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RESEARCH PAPER ROUGH DRAFT DUE DATE 4/15

THIS IS A FREE LINK TO A WORKS CITED SOFTWARE I FOUND. MAKE SURE TO SELECT MLA FORMATTING AND TO PICK THE CORRECT TYPE OF PUBLICATION ( WEBSITE, BOOK, BOOK BY TWO AUTHORS, JOURNAL, ETC.)

http://www.easybib.com/

Thesis Statement and Outline

I found this electronic tool an interesting way to write an outline, as well as a thesis statement for your paper.


Here is the link:

http://www.atech.org/faculty/burke/writing/thesisoutlinegenerator.html

Make sure you write as much as you can and follow instructions faithfully, without skipping any details. Pay attention to grammar and spelling.

MACBETH TERM PAPER RESOURCES




  • This is a list of resources. They are acceptable internet resources for Macbeth. You may use them in your paper. However, these must not be the only sources you use in your papers.
  • You need to quote at least one booksource.

  • You MUST NOT QUOTE ANY WEBSITE within the .com, or .net domain. The ONLY acceptable internet sites shall be the ones using .edu, or .org.

  • DO NOT USE OR QUOTE WIKIPEDIA UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Encyclopedias are not good, acceptable sources for research. Nevertheless, sometimes I find them to be quite useful in the early stages of a research paper.

If you want to use an Encyclopedia source, I have included a link to the Encyclopedia Britannica. It is an excellent source, strangely so for a .com, so feel free to quote it.

http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/article-232444

YOU MAY ALSO USE THIS LINK. IT IS EXCELLENT AND TAKES YOU TO MANY SOURCES FOR SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES.

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/searching.htm

Other sources:

Shakespeare's Stories

http://bestoflegends.org/shakespeare/macbeth.html

Analysis of Macbeth
Copy of MACBETH
List of SCENES
Macbeth: The Royal Play; a good historical site.
QUESTIONS AND TOPICS
MACBETH ART
THIS IS A SUGESTED LIST OF TOPICS

Macbeth: Suggested Essay Topics

Act I
1. Macbeth struggles with his conscience and the fear of eternal damnation if he murders Duncan. Lady Macbeth’s conflict arises when Macbeth’s courage begins to falter. Lady Macbeth has great control over Macbeth’s actions. What tactics does she use to gain control over him? Cite examples from Act I. Does she solve her conflict through her actions? Cite examples from Act I.
2. Shakespeare begins Macbeth with Witches talking on a barren stretch of land in a thunder storm. This creates a certain atmosphere and mood. What images contributed to the evil atmosphere? Do you feel this mood continues through Act I? Did the actions and dialog of the main characters reinforce this atmosphere?
Act II
1. The Witches are characters that have a powerful impact on the play, but have very few lines. Banquo says that he cannot sleep because he is thinking about them. Macbeth says that he has not thought about them at all. How do the characters of Macbeth and Banquo differ and what influence have the Witches had on each character?
2.Macbeth is alone while Lady Macbeth returns the bloody daggers when he says, “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.” Lady Macbeth returns will blood on her hands as well. What does the blood symbolize? Cite examples from the play.
Act III
1. There is a turning point in Act III, Scene 4. What is that turning point and how do you think Macbeth will respond throughout the rest of the drama? Cite examples from the play.
2. Compare and contrast the murders of Banquo and Duncan. How does the murder of Banquo show the change in Macbeth?
Act IV
1. What is the symbolic purpose of each prophecy the Apparitions state in the play? What interpretation can be drawn from the way each are dressed. Do you feel there is a hidden meaning? Cite examples from Act IV.
2. Act IV, Scene 2 is the only scene Lady Macduff is in. Why do you feel Shakespeare chose to have the murder in the scene instead of having it reported, as with Duncan’s murder?
Act V
1. Describe Macbeth’s reaction to Lady Macbeth’s death. Compare his reaction to the reaction he had after the murder of Duncan.
2. Elaborate on the importance of the scene when Lady Macbeth says, “Out damned spot! out, I say! One; two. Why then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow’r to accompt? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” This scene illustrates a change in the character of Lady Macbeth?

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IMPORTANT GUIDE TO TERM PAPER (RESEARCH PAPER)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
* Documenting Sources:
* List of Works Cited:
Student Sample Paper:
This is what the paper is supposed to look like, including the thesis statement in the correct place, signal phrases for quotations, proper works cited list, etc.

1930's RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

Some of these websites may prove useful in your research. Good Luck.

LINK TO GOLEMAN CREATIVE WRITING CLUB

www.golemancreativewritingclub.blogspot.com

ACT I


Monday 12/1
Tuesday 12/2
Banquo's character ACT I Scene III
Wednesday12/3 ACT I scene IV-V
Thursday 12/4 ACT I scene VI-VII Macbeth's soliloquy
Friday 12/5


The Tragedy of Macbeth

Shakespeare's Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, from the Roman Polanski film adaptation.


MACBETH

Monday 11/24/08 ACT I scene I bring workbook Tuesday 11/25/08 ACT I scene II bring workbook
Wednesday 11/26/08 Silent Reading bring novel Thursday Friday 11/27/08 & 11/28/08 Thanksgiving Break

These are some of the most important quotes from the first act:


"fair is foul and foul is fair"
"For brave Macbeth...battlements"(I ii, 19-25)
"'Tis Strange, and...consequence: (I iii, 131-135)
"This supernatural soliciting...not" (I iii, 140-152)
"There's no art...trust" (I iv, 13-16)
"The Prince of Cumberland...to see" ( I iv, 55-60)
"I do fear thy...win" (I v, 14-21)
"Come,you spirits...hold." (I v, 43-57)
"Your face, my...it" (I v, 69-73)
"If it were done...wind" (I vii, 1-25)
"I have no...other" (I vii, 25-28)
"Away, and mock...know" I vii, 91-92)












Outlook Week 10/12 to 10/16 The Sonnet





Monday
TEST The Canterbury Tales Prologue
Workbook Check
Tuesday
Timeline: The English Renaissance (1484-1625)
Celebrating Humanity.
Timeline
Historical Background Notes
Wednesday:
Elizabethan Literature
The Changing English Language
Silent Reading
Thursday:
The Sonnet
Lovers and Their Lines pages 234-238
questions 1-6
pages 239-240 questions 1-6
Edmund Spencer
Philip Sidney
Friday:
The Shakespearean Sonnet
250-258
Pablo Neruda

Outlook for Week Oct 6 to Oct 10

ART NOUVEAU ADVERTISING POSTER


MESSAGE

My second period has been cancelled due to budgetary concerns. I'm sad to see you go. Good luck to you in your new class.
Monday 10/6
FCAT

Tuesday 10/7
Periods 2-4-6
Workbook 34-56

Wednesday 10/8
DUE: Canterbury Tales:
Advertising Poster Project
DUE: Workbook pages 34-56
Grammar Test Diagnostics

Thursday 10/9
Teacher's Work Day

Friday 10/10
Review for Monday's Test on Canterbury Tales Prologue

The Canterbury Tales Prologue Outlook for week 9/27 to 10/3



The Knight's Armor

Monday 9/29 The Canterbury Tales:
Finish reading and doing workbook; work on all of the Prologue,
including pages 54, 55, and 56.

Project: Students will produce a poster advertising the Canterbury pilgrimage. They will work in pairs, with one student concentrating on aesthetics and another on writing the language.

  • Make it beautiful.
  • Make it poster size. (14'' x 11" ) ONLY
  • Language should include 2 quotes from the Prologue/Tales.
  • Computer based OK.
  • 5 grades.
  • Due on Wednesday, Oct 8.

Tuesday 9/30 Teacher's work day. Rosh Hashna. Happy Jewish New Year!

Wednesday 10/1 Beowulf film. We meet in auditorium.
Thursday 10/2 Beowulf film. We meet at class.

Friday 10/3 Beowulf film. Senior Luau. Test on the Canterbury Tales Prologue, on Friday, Oct, 10th.

Week of 9/22 to 9/26


Monday-Friday

The Canterbury Tales
Wednesday
9/24
Journal # 7
Open topic
or
Dialogue
or poem

Bring Purple Workbook ALL WEEK

* Week of 9/15 to 9/19 Beowulf-The End


Weekend HOMEWORK
Read all of Beowulf from the workbook and complete it.
Many test questions will be taken from workbook questions.

Sep15
The Battle with Grendel's Mother__Audio
The Battle with Dragon__Audio
The Death of Beowulf__Audio
Sep16
Review
Sep17
Test
Historical Background__ Notes
The Epic and the Epic Hero
Beowulf
Sep18
Journal # 6
Canterbury Tales__ Background
Assignment
Due date 9/23
Write a one page paper response
MLA Format
Topic: Modern Day Pilgrimage
Sep19
Canterbury Tales__Background

* The Epic and The Epic Hero__ Week 9/8 -- 9/12

"The Fairie Queene" by Edmund Spencer,
a Renaissance epic.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/fqintro.html
OUTLOOK week 9/8-9/12
Monday
9/8
The Epic__ Notes
Beowulf Purple Workbook
9/9
Beowulf Grammar Handout
Workbook pages 6-10
9/10
Assignment: write a letter to a friend talking
about a modern day monster or hero.
or
Draw one of the scenes from Beowulf
we have read.
or
Write a poem or rap about a hero or monster
Silent Reading (bring Novel to read)
reading Log#2
Workbook
9/11
Beowulf
The Battle with Grendel
Workbook
9/12
Career Day
Everest College
TEST ON TUESDAY
INCLUDES
HISTORICAL BACKGROUD
THE EPIC AND THE EPIC HERO\BEOWULF



This is a link to some definitions on the epic from one of my favorite literary sites on the web
http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/epic2.html

* Beowulf, Gothic Architecture, Week 9/2 to 9/5,

This is an excellent link, posting Beowulf's numerous translations. We'll be reading Burton Raffel's. Check out Seamus Heaney's as well.
http://www.beowulftranslations.net/journey.shtml




9/2 Labor Day

9/3 Alliteration-Review
Literary Analysis
Transparency
SAT Vocabulary

9/4 SAT Vocabulary Silent Reading
Logs
Due: Journals 1-4

9/5 Journal 5: Open poetry Alliteration Quiz
Beowulf -The Hero

9/6 SAT
Vocabulary
Beowulf-The Hero

Gothic architecture has numerous distinguishing features. On this video, we find samples of trefoil windows, elegant tracery, and gargoyles. Notice, as well, how waterspouts were used for drainage on the side of a building. Most of the pictures come from Barcelona's Barrio Gotico, but some come from the internet and include Notre Dame in Paris.

THE MIDDLE AGES, * 8/25 to 8/29

MONDAY
8/25
Journal 3
Literary Analysis
Historical Background hand out
From Legend to History
TUESDAY
8/26
BR. Vocab
Gothic Architecture
Group Art Activity
Chart Page 7
Compare Feudal System to modern day societal structures
WEDNESDAY
8/27
Quiz__vocab, Literary Analysis
Silent Reading
THURSDAY
Journal
The Seafarer__Read
Background handout
Identify poetic devices (Kenning, caesure, assonance, alliteration)
FRIDAY
Due Book report # 1 The Alchemist, two pages typed, open topic, MLA format.
(2 grades, xcredit)
TEST__ THE ALCHEMIST__ summer reading selection (3grades)









* THE SEAFARER

The Seafarer

is an Old English poem
in the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition.
This elegy was compiled by monks and first copied into
The Exeter Book circa A.D. 871 to 899,
during the reign of Alfred the Great.

Its theme of EXILE, among others, still resonates today and particularly in a place such as South Florida.
This modern English version was translated
by Burton Raffel

This tale is true, and mine. It tells
How the sea took me, swept me back
And forth in sorrow and fear and pain
Showed me suffering in a hundred ships,
In a thousand ports, and in me. It tells
Of smashing surf when I sweated in the cold
Of an anxious watch, perched in the bow
As it dashed under cliffs. My feet were cast
In icy bands, bound with frost,
With frozen chains, and hardship groaned
Around my heart. Hunger tore
At my sea-weary soul. No man sheltered
On the quiet fairness of earth can feel
How wretched I was, drifting through winter
On an ice-cold sea, whirled in sorrow,
Alone in a world blown clear of love,
Hung with icicles. The hailstorms flew.
The only sound was the roaring sea,
The freezing waves. The song of the swan
Might serve for pleasure, the cry of the sea-fowl,
The death-noise of birds instead of laughter,
The mewing of gulls instead of mead.
Storms beat on the rocky cliffs and were echoed
By icy-feathered terns and the eagle's screams;
No kinsman could offer comfort there,
To a soul left drowning in desolation.
And who could believe, knowing but
The passion of cities, swelled proud with wine
And no taste of misfortune, how often, how
wearily,
I put myself back on the paths of the sea.
Night would blacken; it would snow from the
north;
Frost bound the earth and hail would fall,
The coldest seeds. And how my heart
Would begin to beat, knowing once more
The salt waves tossing and the towering sea!
The time for journeys would come and my soul
Called me eagerly out, sent me over
The horizon, seeking foreigners' homes.
But there isn't a man on earth so proud,
So born to greatness, so bold with his youth,
Grown so grave, or so graced by God,
That he feels no fear as the sails unfurl,
Wondering what Fate has willed and will do.
No harps ring in his heart, no rewards,
No passion for women, no worldly pleasures, 45
Nothing, only the ocean's heave;
But longing wraps itself around him.
Orchards blossom, the towns bloom,
Fields grow lovely as the world springs fresh,
And all these admonish that willing mind 50
Leaping to journeys, always set
In thoughts traveling on a quickening tide.
So summer's sentinel, the cuckoo, sings
In his murmuring voice, and our hearts mourn
As he urges. Who could understand, 55
In ignorant ease, what we others suffer
As the paths of exile stretch endlessly on?
And yet my heart wanders away,
My soul roams with the sea, the whales'
Home, wandering to the widest corners 60
Of the world, returning ravenous with desire,
Flying solitary, screaming, exciting me
To the open ocean, breaking oaths
On the curve of a wave.

SECOND HALF OF POEM

Wassily Kandinsky, an exile from Hitler's Germany.

Thus the joys of God 65
Are fervent with life, where life itself
Fades quickly into the earth. The wealth
Of the world neither reaches to Heaven nor
remains.
No man has ever faced the dawn
Certain which of Fate's three threats 70
Would fall: illness, or age, or an enemy's
Sword, snatching the life from his soul.
The praise the living pour on the dead
Flowers from reputation: plant
An earthly life of profit reaped 75
Even from hatred and rancor, of bravery
Flung in the devil's face, and death
Can only bring you earthly praise
And a song to celebrate a place
With the angels, life eternally blessed 80
In the hosts of Heaven.
The days are gone
When the kingdoms of earth flourished in glory;
Now there are no rulers, no emperors,
No givers of gold, as once there were, 85
When wonderful things were worked among them
And they lived in lordly magnificence.
Those powers have vanished, those pleasures are
dead.
The weakest survives and the world continues,
Kept spinning by toil. All glory is tarnished. 90
The world's honor ages and shrinks,
Bent like the men who mold it. Their faces
Blanch as time advances, their beards
Wither and they mourn the memory of friends.
The sons of princes, sown in the dust. 95
The soul stripped of its flesh knows nothing
Of sweetness or sour, feels no pain,
Bends neither its hand nor its brain. A brother
Opens his palms and pours down gold
On his kinsman's grave, strewing his coffin 100
With treasures intended for Heaven, but nothing
Golden shakes the wrath of God
For a soul overflowing with sin, and nothing
Hidden on earth rises to Heaven.
We all fear God. He turns the earth,
He set it swinging firmly in space,
Gave life to the world and light to the sky.
Death leaps at the fools who forget their God.
He who lives humbly has angels from Heaven
To carry him courage and strength and belief.
A man must conquer pride, not kill it,
Be firm with his fellows, chaste for himself,
Treat all the world as the world deserves,
With love or with hate but never with harm,
Though an enemy seek to scorch him in hell,
Or set the flames of a funeral pyre
Under his lord. Fate is stronger
And God mightier than any man's mind.
Our thoughts should turn to where our home is,
Consider the ways of coming there,
Then strive for sure permission for us
To rise to that eternal joy,
That life born in the love of God
And the hope of Heaven. Praise the Holy
Grace of Him who honored us,
Eternal, unchanging creator of earth. Amen.
THE MIDDLE AGES, ENGLAND.
Link to The Seafarer web study guide

* JOURNALS LIST and OUTLOOK for WEEK of 8/18 to 8/22




Monday
8/18
Hurricane Fay
Tuesday
8/19
Hurricane Fay
Wednesday
8/19
Intro to Class and Teacher
Handout rules
expectations
Assign books and financial forms
Book report #1
Due: 8/28 (3 grades)
Thursday
8/19
Journal 1
Preview units of rest of course.
Read:
The Beginnings of English p. 12
Listen:
to Old English Recordings
Transparencies:
Viking Artifacts
Answer: questions
Friday
8/20
Journal 2
Discussion
Kenning, caesura, assonance, alliteration
Vocabulary










Note

Journals should be one page in length. They need to be written clearly, as you are required to type these for your portfolio.

Journal 1: What should I know about you, especially as it relates to this class? Also, tell me about your summer.

Journal 2: Choose one of the following topics: Marlins, Dolphins, Heat, Olympics, Obama vs. McCain.

Journal 3: Assimilation: Where were you and your parents born? If you or your parents come from another place, how was the experience of assimilating to a new language and a new culture?
If you can trace your roots back to this country (80 years back__a generation being 20 years, so four generations ago), how do you think your great grandfather's life was like?
Journal 4: Is Fate Stronger than any Man's mind or Desire.
Journal 5: Open Poem (use alliteration)
Journal 6: Explain Christian influences on the narrator of Beowulf and on the poem.
Journal 7: open Journal

* CLASS SYLLABUS and EXPECTATIONS

Overview

• Syllabus
• Expectations
• Attendance
• Electronic Gadgets
• Reading
• Writing
• Films
• Graduation

Syllabus

This course concentrates on Florida standards for the 12th grade student. It is required for graduation. The class focuses on British Literature and the etymology of the English language. We will cover these works in class along with numerous others. While most we shall read in chronological order, it will not always be the case. There will be additional works, authors, and poets added, including novels and World literature. Timeline might be sacrificed for the sake of theme.
The Seafarer
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Macbeth"
The Sonnet
The English Renaissance
The Romantic Age
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Lord Byron
Victorian England
Sherlock Holmes
Dylan Thomas
D.H. Lawrence
Nadine Gordimer
Graham Greene
Doris Lessing
Dystopian Fiction
The Lord of the Flies

Expectations

To plagiarize (cheating) is to misrepresent someone else's work as your own. This includes class-work, homework, quizzes, tests, term paper, or projects. Plagiarizing will not be tolerated. Offenders shall be prepared to deal with administrative action, parental notification, etc. I expect you to work hard and to be, always, intellectually honest.

The use of personal electronic devices (gadgets of any type) remains strictly forbidden and subject to disciplinary action.

Work is due on the posted date. If you are absent, work is due the day you return to class.

Class-work is due at the end of the period unless specified.

Hall passes will be restricted to emergencies.

Attendance

Attendance is an extremely important element for success in the class. Students with perfect attendance will receive extra credit rewards through the point system. No excused absence pass, no makeup work.

Tardiness becomes a rather intrusive activity, particularly when I am lecturing.
Be prompt to class. Students without tardies will receive extra credit rewards through the point system.

*** First period students please note that if you come in late to school you will be marked absent during first period regardless of whether your tardy to school happens to be excused. In other words, if you are not in class, you are absent. If your tardy is excused, then your absence is an excused absence.











The Point System


The point system rewards students who comply with attendance and tardy policies. It works by raising Midterms, Final Examinations and Quarterly examination results by 1 letter grade

All students begin the term with 6 points. They must then finish the quarter with at least 2 points for rewards to take place. However, points are discounted for the following egregious behavior:

1 Unexcused tardy = -2 points
1 Unexcused absence= -2 points

2 excused tardies= -1 point
2 excused absences= -1 point

Display or use of headphones or cell-phones (or any electronicgadgetry)= -6 points
Sleeping during class time= -6 points ( I take this as a personal offense)

In other words, you need to end the quarter with at least 2 points to cash in the reward. Remember, your C midterm grade can become a B by the simple act of making it to class on time everyday and keeping your ipod and phone in your pocket or purse, as you are supposed to according to district regulations stated in your student handbook. If excessive violations occur, I may contact your parents and follow up with appropriate administrative action.

Guernica, by Pablo Picasso.


Reading

In order to meet requirements for graduation from the state of Florida students need to read five novels. You will need to purchase a couple of them. I will let you know which, when and how much when the time comes. Wednesdays will be our silent reading day. Expect a weekly grade for your silent reading. Students are required to bring reading materials to class and log their reading.

Writing

You will be required to write a term paper (5-8 pages) following writing guidelines prescribed by the MLA (modern language association.) I will let you know your topic as we progress through the school year.

Journals/Portfolio: You must keep a writing portfolio that should include several sections separated by dividers. Your portfolio should include daily writing done in class, as well as several writing assignments that will include expository writing, poetry, fiction (short story) and persuasive writing.

The portfolio should include drawings, graphics, pictures, etc. This is a heavily weighted project and it should include your daily writings. Images should reflect personal taste and creativity in addition to content.

Divider sections in portfolio: Vocabulary, Notes, Journals, Writing, Reading Log.

All writing assignments MUST BE TYPED and formatted as follows:

Left margin justified
Times New Roman, font 12.
Black ink.
Double space.

Office hours: Monday-Friday 2:30 to 3:00 PM
Contact: 270206@dadeschools.net
Website: http://www.fernandez-englishiv.com/






























































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