Homework: Week of September 29

Due Monday, September 29 (both sections)

• Write two pages of your Oedipus Paper. Bring these into class in electronic form for writing conferences and work time with iBooks.
• Check out: Block 3 Syntax Notes (the notes on the quotes are more specific here) AND Block 1 Syntax Notes (the writing sample for this section is longer, and perhaps more helpful...)

Due Day 2 (B3: Tuesday; B1: Wednesday)

• Complete a third page of the Oedipus Paper.

Due Thursday, October 2 (both sections)

• Annotate Wislawa Szymborska's "Experiment" in Poems, New & Collected, p. 152.
• IN CLASS: How does enjambment work? See B1 Experiment Notes and B3 Experiment Notes

Due Friday, October 3 (both sections)

• Submit Oedipus Paper to turnitin.com
• The Szymborska poem for Friday is "In Praise of My Sister," p. 159.

Homework Week of September 22

Due Monday, September 22 (both sections)

• Journal: Write for 2o minutes on one of the following questions: How might we read the prophesy of Oedipus's life as a riddle or metaphor? How might he fulfill the prophesy without literally marrying his mother and murdering his father? Just as morning, noon and night and 4 feet, 2 feet and 3 feet became metaphors in the riddle of the sphinx, what might marriage, murder, mother and father signify? Do make specific reference to something in the play. HINT: Think about the story of Leda and the Swan where Zeus changes himself into a beautiful swan to seduce Leda, a human. Do we transform ourselves into someone or something else to make relationships work at times?

Due Day 2 (B3: Tuesday; B1: Wednesday)

• Write 3 questions that you think would make good essay topics for an upcoming paper on any of Sophocles's Theban Plays. Post your questions below by clicking on "comments" just one line down under the solid line...
• IN CLASS: See Block 3 Syntax Notes
• IN CLASS: See Block 1 Syntax Notes --the writing sample for this section is longer, and perhaps more helpful....
  

Due Day 3 (B3: Wednesday; B1: Thursday)

• Begin work on your Oedipus Paper. Start a document that you can bring an electronic copy of to and from school. We'll have iBooks tomorrow with time to work in class. In the document, type out your topic, question, element of structure or theme. Find your evidence and type in several quotations with page numbers to get you started.

Due Monday, September 29 (both sections)

• Write two pages of your Oedipus Paper. Bring these into class in electronic form for writing conferences and work time with iBooks.
  

Homework: Week of September 15

Due Monday, September 15 (both sections)

• Annotate the first 20 pages of Sophocles' Antigone, pp. 59-79 (through the Sentry's line).

Due Day 2 (B3: Tuesday; B1: Wednesday)

• Annotate the next 20 pages of Sophocles' Antigone, pp. 79-99 (through Haemon's exit).
• IN CLASS: Block 3 Dramatic Form Notes
• IN CLASS: Block 1 Dramatic Form Notes
  

Due Thursday, September 18 (both sections)

• Annotate the next 20 pages of Sophocles' Antigone, pp. 100-120 (through Messenger's final line).
• IN CLASS: Block 3 Antigone Notes
• IN CLASS: Block 1 Antigone Notes
  

Due Friday, September 19 (both sections)

• Annotate the last 8 pages of Sophocles' Antigone, pp. 120-128 and
  
• Write for 20 minutes in your journal about one of the questions from class. See Block 3 Antigone Notes or Block 1 Antigone Notes
  

Dramatic Irony

Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something a character does not.

• "by avenging Laius / I defend myself" (Sophocles 167)
• With our foreknowledge of Oedipus's fate, we feel the dramatic irony of Oedipus destroying himself rather than "defend[ing] [him]self."
  

Homework: Week of September 8

Due Monday, September 8 (both sections)

Read through page 187 in Sophocles's Oedipus the King.

Due Day 2 (B3: Tuesday, B1: Wednesday)

Read through page 207 in Sophocles's Oedipus the King.

Due Thursday, September 11 (both sections)

Finish Sophocles's Oedipus the King. Given what we read together in class on Day 2, this is only 21 or 22 pages....

Due Friday, September 12 (both sections)

Tonight, just prepare to write: Select a quote or two that could found the basis of an in-class essay tomorrow. Hyperannotate your text. Make notes. Offer a close reading of both the words and the form.

The topic will be the same as what we wrote about for The Remains of the Day:

"In many works of literature, past events can affect, positively or negatively, the present actions, attitudes, or values of a character." Using Oedipus the King, "write an essay in which you show how the character's relationship to the past contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole." (AP, 2007)

At this stage in our writing process, we're going to skip writing an introduction. We're just going to jump right into the middle assuming the reader (and we) know where we're going. The challenge: explain how a close reading of the words and form of your quote(s) can open up new understandings about Oedipus's relationship to his past.

Friday's Homwork: Paragraph about a Sentence

Due Friday, September 5 (both sections)

• Bring Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays with you to class on Friday.
• "Parasentence": Write a paragraph about any sentence in The Remains of the Day and submit your paper to turnitin.com by noon today. The goal is closely to read one sentence commenting on what the sentence does (the impact) and how it achieves this effect. Consult the class notes posted below for ideas:
1. Block 1 Sentence Style Notes
   
2. Block 3 Sentence Style Notes
3. Check the Glossary too...
   
4. Check out this Sample Parasentence as well....
   

Go to http://turnitin.com/static/index.html and click on New User to register your class ID (given below). It's free.

• Block 1, your class ID is 2375850. The password: cawood
• Block 3, your class ID is 2375843. The password: cawood

Homework Week of September 2

Due Day 1 (Block 3: Tuesday; Block 1: Wednesday)

• Bring in your first draft of "Where I'm From" for peer editing today. Select details from Friday's brainstorming to craft your own "Where I'm From." Borrow freely from the template if you like, but experiment with the form to find a way to express yourself in a voice that feels natural to you. Lyons's template is simply a starting point...
  
• Check the rubric your class devised for suggestions on crafting an effective poem:
  • Block 3 Where I'm From Rubric
    
  • Block 1 Where I'm From Rubric
    

Due Day 2 (Block 3: Wednesday; Block 1: Thursday)

• Submit your revised "Where I'm From" to turnitin.com by noon today. In addition, please bring a hard copy for posting on our bulletin board. Go to http://turnitin.com/static/index.html and click on New User to register your class ID (given below). It's free.
  • Block 1, your class ID is 2375850. The password: cawood
  • Block 3, your class ID is 2375843. The password: cawood

Due Friday, September 5 (both sections)

• Bring Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays with you to class on Friday.
• "Parasentence": Write a paragraph about any sentence in The Remains of the Day and submit your paper to turnitin.com by noon today. The goal is closely to read one sentence commenting on what the sentence does (the impact) and how it achieves this effect. Consult the class notes posted below for ideas:
1. Block 1 Sentence Style Notes
   
2. Block 3 Sentence Style Notes
3. Check the Glossary too...
   
4. Check out this Sample Parasentence as well....
   

Go to http://turnitin.com/static/index.html and click on New User to register your class ID (given below). It's free.

• Block 1, your class ID is 2375850. The password: cawood
• Block 3, your class ID is 2375843. The password: cawood

Class IDs for turnitin.com

Go to http://turnitin.com/static/index.html and click on New User to register your class ID (given below). It's free.

• For Block 1 your class ID is 2375850. The password: cawood
  
• For Block 3 your class ID is 2375843. The password: cawood