Literature homework due March 3rd

Homework for this week:

• Continue reading and annotating Act2 scene 2  in Hamlet

We will be going over annotations this week in class. 

• Rewrite your intro to include all that we discussed in class on Thursday.  Start with an attention grabber that relates specifically to your essay. Come up with a good thesis sentence and place it at the end of your paragraph. Their should be at least 3-4 sentences between your attention grabber and thesis statement that give us the following information:

1.   Must provide reasonable context to your argument. (Be persuasive)
2. Must give title of book and Authors name
3. Present and original well thought out idea or analysis
4. Paragraph leads into or transitions to the thesis statement with fluidity. 

Before turning in your intro

Proof read it for grammatical and punctuation error 2x

Read the paragraph and re read it 5x to make sure that sentence structure and flow of the paragraph is correct. 

Read your paragraph out loud 2x ( sometimes hearing it calls attention to errors or awkward statements.

Read your paragraph backward from thesis to intro. 

 Is the meaning of each sentence clear? (One way to answer this question is to read your paper one sentence at a time, starting at the end and working backwards so that you will not unconsciously fill in content from previous sentences.) Is it clear what each pronoun (he, she, it, they, which, who, this, etc.) refers to? Have you chosen the proper words to express your ideas? Avoid using words you find in the thesaurus that aren’t part of your normal vocabulary; you may misuse them.

Due Feb 25th

For homework this week please read hamlet Act 2 scene 1 and 2
Make sure that all of scene 1 is annotated and that you annotate as much of scene 2 as possible.
We realize that this is s long scene, so we anticipate discussing this scene in 2 parts.
We will be checking annotations to see that they are done.

Please bring your essays back to class this week, as we will be working through our thesis sentences as a class.

Please bring your text books with you to class as well.



See you on Thursday

Homework 2/17

HT Lit Class Homework 2/11-2/17

1. Complete reading Chapter 4 & 5 in Windows To the World.  We discussed some in class, but review and complete all sections.  Please highlight important info and annotate; Pages 37-63. This is important to do before you rewrite your essay!!! Some of you need to use the paragraph organizer I handed out in class(alao in your workbk).  Copy 3x and do for the body paragraphs.  This will make it much easier to write your paper.

2.  Send all "Once and Future King" thesis statements to Mrs. O'Brien by noon on 2/16 to 281-787-0216.

3. Hamlet read ALL of Act 1 and annotate. Most of you have already done this.
You need to start a profile of Hamlet's character.  Identify lines about him--either his own words or other characters' descriptions of him.  Then develop a list of characteristics that describe him.  If Hamlet was your friend today, what advice would you give him regarding his feelings about his father, mothers, and uncle? Please answer this question in one paragraph.

4.Make adjustments and corrections to your literary analysis essay on "Once and Future King". Turn in Thursday morning on the kitchen counter as well as your #3 notes and paragraph.

HT literature HW feb11th

My apologies for getting this assignment up so late.
The baby was born this week so it has been a hectic few days


HW for this week was relayed to you by Mrs Obrein at the end of class last week

For  those who received their essays back, please bring the corrected version in proper format.
The checklist given to you by Mrs Obrein should be attached to it when you turn it in prior to class.

If you have not printed out the literary analysis instructions that were posted on the blog last week,
Please print them out and bring them to class

Continue reading the next scene in Hamlet and Annotate.


*for those of you that did not receive your essays back from me yet,
You will receive them this Thursday in class and must turn in a corrected final version of this essay
Next week. For this week, please write down your favorite annotation from Hamlet thus far and explain why it in impressed you.  Please turn this in prior to class.


We will continue discussing your papers in class this week.

Homework for 2/4/2016

[PDF]HOW TO WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY

www.bucks.edu › bcccmedialibrary › pdf

Please copy, read, and bring to class the above document.  Write down
 any questions you have so we can discuss this next Thursday.  
Highlight the important information that will help you in writing 

literary analysis papers.  This is just the first of several papers 
that we will be writing in this format.

Using the example outline of literary analysis and the checklist 
provided in class this past week, write your literary anaylsis of 
your character from Once and Future King. Your essay should 
be 5 paragraphs in length which consists of an introduction,
3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion.  Remember you

need at least 2-3 quotes in your body paragraphs, 2, 3, and 4 from 
the novel.  Look up MLA format or look at document above.  

There is no required reading this week for Hamlet.  
We are focusing our energies this week on our paper

and reading the document above.  

Have a blessed week. :-)

due January 28th

Sorry for the delay in posting this weeks assignment.

I have been going through the Essays and outlines received in class last week, and have come to realize that many of you are still in need of guidance in formatting your papers.

I have decided it would be best to return your papers to you on Thursday and spend the class discussing format as well as the qualities necessary to a successful analytical/ thesis heavy paper.


We will consider all essays "rough drafts" for now.
Those of you who have yet to turn in your papers...
The rough draft  must be turned in by this Thursday or you will receive a "0" for the assignment.

Homework for this week is as follows:

Please finish annotating hamlet scene 3
Some of you did not complete this assignment
Also complete scene 4.

Take a look at the following verse from scene 3
And  explain the dual meaning within the text.

Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;
That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;
Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool.

Read the following verse from scene4
Tell me what Hamlets mindset is in this encounter with the Ghost.
How does it affect him?
What bothers him?
How can you tell?

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,
To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous; and we fools of nature
So horridly to shake our disposition
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?

Ghost beckons HAMLET

Due January 21st

Great job annotating this past week.

1) Please continue your annotations in Scene 3 of Hamlet.

This is a short scene!!! Do it well, but please focus the majority of your attention on your

2)Character Analysis Essay (due this week)
The essays are due before class.
Please turn them in on the kitchen counter do we have a chance to review them.

3) ALSO remember to attach your fully revised outline to your paper.
We discussed format in class on Thursday. Please follow those suggestions.
All outlines and Essays must be 5 paragraphs, typed... And at least 1page in length.

4) we had a brief intro to allusions in class on Thursday. Please finish reading about allusions in your textbook so we can delve deeper into this subject on Thursday. Don't forget to bring your bible to class!!!

5) find the Allusions in the following soliloquy and explain;
For extra credit worth 5 points added to your essay
Please find the biblical allusion in earlier in Scene 2 !!!!

lHamlet's Soliloquy: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt (1.2) Annotations O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, (145) As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month -- Let me not think on't -- Frailty, thy name is woman! -- A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, (150) Like Niobe, all tears: -- why she, even she -- O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month: (155) Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: (160) But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.