I have updated classmarker.com with your first ten question quiz. Here are your usernames and registration codes. The rest should be easy to figure out. I will create a new ten question quiz every few days. www.classmarker.com
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Ashley
Booth
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Lauren
Miller
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Kahla
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Lit Crit Vocab Set #1
Here are your first 20 literary terms. Use quizlet.com to review and memorize the words. I will tell you when I have your first classmarker quiz ready. I will be posting new terms every few days so keep checking.
Lit Crit Set #1
Lit Crit Set #1
Ready Writers' Essay Review #1
Review the following essay. I have provided the topic below. Comment on three strengths of the essay you feel you could use in your own writing. Comments due by next Friday.
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Topic I
“[O]bserve that in all the propaganda of the ecologists – amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for ‘harmony with nature’ – there is no discussion of man's needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision – i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears....
In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs. Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced cultures, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without the alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus* brought to man. The ecologists are new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire.”
*a Titan who is chained and tortured by Zeus for stealing fire from heaven and giving it to mankind
— Ayn Rand, “The Anti-Industrial Revolution,” from Return of the Primitive, 1971
“[O]bserve that in all the propaganda of the ecologists – amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for ‘harmony with nature’ – there is no discussion of man's needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision – i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears....
In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs. Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced cultures, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without the alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus* brought to man. The ecologists are new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire.”
*a Titan who is chained and tortured by Zeus for stealing fire from heaven and giving it to mankind
— Ayn Rand, “The Anti-Industrial Revolution,” from Return of the Primitive, 1971
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Ready Writers Topic Assignment #1
“I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.”
— Somerset Maughan, quoted by Ted Morgan, Simon and Schuster, 1980
Create an outline for the following topic and post it as a comment. Include in the outline your thesis statement, topics for each body paragraph, and your supporting details. Try to give yourself no more than fifteen minutes to complete the assignment.
Post your comment by next Friday.
— Somerset Maughan, quoted by Ted Morgan, Simon and Schuster, 1980
Create an outline for the following topic and post it as a comment. Include in the outline your thesis statement, topics for each body paragraph, and your supporting details. Try to give yourself no more than fifteen minutes to complete the assignment.
Post your comment by next Friday.
Welcome!
Hello ladies,
I am currently updated the blog and will post your first assignments this evening. I will make sure to label them correctly (Lit Crit or Ready Writing). Right now, feel free to use explore the links on the right. I have also posted the Literary Criticism Reading List. I will give you links to the readings ASAP.
Don't forget to comment on this post by midnight Friday so I know you've been here!
Mrs. Hall
I am currently updated the blog and will post your first assignments this evening. I will make sure to label them correctly (Lit Crit or Ready Writing). Right now, feel free to use explore the links on the right. I have also posted the Literary Criticism Reading List. I will give you links to the readings ASAP.
Don't forget to comment on this post by midnight Friday so I know you've been here!
Mrs. Hall
Thursday, March 5, 2009
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