schedule

Pride and Prejudice Reading Schedule: Please title your blog posts with the corresponding numbers! Each blog should be two quotations and 2 responses. The date listed is the date the reading needs to be done by.

P& P #1 10/31: Ch 1-6
P& P #2 11/3: 7-10
P& P #3 11/4: 11-16
P& P #4 11/5: 17-20
P& P #5 11/6: 21-1
P& P #6 11/9: 2-5
P& P #7 11/10: 6-11
P& P #8 11/13: 12-18
P& P #9 11/16: 19-2
P& P # 10/17: 3-6
P& P #11 11/19: 7-9
P& P #12 11/20: 10-12
P& P# 13 11/23: 13-15
P& P #14 11/24: 16-END


Average: 25 Pages a night.

Debate Prep

Students are to bring in information pertaining to their debate topic. It can be as raw as you would like (like printouts from online sources), or it can be an organized outline. However, each student needs to have material ready to work with for class on Monday.

The Tao/ Appendix

Select one part of the Tao, and describe why you think it is most important. Then try and add one concept to the Tao and support why it should be a part of the Tao. One paragraph each.

Due Wednesday.

Abolition of Man: The Way

Select two quotations that you think are the most important from the section of the text "The Way." Then summarize his argument in one paragraph.

Important Note: "The Innovator" is a variable term (like X in math) that he is using to describe anyone who is attempting to create a new set of values. Hence the term Innovator.

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Abolition of Man: "Men Without Chests"

Read the section of The Abolition of Man entitled "Men Without Chests." When you have completed it, select two quotations that you think illuminate his main argument in the section. Then, once you have selected the quotations, try to summarize in a single paragraph his main argument in "Men Without Chests." Also, annotate his use of appeals, rhetoric, syntax and diction in the text itself.
Due Thursday 10/15.